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Offline boatmadman

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Model ships
« on: October 10, 2009, 05:37:43 PM »
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.
If it works, take it apart and find out why!

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Re: Model ships
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2009, 07:40:23 PM »
Boatman
Nice work.
http://fogonazos.blogspot.com/2007/02/sea-giants_07.html
may be of interest, quite startling some of them.
BR

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Re: Model ships
« Reply #2 on: October 11, 2009, 01:21:11 AM »
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
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Re: Model ships
« Reply #3 on: October 11, 2009, 01:24:09 AM »
Cracking work Boatmad thanks for showing

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Re: Model ships
« Reply #4 on: October 11, 2009, 05:02:33 AM »
Top class work  :thumbup:

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Re: Model ships
« Reply #5 on: October 11, 2009, 09:39:39 AM »
Nice model. I've seen pics of the real thing. Amazing.

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Re: Model ships
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2009, 09:30:46 PM »
nice work boatmadman..........thanks for showing the photos  :clap: :thumbup:

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Re: Model ships
« Reply #7 on: October 18, 2009, 11:03:39 AM »
Very nice indeed. 

I have seen TV shows on these types of ships but I had never considered what would be needed to make a working scale model.

Thanks so much for sharing.

cheers, Graham in Ottawa Canada

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