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[quote="KevinYoung"]That Long Beach is a beauty.[/quote]

Thx mate!!

I haven't done a great deal lately mostly trying to get a model finished for a friend, but managed to get LB's hull no's, name and draught markings on...

Cheers Bruce

That Long Beach is a beauty.

[quote="navydavesof"]WOW, Bruce!!!

All I can say is WOW!

Hey, since you're doing as much as you are, what about adding another set of Harpooons to Long Beach? Sixteen Harpoons would really be great. Another set could be set next to the current ones, man, and she would be even more of a beast!

Keep up the great work, sir. I look forward to more posts!

David[/quote]

G'day Dave,

Nah sticking with 8 'poons for the moment mate (I have been thinking about top weight once the resin 40'boats go on....they are rather weighty!!)
I will be removing the two Goalkeepers, might replace them with SeaRAM's or relocate the mk45's to that position. The ASROC mount is under construction and will have one pair of tubes raise up as the mt rotates in either direction(probably on a cam arrangement),and the VLS may relocate to the centerline of the hanger roof (like on the Burkes but with two 16cell modules instead of the 61cell).....plus working missiles :woo_hoo: :woo_hoo: my mate has done SM3's for his Hobart class AWD so I am going to do Tomahawks!! (Since all my AA missiles are from the fwd launchers all aft VLS are Tomahawks...and we are only aloud VLS (and torpedoes for subs!) by our insurance). I hope to get some more work done shortly (finish hull repairs/repaint and redo hull decals...)

Cheers Bruce

very good :thumbs_up_1:

WOW, Bruce!!!

All I can say is WOW!

Hey, since you're doing as much as you are, what about adding another set of Harpooons to Long Beach? Sixteen Harpoons would really be great. Another set could be set next to the current ones, man, and she would be even more of a beast!

Keep up the great work, sir. I look forward to more posts!

David

Those hawk graphics look perfect Bruce. After painting my markings which I'm pleased about, I think next time I'd like to try these out instead :) cutting out all those masks are a right pain! Also looking forward to seeing how your skipjack performs. I've never had a sub before and it seems like an easy way of going about it - cheaper alternative also.

Got some work done redoing the Helo deck markings, the solid white lines are painted and rest are from Hawkgraphics 1/72 USN flight deck markings set.

Work has been very busy and I have been side tracked converting a Revell 1/72 Skipjack to RC using the CASWELL conversion parts and subdriver watertight cylinder most of the setup for this is done now I can get back to Surface ship construction!!

She will be running!!

I got a few of the boys to bring some ships to West Lakes for a run on Dec30. Twas a beauty of a day and we had 4 ships running in formation and Scott's AWD HMAS Sydney even test fired some missiles off...

Bruce you asked me about my work on my Stergy. Well tomorrow she gets wet for the first time under RC control. The first Russian is going well for the fleet review in November.
Lets hope there is a good Russian presence there and give the Nato guys a run for there money :heh:
Long Beach looks great in the shot you posted here.
Just make sure you are running and not in the dry dock.....

Was back at West Lakes for some testing at a different spot...this location has an arched footbridge about 30' high in center. Had some fun...got some good pix!

Water cooling got a test run on our club run. But need to fit a larger inlet pipe as using two small ones doesn't seem to work!!

Her are a some pics of CGN9 underway on West Lakes........ :heh: :heh:

Bruce

Have finally got around to setting up water cooling on the Graupner 900's with a small 12v water pump normally used for PC cooling setups (specs: 240L per hour@ 12volts....cost $9.95 on ebay!! claimed operating life of 30,000hrs....we shall see!!) My water pickup's are 2 1/8th brass pipes either side approx 14cm back from the midship join these then connected to a Turnigy inline fuel filter (the type used for model planes,buggy's etc.) the pipes then go into a home made T-adapter (2x1/8th pipes into a 8mm brass pipe) which attach's to the pump via a short bit of hose, a similar adapter splits the outlet flow into two (one goes to the motor cooling coils the other will be for ESC cooling when the bitz turn up!).

Testing at home went well with reasonable flows out of the outlets after testing on 6v,9v and 12v...with 12v being the most even output from all four outlets. It was then off to the pond for a stationary cooling system test !! :woo_hoo: The water came out for 10secs and stopped! :censored_2: :mad_1: :mad_2:

Turns out the inline fuel filters are too fine and promptly clogged with pond scum....!! Quickly removing the filters a second run of the pump gave a good 15min test run with no blockages..

Next I will do a good long powered run and check motor Temps....

Bruce :cool_1: :cool_1:

Hi Bruce I like the lighting on the Helo and the hanger shots.
Dave Wooley :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :wave_1:

here are some pix from the night run.....I was too busy sailing to get alot!! The general consensus was that more lights is better!! The super tiny LEDs used on HMAS Darwin and Canberra are visible clearly at night, where as the older style 3mm LED's used in CGN9's Nav and mast light are not bright enough to see when more than 20 feet away at night!

Bruce

Well despite several hours fixing the anchor winch and ten successful tests on the bench it still doesn't work properly when you try it on the water! Had a great two days sailing over the weekend (including a night run.....need more lights!) here are some pix of CGN9 at Naracoorte, South Australia

Cheers Bruce

Last week I also dug out a couple 1/72 Helicopter kits from my stockpile and began construction of an MH-60S "Knighthawk" as an additional flight deck dweller for CGN-9 (I can rotate which chopper is on the deck depending on my whim!) The Mh-60S is based on the Blackhawk airframe with SH-60 cockpit layout and HH-60 Engines I have taken parts from a Hobbyboss HH-60 kit and used the majority of a Hasegawa UH-60 kit. This aircraft has shorten stub wing pylons (high mount type found on the UH60) cutdown to suit with 4 Hellfire missiles per side and a pair of machine guns out of each side too. (an M60 and a aircooled 0.50 cal M2 !!)
So far I have made up the interior and seat section, wing pylons, Hellfire missiles,fuselage halves and fitted working Nav lights (tiny LEDS) on the wing pylons and the fuselage sides with two more Reds to go on in the Tail and belly.........after the tail rotor and main rotor motor's get fitted.

Here are some LED test pix!!

Cheers Bruce

I have been conducting some repairs and pre summer maintenance on USS Long Beach.
Finally got around to modifying the Krick anchor winch by adding a series of 4.8x2mm strips of evergreen styrene around the winch drum, this has made the drum hub go from being approx. 8mm dia to about 18mm dia. giving better torque for pulling up the anchor, it now (in bench testing.....) comes up easily every time and also seems to release and drop better too!
Also began a respray of the superstructure and upper deck non skid coating, this has involved many of hours of masking up.....just the Hanger section to finish tomorrow.

Cheers Bruce

Thanks Dave's!!
It was a good couple of days at the Regatta. Always fun catching up with the boys from Wagga and the other members from Victoria and Canberra. :cool_1: :cool_1:

Cheers Bruce

Realistic shot on the pier with all the ships tied up .Looks like you all had a superb. time :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1: :thumbs_up_1:
Dave Wooley

[quote="HvyCgn9"]oops forgot a couple....[/quote]WOW!!! What a beautiful bow!!! Just so you know...it makes me visualize a Mk71 in place of the Mk10 launcher and a Mk41 VLS on top of the Mk10 magazine structure.

I can't wait to see what the rest of this year and next brings for you. Long Beach has turned out to be such a beautiful ship!
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