Found this guy on Facebook. The first video I watched was him launching a flyable RC Shiun (Norm) from the catapult.
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Its really beautiful,I would so afraid to even put it in the water
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Very cool, that must be massive in 1/48
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If any of you are not following his posts, this guy is amazing. He’s made an operating Mark 13 torpedo, that he drops from a flying TBF Avenger.
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For you ship guys in the know. Is it just me, but does the bow and stern appear to be bowed up. I know there is a term for this in ship construction. Hogging maybe? Am I to assume the weight in the hull must be pretty much centered and none on the bow and stern?
The kit, more than impressive. Not something I would have attempted. The 1/350 Mikasa with a Ponce upgrade is about the Max I can handle at the moment.
Hogging is when the midsection of a ship is bowed upwards relative to the bow and stern; sagging is the opposite, with the bow and stern being higher than the midsection. Neither is intended when a ship is constructed, but accumulate over time (or temporarily to one degree or another as a ship’s cargo is loaded or unloaded). Hogging was a particular problem with wooden-hulled ships, due to the lower bouyancy of the bow and stern, and naval architects came up with a number of different approaches to stiffening a hull against hogging, such as the diagonal riders of the USS Constitution.
That said, warships often have raised bow and stern, referred to as ‘sheer’, and the practice goes back to the Age of Sail, where it was done to reduce pitching, but on more modern ships is to improve seakeeping by reducing the amount of water coming over the bow or stern in rough weather; the Iowa class battleships have a pronounced bow sheer, as seen in this picture of the USS New Jersey.
About 5,5 Meter or 18 feet. in length.