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[Martin (Admin)]

 Fantasy fleet, is your or would you like?

I'll start...

Robbe seagoing Happy Hunter tug - ( I own one but it needs a complete engine room refit, ebay)
an early British diesel tug,
a Caldercraft Riverman (great for keeping in the boot of me mota),
a large TID tug ( ggeorge's will do nicely! ),
a dozen large barges,
a Thames Slipper launch,
a very scale Riva Aquarama
a Type Vii German submarine,
a deep V offshore boat with a insane brushless setup.
a nice RAF crash tender ( one like HS93's )
a brace of Springers,

..... and a partridge in a pair tree.

( Ask me tomorrow and it will be a different list )  

[Patrick Henry]

My turn?

 32nd Parallel Type XX111 U-boat
 Ark Models IJN Chih Yuen cruiser
 1/24th scale Thames Sailing Barge
 1/32nd scale USS Ohio

That'll do for me...



Rich

[SteamboatPhil]

A flash steam boat that does more than my 53mph one
An "A" Class yacht
Large scale Clyde Puffer

 

[justboatonic]

HMS Liverpool Type 42
HMS Lancaster Type 23
HMS Antelope Type 21
HMS Clyde or HMS Cottesmore
Tamar Lifeboat Speedline pref for size or MSW version for practicality
HMRCC Sentinel

Hmmmmm. Just realised, most of them are 'grey'! Maybe my painting skills influence my decisions!?

[hollowhornbear]

stingray
thunderbird 4
titan terrorfish
agent X20's sub
think there might be a connection here

[rockets]

Huge Vic Smeed design such as Lorelei or Vivacity with an Edgar Westbury petrol multicylinder in it.

Genius squared!



Rockets.

[Tom@Crewe]

1:96 HMS Howe WWII era,

[hopeitfloats]

a museum quality merchant ship and a jet sprint boat would do me nicely thanks.

[hover tim]

A spanner in the works

SRN1 http://www.jameshovercraft.co.uk/hover/images/craft/srn1/BHC_SRN1.jpg
SRN2 http://www.jameshovercraft.co.uk/hover/images/craft/srn2/BHC_SRN2_a.jpg
SRN3 http://www.hovercraft-museum.org/images/srn33.jpg
SRN4 MK3 http://hovercraft-museum.org/n12_25.html
SRN5 http://hovercraft-museum.org/n5_18.html
SRN6 http://hovercraft-museum.org/n11_24.html
AP1/88 http://www.bartiesworld.co.uk/hovercraft/hovertravelap/lap1887.jpg

all at large scale

[rockets]

Huge Vic Smeed design such as Lorelei or Vivacity with an Edgar Westbury petrol multicylinder in it.

Genius squared!



Rockets.

I forgot, I'd love a really nice period radio set to go in it. There'd be plenty of room for it!

[DARLEK1]

If I could these days?
 I would have HMS's and USS's

 Hermes
 Sheffield
 Coventry type 42 and 22
 Antrim
 Invincible
 Hermione
 Arrow
 Rothesay
 Plymouth
 Bristol
 Broadsword
 Yorktown
 Enterprise
 Valley Forge

 Some of which I have served on and some I have been connected with in some way.

 Paul...

[Rocketman]

stingray
thunderbird 4
titan terrorfish
agent X20's sub
think there might be a connection here

no Skydiver???? you misssed out the best one!

[jonny shoreboy]

HMS Victory (1:48 plank on frame)
HMS Haydon (Hunt III destroyer)
HMNZS Royalist (Dido Light Cruiser)
HMNZS Canterbury (Leander Class Frigate)
HMNZS Te Kaha (ANZAC Frigate)
HMS New Zealand (Indefatigable-class battlecruiser)

Just for starters...

[Edward Pinniger]

Mine would probably be:

Predreadnought-era battleship or cruiser in 1/96 or larger (e.g Dean's HMS Majestic or Skirmisher)
Fairmile B/D, Grey Goose or other large WW2 Coastal Forces craft in about 1/32
WW2 or inter-war destroyer in 1/72 or larger
1900s river steam launch with working steam plant
Passenger paddle steamer (e.g Medway Queen, Waverley)
Scale sailing model of a schooner, ketch or small square-rigger

Thanks to a lucky car boot sale find last year, I already have no.3 in my list (1/64 scale V&W class) and hope to make a start on it before the end of the year, but the others will have to remain on the "some day..." list until I have a lot more money and space!

[AmbuTech]

Here is my 2p worth..

