Merriman's Submarine Modelling Masterclass

I hope that's age and use that has worn most of the anodizing off your spray guns, boss. Not running chemicals so nasty they strip anodizing!
 
Scott Kenny said:
I hope that's age and use that has worn most of the anodizing off your spray guns, boss. Not running chemicals so nasty they strip anodizing!
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Damn! Those 'nasty chemicals' might explain this monkey tail I've been growing the last fifty-some years. Oh well. Win some. Lose some.
 
You mounting the control electronics and batteries on the underside of the access panels, boss? Or does stability demand some ballast down low?
 
Scott Kenny said:
You mounting the control electronics and batteries on the underside of the access panels, boss? Or does stability demand some ballast down low?
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Yeah. Access is everything for trouble-free operation at the site. I'll trim the thing later this week with fixed ballast aft -- want the c.g. about the center of the boat.
 
Sorry, nothing as exciting as that. Just a sticker you buy to prove you've been to Sweden :(
The only kill I can claim with this car is an empty plastic bucket I hit as it was blown across a French motorway. Took out the left fog light.

But you've given me an idea, I have to find me sticker for that bucket...
 
Michel Van said:
Test drive of camera barge
WARNING LOUD NOISE !
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33f26uxrIUs
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You just had to rub it in, didn't ya, Michel... how cruel! (It does sound like a car-crushing machine though).

Last night I replaced the motor universals -- the source of all that horrible noise -- with flexible hose. That has helped a lot. First regatta for this camera barge is next weekend, so little time to fine tune things till then. Glad this monster is almost done.

David
 
I just got back from the SUBEX24 r/c submarine regatta held at the North Lake, Submarine Base, Groton Connecticut. This two-day event was organized by Ray Mason and Joe Oliver and is one of the three out-of-State events I try to make each year.

The weather was perfect; some fine models were on display and operated very well on and under the water; and old friendships re-kindled.

A good time was had by all.



Ray Mason. Some forty years ago this guy designed, built masters and tools and produced excellent GRP kits of the Disney NAUTILUS. Here Ray hovers over two of his completed kits. The one next to him is his own, with removable squid. In foreground is another NAUTILUS, assembled and made operational by Dave 'Jake' Jacobson.





















Bob Gato scratch built this simply beautiful 'tourist submarine'. Fully operational, this model alone is a master class in system integration and accessibility; stunning in device utility and simplicity -- he even employs bell type jars as watertight enclosures! He's not only a gadgeteer of the first-order, Bob's also an excellent model-builder as these pictures make abundantly clear.

































 
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Scott Kenny said:
Please tell me that you're also using some electronic media for backups (CDrom or DVDrom)
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Sure. Forums like this -- but not to be counted on One Second After. Hard copies (the photo albums for example) will weather the coming storm.

Don't. Rely. On. Electricity. As. An. Archival. Medium. If. You. Do. We. Lose. It. All.
 
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merriman said:
Two Idiot Torpedomen Trim a Model Submarine​

View: https://youtu.be/EesexrzHsDs
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It's amazing how little weight it actually takes to mess up ship's trim.

Had a new Diving Officer of the Watch playing with hovering on the trim pump, where you get a solid neutral buoyancy and then add or remove weight to change depth. Ohio-class are 19,000 tons submerged, and +/-500lbs was all it'd take to change depth. Might actually have to bust out the gram scale for this one!
 

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