USS Enterprise CV-6 1/200 Trumpeter

[savas]

the ship's props should be counter-clockwise on portside & clockwise on starboard side.

Dear savas! On ships with 4 propellers there is the following rule: the propellers of one side rotate only in one direction. In your case, the propellers of one side rotate in different directions, which would lead to destructive loads.
In addition, the propellers on different sides must rotate only in opposite directions.
Rule: Both starboard propellers should rotate to the right when the ship is moving forward, and both port propellers should rotate to the left.

thank you, yes I already know that they are wrong, they were installed temporarily, I need to paint them that's why the furthest one is not all the way in I actually was wondering should I install motors for them to spin, but that would require a lot more work so I am not sure yet... I also am thinking of installing a smoke machine for the chimneys...

 

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Big thanks to Davidp for additional infomation on the arment. So I post quite rarely, but the build is moving forward, so here are the updates for now:

I went digging on some photos for the structure in the middle. I am not trying to be super accurate (that's actually impossible on the ships design but I really wanted something more for the middle of the ship so I started making some beams from photos that I found
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also I started doing some stuff for the lifts, Trumpeter offers no details for them what so ever, no beams, no bottom structure... So Little by little I will do something with them.
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the center section where the props are held is really different from what I have, so that made me sad a bit, but it is what it is, I will make some adjustments for it later, but any modification takes a hell lot of time that I don't really have...
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First test prints for the beams look like this:
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covering the holes...
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I am getting closer

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and I also done some metal work...
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that's all for now...

It continues to baffle me how one gets from a 2-D drawing pr a photo to a 3-D product. I wish the university and community college here had classes in 3-D printing. What software do you use? I have a 3-D printer and two software packages. I bought a book on Fusion written by the software's author but the book was written for a different version (older or newer??) than the one I downloaded. I am getting ready to resume my build of the VASA and would like to be able to create more figures for it as it requires more than Corel included. Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed.

 

[savas]

It continues to baffle me how one gets from a 2-D drawing pr a photo to a 3-D product. I wish the university and community college here had classes in 3-D printing. What software do you use? I have a 3-D printer and two software packages. I bought a book on Fusion written by the software's author but the book was written for a different version (older or newer??) than the one I downloaded. I am getting ready to resume my build of the VASA and would like to be able to create more figures for it as it requires more than Corel included. Any suggestions would be greatly welcomed.

Oh god, where to start about 3D modeling AND 3D printing... completely different things in a way I had some classes when I was a student on 3 modeling using autocad MAYA, but it is a paid software that for my use is just too darn expensive. Now Fusion 3D and youtube is probably your best bet... I almost forgot all I knew in that and now I am using www.tinkercad.com this is a WEB app, that is VERY basic, but also really easy to use for simple things (like my beams). I Actually recently got myself a Corel VASA myself, and was wondering if I want to start learning again on modeling the heads on the VASA. 3D takes time... but it is completely learnable using Youtube, get the basics, it will be frustrating, and then try to make stuff, find problems, search for solutions and you will 99% find the answer on youtube...

Now 3D printing is a different animal... I've been printing for years now and I still find stuff to learn about (not to mention I can barely keep up with the new tech) 3D printing is a painful process to master, but if you like to tinker, you will get there eventually, quality machine for printing is KEY, other that that the orientation of the print, the supports that you need to add to the model for printing, the resin (assuming you will use SLA printer) is the other bigger half of the journey...

But in general, books for these thing are already too old... new features, that simplify the job, new Layout of programs... yeah...

 

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Thanks!!! I have Tinker. I'll start looking for videos to see what I can pick up from them. As to your VASA, read a lot (!!!) before you start. The instruction "manual" is poorly translated, weak and the rigging descriptions leave quite a lot to be desired. I suggest downloading the DeAgostini VASA instructions (12 or so) from its web site for help. There are several build logs here as well. If you can get a copy of the book VASA I, you will learn a lot about the ship from both a historical side and a construction side. That edition also has 7 or 8 sheets of plans of each deck and rigging.

Thanks again for the response.

 

[savas]

Thanks!!! I have Tinker. I'll start looking for videos to see what I can pick up from them. As to your VASA, read a lot (!!!) before you start. The instruction "manual" is poorly translated, weak and the rigging descriptions leave quite a lot to be desired. I suggest downloading the DeAgostini VASA instructions (12 or so) from its web site for help. There are several build logs here as well. If you can get a copy of the book VASA I, you will learn a lot about the ship from both a historical side and a construction side. That edition also has 7 or 8 sheets of plans of each deck and rigging.

Thanks again for the response.

there are a LOT of modeling softwares, one of them is freeCAD (i think) it is open source, but most of them do the same things.
As for my VASA, I got a bargain, (like 300euro if I remember) but I have the OLD version of it (blue wood) so yeah... It is a FAR future project, and I am interested in the VASA I book, but that's for later date, thank you