So exams are over and that meant shifting focus to finishing my model for tank testing. Unfortunately miscommunication resulted in the lay-up of the hull happening with old resin and at a later date. Instead of having a finished model the first week of January they (EDMC) were now construction her in the last week…
Anyway, I was fully confident still and kept on making arrangements only to find out on Thursday (with testing starting on Monday…) that the resin hadn’t gone off (quality issue and the fact a security guard uncoupled the vacuum bag didn’t help either) so that my model has now ended up in the bin. Well nothing I could do about it other than trying to find another gap in the busy Solent Institute tank at a later date. With the kind help of the Wolfson Unit and Andy Claughton two days have been picked and all involved are very hopeful we will be able to get everything sorted in time for the rescheduled testing.
Anyway this resulted in some spare time and I have been playing around a little with Maxsurf to learn more about it and hopefully gain some experience with rendering as well as hullshape design. Modified my hull design to include a proper transom area, a cockpit and coachroof even if at the moment it is all a bit rudimentary… Anyway judge for yourself and feel free to comment below…
Perhaps over the weekend I will make it even more realistic by adding better colouring, water, rig and so forth.
Anyway; end of the month, three day weekend, fresh start on Monday and AC33 T-10 (although I will miss race 1 because of tank testing). February is going to be awesome!
Ciao!
