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Thanks guys. Definitely watched das boot, but nowadays I am a big fan of Greyhound Work started a few weeks ago on the forward torpedo compartment. Here are blueprints in side and top view: It is made of different section: - the bulkhead - the floor - the 4 fishes stored under the floor (I should remove the det) - the 4 launcher tubes - the side wall with the 6 bunks. Interesting things might happen in this compartment. - It can be packed with sleeping crew, in the bunks and on the floor. - The crew can be set loading one of the torpedo tube (which is the option I probably will chose as it goes better with the rest of the scenario I'll show) - Torpedoes can be loaded from above deck, and slide into the compartment through the pressure hull. One might think that the boat needs to be docked for that but there is one fish stowed in its own pressure tube, just under the deck floor that the crew could get while at sea. It's a complicated manoeuvre they did on the surface being very vulnerable in calm seas, using the cradle and a winch on top of a pole, placed between the loading hatch and the tower. The same winch was used to pull the fish out of it's rotated stowage tube and to let it slide into the forward (or aft -as the same mechanism was available aft) torpedo room. I'm not ruling out the option, but at this time I am considering 88mm gun in action so that rules out torpedo loading above deck. Current compartment painting is made with acrylics: XF-66 for dark grey, H338 for light grey. The fishes are aluminium XF-16 and their head bronze X-33; props and fuses are painted gold X-31. The floor is X-32 Wood is made with oils which I'll detail in the next post. Weathering the floor has started but it's far from being finished The launching tubes parts are not quite detailed. RC Subs provide the tube doors and I will detail these later on. The forward pressure hull part is provided in resin by RC Subs as well. If you don't have it the pressure hull is flat and that's highly visible. So this part is quite necessary IMHO. I will probably detail the visible side of the tubes a bit more later on. Then comes the back wall with the frames for the bunks. Trumpeter obviously couldn't detail the right side of the room since doing so would prevent us to look inside, but they could have done a bit better nevertheless. I intent to add at least a few lower bunks which should not impact the view inside and leave enough space to look at the rest of the room. Then I stalled on how to implement the bunks. Trumpeter only offer a plastic part for the mattresses which really aren't up to par. I initially cut some thin slice of foam which I intended to paint white but I wasn't satisfied with the result. It took me a while to figure it out. I designed mattresses and pillows and 3D printed them (a bunch of them) then designed a decal for the linen (white was too immaculate and I wanted something more military issued) and laser printed them on a blank white decal sheet And finally I created the blankets with toilet paper soaked with a mixture of PVA glue and water. Result after the basic layer of paint:: Much better although the linen need another coat of decal solution. Normally the bunks are folded up when loading torpedoes, a process I intend to show. But I'll load one of the right side tube to keep clear from the beds and populate the open side of the room. Lots of details will also required on the back walls The roof has been painted in light grey with the wood framing. The loaded torpedo will hang from there and I intend to add a lot of supplies in the room as well. 4-5 leds will be wired on the roof for compartment lighting as this turns pretty dark once the roof is closed. i'll try to manage the electrical side of things at later stage of the built. But I need to plan a bit ahead to make sure I still can add lights where I need them without destroying too much of the prior work.

Buy 3D printer: check Buy resin: check Buy IPA: check Buy cleaning and curing station: check Learn Fusion 360: In progress Calibrate your exposure time depending on your resin type: check Learn a slicer software (chitubox for now): check Design and Print your first part: check To learn 3D design in fusion 360, I decided to model a 1:1 Flight data recorder for the Aces 2 ejection seat. Incidentally that part is missing from my 1:1 aces 2 seat replica and is a perfect candidate to learn the basics of 3D modelling and printing. The box is super simple, but the connector presented quite a few challenges and I learned a great deal trying to replicate them. This was a fun project that taught me basic fusion 360 use and the 3D print flow. I can say now that I can use probably 5% of the Fusion 360 feature. And I'm not intimated anymore by the 3D printer. Lots of stuff remains to be learned but I'm on the road pointing forward. But then now what? Obviously I want to use this for aircraft models. I found some stl files (mostly made by Fancherello) on Cults 3D and printed a few of them with success (Corsair windshield frame, SH-60 wheels, hornet stuff etc etc) I'd like to design my own parts and have a few projects in mind: - adding missing part for my U552 project, that's quite easy to design as the shapes are rather easy to design. - converting a Tamiya F-16C into a MLU. Parts for this are hard to come by and I really have a lot of MLUs waiting to be built - ultimately doing pilot figures to add in my cockpit - I'm a bit tired of the usual pose the commercial companies seems to always offer. That is a crazy goal, I don't think I will ever succeed with that considering I cannot even draw a face But then comes the challenges: It seems designing aircraft parts is quite more advanced. How to do panel lines: How to do complicated shapes like airfoil, curves, .... How to ensure the precision in the process to ensure a good fit with the kit's parts? How to manage supports: it seems scale model parts have no support or at least as few as possible (the reason is obvious) but that implies another design philosophy, especially in the slicer Where to get correct dimensions to replicate the parts So the first part I want to try is the tail of the F-16 MLU - more specifically the parabrake container. It's a rather small part, with a complicated profile and it needs to match the Tamiya forward tail section. It has panel lines and rivets. But I'll take any advice you guys might have, links to tutorial for this specific process, tips, hints, anything Many thanks

