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gerrymoore
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Like that a lot!!! Very nice work........Titanic next??
Ive got an exhibition of my work coming up soon so I might put a hold on the Titanic and do the Bismark it being the one that sank the Hood. Ive got a lot of stock to make and only a month before the show....
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if you do the bismark you will will have to make another hood, only after the bismark had dealt with it
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A Catalina Seaplane (PYB) to go with Bismark, it was a PYB that located the Bis in the Bay of Biscay. Which sent allied ships to area.
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Fairey Swordfish model-stringbags crippled the Bismarck allowing the senior service ships to close in and square the score for the Hood.
Those crews had guts-Taranto is another example of the stringbag and the bravery of the men who crewed it.Respect.
Being a pongo though, have to say the RN sailors loved the plane cos its first name was Fairey.
Only joking lads-mega effort and display of guts on the part of the RN.
Those crews had guts-Taranto is another example of the stringbag and the bravery of the men who crewed it.Respect.
Being a pongo though, have to say the RN sailors loved the plane cos its first name was Fairey.
Only joking lads-mega effort and display of guts on the part of the RN.
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fairey Swordfish? those pilots must have had balls of steel, low, slow and no armour attacking a battleship was truly heroic.
I went on MS Belfast as a kid and was overwhelmed, bought the airfix model, then bought the Tirpitz and had to check that they were the same scale.
Hell those things were big, and dare I say a bit pointless? At least according to some naval historians.
I went on MS Belfast as a kid and was overwhelmed, bought the airfix model, then bought the Tirpitz and had to check that they were the same scale.
Hell those things were big, and dare I say a bit pointless? At least according to some naval historians.
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I read an account of the battle of Jutland in WW1, those guys were really something, scary stuff. There seemed to be a huge waste of life caused by carelessness though, like lots of bags of cordite stored in places where they would easily go off if an enemy shell got anywhere near them instead of behind blast doors etc.
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Have you seen those guns outside the war museum? (forget if its the National or Imperial one)-mind boggling, battleships firing must have been an awesome sight and hell to be on the receiving end of- I visit the D Day areas quite often, Point Du Hoc has the craters left as they are.
I read that the battleships role was pretty much outdated in WW2 with the advent of the aircraft carrier??.
The Swordfish model could be relevant to the Hood model in that new design warship met older design warships, and was then crippled by an old tech aircraft launched from the new type of warship- the carrier?.
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stunning.
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That's the Imperial War Museum in London, I think they're 16" from Rodney or Nelson.
According to what I read, the battle of Jutland scared both sides, people ashore and afloat.
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You could still be flogged back then and lads were being executed for Lack of Moral Fibre in the trenches.
