Ooooh!
Swordfisheseses!
Ooooh!
Swordfisheseses!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
So how many books are in your personal library?
Indeed I do Robert.
My dad served as a Gunnery Officer in the FAA during WW2. That picture always amuses me because of the red nose on the torp. I wonder where that idea came from?
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
As an aside, for those of you with model Beaufighters you may like to consider flying this.
Mark XV torpedo being loaded onto a Bristol Beaufighter. This torpedo is fitted with a Mark IV Monoplane Air Tail (MAT) which used a gyroscope to stabilize the torpedo in flight. The MAT broke off upon water entry. A number of Beaufighters were equipped to carry the USN Mark 13 aircraft torpedo. IWM photograph CH 9769.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Wasn't the Mk X in particular a torpedo-attack specialst? And what would it take to turn the existing Ares Beau into one?
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Could we pass it off as an Australian Mk. 21? I know late Mk X's had a forward extension on the fin... Mk. I's were murder on Japanese shipboard flak at Bismarck Sea.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristo...thwest_Pacific
Let's move Beaufighter discussion here:
https://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sh...506#post595506
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
I don't mind it on here Karl. It is helping to keep the thread live until I can get my next picture up on my progress for Taranto.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Rob - Looks like another epic game in the making
Beautiful looking flight Rob. Hope the one you let me fly has a life preserver!
Beautiful work, Rob. Can't wait to see the then in action!
Excellent stuff Rob.
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Please sir! Me sir!
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
Oooh! Oooh!
Me too!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Seen.. Fleets in !
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Targets, targets, and more targets!
Karl
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
With over 4 months still to go only two spots in the game already left for pilots wanting to join the second wave of the attack.
If you want a game better hurry and PM me. We will start filling the first wave as soon as these places are taken.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Scale is 1:1200 DB. I find that about right for photographs with WW2 Aircraft overhead. Some are Airfix, and others are unknown picked up on Evil bay. A couple are scratch built from other hulls and parts plus some bits machined up by me.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Awesome Rob - really very impressive !!!! Have PM'd you as requested
After getting the layout for the town sorted I placed the walls and buildings and marked out the shape to cut the base with a marker pen
I then cut out the base shape roughly to size.
Following that I cut the foamboard and glued the two together.
Next will be an undercoat of thinned down PVA glue to prevent the paint and glues used in the modelling eating into the foam.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
If any other pilots want a seat in the Swordfish for the Taranto game, there are now only three remaining so if you want to fly please PM me soonest.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Those of you who are observant may have noticed a gap in the defences. That is because whilst the glue was going off I filled in my time by producing the end wall section for the town.
A strip of plasticard was heated up and then bent around the end wall floor section. Glued in place with Gorilla glue and then had the two abutting walls added.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
So clever Rob... can’t wait to see the finished article
Never Knowingly Undergunned !!
It's coming on a bit.
Yesterday the base paint went on and I then placed all the fortifications roughly in place.
Today I began cutting and gluing some of the trickier sections together. They will be attatched to the base first after painting. It is always easier to fiddle straight sections later to ensure the fit is right.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Oh! A lighthouse.
So how many books are in your personal library?
Coming along very nicely indeed Do you make the walls or are they commercially available?
Taranto has a inner basin called Mar Piccolo, and a gulf called Mar Grande. Little Sea and Big Sea. A channel with an opening bridge connects them.
https://www.google.it/maps/place/Tar...rYnk?entry=ttu
The channel is 400 meters long and 58 meters wide. It is strictly forbidden to go by sail along the channel - engine is compulsory for any boat of any size. But one day, on May 14th 1965, Olimpic champion Commander Agostino Straulino was in charge of the Italian Navy training sailship Amerigo Vespucci and was in the inner sea. The ship is 101 meters long and 15,56 wide. Checked the wind and readied a huge anchor to be hastly dropped in case of problems, Straulino decided to exit the channel with full sails and no engine. And he did it, at 9.5 knots, between two wings of cheering crowd.
Two letters from the Admiralty to Straulino followed. One was a praise for his extraordinary deed. The other was 10 days of confinement for breaking the prohibition.
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"Congratulation for your great sailing skillls and as a reward youi get 10 days in the brig"!
Back in 1976 with America's bicentennial there was a gathering of tall ships. Amerigo Vespucci was here in Boston Massachusetts.
Thank you so much for that information Andrea.
I had not heard about it.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Thank to you for the great scenario, it is going to look really gorgeous!
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"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
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