That's crazy I know. My kids gave me that look when they saw that huge box. My wife didn't even bother to raise her beautiful eyes. Implicitly that meant keep that beast in your man's room and don't you dare store it outside - I am sure she is enjoying the struggle I will go through to enforce her rules Luckily she does not come in the garage. That's a commission build. and I welcome a break from things with wings - although I miss them already... The kit is huge: 140cm and feature internal details in 6 compartments: front torpedo room + crew quarters officer quarters conn rear crew quarters + kitchen diesel engine room electric room + rear torpedo compartment And about 40 figures to go along... Lighting is mandatory for viewing inside so A magic scale factory led kit will be added to the project. One hull side is transparent to see the details inside but I intend to paint it and cut it open rather than suffering the plexiglass effect. The tower surprisingly also feature a transparent side, but opposite to the hull ... The kit is rather simplistic and much detail will be necessary to bring this where I would like. I sourced all RCsubs PE but I will be short of many details for the inside to overcome the shortcut Trumpeter took by roughly making only half a boat internal. Luckily the new 3D printer will come to the rescue. Another aspect dearly missing is supplies. So lots of crates, hamacs, bottles, cans, vegetables will be added a little bit of everywhere. I guess this will be a long journey and I found myself intrigued by the infamous U-boot threat in the battle of the Atlantic. And there is much to read about it. I'll build this in stage, compartment by compartment and will probably work on the hull when I'm fed up with internal details. Let's dive into this.

I really would really recommend to venture into the world of multiplayer gents. When you're serious about this, it's really a new different ball game Below is a vlog of a wannabe pilot with other wannabee pilots and wannabee controllers (most of us are also real pilots or real controllers

thanks gents, I plan to get a max of bench time today, so the day looks bright enough Cheers

Weird choice about the B? Did Kitty hawk release a B? Or is the D easily converted to a B model Hope they plan on releasing a D model cockpit (or is the N about the same)?

I can't believe they did this? I saw it and I thought what? finally a MLU in 1/32 ... but no just a nice decoration on an incorrect F-16 model... Really Revell?

flabbergasted ... That's some crazy modeling skills

gentle bump for this Hellcat needing some attention

yeah, started in 2004 initially for BMS, but switched to DCS a couple years ago. You really should try MP Niels, it is a game changer. We're still wannabe pilot, but it's a tad closer I'd love to meet LSP guys up there.

Nice setup Pete, I fly the F-16 in DCS as well with my 1:1 full replica pit. You guys Fly MP?

Bon anniversaire

I'd like to enter as a donor and recipient My donations, as 2 separate gifts - Two Bobs 32-032 F-16 Block 50 Big mouth Vipers (we already have 32-031 and 32-033 in the raffle. 32-032 ought to be here as well ) - Fox one decals F-4J Marines 32-003

Thank you Chaos. a bit on the large side, but I needed a lot of stability Thank you Jim. He did use it a lot indeed Thank you Tom. I will be ready to help when that time comes - just like great guys who built the Hog before me helped me.

Thanks Pete, Means a lot coming from you too. Glad you like it and I know you sourced one of these so I'll be looking forward to yours.

Thanks Mike - I confess me too Merci Alain. Thank you Jake and thank you for the support along the build . It wouldn't have been possible without your book. Grazie mille Thanks Rod

Thank you Chuck, you paved the way and made my work much easier. So compliments from you means a lot. Your build has been an inspiration to me and I cannot count the times I went back to these multiple ARC pages to see how you fixed an issue. Many thanks for that.

I think you're right about that. I set my mindset to "don't weather the nose, don't touch the nose" as I noticed the gun soot started to appear a little behind the gun. Knowing myself I really needed to get into that mindset to avoid doing something stupid. And in the end I completely forgot to weather the gun nozzles. Easy enough to fix and I thank you for the pointer. Never hesitate to bring these things, I love them and I often regret ppl are too nice and shy to post criticism (me too which is normal when you don't really know the person at the other hand) So thank you !

Thank you very much. I hope I see yours one day too. Many thanks Jay. Playing with the support is a lot of fun - I can't stop playing and simulating all the attitudes of a popup pass. Thank you Guy. I'm a great adept of that school Thank you, I must say I was very lucky with the light. I saw the glorious morning after a long time under the clouds and I got the photo setup mounted outside just before the low sun would hit the place. The morning light was awesome for outdoor photography. Thank you Steve, you have been very helpful with this difficult WIP. I am grateful. Thank you Niels. looking at a MLU F-16 now. By the way I got hold of the guy doing the PIDS pylons in Be, he can do a few more Thank you Shoggz, Michael and Tom and Martin

Yep, that's a great looking Phantom. Congrats. I enjoyed following the build as well. You' re right that lingerie is very sexy

Love every bit of it. The rotor fold adds a lot to the Zulu. I feel your figure turned out pretty good. Well done

Wow, that is very inspiring. Patchwork looks really great. And the time spent painting rather than decaling really pays off. Love the extra detail with the squadron mascot

I had a lot of time to think about the next one Steve but I haven't decided yet. The Viggen calls from the Stash; I really wants to convert a Corsair to F4U-5N and a mig-21 to Lancer. But I may need something not too complicated after this one and I just got myself the latest Tamiya F-35B which might just be what I need. But first thing first, cleaning the bench and the modeling room will keep me busy till after the new year