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  • in reply to: Navy ships (Plymouth Sound) #1841627
    paul178
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    Easy
    With whats left of the Royal navy I know the numbers off by heart

    F235 HMS MONMOUTH Type 23 Frigate

    D97 HMS EDINBURGH Type 42 Destroyer

    F213 German Frigate in the spirit of fairness I did not look her up but she is a Bremen class ship

    in reply to: General Discussion #248864
    paul178
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    I collect “00” LMS Locomotives and have built up quite a collection. As for track I have about 12′ just to run them to keep them in working order. I agree that newer models have much finer wheels and detail. The first thing that comes off is the “Bull Bar type couplings and I reduce the gap between the loco and tender.
    A wothwile book if you can get your hands on it is

    Modelling Railways Illustrated Handbook No4
    “Detailing and Improving Ready To Run Locos by Iain Rice”

    in reply to: Train sets….. #1841656
    paul178
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    I collect “00” LMS Locomotives and have built up quite a collection. As for track I have about 12′ just to run them to keep them in working order. I agree that newer models have much finer wheels and detail. The first thing that comes off is the “Bull Bar type couplings and I reduce the gap between the loco and tender.
    A wothwile book if you can get your hands on it is

    Modelling Railways Illustrated Handbook No4
    “Detailing and Improving Ready To Run Locos by Iain Rice”

    in reply to: Sorry if in wrong area….. #950388
    paul178
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    DragonRapide, Everything to do with historic aviation Think of all the RFC who also died there and their opponants.

    I also echo Andy in Beds words!

    in reply to: Airfix 1/72 Spitfire F.22 kit #219967
    paul178
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    Daren part 11 the exhausts are you just going to stick them to the cowling and do you need the very front part of the engine to allow the prop to rotate?

    I am thinking of deleting the engine as well!:)

    in reply to: Sorry if in wrong area….. #950488
    paul178
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    Two of my relatives died in the mud in “wipers” and have no known grave. I have been their and had to leave as I was too choked up to stay. “The war to end all wars”

    Will people ever learn?

    https://encrypted-tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSiinaBhxjn9ZlYpHb1MduwlpvyWIAx0oYRX-caaFbKKfc2GnmS0A

    in reply to: General Discussion #248994
    paul178
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    From the BBC today. “People have lost the art of voice communication” (on the subject of texting). Would not a simple word like talking suffice?

    in reply to: Worthless, meaningless, managerial sayings! #1841740
    paul178
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    From the BBC today. “People have lost the art of voice communication” (on the subject of texting). Would not a simple word like talking suffice?

    in reply to: Sorry if in wrong area….. #951642
    paul178
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    Thanyou for the picture of “Flanders Poppies”

    Lieutenant Colonel John McCrae

    In Flanders fields the poppies blow
    Between the crosses, row on row,
    That mark our place; and in the sky
    The larks, still bravely singing, fly
    Scarce heard amid the guns below.

    We are the Dead. Short days ago
    We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
    Loved and were loved, and now we lie,
    In Flanders fields.

    Take up our quarrel with the foe:
    To you from failing hands we throw
    The torch; be yours to hold it high.
    If ye break faith with us who die
    We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
    In Flanders fields.

    For all who died to give us freedom, I look at those flowers possibly with the same thoughts as you.

    Paul

    in reply to: General Discussion #249090
    paul178
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    Still got all but one of my own teeth, my faculties may be open to debate:)

    in reply to: Best place to view HMS Ocean? #1841793
    paul178
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    Still got all but one of my own teeth, my faculties may be open to debate:)

    in reply to: General Discussion #249208
    paul178
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    ppp stop knocking the Royal Navy then. Its bloody hard enough for them anyway with perfectly good ships on the trotts awaiting scrapping or sinkex thanks to dave and his band of imbaciles!
    I am not a 6’4″ hardman but a 67 year old 6’0″ ex Para who does not like any of our armed services run down or not given the tools for the job.

    Forget the Glasgow kiss thats a bit ambitious now but a wack from my walking stick is another thing!:)

    in reply to: Best place to view HMS Ocean? #1841853
    paul178
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    ppp stop knocking the Royal Navy then. Its bloody hard enough for them anyway with perfectly good ships on the trotts awaiting scrapping or sinkex thanks to dave and his band of imbaciles!
    I am not a 6’4″ hardman but a 67 year old 6’0″ ex Para who does not like any of our armed services run down or not given the tools for the job.

    Forget the Glasgow kiss thats a bit ambitious now but a wack from my walking stick is another thing!:)

    in reply to: Fleeing from the Great London P.E Games #402148
    paul178
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    Organisers? The Olympic Games has oganisers so why do we suddenly need thousands of troops two weeks before kick off?

    in reply to: Airfix 1/72 Spitfire F.22 kit #220002
    paul178
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    Decals on the wrong side?

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