Destroyer
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Hi folks; Most Canadian corvettes were named after towns in Canada. There were a few "fancy" ones, like HMCS Bittersweet. Hmm.. wonder who gave her that name, hee, hee. I hope to use a few of Angela's corvette, and her other ships of course. In the mid 50's very few were left. I think any that were left might have been "parked" out of the way, on the Dartmouth side of the harbour, waiting for their end. I'm not sure, but HMCS Sackville may be the last of her kind. It's too bad we haven't saved more old ships. Same goes for steam locos and rolling stock. My old ship is an artificial reef now, that's better than going to the scrapyard.
Boy, Angela is really doing a great job! I had tied up a Victory ship at my dockyard. Nothing against the Yanks, they are really very nice folks when you get a chance to meet them, but I really wanted Commonwealth ships, and of course Canadian ships would be even better for me. Angela's ships and that O Class sub are just what I needed.
Cheers......Rick
Good to see the Queen is feeling better!
Boy, Angela is really doing a great job! I had tied up a Victory ship at my dockyard. Nothing against the Yanks, they are really very nice folks when you get a chance to meet them, but I really wanted Commonwealth ships, and of course Canadian ships would be even better for me. Angela's ships and that O Class sub are just what I needed.
Cheers......Rick
Good to see the Queen is feeling better!
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Almost as bad as the acronym for one rank I held in the Australian Navy. The rank was Petty Officer Signals Yeoman or "POSY". The Kiwis had more sense and called theirs POYS. I and many of my fellow POSYs refused to use the title and used the older CY (Communications Yeoman).
The RN has always had really interesting names for their ships including traditional names such as Ark Royal. The Australian Navy tends to name their larger ships after state capitals and smaller ships after country and regional towns. The submariners like to do things a bit different and one of the current subs is named after an able seaman (Sheaan) who fought bravely and went down with his ship during an air raid on Darwin.
UltimateWarlord
New member
Very nice work Angelah,sorry to hear about your RC ship going to war with the swan,however at present I have an RC P-51D Mustang 60" ws and a P-47N the same size for sale, I could rig them with drop bombs and cannons for you, you could use them to escort your ship, one good 100 mph strafing run and he won't be back lol.
They sound very nice. How about a picture?
Work is progressing steadily on the frigate but I might be out today if it warms up enough for a shooot so time could be limited on her. This ship which was originally to be HMS Troubridge might end up as HMS Ulster. I will do Troubridge afterwards. The deckhouse arrangements aft of midships and indeed just forward of that point are different and it's not worth althering everything at this juncture. I have been sent smashing photos a cracking model of Troubridge so I can based another model on that rather than spending time changing mid stream.
And I want to get this one done and up so I can get back to working on Ark Royal. Have been trying out the idea I had about the hangar deck but it is slow going and port/starboard side ar different so each other so have to be done individually. It's time, so I might abandon this process and just use the Boolean option. There may not be much difference between them anyway as far as the poly count goes, it will be pretty high whichever way I look at it.
I checked late last night and the corvette is still in the waiting room with N3V so if you want it get yourselves over to the TPR site. She is in the UK Section buildings.
The narrow boat will go up today to both sites as well. That will be my second job this morning.
To whet your appetites... :-
The corvette named HMCS Corvette...
And narrow boat.
named narrow boat... hehe
Blessings,
Angela
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UltimateWarlord
New member
Nice, I will try to post pics but for some reason I have never been allowed to ? If not I will e-mail some to you.
Maybe some ex-Navy type could help me with a pointer or two.
Here is a shot of HMS Ulster as she was converted ot a Type 15 frigate. My problem is with the foremast. I know it's a lattice but from the pictures I have available the mast looks to be a round lattice rather than a square one. Does anybosy know for sure what type the foremast was please?
Angela
Here is a shot of HMS Ulster as she was converted ot a Type 15 frigate. My problem is with the foremast. I know it's a lattice but from the pictures I have available the mast looks to be a round lattice rather than a square one. Does anybosy know for sure what type the foremast was please?
Angela
misterchugg
Active member
great work as usual angela.
as usual, i cannot find the ships on either site.
i always have dramas dl from tpr
cheers
ron
as usual, i cannot find the ships on either site.
i always have dramas dl from tpr
cheers
ron
JWEwan :- Thanks for clearing that up. Views are often very confusing and on some of the foremast it looks as if there are extra vertical supports between the main corner ones. Maybe just a trick of angle and light. I think my foremast is too wide anyway, they are pigs to sort out in Gmax because all the cross pieces get mixed up.
I have 2 shots of Ulster and they both show the sets of torpedo tubes so possibly the pictures were taken withing a close time frame. If they were taken off what was put in their place? Was this then used as a boat deck?
Ron :- These assets are in the UK Section on TPR and in the buildings part of that. If you are still having trouble let me know by email and as before I will send to you personally, just let me know which version you require, although all 2004 assets still work in 2012. All assets sent to the TPR site have also been sent to the Trainz DS but as TC3 versions (2.8), but they seem to take longer to get content up for download. The corvette failed first time, the claim being it had an obsolete version number (!). I resent late yesterday after double checking. I use 2010 to make the CDP so it's up to that program whether or not it works and to fix the version number.
