Thanks
More photos is comming
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Very nice.👍

Thanks Ed i will send more photos later 👍

Hi Jugge,

Your Fairmount Alpine Looks great.
Can't wait to see a video of her Maiden Voyage!

Cheers, Ed

Hi again,
You should find this link useful Peter.
It's to the HMS Hood Association and their review of the Trumpeter 1:200 kit, with lots of detailed improvement suggestions with appropriate photos!
Cheers Doug 😎 Schlaf gut 💤💤💤
http://www.hmshood.com/hoodtoday/models/trumpeter/trumpeter2...

http://www.hmshood.com/hoodtoday/models/trumpeter/trumpeter200.htm

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Many thanks Doug, can't have too many piccy's of HOOD, nice shot though. getting late so time for Schlafen now,
Danke vielmals Doug und gute Nacht😐

Peter

Here's another one you might like Peter 😉
Lot's more where that came from!

No sweat Peter👍
If you download it and look at with something like IrfanView you can blow it up to a massive size. 😊 Print on A3 gloss photo paper😉
There's a lot of useful 'stuff' to be seen on the superstructure and rigging etc.
Have fun with the 1:200 😮 The 1:350 is big enough for my small abode!
Ciao, Doug

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Apologies Doug, I thought the piccy was only the forard deck, I clicked on the foto, and there is a magnifying glass, clicked on that, and WOW! nearly all of THE HOOD, and as you state, the piccy is A1 quality.

cheers Peter😐

Hi Peter,
Don't know yet! As I said I found this one by accident and it 's the largest and best resolution pic I've ever found of Hoody 😉 I'll keep trawling, cos I've got the 1:350 kit of her to make!
Hope this one helps you👍
What I especially like about it is that, whereas most shots of naval ships are crew-less and sterile, this one has lots of obliging 'blokes' standing around to show us the scale of those massive deck fittings😊
Cheers, Doug 😎

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Nice foto Doug, will help in the building of my 1/200
trumpeter kit, is there any other shots showing further back towards stern?👍

Peter😐

Amazing workmanship, pleasure to view and very envious.
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Amazing detail! Any interior shots?

Wow! Humbling!

Hello doug, the next Offshore meeting will be june 30th at Heemskerk, Netherlands.

https://www.facebook.com/events/867597196910996/

https://www.facebook.com/events/867597196910996/

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The detail on this is unbelievable would like to see all the boat.👍

WOW! Offshore (two shores!) and OFF THE SCALE!! 😮
Think I'll take up chess or Olympic Tiddlywinks

Hmm, maybe a move from Munich to Hamburg, always liked the town anyway 😉
Would like to know where the meet took place please. An der Alster vermutlich nicht, oder?

Cheers, Doug 😎

Those models are awesome.

Martin.

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Scratch built

Very nice... Was it a kit or scratch built.

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Excellent job.

Hi there
senile moment for me :-) as there is already a short build of HMS Exeter on here if you do a search - you will come across the build by me and there are some closeup pics on there.

John

hi there

give me a couple of days and I will put a couple of pictures on from the build

:-)

John

Lovely build.
As an HMS Exeter fan and living in Exeter this is a superb build.
Well done.
Bill

Hi John,
Very nice,
Any chance of posting some closeup photos.

Martin.

Sorry Doug, How did I do that? But the sentiment remains.

Ron??
Dat wuz me Haig! 😎

John, great shame you didn't do a Build Blog 🤔
A vid of her sailing would compensate a little 😉
BTW: I have a Deans Marine 1:96 kit of HMS Manxman, Do you need an escort? 😉
Cheers, Doug 😎

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I agree with Ron, a brilliant effort. Please publish more photos, specially close-ups of the detail. it looks magnificent.

Cheers Doug for the compliment - she is 1:96 scale. I obtained the original plans from Greenwich maritime museum - the plans that they hold are as she was 'proposed to be built' in 1928 - the same as her sister ship HMS YORK - but amongst the drawings they supply are the correct hull lines - which are the ones I used for my hull - then I used literally thousands of images from all over the place to do the rest of the superstructure. Also, I used the aid of a small online plan of her rigging which shows a fair amount of superstructure detail of how she was built.

