Is this the ultimate in 3d modelling?

simond

Western Thunderer
Hi All,

I found this over on Scaleforum,
It's German, bur shows what's possible in 3d if you have the skills and equipment.
And money.

And time….

the whole project is quite exceptional. There are lots of “master class” examples.
 

adrian

Flying Squad
flagged for interest a couple of months ago.


and earlier than that for the full concept.

 

michael080

Western Thunderer
Can't beat it ! no programme to learn or pay for, no electricity, just a human rain, simples :D
not so simple. Draughtsman was a profession that required a lot of knowledge about technical terminology and drawing rules. When I was a student of mechanical engineering in the 1980, I had to produce correct transparent paper drawings in indian ink and standard lettering.

(I keep some of them to impress my young colleagues) :cool:

Michael
 

adrian

Flying Squad
Draughtsman was a profession that required a lot of knowledge about technical terminology and drawing rules. When I was a student of mechanical engineering in the 1980, I had to produce correct transparent paper drawings in indian ink and standard lettering.
Similar experience - still have one of my student books - still have painful memories of trying to calculate angled pipe intersections with a cone!
 

Phil O

Western Thunderer
Similar experience - still have one of my student books - still have painful memories of trying to calculate angled pipe intersections with a cone!

Fabrication, being part of the job description, we had to produce allsorts of weird shapes, the worst was the elephants &rse, the recognized name for gas turbine exhaust which was round where it came off the back of the engine round, turned through 90° and end up square or rectangular with radiused corners, but had a hole to accommodate the the drive shaft from the power turbine to the gearbox.
 

simond

Western Thunderer
Fabrication, being part of the job description, we had to produce allsorts of weird shapes, the worst was the elephants &rse, the recognized name for gas turbine exhaust which was round where it came off the back of the engine round, turned through 90° and end up square or rectangular with radiused corners, but had a hole to accommodate the the drive shaft from the power turbine to the gearbox.
Type 42?
 

Osgood

Western Thunderer
Well actually I did type Type 42 (plus a little bit more) into a search engine, and came up with the 2 x Tyne and 2 x Olympus Rolls Royce gas turbine drives for the Type 42 cruiser/frigate/other :eek:
Another School day today :)
 

simond

Western Thunderer
Just to clarify…. As an undergrad I worked on HMS Liverpool at Cammell Laird, which as Tony notes had two Tynes and two Olympus (Olympii?) and thus four elephant’s arses, which prompted my question to Phil. I didn’t get to play with the engines :rant:probably just as well…

(I did get a chance to play with the Rover 1S60 gas turbine fire pump that Liverpool Poly had in one of the engineering labs. That was fun.)
 

Phil O

Western Thunderer
Just to clarify…. As an undergrad I worked on HMS Liverpool at Cammell Laird, which as Tony notes had two Tynes and two Olympus (Olympii?) and thus four elephant’s arses, which prompted my question to Phil. I didn’t get to play with the engines :rant:probably just as well…

(I did get a chance to play with the Rover 1S60 gas turbine fire pump that Liverpool Poly had in one of the engineering labs. That was fun.)

We refitted her in the late 80's early 90's.
 
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