{"id":4374,"date":"2010-06-11T07:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-06-11T05:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=4374"},"modified":"2010-06-03T00:14:38","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T22:14:38","slug":"making-an-electrical-submarine-engine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/?p=4374","title":{"rendered":"Making an electrical submarine engine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, we got the diesel drive, but what about the electrical drive? So, this one I promise is from pure imagination as I could not find any relevant photos of a World War II electrical submarine engine at all.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen01.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Starting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cheetah3d.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cheetah3D<\/a> and making a cylinder, with high polygon count, a good start, as this one will be Tapered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4383\" title=\"elen01\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"292\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We use the Taper tool, first on one side and then on the other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4382\" title=\"elen02\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"298\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we create a box, and put it behind the cylinder (or motor).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen03.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4381\" title=\"elen03\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"365\" height=\"368\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Using the Bevel tool on edges, we make the gearbox a little softer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen04.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4380\" title=\"elen04\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, we create a sprocket spline and set the number of teeth to rather high.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen05.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4379\" title=\"elen05\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen05.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"268\" height=\"220\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We extrude it, then taper the extruded result to get a nice knob.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen06.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4378\" title=\"elen06\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen06.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Placing the knobs on the gear box with a steel texture, and setting a darker texture on the engine, we got this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen07.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4377\" title=\"elen07\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen07.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"208\" height=\"472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now, we create two boxes, give them a copper texture,and place then next to the knobs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen08.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4376\" title=\"elen08\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen08.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"285\" height=\"494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So this is the electric engine, hope it works now.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen09.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4375\" title=\"elen09\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen09.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"787\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So, how did the submarine engine map look like? This is a photo of it, secretly taken by German spies, and hidden for 70 years, or maybe not.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen10.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4384\" title=\"elen10\" src=\"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/elen10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"632\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The drive shaft itself was made with a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filterforge.com\/?affiliateid=200100725\" target=\"_blank\">FilterForge<\/a> texture I found, and the floor is my own submarine floor texture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, we got the diesel drive, but what about the electrical drive? So, this one I promise is from pure imagination as I could not find any relevant photos of a World War II electrical submarine engine at all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-4374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mapmaking","category-tools-of-the-trade","tag-cheetah3d"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4374"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4385,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4374\/revisions\/4385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/4eyes.code66.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}