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 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: Australian Customs Service

Wizard
 Post subject: Re: Australian Customs Service Posted: January 29th, 2013, 2:37 pm 

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I'll breath some new life into this thread with the news the first Cape Class boat has been launched. ACV Cape St George.

http://www.austal.com/en/products-and-s ... boats.aspx

Very interesting colour scheme.

 Forum: FD Scale Drawings  Topic: FD scale Aircraft 2

Wizard
 Post subject: Re: FD scale Aircraft 2 Posted: September 7th, 2012, 11:18 am 

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Rowdy - I love your work on the Halifax. I always hesitate to offer corrections but I am a pedantic bastard and like to see things correct. You have drawn a 466 Squadron RAAF Halifax MZ287 Coded HD-Q. I would offer the following: 1. HD are the squadron code letters and Q is the aircraft. On the star...

 Forum: Sources and Reference Drawings  Topic: HMAS CANBERRA's Trip to Australia

Wizard
 Post subject: HMAS CANBERRA's Trip to Australia Posted: August 5th, 2012, 11:57 am 

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Here you go fellas; This is how you transport 206m, 20000 tonnes of LHD from Spain to Australia.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/98110610/Load ... D-Canberra

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: The Gold Funnel Fleet, Victoria's Colonial Navy

Wizard
 Post subject: Re: The Gold Funnel Fleet, Victoria's Colonial Navy Posted: March 21st, 2012, 12:58 pm 

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Rodondo A small FYI: Attached are two sets of plans for a Imperial Russian Torpedo Boat Sookhum. (Sorry if anglised spelling is incorrect) The plans are from a Russian site which has scans of various magazines. Why am I posting these? Oddly enough Sookhum was a sister ship to HMVS Childers. Cheers

 Forum: General Discussion  Topic: Ship naming conventions of the world.

Wizard
 Post subject: Re: Ship naming conventions of the world. Posted: March 10th, 2012, 9:45 am 

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Harold_E._Holt_%28FF-1074%29 ....and he was not an American. He had a US warship named for him because he supported LBJ's stance on the Vietnam war. If you follow the links you'll see we actually lost this bloke in a swimming accident in December 1967. There are as ...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: Submarines

Wizard
 Post subject: Re: Submarines Posted: February 18th, 2012, 1:18 am 

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I agree the engines appear to be the weak point of the Collins but that is something that the Navy needs work around and learn from when we build the next class. The rest of the weapon system is world class. General Observation: Australia built these submarines from scratch with no previous experien...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: Submarines

Wizard
 Post subject: Re: Submarines Posted: February 18th, 2012, 12:49 am 

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I'm sorry but I have doubts about the identification of the picture as a Collins; That doesn't look like the bow of a Collins class boat. And Rodondo - Why do you think we haven't had a good run with them? Are you giving credence to the political knife-fighting and the media's uniformed ravings? The...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: Defending Trade: Sloops to Frigates.

Wizard
 Post subject: Re: Defending Trade: Sloops to Frigates. Posted: October 19th, 2011, 8:53 am 

Replies: 87
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Here's a picture which should answer your questions. You'll notice another Bofors Mk.3 on the quarterdeck and one set of DC racks. It is from the State Library of Victoria, A C Green Collection. Check this out for a higher res picture than I was able to post. Also have a look at pictures of HMAS BAR...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: British carriers 50-85.

Wizard
 Post subject: Re: British carriers 50-85. Posted: October 13th, 2011, 3:51 am 

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A beautiful drawing. I hesitate to criticise but I have noticed a tendency in some of drawings which include a plan (top) view and single Bofors the artists flip the mounting part drawing from starboard to port. That isn't correct; A Bofors is asymmetric and flipping it is incorrect. You would have ...

 Forum: Real Designs  Topic: Bangor class minesweeper

Wizard
 Post subject: Re: Bangor class minesweeper Posted: August 17th, 2011, 12:51 pm 

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Please be careful - The Australian Bathurst Class mine sweepers were not an Australian version of the Bangor Class: A good look at the plans of both classes will show considerable differences between the two. There is an article online which investigates this topic: http://www.navyhistory.org.au/bat...
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