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Kevin

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  1. thank you, but at the moment i am not contemplating purchasing the material, just looking but thank you for the offer anyway
  2. lol - i would love to be able to hold my build between my legs, but i would have to dislocate them and move one of them to another property lovely work
  3. i never thought of audio books on in the back ground - brilliant idea, lol - i can read, and write (even joined up writing (even though no one even me can read it)
  4. back to the TV, i purposely put a TV into my build room to watch DVD box sets, at present watching the whole series of the David Attonbourgh series, like life on earth etc http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Life-Collection-David-Attenborough/dp/B000B3MJ1E/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1377856085&sr=8-1&keywords=david+attenborough
  5. Calico come in three weights i think, light, medium and heavy, do you know what you are using?
  6. hope you don.t mind me putting links in onto your thread, always happy to remove, i just wanted to show members all the different ideas in creating the effects http://titanic-model.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=123&topic_id=2785&sub_topic_id=2786&mesg_id=&page=
  7. AUGUST 30 1707 HMS Childs Play (24), Cdr. George Doiley, foundered in a hurricane off St. Christopher's 1806 Boats of HMS Bacchante (22), Cptn. James R. Dacres, cut out a brig and two feluccas, San Antonio letter of marque and Spanish privateer Deseado, at Santa-Martha. HMS Pike (4), Lt. Macdonald, captured a guarda-costa. 1814 Party from HMS Menelaus (38), Cptn. Peter Parker (Killed in Action), engaged ashore in Chesapeake Bay.
  8. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23862359 for anyone interested
  9. i will delete the link if required, i never read the comments and i dont have sound on my work PC i was infact looking for a Titanic model wreck site forum, not found yet though
  10. AUGUST 29 1583 HMS Delight ran aground off Sable Island. 1707 HMS Wincheley (26), Cptn. William Jone,s foundered in a hurricane. 1779 HMS Boreas (28), Cptn. Charles Thompson, took Compass (en flute). 1782 HMS Royal George (100), Cptn. Waghorn, while heeled at Spithead off Portsmouth to repair the coppering with the lower deck guns run out, was struck by a sudden and violent squall which threw her over so much that water rushed in the open ports. She filled and sank killing Rear-Admiral Richard Kempenfelt and about 900 crew. 1791 HMS Pandora (24), Cptn. Edward Edwards, with 14 Bounty mutineers, wrecked on Great Barrier Reef. 1800 Twenty boats Sir John Warren's squadron cut out Fench privateer Guepe (18) from under the batteries in Vigo Bay. 1810 HMS Queen Charlotte cutter (8), Joseph Thomas, repulsed a French cutter, former British revenue cutter Swan (16), off Alderney. 1811 Start of 3 day campaign by HMS Sir Francis Drake (38), Cptn. George Harris, HMS Phaeton (38), Cptn. Fleetwood Broughton Pellew, and HMS Dasher (18) which captures Madura. 1814 HMS Peacock (18), William Mends, foundered off South Carolina 1861 U.S. squadron captures forts at Hatteras Inlet, NC 1862 Union gunboat Pittsburgh supports Army troops in landing at Eunice, Arkansas
  11. ok - i was just checking the Victory clan are all still ok, i must be following loads, but not heard from some in ages all the best
  12. it has been to quiet without yourself and Derek posting, you ok?
  13. hi Derek not seen anything of you in a couple of weeks, everything ok?
  14. do you have a list of all the extra pe kits you have purchased to complete the build.or i it just one
  15. just read your log, im impressed, it's a shame that with all the extras that can be added, they cannot get the basics right - like portholes, - well done,
  16. lovely work my friend lol it is taking me long enough to rig the gun port lids all the best
  17. AUGUST 28 1652 Dutch under admiral Van Gelen defeat English under Admiral Richard Badiley at the Battle of Elba. 1796 HMS Topaze (38), Cptn. S. G. Church, captured Elizabeth. 1797 HMS Pomone (44), Cptn. R. C. Reynolds, destroyed Petit Dia'le. 1799 HMS Contest Gun-boat, Lt. John Ides Short, driven on shore in the Helder. 1809 Battery at Cortelazzo, at the mouth of the Piave river between Venice and Trieste, carried by boats of HMSAmphion (32), Cptn. William Hoste. Six Venetian gunboats Surveillante, Vedette, and Nos. 64, 76, 77 and 78 with two trabaccolos, moored under the battery were brought out and five other trabaccolos were burnt in the river. 1867 Captain William Reynolds of USS Lackawanna raises U.S. flag over Midway Island and took formal possession of these islands for the U.S.
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