What ship first. A poll!!

[BattleshipBob]

Nearly afternoon chaps

Many thanks to you all, just to clarify.

I WILL of course continue to build, learn and research the mighty StuG, i am NOT stopping building them! But i have decided to only concenrate on them, there support vehicles but also build warships. I am therefore selling all my other non StuG stuff apart from ships and the HE 219 nightfighter.

So its the Tamiya KGV, i have ordered a railing set, that will be all. I just want to learn as i go, a whole new game for me. I have downloaded Mike Ashleys ship books for free from his website, so reading to do!

Looking at the ship kits i am surprised that there is not a newer KGV class kit or a Vanguard a beautyfull ship.

I have been watching on YT a load of excellent videos by Drachinifel his videos cover, ships, classes of ship, battles, recently a interesting one on what may have caused the Hood to go bang!

Before i start i need to sort out my unfinished builds otherwise they will just stay there

Cheers bob

[Tim Marlow]

If you’re looking for background reading on battleships Bob then I would recommend a good work on Jutland (there are many) or “Dreadnought” by Robert Massie. They will show you that Beattie was a bit of a div, and that Jackie Fisher was certifiable. They also show that we won the battle of Jutland because there is more to naval warfare than a post battle count of ships sunk.

[BattleshipBob]

Hi Tim

many thanks

on drachs site he has three videos on the phases of the battle, I really enjoyed them very interesting and yes Beatty was dangerous, by the way the avenues where I live in Cardiff are named after admirals and my avenue is yes you guessed it Beatty Avenue and around the corner is Jellicoe gardens' lol

[Tim Marlow]

You got a little unlucky then Bob....almost got the right man. It’s better than mine though, I live in hammer street!

[BattleshipBob]

You got a little unlucky then Bob....almost got the right man. It’s better than mine though, I live in hammer street!
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Too true Tim, would have prefered Cunningham close, thats next to ours!! In Cardiff you can chose from, Iron, metal, zinc st or Fanny st!

[Tim Marlow]

Close to us we have a lusty legs lane and a sexey school though!

[The Smythe Meister]

Well,I missed the Poll,but......
...... I was going to say "I`ll have a D please Bob"..... so i`m happy anyway!! :thumb2:
I`ll be following this one closely,always fancied having a go at a Battleship,it`s just the teeny weeny size of the things that puts me off:flushed:!
Good stuff Bob,nice to see you taking on something unusual.
Andy

[BattleshipBob]

Well,I missed the Poll,but......
...... I was going to say "I`ll have a D please Bob"..... so i`m happy anyway!! :thumb2:
I`ll be following this one closely,always fancied having a go at a Battleship,it`s just the teeny weeny size of the things that puts me off:flushed:!
Good stuff Bob,nice to see you taking on something unusual.
Andy

Hi Andy, got a few ships lurking in the stash and a lot of books so why not lol

Might be sailing into rough seas lol

[boatman]

Hi Andy, got a few ships lurking in the stash and a lot of books so why not lol

Might be sailing into rough seas lol

Bob have you looked on utube an put in navy ship sailing in rough seas wow on that on it show a modern frigate i think to small to be a destroyer but the ship at times is half out of the sea on a trough an just lookin at it made me feel seasick what a vid really brilliant
the navy lark

[BattleshipBob]

Bob have you looked on utube an put in navy ship sailing in rough seas wow on that on it show a modern frigate i think to small to be a destroyer but the ship at times is half out of the sea on a trough an just lookin at it made me feel seasick what a vid really brilliant
the navy lark

Hi Chris

I have seen a photo of Prince of Wales i think taking Churchill to meet Roosevelt, someone side it was more like a submarine it was that bad.

[boatman]

WELL some one said hood was more of a sub as they called it a wet ship but you get hundred ft waves coming at you an the ship is bound to go under an then they pray that it comes back up as my uncle was on a small carrier in the war an he said it was like the end of the world as well as bein seasick
chris

[Tim Marlow]

Hood was like that due to its design flaws Chris.
Light armour at build + more armour added later = the navy’s biggest submarine.
She had very little freeboard so was wet in any sea, and her batteries could not be used except in dead calm. She looked great though.

[dave]

as a historical snippet.
On the 1st May 1942 whilst distant shadowing 2 Russian convoys KGV was involved in a collision with the destroyer Punjabi, the Punjabi sank and the exploding depth charges damaged KGV and put her out of action for several months.

[BattleshipBob]

Hood was a lovely looking ship, alongside Scharnhorst, Tiger, Bismarck and my favorite Roma in my opinion of course!

My mums uncle served on Hood in the late 1930's before moving to cruisers, lucky move, sadly he died when i was about 7, would have loved to have spoken to him and my mum said he had a big photo album which vanished.

Watch the Drach video on YT about her loss, not a plunging shell but what seems a lucky hit helped by the wave from the bow at high speed exposing her side allowing a 15 inch shell to explode in the 4.5 magazine which then took out the 15 inch magazine!

[Tim Marlow]

The real problem Bob was that she looked like a battleship, so the RN used her like a battleship. In reality she was a stupidly large light cruiser with Battleship guns and simply shouldn’t have been in the line of battle. The ultimate result of that design idea was the Courageous (called outrageous) class ships. They were so lightly built that one of them buckled in high seas during trials..... they had 18” guns though!