Model Boat Mayhem
Sales, Wants & TRADERS => Traders Section => Topic started by: Dean's Marine on October 27, 2018, 04:57:52 pm
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Hi Modellers
A model from the Deans Marine semi kit of the G3 battleship constructed many years ago by a M Rr Kingdon, now being restored and rebuilt to the a hypothetical design if she had been built and converted to just before WW11. A bit of a monster but all the more impressive in a camo scheme. more to follow as the build progresses.
Enjoy
Deans Marine
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Very nice model of an interesting project. :-))
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An interesting concept but had the ships been built they would have probably never have been modernised as there were others in the queue before them - just as the Hood was never modernised.
Colin
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I'm really looking forward to seeing this model for real, Ron Kingdon is displaying this fantastic model on the Wicksteed Park stand at the Warwick show this year with other WW1 battleships and my battlecruiser HMS Invincible. Its the biggest model on our stand! :-))
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It will be all of your stand Nick {-)
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Ron Kingdon, you are a Master Sir.
Superb, makes your HMS Agincourt look almost small in comparision. :-))
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It will be all of your stand Nick {-)
It measures almost half the length of the stand! Steve has to do some serious planning to get everything to fit around the Beast!
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Ron Kingdon, you are a Master Sir.
Superb, makes your HMS Agincourt look almost small in comparision. :-))
You’ll see by the pictures from the show in two weeks time the size differences. The Agincourt dwarfs my Invincible and now G3 (named Invincible too- not confusing in any way! {-) ) dwarfs the Agincourt! We had wanted to get HMS Rodney on the stand but wouldn’t fit with everything else we wanted to display!
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An interesting concept but had the ships been built they would have probably never have been modernised as there were others in the queue before them - just as the Hood was never modernised.
Colin
If they had been built, in all probability, we would have been in a whole different world politically from the one HMS Hood existed through. So taken in isolation, probably right, but with other nations building similar ships, a new arms race would have been in full flow, so the fit out of these ships would be less than predictable as an alternate history unfolded.
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There would have had to have been a Derrick for the boat's and Walrus, no?
Andy
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I believe it’s still under construction/finishing off at the moment- Ron has had to make room in his workshop to get her in!