Topic: Bourbon Orca (Read 33846 times)

boatmadman · « **Reply #105 on:** January 22, 2010, 08:49:35 AM »

Great videos, thanks for the links.

Ian

me3 · « **Reply #106 on:** January 23, 2010, 07:59:26 AM »

hi
you can get the domes from here http://www.marinetic.de/index.php?cat=1765 but i dont know if it would be a bit far away from you!?
keep up the good work with your model
regards
me3

boatmadman · « **Reply #107 on:** January 27, 2010, 04:55:30 PM »

Thanks for that me3, they look good, but at 13 euro for a 15mm dia one - think I will persevere with my own.

Anyway, I found a couple of cedar mothballs just the right diameter, 2 coats of sanding sealer, chamfered the inside of a bit of plastic pipe, stuck em together, chucked a bit of filler at them, sanded and painted, and voila....

boatmadman · « **Reply #108 on:** January 27, 2010, 05:00:24 PM »

Then I moved onto the rudders, just for a change, started with a brass plate, soldered to a brass rod, cut a groove in 2 pieces of balsa and glued them to the spade, sanded a profile on the rudder and glued a bit of thin ply on the top and bottom of the rudder, and voila...

These will be covered with thin glass cloth and epoxy at some time in the future...

boatmadman · « **Reply #109 on:** January 27, 2010, 05:04:57 PM »

I have also progressed the superstructure a bit.

Took lots of time to clean up the superstructure, adding filler and sanding off.

Cut out a deck piece and fitted the control room deck in a cutout, then had to make lots of fiddly adjustments to get the outer piece to fit on it.

PeterS · « **Reply #110 on:** January 27, 2010, 07:33:48 PM »

Hi

Your bridge looks great!

And a good solution for the radar domes!

Pete

VIVALDI · « **Reply #111 on:** January 28, 2010, 06:59:23 AM »

Hello,

Whooooooooo! Great job!!!

Kénavo, Philippe!

VIVALDI · « **Reply #112 on:** January 28, 2010, 07:51:38 AM »

If I may, another technique for producing ovoid domes.
You take an egg that you cut the mini disc drill. You resins inside, then you add any base that you paste. A few chews to join. After painting, the effect is guaranteed.
Advantage, following the animal, you have several egg sizes. It'll just go to the corner grocer provided with your Caliper to find the egg that has the proper diameter. Beware the grocer may take you for a fool ...

Kénavo, Philippe!

boatmadman · « **Reply #113 on:** January 28, 2010, 08:24:52 AM »

Great idea Philippe, and you get breakfast out of it as well

boatmadman · « **Reply #114 on:** February 06, 2010, 10:55:56 AM »

I have been working on the driveline at the moment.

These will use 50mm MMM nozzles, and home made shafts and bushes.

Pictures show, in order, the slot for the mounting drilled ready for cutting and opening up the slots.

Next shows a wooden wedge I made to sit between the hull and mounting to align the nozzle properly, then with the mounting dry fitted in the hull.

Then we have a side and end view of the nozzle and shaft dry fitted. You will see I use a plastic disc in the nozzle to align it all.

Then we move on to the prop shaft components. The bushes are made from leaded bronze, the tube is brass.

I haven't finished the 'P' brackets yet, as I need to get the props in place to determine the angles I need to fit the bracket.

Finally we have the tube with oiling tube fitted. To do this, I silver soldered a 25mm length of tube to the prop tube, then drilled a hole in the main tube and cleaned it all out. I used a 25mm length because it allowed me to get a drill down to drill the prop tube. I then slid a longer piece of tube over the first length and soldered it in place. At this point, I used a lower temp solder so as not to melt the first soldered joint.

This tube length was cut to bring the end above the water line. Finally, I turned a small aluminium plug to push fit in the oiler tube just.

boatmadman · « **Reply #115 on:** February 06, 2010, 10:58:07 AM »

oops, the pics got out of sequence somehow

Aydemir · « **Reply #116 on:** February 27, 2010, 05:24:37 PM »

That a wonderfull work piece I am very impress with your work and congratulation. Thank you for your idea for fiber optic I have some
an old Christmas tree and I save them before. But also I have this micro tiny LED from cellphone they are very bright and looks like pin head size.
I just need 3 PCs Green, Red and Yellow (amber). Amazing work you done there and two thumbs up for your work.Regards Aydemir

From Micro Mahogany Classic.

boatmadman · « **Reply #117 on:** February 27, 2010, 05:38:51 PM »

Thanks for the comments, Aydemir.

