Model Boat Mayhem

Mess Deck: General Section => Model Boating => Topic started by: rickles23 on May 17, 2016, 09:29:57 am

Title: Research
Post by: rickles23 on May 17, 2016, 09:29:57 am

Hi,
I wish those idiots on EBay would check their information.


OLD LARGE HISTORICAL PHOTO OF THE WWII AUSTRALIAN BATTLESHIP HMAS SYDNEY c1940.
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Title: Re: Research
Post by: Charlie on May 17, 2016, 01:29:24 pm

I wish your post made sense :D

Title: Re: Research
Post by: rickles23 on May 17, 2016, 04:28:05 pm

Hi Charlie,


You could try searching for HMAS Sydney on the Internet.


Regards

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Title: Re: Research
Post by: Nemo on May 17, 2016, 04:50:32 pm

Rickles - your photo has not appeared yet! Without it we can hardly comment.

Title: Re: Research
Post by: Netleyned on May 17, 2016, 05:01:03 pm

Battleship ???????




Ned

Title: Re: Research
Post by: nivapilot on May 17, 2016, 05:53:32 pm

Cruiser????????

Title: Re: Research
Post by: rickles23 on May 17, 2016, 06:23:08 pm

Hi,


Ned has the right idea!


I did not post a photo as it is about the statement made by the EBayer.


Regards

Title: Re: Research
Post by: TailUK on May 17, 2016, 08:30:05 pm

Quote from: rickles23 on May 17, 2016, 06:23:08 pm

Hi,


Ned has the right idea!


I did not post a photo as it is about the statement made by the EBayer.


Regards

Joe Public doesn't have our advantages.  It's big grey and got guns on it, must be a "battleship".    Down at the pond, I'm screaming in my head "It's a Destroyer, you prat!" , when Daddy says  "Look Matthew! It's an aircraft carrier!!" 
   

Title: Re: Research
Post by: malcolmfrary on May 17, 2016, 08:36:25 pm

A bit hard to comment on an ebayer without a link to the particular one.  But you can be sure that if you are looking for something specific, it will be hidden behind a huge pile of mis-named rubbish, or, if you are looking for something of a general nature, there will be huge piles of very specific, but irrelevant, rubbish to get past.


For TailUK, the number of times that my Snowberry has been positively identified by a posh accent as a "Titanic".....but that was when the film was fairly recent and Discovery was full of it.

Title: Re: Research
Post by: NFMike on May 17, 2016, 10:44:01 pm

Quote from: TailUK on May 17, 2016, 08:30:05 pm

Joe Public doesn't have our advantages.  It's big grey and got guns on it, must be a "battleship".

Yes, in most minds the distinction between the words "battleship" and "warship" is probably about the same as between "bought" and "brought".

Title: Re: Research
Post by: BrianB6 on May 18, 2016, 12:00:45 am

The Curtin University in W.A. has 500,000 images of the wreck (which is lying 2500 down, 200 Km off the Australian coast) and is using a super computer to develop a 3D image of the Sydney that one can "walk" "swim" around.
So far only the bow section has been modeled.
Even with the super computer it may take years to fully complete the modelling.

Title: Re: Research
Post by: TailUK on May 18, 2016, 09:25:36 am

Quote from: malcolmfrary on May 17, 2016, 08:36:25 pm

A bit hard to comment on an ebayer without a link to the particular one.  But you can be sure that if you are looking for something specific, it will be hidden behind a huge pile of mis-named rubbish, or, if you are looking for something of a general nature, there will be huge piles of very specific, but irrelevant, rubbish to get past.


For TailUK, the number of times that my Snowberry has been positively identified by a posh accent as a "Titanic".....but that was when the film was fairly recent and Discovery was full of it.

Despite the fact it's probably not Black and White and it's shy three funnels!  Priceless!