My fleet would be made up from Boats I wanted as a kid, boats I have travelled on and boats I or my family have worked on and new stuff I like the look of, so.....

No 1 - Under construction at the moment...
Graupner Bugsier 3 - Always wanted this a s a kid, as I did with..

No 2 Graupner WP LÖSCHKREUZER WESER "CLASSIC LINE" - Nice Fireboat that my 2 boys will enjoy using to get Daddy nice and wet!!!!

No 3 LOYAL CLASS FLEET TENDER - Travelled on a couple of these in Portsmouth Dockyard during my time with the MOD. Will probably build A161

No 4 HMS Endurance - The Ice Patrol Ship - Old friend of mine was the chef on board.

No 5 RFA Grey Rover - Many a happy day spent of this one.

No 6 HMS Blake - My Brother-in-Law served on this ship

No 7 Dean's Marine U.S. Coast Guard Island Class 1308 Launch - Love the look of this one.

The Blake would have to be a long term project along with Grey Rover as my building skills need to be renewed and improved. I am returning to the hobby after a 30 year break and have decided to start with a Bugsier, as it is reasonably straight forward.

I will probably add to the list and I aim to make my fantasy fleet as real as I can in the coming years.

Rgds Ken

[essex2visuvesi]

Hms York in 1991 trim (my Brother served on this one)
Amati Arno  XIFerrari Hydro (awaiting delivery STILL :( )
Amati Riva Aquarama
Miss Canadia
Miss Canadia 3
Cutty Sark in RC
BB Calypso
and a few more

[srcampb]

1/72 USS Hornet (CV-8) as of April 1942 with the B-25's of the Doolittle raid on board
1/48 HMS Abercrombie (1942) - Finally starting on this one, after waiting since 1989 for a body plan to work from! Thank heaven for the NMM..
1/48 Tribal class destroyer (Paul, any chance of a Sirmar twin 4.7" mount?) in a Disruptive camouflage scheme
1/96 HMS Rodney

[srcampb]

Oh, and I forgot- a 1/16 Fairmile D with a killer sound system for those four packard V-12's.

[tony52]

Blackpool paddler of 1895 - 'Greyhound'
Austrian paddler - 'Kaiser Franz Josef'
Windermere type steam launch with working steam plant
Scale sail model
Vane 'A' yacht
SRN 1 hovercraft
Bring back my 46" Aerokits 'Crash Tender' with OS 60 ic

Regards Tony

[Martin (Admin)]

Well I now have my TID tug.......  small but cute!  

 Fantasy fleet, is your or would you like?

I'll start...

Robbe seagoing Happy Hunter tug - ( I own one but it needs a complete engine room refit, ebay)
an early British diesel tug,
a Caldercraft Riverman (great for keeping in the boot of me mota),
a large TID tug ( ggeorge's will do nicely! ),
a dozen large barges,
a Thames Slipper launch,
a very scale Riva Aquarama
a Type Vii German submarine,
a deep V offshore boat with a insane brushless setup.
a nice RAF crash tender ( one like HS93's )
a brace of Springers,

..... and a partridge in a pair tree.

[Yarpie]

NON-Fantasy Fleet, but happy with it:

(From left to right)

1:96 R/C HMS ESKIMO (served on board 1974-76)
1:96 R/C HMS CAVALIER (served on board 1969-72).
1:72 R/C HMS TEAZER (served on board 1958-59)
1:72 R/C HMS UNDAUNTED (served on board 1962-64)
1:72 R/C HMS PRETORIA CASTLE (young passenger 1948 as SS WARWICK CASTLE, Capetown to Southampton).
1:72 R/C HMS RODNEY (no affiliation).

OK, all 'grey funnel line', but representative of the ten war canoes that I served on, 1957-1982.

[ben hall]

my dream flleet is every model boat in the world

[nhp651]

mine wouldn't be a model, but this beautiful vessell.....the 51' Barnett class lifeboat RNLB Mary Stanford............anyone got a spare £250,000 that they could slip me so i can make my dream come true.

that's the price of fully restoring her from the wreck she is at the moment.
picture taken in "happier" times.

[ben hall]

my real dream flleet is a galleon a sit in battle ship and a boat like hms rodney

[triumphjon]

im sure many of us could wish for a full sized boat we could operate , instead of which we choose the more practical route of making models of our favourite craft . my models are all 1inch to the foot scale ;- aerokits sea rover ( under rebuild ) a fairey huntsman 28 , huntsman 31 aft cabin still being built , a fairey spear ( twin brushless ) still being built !