Model Boat Mayhem
The Shipyard ( Dry Dock ): Builds & Questions => Navy - Military - Battleships: => Topic started by: crock on June 15, 2013, 01:59:42 pm
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Hi, a few pics of my corvette out in the estuary, still working on the waterproofing :-) it's getting more watertight every trip :-) :-) hopefully the pics are big enough to see the conditions.
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Hi,
It was said by many who served in them that the ship would roll even on wet grass.. {-)
Regards
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Have a 1/72nd matchbox kit, did the same many many many years ago on a small lodge (small body of water), the waves were the white horses type, but for such a small boat - even at 3 feet, very worrying as to whether it would surcome, luckily it didnt, the weed took it down several months later (recovered it though), if video is used and run very slow would look very impressive, though a pity the spray crashing over the bow would not be right, looks the business, well done.
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Thats not a model!
It's a full size one in a North Atlantic gale. O0
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Thank you for all the kind comments, here are a few more pics and some of my Perkassa as well.
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makes you sea sick just looking at it, heave ho and up she rises.
Rockape.
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That Corvette appears to be running at periscope depth.
Larry
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Very realistic pics, especially the one where it is 'deep in the trough between waves'.
Reminds me of a crossing of the Bay of Biscay in a bulk carrier, many years ago now.
'Swing that lamp', as they say.
Peter
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There seems to have been quite a lot of interest in my wee Corvette recently so here are a couple more pics :-)
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Very realistic pics, especially the one where it is 'deep in the trough between waves'.
Reminds me of a crossing of the Bay of Biscay in a bulk carrier, many years ago now.
'Swing that lamp', as they say.
Peter
The lamps were welded/bolted to the deck head
by then :D
No swinging
Ned
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Very true Ned, but on a couple of rare occasions, it didn't really feel as if there was 'no swinging'.
Again, it may have had something to do with being on a Chinese crewed ship, the day after Chinese New Year! Very sociable they were! :-))
Peter
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Fantastic pics of course. To be certain, this is the 1/72 Matchbox/Revell corvette correct? Not too wee but becomes such the further it sails from shore. :o
Great nervie action there, sailing it where (and when) others do not dare. What kind of measures have you taken to preserve buoyancy (or prevent loss; worst case scenario)? Is there foam in the hull?
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Hi Harq,
yes it's the Matchbox 1/72 Corvette loaded with polystyrene and well sealed against water ingress. It still lets the odd bit in though !!
The Cromarty Firth is at the bottom of our garden, we live up in the Highlands of Scotland, so it's just a matter of walking down the garden depending of course how far the tide is in, the main river channel is right over on the opposite bank. There are days when it's as smooth as a millpond. :-)
rgds
Crock
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Never let mine get to that level of controlled sinking {-) - he said knowing full well his sank in the mid 80's. %) If this was a real ship you could be forgiven that she wanted to dive to retrieve the hedgehogs she just let off or confirm target ahead, superb photo's.
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Talk about rough seas, reminds me of when at 8 years old we came back on the old Dominion Monarch across the Bay of Biscay in a storm in 1945, people being sick great fun for us kids.
Rockape
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I had to come back and gawk at the pics. O0 You must be applauded and slapped on the back for this--this is what it is all about; Crock has a corvette and to do it justice, he operates it like a corvette. 8) ...in corvette conditions.
I'll bet you're not scared of rain either...