Today we made a start on the rear deck, as the flat clear lacquer had now cured, so we can now start fitting the decking and work out the placement of the two rear main guns. We also needed to start work on the super structure of the ship and part of this structure continues…
3D Structure
The first of a number of 3D printed structures are now starting to take shape.It only took a few hours of drawing the part in a CAD program, followed by converting it to a file suitable for 3D printing. All these parts are made using high end UV cured resin printers. The following images show…
Funnel CAD Drawing
Today we finished the basic design for the funnel, and spliting the part into two sections (Blue funnel body and yellow steam pipes, and the green top with red mesh), we will 3D print this item once we have done a little more research to esure we have caprutred all the correct information. Funnel design…
Laser Tests
Today we started testing our CAD skills and then outputting the designs via our laser cutter. Two reasons for this is as follows: Firstly check our designs are the correct scales and that we are not missing items such as portholes and doors, and anything fitted directly to the walls or deck. Secondly we need…
Planning
Today saw the start of reviewing all the plans and making measurements for the superstructure and deck fittings.This semi kit was supplied by Fleetscale which includes the fibreglass hull and most the fittings so its a simpler job compared to building HMS Hampshire. Once all the measurements have been made it will be time to…
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