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Strike all sorts of problems you can when you egregiously violate, and the Japanese encountered much strife from trying to pack too much into each hull with many ship classes. The Mogami class was particularly bad. Mogami's trials in 1935 showed up welding defects in the hull, doubtful...

For those else who haven't heard of HG Watkins designs here's his USS Houston http://www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/ca/ca-30/350-ph/ca-index.html

http://dictionary.reference.com/ No entry found for Davy Jonses'. Did you mean Davy Jones's ? :lol:

What's in a name? http://home.swipnet.se/~w-11578/model_links.htm

Thanks Charlie, thanks Mike. :D Why has Cardfan got a panic button under his cutting mat ? ... oops perhaps that's a drawer knob. :lol:

As promised. I understand. 8)

This would be understandable. The basic hull shape was established in the V&W class and only incrementally changed and slightly enlarged through the inter-war A to I. The JKN hull was larger and the Tribals even larger with a better bow shape. The War Emergency classes O to R used what was...

Charlie Well from that grotty little photo ( :lol: ) the proportion of focsle length to loa would be right for just about anything from V&W to H. I notice that the frames seem to make provision for asdic/sonar. I just stuck a pin with a Polish accent into the list. :oops: Now a WAIR V&W...

HMS Garland

Nah. It's just that having me around makes it look easy. :lol:

Babs.

Meanwhile they should have been here already, but if they haven't, picture junkies might like to see other ship models by Reinhard at http://www.smartgroups.com/pictures/openalbum.cfm?GID=606338&AlbumID=1725881 and the other albums are well worth visiting too...

Sebastian Very interesting, thank you. That looks like a Thornycroft boat but it is not. Between 1878 and 1881 Italy bought five torpedo boats. Nibbio and Aquila from Thornycroft and Avvoltoio, Spaviero and Falco from Yarrow. Clio (1882) was the first Italian designed and built torpedo...

(Pats a Shrike gently on the head) There, there now, just sit quietly in the corner there for a while and it'll be alright. They'll go away soon and you'll be safe again. :lol:

Sebastian Duilio's torpedo boat was called "Clio" and weighed 26 tons. That is all I know and I have no idea who made it. The New Zealand boats and the other Thornycroft boats like the one in your picture weighed 12 tons. Do you have any other information about Clio ? Cheers Maurice

Rob I think TB 80 by Yarrow was a 1st class torpedo boat of 135' pp. (So just who did tell you they were the same? :D ) Do you have drawings for the 2nd class boats TB 76 -95 built by Thornycroft 1890-93. These seem to exactly match the dimensions given for the New Zealand boats ...

Sebastian A very obscure warship and I wonder how you came to know about it. :D I don't know of any free plans but at the bottom of the page at http://www.nzmaritime.co.nz/thornycroft.htm they say "A copy of a plan of the vessel is in the Auckland War Memorial Museum Library." The...

40 years ago I used rolled gummed brown paper tape for the axles with rolled plain paper hubs well glued with polystyrene cement, and they still operate. But now I use plain paper soaked in CA. Never needed lubrication but I would use powdered grapite if required. Of course absolute...

The traditional internationally recognised rules. They were an excellent investment of available resources and of course human society only advances because of it's deviants. :twisted: Thought I might just manage to kick-start your metabolism for the day. :lol: The British razee frigates...

Charlie For working paper tracks the only problem I've found is in getting traction between the ground and the track. Either for the ground to drive the track or the other way round. Never had a problem with the tracks not turning the wheels. Full size steel tracks don't grip too well on...