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hmmm... didn't expect that. I'll look for an other ship. Give some minutes Jan
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Hi Remco, Since when is 'you can't see it in the final result' a valid argument for you? (oops, did I say that ?? ) Jan
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The paint-no paint is one you can only answer yourself. Frohlich is very mucht on the non-paint side. I took a small text-fragment from one of my books written by Ab Hoving (Ships of Abel Tasman), former head of the ship-department in the Dutch Rijksmuseum. He is using modelmaking as a way of discovering how ships at the time were build, and how they did look/could have looked. From tha point, he takes a very strong position in the paint debate:
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Just a guess: HMCS Niobe?
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Gentlemen, I did a little bit of shopping: I flipped the picture. It is indeed Gelderland (I posted her before in her new appearances.) She was a Dutch ship, build around the turn of the precvious century (HOlland Clas Cruiser, laid down in 1898), the Germans took her over and did a rebuild into a Flak ship (Niobe) aroudn 1943. Her largest feat was the fact that she took Paul Kruger from South Afrika to Europe after the BoerWar. The picture is taken in her period in life that she was fitted for being a target ship in 1941 (already in German service) Jan
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Gentlemen, On the wrong track altogether. Although roughly correct datewise. Jan
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Can't remember whether or not I posted this on MSW1 or MSW2
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What has Beef Wellington to do with a Jason class screw corvette? Jan
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Wolves! Jan
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Ah, don't think you mean MUtiny on the Bounty Jan
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eeeeh, there should be a number on her side, which will speed up our process of identification. It looks like the sloop's you mentioned before... Black swan or something like it? Jan
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Google gives you the choice between iuploading the pic itself into search, or just the url of the picture you want to use. copy-past the url of the pic as uploaded here was enough for this one. The strange thing is that sometimes google still recognizes a heavily edited picture, and sometimes a very small change is enough to foll the program. I still don't know what the determining factor is.... Jan
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Google can still read the name Jan
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Gentlemen, Can I interrupt your very entertaining morning talks? just to confirm that she is indeed HrMs Overijssel (D815), one of the 8 Friesland class ships. (build in 1955, in active service till 1982) Jan
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You've got the right nationality. Jan
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Didn't realize that. I just went for the shiplist of Smit, and was very much helped by the reference to Arklow Here's the next one. Back to the navy-stuff (please forgive me my rather clumsy editing of her stern, and flipping the pic for the sake of cheating google pics....)
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Arklow Castle, launched in 1981, wrecked somewhere in the early nineties
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Like her namesake she's all in ruins now Jan
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Better late than never... Nice result! It's a pity there is almost no way of gettings these kits into Europe without exceptionally high import taxes..... (Customs will add tranportation costs to the value of the packaage, and than compute a tax based on value of the kit plus transportation. That turns a relatively non-expensive kit into a quite expensive one..) Jan
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btw Smit also did some ships for Arklow (around 1980, which fits in nively with my conclusion above) Interesting question is: does the ship still exist? Jan
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The shipyard is Ferus Smit in Groningen (the name is on the crane). Jan
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Thinking aloud: Early eighties, late seventies, as the shipyard has no large roofed building facilities. Besides: the ship is without bulb. I'm looking in Irish or Itallian shipowners, due to the flag in th eforemast. I'm more into Irish, due to the relaively light colours. (and the posten not being Italian )
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And just for fun (stil not found the ship, but many interesting pics of ships going into the water) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZQ1jOH450M Jan
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But the one by Chris is definitely better. Jan
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Nope, I didn't check the large pic. And thinking of a Dutch wharf (Ferus Smit is indeed neer Grongingen: unbelievable that seegoing ships are build over there....) I was inclined to see red white and blue. Never thought of green and orange And for those not understanding what I mean: check where the A is pointing (and zoom in, to understand why this wharf launches sideways) https://maps.google.nl/maps?q=ferus+smit+hoogezand&hl=nl&hq=ferus+smit&hnear=Hoogezand,+Hoogezand-Sappemeer,+Groningen&t=h&z=7 Jan
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