HMS Rodney (and a small question to sp762)

wookey · Post by **wookey** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 5:44 pm

just a couple of pics, mainly for sct to get a better look,
i thought i better place them here as all the pics on my last thread were making it very slow loading, model not quite finished yet, unfortuantely is high poly even thus far, :-/

Having arrived and recieved emergency repairs to weather damage recieved in the Atlantic, the Rodney puts to sea and heads back out to seek a more suitable port to make repairs complete.

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kevarc · Post by **kevarc** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 6:24 pm

Impressive

gblandford · Post by **gblandford** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 9:02 pm

Nice ship keep on the good work

southcoasttrains · Post by **southcoasttrains** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 10:56 pm

Looking ship shape

(xcuse the pun lol)

Let me guess, Uncle Albert wasn't steering when it got damaged was it? lol

Looks brilliant.

wookey · Post by **wookey** » Thu Sep 25, 2003 11:42 pm

hehe, *shakes head*

thanks guys, appriciate the support,
am enjoying this buildin m'larky now lol

yes, i wonder about the name too m8 lol,

all those inspiring WW2 names like, Valient, Ark Royal, Conqerer, Revenge, Repulse, Warspite, then....... Rodney? lol, terrifying

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 9:28 am

wookey wrote:all those inspiring WW2 names like, Valient, Ark Royal, Conqerer, Revenge, Repulse, Warspite, then....... Rodney? lol, terrifying

Actually most of those 'WW2' names are very ancient and traditional RN ship names. All but Rodney were either built before WW1 or ships in WW1 carried those names, (Rodney is the exception being built in the 30s and bearing the name of a famous 18th century Admiral, HMS Nelson was the other ship in her class). If you go back to the navy of Nelson's time and even earlier, those names - except Rodney of course - are all there. When we used to have a real navy, we certainly had good solid macho ships names to go with it!

Nowadays they get named after cities usually.

wookey · Post by **wookey** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 10:16 am

mm, bit boring isn't it, : ( cities, lol

i do like all the old names, esp 'Indefatigable', brilliant stuff

qzdcg8 · Post by **qzdcg8** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 12:14 pm

Was it really painted with that camouflage?

kevarc · Post by **kevarc** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 1:42 pm

http://www.sssbrno.cz/monako/galerie/re ... /Page.html

Picture 7

ianmacmillan · Post by **ianmacmillan** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 2:06 pm

With Rodney and Uncle Albert driving you'd better watch that scrap line in case Del boy's about.

Where's that copper cap gone?

wookey · Post by **wookey** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 2:54 pm

ah cheers kev,

was wondering if i'd lost the plot completely, i'll admit it is pretty unusual camo, but it does seem it wore it at some point,

i expect i'll knock up a battleship grey one soon aswell, am just working on building a small destroyer to escort her first.

wookey · Post by **wookey** » Fri Sep 26, 2003 2:57 pm

and lol @ Del boy and the copper bits,

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 12:05 am

I think Rodney needs a couple of tugs pushing her out, don't you?

I'm a fan of Temeraire, Leviathan, Thunderer, Invincible(*) and Dreadnought myself.

(*) a bit of a misnomer, she blew up at Jutland.

wookey · Post by **wookey** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 7:20 pm

hehe, is that a very subtle request Martin?

unfortunately yes, i think she does, so tugs will be in order now too lol,
ah, well, just finish me destroyers then i'll knock up a couple,

shame about Invinsible

ah, Dreadnought herself,
shes an interesting ship, older batttleships seem to have been built to a very different style, quite interesting to compare,

saddletank · Post by **saddletank** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 8:14 pm

Twas a great pity she wasn't preserved, having met her Waterloo (and the cutters torch) in 1921. But those were the days before the concept of preservation really existed. But, hey wouldn't she be one heck of a tourist attraction at Portsmouth now?

It always irks me that all sorts of media people keeep telling us that HMS Belfast is a 'battleship', as if we can't work out the concept of a cruiser and what jobs they performed. This dumbing down agenda is causing the country to go down the pan just that weeny bit faster.

Where were we? Tugs, yes useful models for all sorts of places, Like - er - docks, for example.