Hi Guys,
.........late night-er.....
I have spent many days and eves getting work done on Honolulu. This time it's the props/shafts/struts that needed to be done. The cast metal struts were too much trouble to prep and re-shape. I opted to make some strut assemblies from .10" diam plastic tubing and the legs from .030" x .125" and cut to length/re-shaped to match the drawings. As can be seen from the pics, I re-located all of the shafts: exits and strut locations, (both intermediate and primary), as the model did not match the drawings and pictures, (what few there are). As a result of thius finding, some filling and sanding was needed. Plus, the bottom of the hull was a bit too round in the prop strut area, and was accordingly, "flattened".
Hull, drawings and mostly completed shaft/strut/prop assemblies.
The new locations for the prop shaft hull exits still need to be cut, and the entire shaft etc. assemblies test located afterwards. If necessary, the strut legs will be shortened a little to stay true to the drawings. The only thing I can't really do is to accurately re-shape the hull bottom and then make everything fall into place; hypothetically. That's as far as I'll go with this part of this build.
I have also done a lot of painting lately, but I'll post pics of that stuff later; when all of the sub-assemblies are actually finished.
Also, the prop strut assemblies will not be permanently added onto the hull until after I have successfully drilled the needed 300 or so air-portholes on the hull sides.
I've been putting that task off for as long as possible.
Tony
