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My project this winter (and summer and winter and...)
is a Caproni type CB italian midget submarine.
Why this one ? well, it's cute...
The CB looks like this :
there are two left in this world, one in the technical museum of Zagreb
and one in a museum in Trieste.
I plan to visit one of the two, because there is not too much photo's
around on the 'Net.
it is my first scratch build, and it will progress slowly.
I am building from plans by ANB, which proved difficult to obtain.
the link to ANB is http://www.anb-online.org/page_info....roducts_id=942
but their online shop is not operational.
If you need to contact them in the future, I might be able to help.
their plans are nice.
I had the plans copied and 30% reduced so the model will be about
1m40. It amounts to a scale of 1]http://home.vianetworks.nl/~raalst/cb/cb001.jpg[/img]
I bought a motorized saw just for this job. cutting about 64 ribs
by hand is not my idea of a hobby.
both ribs were then positioned using a 1cm MDF "side view".
I glued copies of the plan to the MDF and cut out the profile.
The ribs were spaced and held by M5 threaded rod. So I had the
profile, and the left and right set of ribs.
Then I drilled holes thru the profile, just aboove and below where
the rods are, and tied the halves together with tiewraps, clamping the
side view profile inbetween. The rod was just flexible enough to align
the ribs with some precision.
I used polyurethane foam to fill up the spaces and make a solid
plug. polyurethane foam is polyester resistant, and I did not have to
find foam plates of the proper thickness.
I tried on a test-rig first.
It turned out quite nice, but the foam had bent the ribs about a
millimeter outwards.
the foam remains rather soft, but I plan to apply a hard shell
by means of polyurethane yacht varnish.
when foaming the plug, I made sure to
foam the outer ribs first, and work towards the middle ribs
It's impressive stuff, that foam. I made a makeshift
dam to keep the foam where I needed it.
then some crude sawing, cutting and coarse sanding, and it came out
like this ]http://home.vianetworks.nl/~raalst/cb/foam3.jpg[/img]
using a third bottle of foam, after filling the remaining gaps
the current result is
A nice side-effect of the foam is that it also glues the ribs to the profile.
Next steps are filing and sanding the MDF ribs exact,
then plastering, then varnish, then plastering with polyester.
after that the scary stuff begins (i.e. moldmaking).
is a Caproni type CB italian midget submarine.
Why this one ? well, it's cute...
The CB looks like this :
there are two left in this world, one in the technical museum of Zagreb
and one in a museum in Trieste.
I plan to visit one of the two, because there is not too much photo's
around on the 'Net.
it is my first scratch build, and it will progress slowly.
I am building from plans by ANB, which proved difficult to obtain.
the link to ANB is http://www.anb-online.org/page_info....roducts_id=942
but their online shop is not operational.
If you need to contact them in the future, I might be able to help.
their plans are nice.
I had the plans copied and 30% reduced so the model will be about
1m40. It amounts to a scale of 1]http://home.vianetworks.nl/~raalst/cb/cb001.jpg[/img]
I bought a motorized saw just for this job. cutting about 64 ribs
by hand is not my idea of a hobby.
both ribs were then positioned using a 1cm MDF "side view".
I glued copies of the plan to the MDF and cut out the profile.
The ribs were spaced and held by M5 threaded rod. So I had the
profile, and the left and right set of ribs.
Then I drilled holes thru the profile, just aboove and below where
the rods are, and tied the halves together with tiewraps, clamping the
side view profile inbetween. The rod was just flexible enough to align
the ribs with some precision.
I used polyurethane foam to fill up the spaces and make a solid
plug. polyurethane foam is polyester resistant, and I did not have to
find foam plates of the proper thickness.
I tried on a test-rig first.
It turned out quite nice, but the foam had bent the ribs about a
millimeter outwards.
the foam remains rather soft, but I plan to apply a hard shell
by means of polyurethane yacht varnish.
when foaming the plug, I made sure to
foam the outer ribs first, and work towards the middle ribs
It's impressive stuff, that foam. I made a makeshift
dam to keep the foam where I needed it.
then some crude sawing, cutting and coarse sanding, and it came out
like this ]http://home.vianetworks.nl/~raalst/cb/foam3.jpg[/img]
using a third bottle of foam, after filling the remaining gaps
the current result is
A nice side-effect of the foam is that it also glues the ribs to the profile.
Next steps are filing and sanding the MDF ribs exact,
then plastering, then varnish, then plastering with polyester.
after that the scary stuff begins (i.e. moldmaking).
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