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| boatmadman:
I have been told by a member of this forum some of you might be interested in a model ship I built. Its a semi submersible ship, ie, it sinks the main deck below the waterline in order to load a cargo - a ship or oil rig, then re floats and lifts the cargo clear of the water. There are no plans available to modellers for this ship. I started out with a set of hull lines on an A4 sheet of paper and a load of pics off the interweb. This model, at 1:200 scale, is 1.4m long, 300mm wide and weighs about 15kg dry. I used 4 reversible gear pumps, 4 pumped ballast compartments and 4 free flood ballast compartments. This boat requires 7 channels to operate, 1 for each pump, one for main drive, 1 for rudder and 1 for the bowthruster. Anyway, here it is. And just in case anyone starts wondering, its not for sale as I have just sold it to fund a milling machine from one of the members here. |
| Baldrocker:
Boatman Nice work. http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2007/02/sea-giants_07.html may be of interest, quite startling some of them. BR |
| boatmadman:
Br, Thanks for that, yes these ships are quite amazing. The stability of them when they submerge becomes a nightmare, its a really risky operation that doesnt take much to get wrong. Ian |
| sbwhart:
Cracking work Boatmad thanks for showing Cheers Stew |
| CrewCab:
Top class work :thumbup: CC |
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