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A photograph to ponder.
Posted by jtilley on Monday, October 12, 2015 3:00 AM

Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.

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Posted by Jon_a_its on Monday, October 12, 2015 7:13 AM

Qwackers! Wink

East Mids Model Club 32nd Annual Show 2nd April 2023

 http://www.eastmidsmodelclub.co.uk/

Don't feed the CM!

 

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Posted by Don Stauffer on Monday, October 12, 2015 8:20 AM

Hmmm- a new secret weapon?  It gets the opposing force laughing so hard they cannot concentrate on doing their jobs?

Don Stauffer in Minnesota

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Posted by goldhammer on Monday, October 12, 2015 8:31 AM

Everything's just ducky, but we forgot to paint it grey.............

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Posted by Silly_me on Monday, October 12, 2015 9:08 AM

Is there a Trumpeter 1/350 kit of it?

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Posted by mississippivol on Monday, October 12, 2015 9:22 AM
I wondered where I left that....
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Posted by GMorrison on Monday, October 12, 2015 10:01 AM

"Hey, we found it last night floating just outside the yard."

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Monday, October 12, 2015 10:09 AM

Time to throw out the bath water...............

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Posted by gregbale on Monday, October 12, 2015 7:58 PM
If those are the bathtub toys, I don't want to see the size of the kid....

Greg

George Lewis:

"Every time you correct me on my grammar I love you a little fewer."
 
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Posted by PlasticFanatic on Monday, October 12, 2015 9:14 PM

"Awww...it thinks the tugboat's its mama..."

Or it's the world's largest Marshmallow Peep!

(he says as he runs for cover!)

Randy

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Posted by allan on Monday, October 12, 2015 10:11 PM

jtilley

 

 

Battleship 2:  The Duck of Death

 

 

No bucks, no Buck Rogers

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Posted by deattilio on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 8:15 AM

The new kinder gentler Navy?

My wife is a former squid, she should get a giggle out of this.

 

WIP:
Trying to get my hobby stuff sorted - just moved and still unpacking.

 

"Gator, Green Catskill....Charlie On Time"
 

 

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Posted by jgeratic on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 10:56 AM

Naval version of the deceptive Trojan Horse.

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Posted by Bish on Tuesday, October 13, 2015 3:25 PM

To my American friends, don't get to excited. This is actually the Royal Navy's newest addition to the fleet on its first round the world cruise.

Its all we can afford.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by Force9 on Wednesday, October 14, 2015 10:30 AM

It is a new class of stealth warship - the LCD or Littoral Combat Duck. Designed to operate in shallow and restricted waters - mostly bathtubs. Navy spokesman Lt. CMDR Jonathan P. Jones released a statement: "This new platform extends the reach of American Naval power into all the waters of the world. The LCD is based on more than 100 years of proven design in this environment and incorporates the most advanced technology possible.  The first unit is undergoing final sea trials and was brought in under the $10 billion budget with minimal time delays." No nation has an effective equivalent at this time, although both China and Russia have announced that they will launch their own versions in 2016 to counter the threat.

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Posted by Force9 on Friday, October 16, 2015 1:56 AM
Not even a chuckle? I guess I quack myself up!
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Posted by Straycat1911 on Saturday, October 17, 2015 10:23 PM

I double dog dare someone to do that as a diorama.  Big Smile 

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Posted by GMorrison on Saturday, October 17, 2015 10:41 PM

Oh Tilley shot that in the bath with his iPhone.

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Posted by CapnMac82 on Sunday, October 25, 2015 1:18 AM

GMorrison
Oh Tilley shot that in the bath with his iPhone.

Naw, we  would have heard about the trials and trevails of scoreing decent plans for that 7500 HP tugboat :)  Plans for those tugs (and their 5000HP cousins) are not exactly thick on the ground.  The houses have a unique shap as the hulls are relatively flat for mounting Kort Nozzles or thrusters, so the enigine sits on the frame floors pokes up through the deck.  Then, there's an abreviated cabin forward.  Th bridge is then on a raised pylon for visibility.

I may have missed the Jane's listing for rubber duckies, though.

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Posted by jtilley on Sunday, October 25, 2015 2:33 AM

This fellow gets around. Here he is arriving in Hong Kong:

duck-3

Youth, talent, hard work, and enthusiasm are no match for old age and treachery.

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Posted by Jockster on Sunday, October 25, 2015 5:21 AM
There will be a replacement aftermarket resin beak released by Eduard soon!

On the bench-1/350 Zvezda Varyag, Trumpeter Slava class Varyag and Tamiya CVN65 Enterprise. 1/400 Academy Titanic and 1/96 DeAgostini Victory.

 

 

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  • From: State of Mississippi. State motto: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
Posted by mississippivol on Sunday, October 25, 2015 1:28 PM
Since it's in Hong Kong, maybe Trumpeter will get the dimensions right when it's released 1st quarter next year...
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Posted by GMorrison on Sunday, October 25, 2015 1:30 PM

Yeah they are taking pre-orders for Easter 2016.

 Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

 

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  • From: State of Mississippi. State motto: Virtute et armis (By valor and arms)
Posted by mississippivol on Sunday, October 25, 2015 7:18 PM
I'll wait for the CAD rendering...
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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, October 25, 2015 7:27 PM

Force9
Not even a chuckle? I guess I quack myself up!
 

Looks like everyone ducked responding.............Wink
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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, October 25, 2015 7:32 PM

Bish

To my American friends, don't get to excited. This is actually the Royal Navy's newest addition to the fleet on its first round the world cruise.

Its all we can afford.

 

I've got news for ya..............with all the interest due on borrowing......we are in the same bath as the UK...........hence the rubber ducky............Whistling
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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, October 25, 2015 7:35 PM

allan

 

 
jtilley

 

 

 

 

Battleship 2:  The Duck of Death

 

 

 

.......and all along I thought it was this guy.........Hmm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vscLrMD_qY

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Posted by Sprue-ce Goose on Sunday, October 25, 2015 8:49 PM

mississippivol
I'll wait for the CAD rendering...
 

...............and one more reason to "surrender" to the idea of buying a 3D printer..........Big Smile
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Posted by DUSTER on Sunday, October 25, 2015 9:06 PM

If it looks like a duck,

Quacks like a duck,

Then it must be:  the new stealth technology for naval architecture

ALERT!

  This was just sent to me from an special unnamed source. Looks to be a new compact version being loaded for trials at an undisclosed location.    

  

 

Steve

Building the perfect model---just not quite yet  Confused

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Posted by docidle on Monday, October 26, 2015 12:25 AM

I can neither confirm nor deny anything....

       

 

 

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