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Yes, & I’ll bet they were very tasty.
You will have a very nice
frog pondtraining facility there when you get it all finished Mr Kermit.I was just tidying up some photos getting ready for the New Year and I found these from our lunchtime BBQ on 22nd Dec which ended up being our last sail for the year due to the less than ideal conditions last Saturday.
Anyway our good mate Kermit provided good old Aussie Pav with all the trimmings to fatten us all up ready for Christmas, problem was we were a bit short on eating utensils so there was a bit of adaptation going on.
And the classic
Well I might not have finished it for Christmas as I had hoped but at least its finished this year.
9 hours till 2019 & the rear hatch cover (the very last bit) has almost completed printing.
All the rest is completed & fully operational so will be back in the water at our next sailing event, Saturday @ the Canal if weather is OK or Tuesday @ Puddleduck.
Edit: 21:15 and it is all done & dusted. (Here are the pics to prove it)
That’s it, all done!!
Happy New Year
Got the painting all finished on Friday then left if all day Saturday to harden.
Today it was time to cut & polish the new paint job and then start the reassembly.
As the sail-winch is now mounted inside the hull rather than through the deck it needed a new mounting support. The winch support was made from aluminium angle and the mounting block was 3D printed complete with provision for captive nylock nuts to make later winch removal nice & easy.
The block was then epoxied into the hull.
While waiting for the epoxy to cure I started on the vinyl printing. Got it all printed (except for the Axes – different colour) and at least some of it installed
For the BattleAxe name I opted for the Raunch LET font that had previously been used on Obsession. At the time my commercial printing man (Ken Stone – Vinyl Solutions) said it was the worst font he had ever tried to vinyl cut, so I just had to put it to the test on the Brother DC200. Must say that it cut it perfectly but it is a tad fiddly to separate the waste from the print. Just took it slow & steady and I reckon it came out just fine. Over time (without clearcoat to protect it) a bit of the very fine detail gets knocked off but it still looks good on the N12.
Now just need to finish stringing the winch, screw & seal the forward hatch into the deck and print a hatch & fixing mech for the rudder & servo access.
Looking good Col, but what is it with all these black sails?
The Sydney to Hobart was full of them also.
Well, it certainly looks the part but if you get much more firepower onboard you wont be able to get off the ground.
Today I got back to the 10R, the deck putty coat has been sanded back & I just finished the final coat of primer. A quick sand all over in the morning & she is ready for the top coat.
The plan is to spray the deck first, then when finished & dry, up-end it and spray the hull & keel. Hopefully it all comes out OK.
Should be ready to cut & polish then reassemble by Sunday.
Below is a mock-up of the signage ready for my new Vinyl Cutter!!
In the RC world I think this will become my new favourite tool, well maybe after the Tevo Tornado 3D printer.
Whilst having a bit of a chat with Col @ Lauderdale yesterday he mentioned that he had recently purchased a Vinyl cutter for doing his sail numbers & logo’s etc and that the said machine was currently on special at one of the local haberdashery shops for $299.00.
Given the amount of money I spend in a year having my favourite signage shop produce boat names/ plane names, logo’s etc I quickly figured this was a pretty good deal.
After doing copious amounts of research on line overnight I headed off to Spotlight this morning & laid my money down.
The instructions left a bit to be desired (as they often do) but the Brother DC200 Design N Cut performs well and is actually quite easy to use after you throw away the instructions and watch a couple of the after-market videos on YouTube.
A couple of the features I really like is that although there are only 20 built in fonts in the editing software Brother have developed (and posted on line for free) a font converter that will convert virtually any font installed on your PC for use with the DC200. Over the years I have installed numerous custom fonts on the PC and all that I have tested so far have converted fine. Another nice feature is that the converted fonts are still fully scalable.
The other nice feature is that the design screen is calibrated so you only need to cut your vinyl slightly larger that your design and then position it on the cutting sheet in the same position as you see on the screen which equals very little waste. I am only using craft vinyl (same as used to cover school books) and the machine cuts it perfectly and much faster than me with a pair of scissors.
Only early days yet but I’m suitably impressed.
The machine
The Design Software
My first attempt
Illusion is an imported font @90pt & LRYC is a built in font @ 20pt (its very small & fiddly but came out perfect).
Nice one Kermit.
Next time you are going up let me know & I will loan you a couple of GoPro cameras, then with multiple cameras you can get real creative.
Certainly is a very scenic place for flying. I reckon FPV would be great down there as well.
