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NNNOOOOO! Don't put information like that in front of me!!! Have you no mercy??!!! Oh my poor Paypal account!!! Tim

Noh, you lot have got it all wrong! Scorpio is actually a brilliant sculptor of models of HUGE hands!! Seriously, these pictures are just inspiring stuff! I take my hat of to you, Scorpio; bravo! Tim

Micheal, many thanks for this, I appreciate your efforts and am enjoying building your excellent little model. Lookiing forward to the next ones, too! One point, could you mark the centre of any circular arcs (little dot or cross would be great) so we can locate our circle cutting tools...

Gil, original idea was to sneak in close to the enemy and 'hit and run' with the 12 inch, fired with the gun breaking the surface, sighted through the telescope. The barrel had a sealing plug (tamion) operated by a linkage, so no-one needed to go outside before firing it. On one test firing, the...

http://www.hwsac.co.uk/divetales/M2/HMS%20M2.htm http://www.marine-one.co.uk/images/m2a.jpg http://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Parnall http://www.dalnet.se/~surfcity/commonwealth_keighly.htm Parnells factory was about 10 miles away from where I live, at a small town called Yate; now...

Oooo, slippery slope; or should that be slipway. I was an aircraft modeller, I used to look at the odd ship model, but one day a 'friend' said, go on, have a go, one can't hurt, you can always go back to aircraft if you don't like it, go on, I do them all the time and I'm OK, go on, try a...

The Great Panjandrum..... We've been here before!! http://www.nevilshute.org/Engineering/JohnAnderson/topdown3.php check all the links, or do a search on panjandrum . Tim

You gonna put Dick Dasdardly at the helm?! They have a restored torpedo boat at Duxfords amazing museum, where the torpedo was launched off the stern, but pointing forwards, so the boat was pointed at the target, but turned away smartly as soon as the fish was launched. Mad fools...

Err, are they not photo-etchings? Mind-bending modelmaking, none the less!! Tim

DONK! (The sound of my jaw hitting the table....) Tim

I reckon we should all throw in a $/£/E and buy Alfred the BIGGEST jar of coffee! Two ships at once! Alfred, you are a star! Tim

I reckon it is genetic. Most of my male ancestors have been 'makers' of one sort or another for the last 3 generations at least, and my mother is a painter, and did pottery and sculpture before she retired. My brothers are a musician/graphic artist and an agricultural engineer respectively, and...

A-ha!! GREEN cutting mat.... Only the best!! Alfred, please keep posting photographs. We all love looking at other modellers projects! Tim

For translation, try www.imtranslator.com . Works OK, but you have to think a bit. And technical stuff really throw it. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Trans to Russian. Trans back to English. Result. The vodka is strong, but the meat has gone bad. Hmm. Something got lost in...

IMtranslator plug-in for Internet Explorer is good: http://plugin.imtranslator.com/ I'm using it on some Russian navy texts, and while it is confused by some technical terms, you can get the sense of what is written. Works in a variety of languages including Polish, Russian etc. Tim