Victor III

[bwi]

You got it.. im wondering how much torque the
Prop your making now will produce.. hmmm
Very very nice work!! How will you key them
Together?

I will glue them together.

Torque will be ok, the pitch and projected blade area are proven, even the developed area of the blade is not so large as the blades themselves are quite narrow.

Meanwhile I made also the high skewed prop.









Grtz,
Bart

[tommydeen]

Wow very impressive!!!

[tommydeen]

Hey bart hope all is well. Havent herd from you in some time on your project here

[Mixvs Minimax]

Hi Bart,

I sent You the Akula class markings and 2 types of sail emblems and the hull number for Your Dmitri Moskovskii at fb.

cheers
alex

[bwi]

just some progress pics

Sail tooling and casting







Escape module hatch and locator buoy









Hard shell for the hull tooling





Camera enclosures and windows of the bridge wind deflector casted in clear resin





Grtz,
Bart

[bwi]

The most complicated resin cast I ever did worked out beautiful. 13 cores were inserted.
1 x propshaft, 8 x dowel pins for rudder and planes, 4 x rudder and planes stock,

Pictures right after demolding.

Grtz,
Bart



The tooling ready to take the resin

[sam reichart]

holy crap, that's a complicated tool. the part looks awesome Bart!

[bwi]

Thank you Sam, appreciate it sir.

Grtz,
Bart

[scott t]

That is very nice. Did you take any pictures disassembling the part from the mold?

[salmon]

Bart,

Your work inspires me to do better. You make it look effortless. Check out his Youtube videos. You get to watch him work through this.
Happy New Year!

Peace,
Tom

[bwi]

That is very nice. Did you take any pictures disassembling the part from the mold?

I made a video for you, hope this helps, here is the link https://fb.watch/2KO3ft8_Ih/

grtz, Bart

[scott t]

Thanks for the videos. Very well done on the casting.

[bwi]

Last of the outfittings.

Spent most of the yesterday on designing, tweaking of the fwd dive plane until I had a working prototype.

The plane is a “flap rudder” type or “multi-section” rudder. The hinged aft section gives the rudder an extra control surface therefore enhances its efficiency.
When the helm is applied the angle of attack of the main control surface changes (working of a normal rudder), in addition the angle of attack of the flap also changes.
If the main rudder rotates 45° the flap turns an additional 45°. The flap is making a 90° angle to horizontal.

Pictures showing both 0° and 40°



Grtz,
Bart

[salmon]

Excellent. Simple operation, but a nice detail to add!