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Well tidy flat top iggie,I can hear the carpet monster licking his lips in anticipation. :ha:
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celt wrote:Well tidy flat top iggie,I can hear the carpet monster licking his lips in anticipation. :ha:
So far, I've managed to keep him hungry, although a couple of parts nearly succumbed but were snatched from his jaws at the last moment!

Last night I managed to get a little more work in, and assembled the two external lifts, and the external walkways along both sides of the hull. The lifts are actually able to slide up and down between the hanger and top deck levels, which is a nice touch, although the instructions don't actually tell you this.... :???:

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To give an idea of the size of this monster, this is the whole hull with my 1/350th scale Corvette placed on top :shock:
I still cannot really comprehend how we expected around 80 men to sail across the Atlantic, or around North Cape in such small vessels....

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No those poor sods in those convoy escorts had a rough time of it - open bridges too IIRC.

That is a superb looking flattop Iggie, as did your MTB - Great work all round.
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Not much progress to show at present, although I've been busy attaching various very small detail parts (lockers, doors etc.) around the gallery that surrounds the ship just below the flight deck. Plenty of parts, but not much to photograph!

As an interlude, we went up to Stoke Bruerne on the boat Friday, for the biannual Champagne dinner (our eighth on the trot). The evening also coincided with the Village at War event (normally they are a week apart) so our fellow boaters were treated to the sight of Ann & I walking up from the long pound (two locks below the village) in full posh frock and Black Tie, past an encampment occupied by various members of the Waffen SS brandishing various mausers and assorted weaponry :-D .

We met up with our friends for the dinner, and two more of us sabraged; that is to say the took the top off a bottle of champagne with a sabre. Rita (pictured below) got it spot on first time, but Colin had to have a couple of goes :roll:

Great fun had by all, and we then strolled back to the boat about half midnight and turned in :grin:

We had a good time Saturday morning visiting the various stalls and reenactor camps around the village, before setting off back to our home mooring after lunch. All was going swimmingly until we were halfway down the locks when an enormous thunder storm struck :shock: We had just entered a lock in the company of a hire boat crewed by a somewhat nervous family when the heavens opened and the wind got up and hit with some force! I managed to get the other crew to get back onto their boat and under cover and Ann & I retreated into ours and rode out the storm while the boats were safely trapped within the lock. The rain and hail lasted for about twenty minutes, while managing to find any opening into the boat it could! We had hail firing in through the windows after bouncing upwards, rain and hail falling in through the roof mushroom vents......

I've often pondered about the advisability of sitting in a big steel box, floating on water while being surrounded by an electrical storm :shock:

Andrew Woodward (left), Landlord of The Boat Inn and Julian White, both officers of the Confrerie
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Rita having successfully sabraged; you can see the gasses escaping from the neck of the bottle
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The storm approaches
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and the rain & hail comes down :shock:
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Hail built up on the stern boards of the hire boat alongside us in the lock
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And on our gunnels
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Wow, that was quite a hailstorm! Looks as though you had fun.
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Hooley Dooley!
That looks scary - taking to a champagne bottle with a sabre!
Not to mention the storm!

Glad all is well,

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Now that's what I call an interesting night in the pub, Iggie! The storm, not so good. Sums up this year's so-called summer :evil:
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Glad you had a good time iggie.

Did they have a flypast this year? When I was at that event a few years ago they had the Lysander from Shuttleworth.
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Sir T wrote:Glad you had a good time iggie.

Did they have a flypast this year? When I was at that event a few years ago they had the Lysander from Shuttleworth.
No one seemed to know if there was going to be a flypast or not; with the recent grounding of the BBMF I think everything was put on hold and even now they are back flying, no one wanted to commit in case it didn't happen. I hope they did though as it's always a popular part of the weekend!
gnomemeansgnome wrote:Wow, that was quite a hailstorm! Looks as though you had fun.
skypirate wrote:Hooley Dooley!
That looks scary - taking to a champagne bottle with a sabre!
Not to mention the storm!

Glad all is well,

David
That amount of hail when sitting inside a steel box is noisy if nothing else :grin: We were very well behaved this year, and managed to walk back to the boat without falling over.... :oops:

The trick with the sabre is to not hack at it, but to slide the blade edge up the bottle and follow through without hesitating..... ;-)
ShaunW wrote:Now that's what I call an interesting night in the pub, Iggie! The storm, not so good. Sums up this year's so-called summer :evil:
The regalia certainly makes it more showy; I can't see me becoming an officer anytime soon though :shock:
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And the flat top has.....well, a flat top :grin:

This is pretty much it for the hull, save for a LOT of life raft canisters and a few other bits and pieces. Next up is a start on the island, then vehicles and aircraft :-D
Hull plus AV-8B
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Close up of the AV-8B which comprises 8 parts plus the canopy :shock:
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Great looking hull, your dogs appear to be really impressed (is one of the a Greyhound?).

That AV-8B looks fun, but I bet it'll look good under paint - How many does the kit have?

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Sir T wrote:Great looking hull, your dogs appear to be really impressed (is one of the a Greyhound?).

That AV-8B looks fun, but I bet it'll look good under paint - How many does the kit have?

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The only time the dogs take notice of my modelling is when I drop or break something.... then they run and hide! :grin:
Jet (the black one) is a whippet saluki cross, so a posh lurcher :-D Patch is a Jack Russell and Japanese Akita cross :shock:

I think there are 4 AV8s in the box plus Ospreys and Blackhawks, in addition to various vehicles and landing craft. Lots to build while destroying my eyesight!
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Nice one, Iggie, this flat top is shaping up very well. Got to love the dogs chilling out!
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Just found this: that is truly a monster of a model. Are you building an house extension to put it in?
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Looking good Iggie mate. From the photo it looks like a nice relaxing scene to model by.
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