Very Nice...

[omitchell]

QUOTE (emfrat @ Aug 28 2014,9:33 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

And of course 'Bismarck' sank HMS Hood...my late Dad was born in 1913, and a couple of days after he started school - 1918 - he saw HMS Hood being launched from John Brown's yard in Clydebank. The shipyard was barely 250m from the school, and when I was at the same school in the mid/late 1950s we could hear the riveting guns going all day. In 1941, Dad was on duty in Portsmouth Barracks when the news came through that 'Hood' had been sunk. This only came to light when niece Kate did a school project to ask the old'uns what school was like in their day. The casual aside in Dad's response enabled us to pinpoint the date he actually started school...
The 'Net can do great things like this - it is a tragedy that something like 80% of the content is wasted on porn.

Clydebank, home of some of the greatest ships ever built. And home to my family. Going back generations before the demise of the ship building my family worked the yards building the ships. You name it, I had a relative building it. The Clyde has never been the same since they closed the yards down. Kind of took the heart out of Glasgow...

[Fozzer]

http://sovereignoftheseas.model-space.com/...campaign=sotsnz

I would be desperately afraid of sneezing towards the end of the very delicate build... ...!

Requires a very steady hand, and a clean handkerchief...

Paul...Ach....oooo!.... ...!

[emfrat]

QUOTE (omitchell @ Aug 28 2014,8:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Clydebank, home of some of the greatest ships ever built. And home to my family. Going back generations before the demise of the ship building my family worked the yards building the ships. You name it, I had a relative building it. The Clyde has never been the same since they closed the yards down. Kind of took the heart out of Glasgow...

My younger bro recently retired from the last yard still building - he worked for BAe systems at Scotstoun, designing warships.

[emfrat]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Aug 28 2014,7:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Amazing Warship the Hood but very lacking, Mike, pleased you post your history, for some reason I study the class's and how they changed between the wars, as you well no when HMS Hood blew up is was in concert with the Price of Wales, ... course the photo is off the class the KGV , .. pleased there is interest and people wonder and ask questions.

Youngest brother is mad on the Dreadnought era. HMS Hood was designed by people from that era, so it was very vulnerable to plunging fire. One radar-aimed salvo was enough to penetrate the weak deck and let a shell reach the magazine. Two survivors out of a crew of 1500.
Same bro also collects 100-yr-old pushbikes. I 'm beginning to worry about my family

[omitchell]

QUOTE (emfrat @ Aug 28 2014,10:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

My younger bro recently retired from the last yard still building - he worked for BAe systems at Scotstoun, designing warships.

The last yard still building isn't working that close with BAe, it's building scientific research vessels...

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (Fozzer @ Aug 28 2014,11:31 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I would be desperately afraid of sneezing towards the end of the very delicate build... ...!

Like a deck of cards, then WHOOF , the bloody lot comes down I would really hate to see that with the Sovereign.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (emfrat @ Aug 28 2014,11:50 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Youngest brother is mad on the Dreadnought era. HMS Hood was designed by people from that era, so it was very vulnerable to plunging fire. One radar-aimed salvo was enough to penetrate the weak deck and let a shell reach the magazine. Two survivors out of a crew of 1500.
Same bro also collects 100-yr-old pushbikes. I 'm beginning to worry about my family.

I can't swim to save myself full stop yet i'm so intrigued with a weapon that can throw a standard family car twenty five miles and they aren't slow at doing it either .. two minutes a round for each barrel.

I must be as mad as your family then, I did a lecture of the types in front of a huge audience, was only spose to be an hour chat but opened the flood gates in my brain ... I did not get home till 1.00 in the morning, had everyone from WWII merchant fleet vets to a couple US Navy officers, hell strange when one seems to know so much, good thing it was a two way, I learn the dangers of the Long Lance torpedos, what injury's and deaths they inflicted by the operators.

[emfrat]

I really want one of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY

[omitchell]

QUOTE (emfrat @ Aug 29 2014,10:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I really want one of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY

I really want one of these

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygHN-vplJZg

[emfrat]

Dang! "The uploader has not made this video available in your country. "

I'm all for high-speed rail, but not that kind

[lowglow]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Aug 28 2014,7:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Now that would really whined me up, have been there with a series off books, I'll stick with my scratch builds, as you know Chris, your like me .. follow the research and build from there.

As you know Ian I'm off work at the moment so I thought I would use the time to learns some new skills. I have always wanted to learn how to use CAD an recently I have meet someone who now's it well.
I thought I would design a model aircraft that I could build while off work.

Heres what I have so far

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (emfrat @ Aug 29 2014,11:58 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I really want one of these
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wVADKznOhY

I wish I had not mentioned flinging cars around the place

QUOTE (omitchell @ Aug 29 2014,12:09 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I really want one of these

A plasma rail gun, bout time the concept go's well back 30 years .... pleased it has progressed to the lets test it stage

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (lowglow @ Aug 29 2014,2:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

As you know Ian I'm off work at the moment so I thought I would use the time to learns some new skills. I have always wanted to learn how to use CAD an recently I have meet someone who now's it well.
I thought I would design a model aircraft that I could build while off work.

Heres what I have so far

Good Ole Doodlebug ... looking great , what version of autocad are you using? , I'm not sure the applications anymore with recent programs or if it has pluggin's to get it into a machine stage, It is a good study off the V1 .. 1 ton warhead equals your average family car

[lowglow]

I have Autocad 2002 but I am using LibreCAD, free and very good to use can be found here

[lowglow]

I will be making the fuse out of blue foam glassing over then removing the foam I'm going to make it in sections wrapping the glass over the ends by 10mm then gluing the sections together by doing it that way the 10mm flanges on each end of each section will become the formers (bulkheads) giving it the strength. Wings will be foam skinned with balsa then glassed. Power electric ducted fan.

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (lowglow @ Aug 29 2014,7:04 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I have Autocad 2002 but I am using LibreCAD, free and very good to use can be found here

Ideal for others to try out, not so funny I never used a CAD program for any off my models .. simply Eyeball .

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (lowglow @ Aug 29 2014,7:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I will be making the fuse out of blue foam glassing over then removing the foam I'm going to make it in sections wrapping the glass over the ends by 10mm then gluing the sections together by doing it that way the 10mm flanges on each end of each section will become the formers (bulkheads) giving it the strength. Wings will be foam skinned with balsa then glassed. Power electric ducted fan.

I do like your breakdown off materials , a fan ducted V1 .. Hmm.. lucky did not have such a quite Doddlebug back in WWII