Moulding & Casting the Sea Lab III

[Richard_2001]

(01-27-2010, 11:11 AM)jasonwright.1972 Wrote: Maybe you would like to show us what youve done so far? There are a couple of us that are going to embark on that project quite soon. We would love to see what youve done.

Jason,

for the last 7 1/2 years I have been collecting donor kits, reference material and reworking, tweaking and redrawing Charles Adams plans. I have also been building Balsa mock-ups of the ship sometimes 4 or 5 of them for certain areas.

I have also collected a bunch of steel pipe for the armature and plywood for the frame even bought a couple sheets of plex but I really don't have much to show at the moment except for my Google Sketch up 3d model and some balsa mock-ups.

When the weather turns warmer I plan on welding the armature and cutting out the plywood structure and you can be sure I will start a build thread on this beast. One here and on RI for sure, I am not sure about RPF or HobbyTalk, maybe there too.

Here are some of the mock-up pics though to start off.










These are about 2 1/2 years old and there have been a lot more tweaks to the plans to correct errors since I purchased Chris Pappas's picture DVD set. I have had better results fitting parts lately.

I will fire up SketchUp later and export some pics of the 3d Model for you all to see.

Richard