The Ship Model Forum

I also agree with Dave. What's the point of building a 1/96 scale model ship, if it,s just going to be placed on a shelf.

It's like the US or the British Navy, building a ship and keeping it in Dry Dock.

Neptune wrote:Agree with Dave, a reason why I'm getting away from the 1/700 and looking for R/C stuff now!

Looks like you guys had fun there!

We R/C Guys always have fun, and give lots of pleasure to people with out it costing them anything, its like the two young lads when I launched NC for the first time, all there christmass,s came at once, there was no problems, never been in the water and sailed perfect, see the pictures in my artical in feature articals , chapt 14. ARH

There are rules for building model ships for sailing purposes, and one of them is to keep the superstructure lightweight. That's why most model ships are stable when sailing. The weight needs to be low down, not high up in the model, otherwise it will be top heavy. As long as you keep the weight below the centre of gravity, it will be very stable in the water.

Hi Geoff what you say is partly right. To reduce the prospect of having a "STIFF" ship ballast for trimming is best placed up the side of the hull at a point below the centre of gravity and above the centre of buoyancy the purpose being to reduce the distance between the C of G and the metacentric height. Although the ship is easily inclined it returns to the up right slowly with an easy motion, as a full size ship would do and performes more realistically on the water. All my models are trimmed in this way.
Dave Wooley

Dave Wooley wrote:Hi Geoff what you say is partly right. To reduce the prospect of having a "STIFF" ship ballast for trimming is best placed up the side of the hull at a point below the centre of gravity and above the centre of buoyancy the purpose being to reduce the distance between the C of G and the metacentric height. Although the ship is easily inclined it returns to the up right slowly with an easy motion, as a full size ship would do and performes more realistically on the water. All my models are trimmed in this way.
Dave Wooley

Thank's for explaining this Dave, I will bear this in mind when trimming Marlborough and the Big Victorious

Anonymous wrote:

Dave Wooley wrote:Hi Geoff what you say is partly right. To reduce the prospect of having a "STIFF" ship ballast for trimming is best placed up the side of the hull at a point below the centre of gravity and above the centre of buoyancy the purpose being to reduce the distance between the C of G and the metacentric height. Although the ship is easily inclined it returns to the up right slowly with an easy motion, as a full size ship would do and performes more realistically on the water. All my models are trimmed in this way.
Dave Wooley

Thank's for explaining this Dave, I will bear this in mind when trimming Marlborough and the Big Victorious

Forgot I was logged out Victorious