Forgive me if you already know about led's and resistors required, but, just in case, here is a useful LED circuit calculator:

http://led.linear1.org/led.wiz

Ian

nathanbint · « **Reply #118 on:** February 28, 2010, 01:12:10 PM »

Quote from: boatmadman on June 09, 2009, 10:42:52 PM

Here is a screen grab of what I hope it will turn out like.

Ian

hi do u have to download that or sumthing as i would love to have a play and make the tug i want

boatmadman · « **Reply #119 on:** February 28, 2010, 02:12:49 PM »

Nathanbint,

There isnt a download for these plans, I designed it myself from scratch

Ian

nathanbint · « **Reply #120 on:** February 28, 2010, 02:19:32 PM »

what i mean in one of the pics at the start there is a pic with the boat green and what i fort was if there is some site where u can design the boat that u want to make

boatmadman · « **Reply #121 on:** February 28, 2010, 04:18:19 PM »

Nathanbint,

Sorry, my misunderstanding, here is a link to the software you need, its free, powerful but takes quite a lot of work to get the best out of it.

http://www.delftship.net/

There is a basic tutorial here to get you started.

http://www.modelboatmayhem.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=19208.0

Ian

boatmadman · « **Reply #122 on:** February 28, 2010, 04:35:32 PM »

Today I have been fiddling with the drivelines, the pics show how I set up the shafts parallel. Everything is loose fitted at the moment while the wooden wedges between the hull and korts dry.

Ian

nathanbint · « **Reply #123 on:** February 28, 2010, 07:55:11 PM »

hi thanks i have downloaded it and i am going to try and get my head around useing it

boatmadman · « **Reply #124 on:** March 02, 2010, 04:54:10 PM »

Today, I made two motor/shaft alignment tools. In the past I did alignment my eye and short ruler. This time I thought I would be a little more technical about it. The tool is simply a length of brass, drilled each end for a push fit on prop shaft and motor shaft.

The next job will be to glue in place the shaft tubes.

Ian

boatmadman · « **Reply #125 on:** March 04, 2010, 09:16:30 PM »

Spent some time today on the main deck and winch deck.

The pics show what I have done. Whilst in the process of doing this, I discovered a mistake in the build. The pic with the arrows shows a space between decks that would suit only vertically challenged people!

So, what to modify? Add a plank above and raise the deck levels? Or remove a plank along the main deck. After measuring all round again, decided that the best (only) option really was to remove a plank along each side of the main deck. This took some time, as I also had to lower all the frames to suit. Anyway, got it done and you can see the difference in the following pic.

Ian

Doh! managed to load one pic twice!

boatmadman · « **Reply #126 on:** March 18, 2010, 08:39:24 PM »

Got back to it today, and realised that the main deck wasnt the correct width, so, out with the saw and cut off some of the frame edges.

The first and second pic show after modification. But, I then realised that the sides above the main deck carry through under the next deck Doh!

So, out came the saw again, you can see in pic 3 the mods I made.

Pics 4 and 5 show the area within the bow, with a couple of platforms in place for batteries and electronics etc.

Ian

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boatmadman · « **Reply #127 on:** March 25, 2010, 08:46:24 PM »

Before going any further with the decks, I thought I should make the winches, the thinking being that decks are easier to modify at a later date if required than winches.

Anyway, here are pics of progress so far.

Ian

DickyD · « **Reply #128 on:** March 25, 2010, 08:53:01 PM »

Very nice Ian

chipchase · « **Reply #129 on:** March 25, 2010, 09:07:23 PM »

Your making a great job of her Ian those winches really look the business

Umi_Ryuzuki · « **Reply #130 on:** March 26, 2010, 12:21:48 AM »

Quote from: boatmadman on March 18, 2010, 08:39:24 PM

Got back to it today, and realised that the main deck wasnt the correct width, so, out with the saw and cut off some of the frame edges.

