New Captain on the Docks!( Hopefully not on rocks)

The pump usually sits aft, often just forward of or between the motors.

You need a regulator to provide your low pressure (140-150psi) side of the system from the high pressure side (bottle full of liquid co2). I thought this was combat ready? Seems to be missing a few things..

No that has a pin-valve. Why would you need 2 bottles?

 

Definately get some pictures up tomorrow - I'm going to hold off on answering more questions until I get a better idea of what you've got there.

But still, I don't grasp the reasoning on the 2 bottles thing - you just refill the bottle from the fill station when you're reloading. Bottles don't wear out over the course of the day, you can keep filling them as long as the big tanks have liquid in them.

 

Feel free to denote yours as mere Steam Ships. Mine sail armed under the banner of His Imperial Majesty, the Kaiser and are properly denoted as such.

 

In Region 3, all WWI Axis are SMS Heil Fluegel!

 

Do you have the pictures hosted somewhere or were you going to upload them here and them include them in your posts?


These may help?
http://www.rcnavalcombat.com/Forum/...fault.aspx
http://www.rcnavalcombat.com/Forum/...fault.aspx

 

The big heavy brass thing in your hand in #2 is your regulator. The co2 bottle should sit in the bow from the way this is laid out, though there doesn't appear to be any sort of way to hold it in a given position.

I can't really tell where your main battery/batteries are supposed to sit exactly, I'm not seeing any hold-downs or trays for a battery. I would guess forward of the radio box though.

The pump should sit aft of the radio box, forward of the drive motors I think, you don't have any real clear pictures of this area, but it is the logical spot.

One thing to be aware of - your rudder may not be legal. It looks like it may have the bonus 50% applied, cant tell without a measurement though. If it does have the bonus area though you have to have the other rudder present and functional, and I don't see it. You'll need to measure your rudder to determine its size.

Overall, the ship looks solid and at 300$ I'd say you did really well.

 

Now that you have a ship, I'm going to suggest what I suggest to everyone: Read the rules package a few times - in particular the constructions rules.

Ships with 2 rudders (the Moltke is such a ship) get 50% additional rudder area. You can distribute the surface area between the two rudders however you want, but they must both be present and functional. The Moltke has inline rudders, (one ahead of the other), the forward rudder is typically considered worthless and most people use the smallest possible amount of area for that rudder and use the lions share on the aft rudder. On your Moltke, I do not see the forward rudder and I don't see any linkage for one, which leads me to conclude that it is not there. If it is not, and your rudder size includes the 50%, you will need to either downsize your rudder or add and operate the 2nd rudder.

A class 4 ship such as the Moltke gets 2.5 sq inches of rudder surface area for a single rudder. The dual rudder bonus of 50% gives you 3.75 sq inches total maximum rudder area.

 

It is easier to use one servo, often running a linkage from one rudder's arm to the other. Two servos just means one more thing to fail. You're going to have to do something about how stiff it is beforehand though. That it is even there is good though - makes your task arguably simpler.

As for waterproofing servos, there are several threads discussing attempts to do that, with varying schools of thought on the matter.