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That does make me laugh! I hear what you say Dunc but I've done a little bit of research into an idea for 12v battery, direct drive props run from four windscreen wiper motors and using a variable resistor system to both change speed and polarity of the engines (giving reverse). I want to make it as authentic as I can (no, I'm not going to have steam turbines!). One of the unauthentic bits will be a drop keel (like a sailing dingy) to assist in stability. I'm not at the point of laying the keel yet and anticipate a start/build date of about 4 weeks time... 1st June.

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I'm also going to utilise the batteries as ballast. Design wise, it will be rib and plate using very thin marine ply and fibreglass.

The 'period' will be just post its 1938 refit.

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Bit of a blow today discovering that DeAgostini are withdrawing the issue from the newsagents and will only sell directly. I now have to wait 14 days for the next issue! Shame as I was only really interested in the hull formers.... ah well. It won't stop me... I do have my 1/400 scale Airfix kit to go by. Next stop, lets fill the Airfix hull with polystyrene foam and make formers from that!eace:

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I'm not familiar with large scale warship models but the idea of a walk through model seems pretty hilarious!I just have images in my head of someone walking around the carpark of their local boating pond with a battleship strung around their waist by their braces and a couple of fishing wader clad legs sticking out of the bottom! Maybe a Bizmark looming large from behind the bushes...

Plus it'd be a little awkward if you got out of your depth on the water...

There really is a couple of people do exactly that but not in the water, I think a husband and wife. Last time I saw them at a show they were Nelson and Lady Hamilton with HMS Victory round their waist. Got to stay in step ! I`ll try and find a pic.

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You've been a great help and support Dunc! Looking forward to seeing you at Whitehaven.

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Alan,

It does sound daft, but i'm sure i heard of some models that were manned where the men did wear waserrs and their heads and shoulders were inside the models.

I think it was at Scarbrough where they put on a show, guns blazing sort of thing.

See

http://www.discoveryorkshirecoast.com/content/whats_on/scarborough/whats_on_items.asp?id=026748

it seems loke it is still going on.

J.

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Not at Scarborough, they are "real" manned models and they do float with no contact with the bottom of the pond(or they have VERY long legs !)

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Aghh, torpedoed again (it's me age your honour), seems i've been led up the garden path again.

J.

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i was born in scarbrough and i remember as a nipper being totally mezmorised by the dispaly in the park........i wonder if that is where all this modelling caper started ?..............

good luck with the manned model build !

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i was born in scarborough and i remember as a nipper being totally mesmerized by the display in the park........i wonder if that is where all this modelling caper started ?.............. good luck with the manned model build !

Yep for you ,brain-washed at an early age, it always works. But if it is manned models that goes back a while...to Roman times in fact. They used to have fight to the death "battles" in flooded arenas as big as the Coliseum in Rome. The sailors were criminals, slaves and gladiators. Do a google search for Numachia. The RN have a less bloodthirsty tradition going back to early last century for recruiting.

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Hey Duncan...

Do you have r/c in your carrier as well as onboard controls?

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There really is a couple of people do exactly that but not in the water, I think a husband and wife. Last time I saw them at a show they were Nelson and Lady Hamilton with HMS Victory round their waist. Got to stay in step ! I`ll try and find a pic.

I'd love to see a pic of that!

I just imagined the models clipped onto the occupants braces as they ran around re-enacting great naval battles from history!

Imagines someone with a tirpitz around their waist and another person with a Fairy Swordfish on their head...

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Hey Duncan...Do you have r/c in your carrier as well as onboard controls?

No , only a mobile phone in case I need the Coastguard ! The pic shows one of the tug pilots controlling one of the six tugs that took her up the canal from Ellesmere Port. I took the pic from the towpath. For flying ops the r/c planes are guided from the shore. What progress on your project ?

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is that the same carrier model that is featured on the supermodels show on sky ? it is now part of some museum collection.....

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Yes , same model. No , not part of a museum collection, it was hangared at The Museum of Flight for one winter(that is where it was filmed). Pity the film crew were in a rush, they could have had a sail in her during the summer but that is show-biz, deadline yesterday etc etc. I take it round regattas, airshows both model and full-size during the summer months in UK. Has been as far as Channel Islands. Planning the Continent next, Netherlands,Southern Germany, Austria and Northern Italy.