The first and second pic show after modification. But, I then realised that the sides above the main deck carry through under the next deck Doh!

So, out came the saw again, you can see in pic 3 the mods I made.

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Ian
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I didn't think the main deck was too narrow...
I did think that the side passages alone the deck were too wide though...

Looking good Ian...

boatmadman · « **Reply #131 on:** May 06, 2010, 09:49:16 PM »

And back to the Orca after steam engine time!

Anyway, I have fitted the 'p' brackets, mounted the motors and put in the rudder tubes - all routine stuff, so I wont put in pics of those.

I have been wondering how to get access to the motors and shafts etc through the main deck, eventually, I came to the idea of using re seal-able food boxes recessed slightly below the deck, and fit a removable deck over the top.

The pics show the progress:

Ian

MTrader · « **Reply #132 on:** May 10, 2010, 08:44:40 PM »

Hello.

After reading your building report I am surprised about your solution to create a watertight deck.
I new another modeller with the same solution.
But I will give you my solution.
I made all decks of plexy glass, perfect to saw,and glue.
In this deck I made a hatch.
This hatch you can tape complete watertight with isolation tape.
Above this plexy deck is the falch deck this is made of 1,8 mm print plate.
At the print I glued the wooden deck.

If there are any troubles under need you only take of the falch deck and you can see trough the plexy deck all what happen under need.

It´s simple to made and very use full.

Please look at the photos.

gr Leen, (model Maersk Master)

Umi_Ryuzuki · « **Reply #133 on:** May 10, 2010, 10:12:59 PM »

Hi Leen,

What did you build your finish deck on.
It looks very thin, but also very rigid.

Aimee

boatmadman · « **Reply #134 on:** May 10, 2010, 10:27:20 PM »

Leen,

Nice solution, have to admit I hadnt thought of that.

Ian

VIVALDI · « **Reply #135 on:** May 11, 2010, 06:38:02 PM »

Hi,

Realy good job!!!!

Nice and clean construction, i like it...

Kénavo, Philippe!

MTrader · « **Reply #136 on:** May 11, 2010, 07:32:25 PM »

Hi Aimee

The falsch deck is made of printplate 1,8 mm.
Print plate is very hard en get good shape.
That's importand because the wooden planks are glued at this print plate.

Till now I works perfect.

The plexy deck and hatch construction is copied many times.
It's to simple explane, but it works perfect.

Do You get the time to meed us again in Guterloh?

gr leen

paulolondres · « **Reply #137 on:** July 18, 2010, 12:04:57 AM »

Quote from: boatmadman on June 09, 2009, 10:01:46 PM

Dont you just hate building model boats?

Paint hardly dry on the last one, and here I go again!

Ulstein, the builders and Bourbon wouldnt let me have a linesplan, so I designed the hull myself.

Thank you to those who let me have some pics and information - you know who you are.

Anyway, here are the frames pasted onto plywood ready fro cutting out.

Ian

Hy mate i am from brazil, i have the happy hunter plans in cad, and i want the make the ULSTEIN AX104 Bourbon Orca , can you pass me the plan lines?

this is mine one
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1267660

see ya

paulolondres · « **Reply #138 on:** July 18, 2010, 12:12:14 AM »

Quote from: DickyD on March 25, 2010, 08:53:01 PM

Very nice Ian

"xxxxx" amazing man

offshore · « **Reply #139 on:** September 09, 2010, 09:09:44 AM »

Good morning, dear XBow enthusiasts,
thats an absolutely brilliant work

. I'm currently working on a scratch built diving support vessel with Ulstein XBow. I wish my model would be looking as good as yours boatmadman

.

Like PeterS, who is in the same German XBow community like me

http://forum.modellkapitaene.net/viewforum.php?f=353&sid=d2cab56781b55fe64165cf1cc54b66ef

I made an photo building report, which you can find here:

http://picasaweb.google.de/Skipperiki/DSX144HalmarBeluga?feat=directlink

Greetings form southern Germany.

Matthew

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