airwalk

I thought that I would start on getting the main hull preped for painting.I done this by filling all of the seams with epoxy gel-cote.After I sanded the seams down to were everything was smooth and even.The next thing was installing some ballast tank inlet water holes.Of course you did not see any of these on the real model.The bottom of the hull was smooth when it went by the camera shots. I wanted to just add a few to the side keels,so you would not see them when looking at the boat from the side.On a real sub the ballast slots are along the center skeg.With this boat made for rc control,this would help with draining the boat.A real nice set of improved plans were sent to me from a very good friend,George Lynch,years back.He was really into the seaview.and made a set of plans that made sense of what the boat might have if it was real.I scribed torpedo doors into the stearn like was on his plans.He was a great artist,and sadely was killed in a car accident back in in 1994.Anyway his drawing still lives on.Here are a few pictures of what I did a few days ago.