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29-04-2007
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#21 (permalink)
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Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sunderland Real Name: John My Models: Warships 1890-1920, merchant ships1950-1970 Visit jankers's Gallery
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| Alan,
It does sound daft, but i'm sure i heard of some models that were manned where the men did wear waserrs and their heads and shoulders were inside the models.
I think it was at Scarbrough where they put on a show, guns blazing sort of thing.
See http://www.discoveryorkshirecoast.co....asp?id=026748
it seems loke it is still going on.
J. | 
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30-04-2007
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#22 (permalink)
| | one more feather ......!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scottish Highlands Real Name: Duncan My Models: HMS Invincible Visit duncan's Gallery
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| Not at Scarborough, they are "real" manned models and they do float with no contact with the bottom of the pond(or they have VERY long legs !) | |
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01-05-2007
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#23 (permalink)
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Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Sunderland Real Name: John My Models: Warships 1890-1920, merchant ships1950-1970 Visit jankers's Gallery
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| Aghh, torpedoed again (it's me age your honour), seems i've been led up the garden path again.
J. | |
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01-05-2007
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#24 (permalink)
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Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: thames valley Real Name: Guy My Models: model boats, subs, and N scale railways, but all types really! Visit new to trains's Gallery
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| i was born in scarbrough and i remember as a nipper being totally mezmorised by the dispaly in the park........i wonder if that is where all this modelling caper started ?..............
good luck with the manned model build ! | |
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01-05-2007
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#25 (permalink)
| | one more feather ......!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scottish Highlands Real Name: Duncan My Models: HMS Invincible Visit duncan's Gallery
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Originally Posted by new to trains  i was born in scarborough and i remember as a nipper being totally mesmerized by the display in the park........i wonder if that is where all this modelling caper started ?..............
good luck with the manned model build ! | Yep for you ,brain-washed at an early age, it always works. But if it is manned models that goes back a while...to Roman times in fact. They used to have fight to the death "battles" in flooded arenas as big as the Coliseum in Rome. The sailors were criminals, slaves and gladiators. Do a google search for Numachia. The RN have a less bloodthirsty tradition going back to early last century for recruiting. | |
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05-05-2007
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#26 (permalink)
| | Scale Model Member | Hey Duncan...
Do you have r/c in your carrier as well as onboard controls? | |
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05-05-2007
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#27 (permalink)
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Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Essex, UK Real Name: Alan My Models: Anything that isn't worth throwing out Visit alan2525's Gallery
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Originally Posted by duncan There really is a couple of people do exactly that but not in the water, I think a husband and wife. Last time I saw them at a show they were Nelson and Lady Hamilton with HMS Victory round their waist. Got to stay in step ! I`ll try and find a pic. | I'd love to see a pic of that!
I just imagined the models clipped onto the occupants braces as they ran around re-enacting great naval battles from history!
Imagines someone with a tirpitz around their waist and another person with a Fairy Swordfish on their head...
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06-05-2007
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#28 (permalink)
| | one more feather ......!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scottish Highlands Real Name: Duncan My Models: HMS Invincible Visit duncan's Gallery
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Originally Posted by MartinH-K Hey Duncan...
Do you have r/c in your carrier as well as onboard controls? | No , only a mobile phone in case I need the Coastguard ! The pic shows one of the tug pilots controlling one of the six tugs that took her up the canal from Ellesmere Port. I took the pic from the towpath. For flying ops the r/c planes are guided from the shore. What progress on your project ?
Last edited by duncan; 06-05-2007 at 07:47.
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06-05-2007
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#29 (permalink)
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Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: thames valley Real Name: Guy My Models: model boats, subs, and N scale railways, but all types really! Visit new to trains's Gallery
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| is that the same carrier model that is featured on the supermodels show on sky ? it is now part of some museum collection..... | |
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06-05-2007
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#30 (permalink)
| | one more feather ......!
Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Scottish Highlands Real Name: Duncan My Models: HMS Invincible Visit duncan's Gallery
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| Yes , same model. No , not part of a museum collection, it was hangared at The Museum of Flight for one winter(that is where it was filmed). Pity the film crew were in a rush, they could have had a sail in her during the summer but that is show-biz, deadline yesterday etc etc. I take it round regattas, airshows both model and full-size during the summer months in UK. Has been as far as Channel Islands. Planning the Continent next, Netherlands,Southern Germany, Austria and Northern Italy. | |
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