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Veszett Roka

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  1.    Paul Le Wol reacted to a post in a topic: Calypso by mandolinut - Billing Boats - 1:45
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  4. Veszett Roka
    Absolutely my friend! Although the wheelhouse and the long focsle limit the possibilities somehow. In the below picture she had golf-ball satellite antenna, and an ecapsulated auxilary radar, the upper one is still Decca. The picture taken in 1984 when Calypso moored in Davenport during the Missisippi research.
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  10. Veszett Roka
    She had it, in the early 50's, with the old, round window wheelhouse. Note the different (shorter) side under the foredeck: Then i found a picture with a new radar, but yet missing the big egg antenna and the helipad (still picture from 'Undersea World Of Jacques Cousteau' from 1968) but with the new bridge and shortened stack::
  11.    Veszett Roka reacted to a post in a topic: HMAV Bounty by AJohnson - Caldercraft - 1:64
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    I think the radars on the mast are not correct. The upper one is a very early 50's (probably K-band), and the lower is probably from 80's. The model depicts Calypso in 80's era (see the satcom antenna cover, the big 'egg' behind the bridge), therefore i'd change the radars for more sleek nautical models like those on below pictures: Also i'd model the iconic circular storm-visor on the middle window of the bridge:
  15.    Veszett Roka reacted to a post in a topic: HMS Victory by dafi - Heller - PLASTIC - To Victory and beyond ...
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  18. Veszett Roka
    Mine was a Vanguard too, white hull and grey deck with yellow stripes on back. She was a beauty, and like all women (and all raceboat), she wasn't a forgiving one.
  19.    Veszett Roka reacted to a post in a topic: Endeavour 1934 by SaltyScot - FINISHED - Amati - 1:80
  20. Veszett Roka
    Comrade! From the height of the soling we called the 470-ers as slimy footed, because the algae on their wet feet I was on the wire in boat HUN-61 then moved to soling HUN-111, see my avatar pic. Just like you, i miss those days.
  21.    Veszett Roka reacted to a post in a topic: Oryol 1902 by GrandpaPhil - Orel - 1/200 - CARD - Russian Battleship
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  23. Veszett Roka started following St Roch by Lecrenb - 1:48 scale - RCMP Schooner rigged as schooner c. 1930/35 and Calypso by mandolinut - Billing Boats - 1:45
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  27. Veszett Roka
    - F.You, today is Sunday! We're striking! Superb work Daniel!
  28. Veszett Roka
    Nice to see you on duty again Bill
  29. Veszett Roka
    To be honest, i never seen such complex paper model yet. I built only one in my childhood (Jylland, a Danish tug from the 1920's) but that ship was far simply compared to your model. Excellent workmanship.
  30. Veszett Roka
    Hi Patrick, what these thingies are at the yards' end?
  31. Veszett Roka
    Happy to hear you again Nils, i hope your wife is healthy again!
  32. Veszett Roka
    Beautiful model Bill, very well built! I saw many model in my career (i'm a member of a modeling club) but yours have a certain sign of careful and thorough work. And i agree with you, this is an excellent website.
  33. Veszett Roka
    Because very few people have a microscope in their pocket :)
  34. Veszett Roka
    This is always reminds me a gossip in our modeling club. Some airplane modeler club came to friendly visit us, and shown a few of their model planes. All were first grade work, and we admire them. They told us that their usual scale is 1:72 or 1:48 because the detail. We laughed, and shown them our shipmodels in 1:350 scale. From that point the shipmodelers were considered as 'crazy gang'. And Mike, you're working in 1:700.
  35. Veszett Roka
    For me, it's a decision point. If you intend to build she as current state, include the stabilisers and build the bridge with modern navigation instrumentation (i mean radar screens etc.) as shown on the pictures. If you'd like to omit the stabilisers, i think you should build the bridge as an older look too. Plus, in this case you have to omit the WD40-Duct tape combo from the machinery shop.
  36. Veszett Roka
    If my vote counts, i'd go for full unpainted wooden hull. That mahogany is far too beauty to cover - for me.

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