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9 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam (
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I have made "kits" of parts in the past, like the LL sweep winch pictured down the thread somewhere, but I prefer to use a combination of all disciplines. Who remembers the "gummed paper tape" construction method?
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📝 3D Printed Models
9 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Nice funnel! Good to use different techniques and materials. At the end of the day, it matters not how a quality piece like that is produced, it is the end result that counts.
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📝 3D Printed Models
11 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Lew. You need an enclosure for ABS. Also turn off the part cooling fan, layers stay sticky for longer. My first enclosure was literally a cardboard box set over my printer. I eventually built one from an Iker Lac coffee table. I had great success once I got the measure of it.
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📝 Question of the Day?
13 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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I must confess to researching answers, but not fron Gurgle. I have several books dealing with nautical matters, for example, the 1956 edition of The Admiralty Manual of Seamanship, several RYA training manuals, Advanced Powerboat, Yachtmaster etc so I use books only when I have to. I still get stuff wrong and have never got to first place, second place for about 3 days is the highest I've been.
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📝 Question of the Day?
13 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Phew, lucky stab produced results!
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📝 Fascinating piece on Shackleton's Endurance today...
13 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Agreed! The tv docudrama is very good....
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📝 Question of the Day?
14 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Repeat question...
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📝 Question of the Day?
19 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Hey Ed, I thought we are all merticalated now, all terms unified and done away with...🤔🤔🤔
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📝 Question of the Day?
19 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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I chose the answer where "speed" was mentioned in both the question and the answer.
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📝 Question of the Day?
19 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Ah! A Froudian slip perhaps?
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📝 Question of the Day?
21 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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I knew it was the Soviets that reached the Noeth Pole, but not the ship name, until now!
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📝 QOD for Alessandro
23 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Summat to do with anti gravity and the universe if I remember rightly. It came up in a computer game I used to play years ago..
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📝 Are there any kits of this Scottish fishing vessel?
27 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Caldercraft for the MFV, Mobile Marine Models for the modern one...
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📝 Ammusement
30 days ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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I recently found an old RAF safety film from the 80s, starring none other than Windsor Davis!
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📝 Ammusement
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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"Tug" cartoon! (Pat's post from earlier)
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📝 Ammusement
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Madwelshman, my mate says it doesn't matter who you vote for, you get The Government....
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📝 Ammusement
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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What a load of bollox! It even says toward the end that MOB is still acceptable to raise the initial alarm but then you change to "person in the water". By the time you say "goodness me there's a person in the water" the poor bugger will probably drown"!
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📝 Speedline Models is back in business!
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Will you be reviving your landing craft kits?
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📝 Falkirk Wheel
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Lots of Maritime stuff in Glasgow!
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📝 Falkirk Wheel
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Great record of your adventures in Scotland. I can recommend the Irvine Maritime Museum in Irving. It is housed in the Linthouse, the engine works in Alexander Stephens yard. It was dismantled brick by brick and rebuilt in Irvine. There is also the Museum of Shipbuilding and the Denny Test Tank in Glasgow. All worth a visit... I have added a little video showing the English boat lift.
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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That particular navigational technique has served me well in the past, it's got me safely across our lake many a time...
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💬 Re: 36" Veron Thames Police Launch
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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I have the up to date version from The Vintage Model Company, manufactured with permission of ans input from the family of the original designer. All nicely laser cut. God only knows when I will get round to building it!
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1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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And A for auxilliaries.l, eg RFA vessels. Allesandro, Flower Class were built in Canada and the UK, the Canadian ships named after small Canadian cities...
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Hi Allesandro. I think you might find this helpful. Copied directly from the Internet...
"On a Royal Navy Flower-class corvette's pennant number, the "K" prefix designated miscellaneous vessels within the naval classification system, though Flower-class corvettes were often designated with an "F" for frigate-like vessels as well. However, many Flower-class corvettes, such as HMS Sunflower (K41), did indeed have the "K" prefix.
The Pennant Numbering System Explained
The Royal Navy's pennant numbering system used a letter prefix to categorize ships by their class or function.
F - Frigates:
This prefix was often used for corvettes, which were essentially smaller, anti-submarine escort vessels.
K - Miscellaneous Vessels:
This was a broad category that could include vessels not fitting neatly into other groups.
Other examples:
D - Destroyers
L - Amphibious warfare ships
M - Minesweepers
R - Aircraft carriers
S - Submarines
Why a "K" Prefix?
While corvettes like the Flower-class were generally considered frigates, the "K" prefix could be used for various reasons. For example:
Some vessels were built or used in a role that didn't fit the standard classifications, leading them to be designated as "miscellaneous".
There might have been overlapping roles or special designations that resulted in a "K" prefix for these ships. "
"On a Royal Navy Flower-class corvette's pennant number, the "K" prefix designated miscellaneous vessels within the naval classification system, though Flower-class corvettes were often designated with an "F" for frigate-like vessels as well. However, many Flower-class corvettes, such as HMS Sunflower (K41), did indeed have the "K" prefix.
The Pennant Numbering System Explained
The Royal Navy's pennant numbering system used a letter prefix to categorize ships by their class or function.
F - Frigates:
This prefix was often used for corvettes, which were essentially smaller, anti-submarine escort vessels.
K - Miscellaneous Vessels:
This was a broad category that could include vessels not fitting neatly into other groups.
Other examples:
D - Destroyers
L - Amphibious warfare ships
M - Minesweepers
R - Aircraft carriers
S - Submarines
Why a "K" Prefix?
While corvettes like the Flower-class were generally considered frigates, the "K" prefix could be used for various reasons. For example:
Some vessels were built or used in a role that didn't fit the standard classifications, leading them to be designated as "miscellaneous".
There might have been overlapping roles or special designations that resulted in a "K" prefix for these ships. "
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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A ship's pennant number is a means to identify a particular ship for signalling purposes. The letter defines ship type, eg R for aircraft carrier D for destroyer etc, and the number is the ships number within that class. For example R-08 was R = HMS Ark Royal, 08 being the ships number in that group or squadron. Hope that is clear...
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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After a logical sift through the proposed answers the solution revealed it's self...
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📝 Historic ships on the Baltic coast.
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Survey/diving support vessels? I see one of the last photos show a cage for lowering divers into and out of, the water...
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📝 Historic ships on the Baltic coast.
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Great photos! Love the one of the duty seagull! Seagulls are actually reincarnated Chief Petty Officers, hence their fearless and belligerent behavior...
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📝 Question of the Day?
1 month ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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A-Ha! The old breakwater ploy eh?
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2 months ago by 🇬🇧 Nickthesteam ( Commodore)
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Ed, it is correct, I have been there, the warehouses are massive. However, I would have gone with hydraulic cranes has they been listed in the answer selection...
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