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So, I finally got back to D805 Piet Hein. I had losts of other fun things on my mind, but now that the temperature has gone down a bit, I can survive in my work shed.
Where I'm at, just to recap: most of the upper structure has been printed and primed, but not glued in place. This means that also some of the more detailed parts are also well underway, e.g. the torpedo tubes, and now the depth charge towers. I started with creating a depth charge to scale and used that as a measuring "stick" to create the racks. And I did a similar thing with the throwers. I still need to do the rear rack / roll off mechanism.
Most of the design work was done at 100% and then scaled to 72. This meant that I had to exaggerate some details, as they otherwise would simply disappear during the print phase. As an example; an air/hydraulic tube may be 3/4 inch in real life, but would be 0.02mm at scale ... so invisible. The racks are 18mm tall. The torpedo tubes are about 90mm long. From a flat not really understandable drawing to Fusion to print. Not too bad!
Where I'm at, just to recap: most of the upper structure has been printed and primed, but not glued in place. This means that also some of the more detailed parts are also well underway, e.g. the torpedo tubes, and now the depth charge towers. I started with creating a depth charge to scale and used that as a measuring "stick" to create the racks. And I did a similar thing with the throwers. I still need to do the rear rack / roll off mechanism.
Most of the design work was done at 100% and then scaled to 72. This meant that I had to exaggerate some details, as they otherwise would simply disappear during the print phase. As an example; an air/hydraulic tube may be 3/4 inch in real life, but would be 0.02mm at scale ... so invisible. The racks are 18mm tall. The torpedo tubes are about 90mm long. From a flat not really understandable drawing to Fusion to print. Not too bad!