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Brilliant job John 👍👍👍 Hat off!
What scale is she? I have a 1:350 Trumpeter kit in my stash, which I intend to upgrade and fit RC into.
Works out at LoA 50cm Beam 5cm, classic naval 10to1 ratio! max load about 160gm!! Should be an interesting challenge.😲
Cheers, Doug😎

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Goes like a brushless motor set up. Good job

Very life like swimming boy 😊you did well avoiding him👍

The farm is a fair way from the sea,- someone was not on watch obviously. Not my car, some guys doing building maint. We can park on that cobbled area you've pictured on the opposite side, (room for about 8-10 cars,-usually chokka when the yachts are racing) There is a nice little jetty built by the Gulf Harbour Model Yacht Club next to it which is great for setting up and launching. It's all part of the big Gulf Harbour Marina development and pond is actually a drainage control pond.
Was full of Koi carp to keep the weed down (carp were rented from a company by the council, but there was some dispute and the company came and removed their carp) probably missed a lot and they breed like flies, so it should come right. Pond's pretty weed free all the same. Pics of the jetty (from the HSL) with some old codger sitting on it, and the real HSL in the Bayswater Marina (Waitemata harbour Auckland), which I have been on board (once recently,-Modded- and once 50yrs ago-original form) Its' story is on the Waitemata Woodys website under W1.
The other pond is at the Onepoto reserve near the city on the waterfront. Bit of a drive (20mins down the motorway all the way) Yachts there as well. The pics with the Marine modellers club - Panmure Basin - East Auckland (the only scale model boat club in Auckland and virtually dead (pics are old), - only about 3 or 4 scale clubs in the country!) we tend to go more for the full scale here. Evening, JB

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PS Is that your wagon parked over by the fence 🤣

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Mornin' jb, or Evenin' I suppose with you 😉
Gotcha! Nice looking sailing pond👍
I wasn't actually a seaman! But even with my limited navigation skills I think I could have avoided parking my ship at that farm😁
I worked on a number of naval ships during design & building or on refits.
My job was design and contract negotiation for Integrated Internal / External communication systems. Everything from DC to light!!
Was very interesting, took me to shipyards and navies all over the world; except Australia and New Zealand. Never made it down under 😭 Did spend a lot of time in the southern hemishere though; SA, Chile, Brazil and Ecuador mainly.
Did a lot of work on the last operational ex RN Colossus class carrier, NAeL Minas Gerais ex HMS Vengeance, in Brazil at theRio Naval Arsenal😉 She's long since razor blades and car bodies I'm afraid.
Cheers, Doug 😎

Ta very much Doug, wasn't me in the bin though. I was in a heli club for a number of years (didn't fly them,-flew planes and sailed boats,- although did have a Graupner Bell 47G back in 78) Guy at work was president and while talking to the farmer (we leased a paddock) he was asked if anyone liked boats. Knowing I was into boats and loved a challenge, chap told the farmer who went and fished the model out of the bin where it had resided for years, and the rest is history. I thought being an ex seaman (checks spelling) you might appreciate a good coordinate (of said farm) 36 48' 37.75" S 174 32'59.19" E (Goog Earth) only if you have nothing better to do. I'm about 26km NNE as the crow flies, at Red Beach. Boating pond I use is 36 36'33.86"S 174 47'24.08 E , quite a drive between them all. JB

Very nice jb 👍
One does wonder though what you were doin' with your nose in the farm rubbish bin 😮
Hope you wore a gas mask! 🤣
🙈 (See no evil, Smell no evil!)
Cheers, Doug 😎

Ok Ok I admit it, I plead guilty as charged Colin😔 With extenuating circumstances.
I 'accidentally' turned my sensible Sea Scout cabin cruiser into a sport fishing boat!

Colin; as senior officer left on deck the bridge is yours Number One.
Commodore Ed will be in his stateroom if required.😁
G'night all. Cheers, Doug 😎

Thanks Colin, I try to get my models looking as realistic as possible at a distance without going overboard on detail. Scale top speed for most MTBs ASRs for example would only really be around 5-7 mph not hydroplane speeds as you usually see,- doesn't look quite right. I also like seeing if I can get a photo of a model looking like the real thing, using mini cams on other boats etc (pic is vid capture of my MTB just on dusk, taken from my Maiami ASR). Hard to achieve but lots of fun trying.

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Super, looks great on the water, nice to see sensible sailing.
Cheers Colin.