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ron h

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HMS IRON DUKE
« on: April 08, 2006, 12:56:08 pm »

HMS IRON DUKE set sail on her maiden voyage at Ellesmere Port 2nd April


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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2006, 02:17:38 pm »

What a great boat! Is it from a kit?
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ron h

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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2006, 06:38:36 pm »

Scratchbuilt to a scale of 1/96, she is 6ft-6inch,s long , 11 inches wide, and displaces 55lbs , 14 months to build, she is displayed as of the time 1916 Battle of Jutland, Admiral Jerico,s flag ship, hence the St GEORGE flag on the top of the fighting top. ron h
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2006, 07:24:26 pm »

Nice to see the Duke on here Ron. This must be the best WW1 Battleship Model in the UK. a brilliant looking model and she sails beautifully. Well done Ron ;D ;D ;D

This model will be appearing at the Kingsbury Model Boat Club Warship Day on Sunday July 2nd.
See club events forum for further details.
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Presently building Aircraft Carrier H.M.S. Victorious in 1/96 scale.

ron h

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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2006, 07:35:20 pm »

Im the one in the diamomd check cardigan :)




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« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2006, 07:41:47 pm »

Im the one in the diamomd check cardigan :)






Posing again Ron ;D ;D ;D

Note, uncompleted H.M.S. Victorious, left background
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2006, 01:45:13 pm »

That's a mighty fine model you have built there sir, I take my hat off to you. Reading through the posts it seems that your friend Warship is building a similar model as well as his aircraft carrier. Is that him with you in the photo?

John
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« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2006, 07:57:15 pm »

That's a mighty fine model you have built there sir, I take my hat off to you. Reading through the posts it seems that your friend Warship is building a similar model as well as his aircraft carrier. Is that him with you in the photo?

John

Is that me in the photo?  I hope not John. That gentleman is not a member of the Grand Fleet, he is a German Sea Kapitan ,lol  Herr Howie Baker! lol. Who is presently building the Derfflinger, a German Battle Cruiser.
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« Reply #8 on: April 22, 2006, 09:50:55 am »

I really like the IRON DUKE, it is excellent.? ? ?I have not built many warships because of lack of plans.? ?Are the IRON DUKE plans commercially available in the U.K.? ? ? I built HMS DREADNOUGHT (1906) from Anatomy of a Ship, but the other battleship plans in Anatomy books are too mixed up, i.e. profile in 1916, decks in 1940 etc etc.? ? ?Also built heavy crusier HMS NORFOLK from MacGergor plans.? ? Recently got battleship DUKE OF YORK plans from Ebay, but they seem incomplete in some areas.
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #9 on: April 22, 2006, 12:22:11 pm »

YES, TRY, www.whiteensignmodels.com

look for Sambrook models, capitol ships and monitors.
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« Reply #10 on: April 22, 2006, 05:19:11 pm »

Thanks, I found it OK and there were several battleship plans that I was interested in.? ?I had not heard of that site before.
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2006, 08:25:47 pm »

There a very good company to deel with, very quick, good luck,  ron h
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #12 on: April 23, 2006, 03:35:04 pm »

I enjoyed finding your photo of a very impressive Iron Duke as I am planning to build HMS St.Vincent at the time of Jutland.? I have bought the Deansmarine hull as a start and now have to work out what the ship looked like.? Most photos seem to be pre-WW1 but I think I've found some fuzzy examples of Vincent and sister ships Vanguard and Collingwood with the 4inch guns, superstructure and foretops rearranged for around the time of Jutland.? Can anyone recommend that I spend ~?200 on NMM plans for this ship (I have a quote and all the plans would come to even more!)?? Any other hints at where to find the details of this ship appreciated.

If you wish to know why I'm making the job difficult, my grandad was a seaman gunner at Jutland on HMS St Vincent and claimed to have relayed the message to fire the shell that made a big hole in Derfflinger.? I can't in conscience make anything else, can I?
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #13 on: April 23, 2006, 04:40:01 pm »

Hi, I was going to build HMS TIGER but could not justify spending ?200. 00 on NMM plans, I found the Iron Duke drawings for about ?30.00 at Sambrooks Models, the results are above, cost me about ?450.00 to build with radio, motors, props , metal gun barrels all 22. ron h
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #14 on: April 24, 2006, 08:54:30 pm »

A very topical subject.

This year is the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of Jutland and many Naval Establishments are holding commemorative dinners.

In HMS Forward, (Birmingham), where I work, we have the original gun room table from HMS Iron Duke and it forms the centrepiece of much of our memorabilia.
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #15 on: April 24, 2006, 10:51:44 pm »

Your date is out a little, its the 90 th anniversary of Jutland, 1916- 2006,  ron h
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #16 on: April 25, 2006, 07:07:53 am »

Thank you Ron.   The last forty years have gone by in a flash!

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ron h

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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #17 on: April 29, 2006, 10:14:36 am »

A few close ups.

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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #18 on: May 07, 2006, 11:12:46 am »

 :o How cool is that! How do you transport it and get it into and out of the water?
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ron h

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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #19 on: May 07, 2006, 12:33:40 pm »

Hi , I have a little van, or it fits in the car, I usually ballest it out and lower it in to the water on 2 slings, it weighs about 50lbs at sailing weight,  16lbs with out ballast or batteries. ron h
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #20 on: May 07, 2006, 08:21:51 pm »

Hi RonH,

I started the same model some years ago but need info to finish.

Do you have any detail about the boat conrol platform fixtures? and the fittings for the Searchlight control area?

Oh, and hello to all, my first post this forum.

J.
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ron h

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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #21 on: May 07, 2006, 10:41:45 pm »

Hi, The drawings show very little, as for the boat control platform,I have that to finish when I find out what the fittings look like, search lights there are 10 twin searchlights , all on different platforms, as for control, I have no idea, sorry, ron h
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ron h

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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #22 on: May 07, 2006, 10:56:57 pm »

This is the boat control platform, this is a middle of build photo.
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #23 on: May 08, 2006, 12:03:58 am »

IRON DUKE at cruising speed.
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Re: HMS IRON DUKE
« Reply #24 on: May 08, 2006, 08:11:28 am »

Dear Ron, my compliments on that brilliant model!

Happy modeling from Germany,
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