Adam Carlson's 1/16th Japanese Type-A r/c Submarine, Part-3

A Report to the Cabal:

Adam's finished turning the hull master and has spent two days working on the sail master. I've been working on the two counter-rotating propellers. Only two days till he has to pack up and leave and we've made very good progress on his 1/16 Type-A project. Much work left to do, though.

He's learned a great deal and has also taught me a few tricks as well. We're both

having a blast.

The forward hull has yet to be cut out and fit to the bow, other than that the split hull is ready to mount on the moldboard. Adam used the upper hull to shape the base of the sail. This is going to be a rather substantially sized r/c model submarine.

A prominent feature of the sail are the lap-plates that meet the two internal cylindrical portions of the pressure hull.

The recessed areas between plate and internal pressure hull was represented by first laying tape on the sail, then building up Evercoat filler to the edges of the tape, sanding, then removing the tape, revealing recessed areas, representing the areas of pressure hull cylinder within.

The nearly completed Type-A sail master. Some edge lighting shows off the 'recessed' areas on the sail as well as the many scribed panel lines, representing the plating pattern unique to the Type-A's sail.

I spent only ten-minutes on scribing instruction, and Adam took it from there. Wow! This kid's good!