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by klr » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:24 pm
Gawdzilla wrote:USS
Arizona in her colors on Dec. 7th, 1941.
There's a new kit of that in 1/350 scale, reasonable price as well. On my "must get soon" list.
Clinton Huxley wrote:Soviet battleship, part of which went on to an illustrious career in radio astronomy......
Just like the army and the RAF, the Navy knew what to do with surplus and outdated hardware ...
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by klr » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:32 pm
Clinton Huxley wrote:Not sure why they bothered....
Let me guess ... Italian?
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by Clinton Huxley » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:35 pm
klr wrote:Clinton Huxley wrote:Not sure why they bothered....
Let me guess ... Italian?
Yep. Held the world speed record for steaming backwards.
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by klr » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:40 pm
Clinton Huxley wrote:klr wrote:Clinton Huxley wrote:Not sure why they bothered....
Let me guess ... Italian?
Yep. Held the world speed record for steaming backwards.
The nice lines (built for speed
) are a give-away. That and the triple/double gun turret arrangement, which I can just make out. AFAIK, some of the early US battleships were the only other capital ships to have that main armament configuration.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:51 pm
Reminder: ALL the Naval Historical Center pictures are available for download in zip files. If you know the right person to ask for the URL, that is.
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by Feck » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:52 pm
Gawdzilla wrote:Reminder: ALL the Naval Historical Center pictures are available for download in zip files. If you know the right person to ask for the URL, that is.
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by klr » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:54 pm
Feck wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Reminder: ALL the Naval Historical Center pictures are available for download in zip files. If you know the right person to ask for the URL, that is.
You've got the right man.
Clinton Huxley wrote:The somewhat unlucky HMS Repulse
Very unlucky. And yet her sister ship
Renown survived, partly because the RN was very reluctant to put her in serious harm's way.
EDIT: I have the wonderful Airfix 1/600 kit of
Repulse. Cold, dead fingers and all that.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:56 pm
Feck wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Reminder: ALL the Naval Historical Center pictures are available for download in zip files. If you know the right person to ask for the URL, that is.
http://ibiblio.org/pha/html/USN/NHCImages 5.6 gigabytes of images there. Image, thumnails and HTML files with descriptions. Each zip has one or more folders from NHC. THERE IS NO PROPER INDEX, DO DON'T ASK FOR ONE.
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by klr » Mon Jan 18, 2010 4:58 pm
Gawdzilla wrote:Feck wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Reminder: ALL the Naval Historical Center pictures are available for download in zip files. If you know the right person to ask for the URL, that is.
http://ibiblio.org/pha/html/USN/NHCImages 5.6 gigabytes of images there. Image, thumnails and HTML files with descriptions. Each zip has one or more folders from NHC. THERE IS NO PROPER INDEX, DO DON'T ASK FOR ONE.
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by Gawdzilla Sama » Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:00 pm
klr wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Feck wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Reminder: ALL the Naval Historical Center pictures are available for download in zip files. If you know the right person to ask for the URL, that is.
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by klr » Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:01 pm
Gawdzilla wrote:klr wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Feck wrote:Gawdzilla wrote:Reminder: ALL the Naval Historical Center pictures are available for download in zip files. If you know the right person to ask for the URL, that is.
http://ibiblio.org/pha/html/USN/NHCImages 5.6 gigabytes of images there. Image, thumnails and HTML files with descriptions. Each zip has one or more folders from NHC. THERE IS NO PROPER INDEX, DO DON'T ASK FOR ONE.
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http://ibiblio.org/pha/USN/NHCImages
Excellent. Let the downloading begin.
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by klr » Mon Jan 18, 2010 5:02 pm
klr wrote:
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Clinton Huxley wrote:The somewhat unlucky HMS Repulse
Very unlucky. And yet her sister ship
Renown survived, partly because the RN was very reluctant to put her in serious harm's way.
EDIT: I have the wonderful Airfix 1/600 kit of
Repulse. Cold, dead fingers and all that.
wiki wrote:During this work she picked up the nickname HMS Refit (the ship had first been nicknamed HMS Refit as early as 1916, due to the hurried addition of extra armour in response to the defensive weaknesses of battlecruisers revealed by losses at Jutland; her sister-ship Repulse had similarly been nicknamed HMS Repair )
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