2004 Builder's Survey - "On the Ways" - What's on Everyone's Workbench?

[tsenecal]

Let me see if this

Let me see if this works, I just got my FXModels Alvin, and here should be a photo of it]http://www.geocities.com/tim_senecal/alvin_curr.jpg[/img]

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updated to show the "fun" to date...



Edited By tsenecal on 1107146516

[fx models]

Go Tim Go!!!!
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PS:

Go Tim Go!!!!



PS: uhhh It wont dive well on top of a PC like that....

[tsenecal]

Actually, I think that the

Actually, I think that the "dive" part would work great, it would be the "surface" part that might be difficult for the little tike with 50lbs of metal strapped to its @$$...

[tom spettel]

Tim SWEET!!!! can ya bring

Tim SWEET!!!! can ya bring it up to the club house after the breckinridge fun run?
Tom

[tsenecal]

Tom,

it is actually there right

Tom,

it is actually there right now, no room at the apartment.

it is on the bottom shelf, next to my little USCG utility boat.

Tim

[tmsmalley]

A few more shots of

A few more shots of progress on "USS Alligator Junior".



Clad only in red primer, she is not really seaworthy yet. I just stuck the WTC from my Alfa in the tube just to see how she'd float. The weird looking stuff on the bottom of the pond is sand and dirt that blew in from the construction site next door. By SubRegatta time next year that will be complete.



The conning dome was made from half of a 2 1/4" copper spherical float from McMaster Carr.



Thanks to a suggestion I got from this message board, I made a rack out of a chunk of 4" PVC for the WTC to mate up to. To service the WTC - I just slide it out the rear end. The Golden Rod makes up to the foreplanes up front.

Follow my progress on this project for the Discovery Science channel at
Tim's Alligator Junior buildup website



Edited By TMSmalley on 1094088766

[crazy ivan]

Beautiful job on the dome,

Beautiful job on the dome, Tim! Reminds me of my dad's old hard-hat helmet.

By the way, is Dave M. doing his Alligator as the paddle version, propeller version, or both?



Edited By Crazy Ivan on 1094089629

[tmsmalley]

Thanks Geo. I wish I

Thanks Geo. I wish I could take 100% credit for the brass job, but I have a local buddy who is a retired pattern maker. I swear he could solder a banana peel to an ice cube.

DM3 is doing the prop version of Alligator. The thinking was the the oared version wouldn't function as a 1]Hatching a Gator website[/url]

He has done some neat stuff on the diver model and rudimentary 18th Century hard hat rig.




Edited By TMSmalley on 1094126127

[g2tiger]

Just did the surface trials

Just did the surface trials on my never ending Robbe project. I have a Robbe U-47 with an Accurate Armor tower and deck gun. Two speed 400 motors with belt drive reduction from ships-n-things, two MCD Super Minicon II Speed controllers, Ace Nauticle commander radio and brass props. I have some shots of her on my web page www.bogart.freeservers.com page three. Still need to decide what ballast system I will use.

Charlie

[subswede]

Hello !

Well i just got

Hello !

Well i just got started in sub´s. I looked at different kits and finally chose the engel laffayette boat. And i got to say it is a very nice kit. I cant wait to get it in the water. I will post pictures when i got it finished.

Ragrds from Sweden

Ralf

[grosete]

It's been a long time

It's been a long time . . . years in fact, since I've touched an RC sub but I've decided to get back into the hobby again. On my work bench is a 33" Soviet Alfa which I layed up using a Bob Husar mold. I am working on all the hull details and openings while waiting for my WTC to come in from Small World Models (Dave Manley). It should be up and running by early spring.

Gordon Rosete
SCM#0455

[tknofile]

Hi everyone,

No new subs

Hi everyone,

No new subs for me but I'm getting around to adding some of that extra gear to my clear boat. As some of you saw at the regatta I got the periscope installed but it was just a manual control set-up. Since then I've gotten the math co-processor to work and I am getting close to having the 'dead-reckoning' software done for the target tracking. The periscope already has encoders on it for its direction relative to the bow and I just got the digital compass finished for the sub's true heading. I'm going to be doing some tests on a new speed sensor and hopefully will get a resolution that's small enough to be useful in calculations.
Another 'sub' project on the ways is a 4 foot long leopard reef shark. A special effects sculptor friend is scupting it for free(thank god). When he's done I'll have to trick...er, talk another co-worker into making a mold and skins for me. I'm planning to have it propel itself with its tail only. I've made fish that flap their tails before for commercials and they seem to move quite realistically. It'll be a fun challenge to actually get it to swim.
-Rick

[metal-x]

just receive my bluefish of

just receive my bluefish of dumas...long travel and big tax to go to france]http://www.subcommittee.com/forum/icon_wink.gif[/img]

[captain nemo12]

Sub count! Finished projects and

Sub count! Finished projects and unfinished ones......

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[wingtip]

Gordon Rosete,

can you send me

Gordon Rosete,

can you send me some pics of your hull details? I am doing a "semi scale" alpha kit but is 50 inches long! I just fiberglassed the foam conning tower i made tonight and working on the horizontal and vertical fins for the aft section next but want to do some hull details...
My hull doesnt have the exact correct taper in the rear but its "semi scale" lol....
email is davet@insightbb.com

thanks