Other points :- I checked the polys on just 4 parts of the intended work on the Ark as opposed to leaving it as it is and it is way above the whole hangar deck so that idea has been abandoned as there would need to be about 10 parts each side so the maths don't add up, I will use Booleans instead. Have the stern more or less done now, only the large support under the stern round-down to put in. Sat here until 0150 hours this morning, not on purprose, I just got so engrossed I forgot time. Then I couldn't get to sleep so watched the telly until goodness knows when in the morning. I think I had about 4 hours sleep last night.
But I just love making these ships and cannot stop.
Thanks for the help again,
Angela
I have 2 shots of Ulster and they both show the sets of torpedo tubes so possibly the pictures were taken withing a close time frame. If they were taken off what was put in their place? Was this then used as a boat deck?
Ron :- These assets are in the UK Section on TPR and in the buildings part of that. If you are still having trouble let me know by email and as before I will send to you personally, just let me know which version you require, although all 2004 assets still work in 2012. All assets sent to the TPR site have also been sent to the Trainz DS but as TC3 versions (2.8), but they seem to take longer to get content up for download. The corvette failed first time, the claim being it had an obsolete version number (!). I resent late yesterday after double checking. I use 2010 to make the CDP so it's up to that program whether or not it works and to fix the version number.
Other points :- I checked the polys on just 4 parts of the intended work on the Ark as opposed to leaving it as it is and it is way above the whole hangar deck so that idea has been abandoned as there would need to be about 10 parts each side so the maths don't add up, I will use Booleans instead. Have the stern more or less done now, only the large support under the stern round-down to put in. Sat here until 0150 hours this morning, not on purprose, I just got so engrossed I forgot time. Then I couldn't get to sleep so watched the telly until goodness knows when in the morning. I think I had about 4 hours sleep last night.
But I just love making these ships and cannot stop.
Thanks for the help again,
Angela
Angela,
You could leave them there because they look great. I`ve also got a pic of Ulster with the tubes, but that was quite a few years before I was on her. We live right aft near and below the twin guns, and every time the guns were fired all the mirrors in the bathrooms smashed. They were quite nice ships to live on. Later on Ulster had a motor boat parked there and some of the class, like Roebuck, left that area clear.
john
john
You could leave them there because they look great. I`ve also got a pic of Ulster with the tubes, but that was quite a few years before I was on her. We live right aft near and below the twin guns, and every time the guns were fired all the mirrors in the bathrooms smashed. They were quite nice ships to live on. Later on Ulster had a motor boat parked there and some of the class, like Roebuck, left that area clear.
john
john
Hi Angelah,
I cannot speak for other navies but when torpedo tubes were removed from Aussie ships nothing replaced them. From the 60's onwards torpedoes were fired using ASROC (for US ships), IKARA (for Aussie and some UK ships). For anti submarine warfare it become common for helos to launch torpedoes. The Australian DDGs (US built) had a triple torpedo launcher just under the bridge on both sides.
We had a Land Rover parked in the old torpedo space on ANZAC. Kiwi ships used to carry a Mini Moke! These days I expect they would put a Zodiac (rubber ducky) inflatable there. Personally I rather see the ships modelled in their original configuration.
I believe my father was a torpedo operator/maintainer in the RN during the war. Two of his ships were sunk although one ran aground in the fiords of Norway. And he was at Anzio on an LST (US built Landing Ship Tank).
Cheers
I cannot speak for other navies but when torpedo tubes were removed from Aussie ships nothing replaced them. From the 60's onwards torpedoes were fired using ASROC (for US ships), IKARA (for Aussie and some UK ships). For anti submarine warfare it become common for helos to launch torpedoes. The Australian DDGs (US built) had a triple torpedo launcher just under the bridge on both sides.
We had a Land Rover parked in the old torpedo space on ANZAC. Kiwi ships used to carry a Mini Moke! These days I expect they would put a Zodiac (rubber ducky) inflatable there. Personally I rather see the ships modelled in their original configuration.
I believe my father was a torpedo operator/maintainer in the RN during the war. Two of his ships were sunk although one ran aground in the fiords of Norway. And he was at Anzio on an LST (US built Landing Ship Tank).
Cheers
Thank you all for posting with such interesting things.
As far as the 'tubes' go I can do one of each, with and without if you like. Once the main model is done that would not be much of a job. And minelayers to would be okay, all I have to do is ear up on the ships that were converted for that operation.
I remember the Ikara, it came out about the same time as the film Fame and that girls name was very similar so the crew of HMS Bristol adopted it.
Must do's are a Leander and a cruiser at some point. TBH I like so many.... ha ha.
Blessings,
Angela
As far as the 'tubes' go I can do one of each, with and without if you like. Once the main model is done that would not be much of a job. And minelayers to would be okay, all I have to do is ear up on the ships that were converted for that operation.
I remember the Ikara, it came out about the same time as the film Fame and that girls name was very similar so the crew of HMS Bristol adopted it.
Must do's are a Leander and a cruiser at some point. TBH I like so many.... ha ha.
Blessings,
Angela
misterchugg
Active member
hi angela.
as usual with tpr, the solebay and the other one show up as writing ,
instead of dl as a cdp.
the hmcs corvette came down, but i cannot get anything else.
i tried right click and save as,
but all it does is open as a html doc
thanks
ron
as usual with tpr, the solebay and the other one show up as writing ,
instead of dl as a cdp.
the hmcs corvette came down, but i cannot get anything else.
i tried right click and save as,
but all it does is open as a html doc
thanks
ron
R/click on the page (anywhere) select save page as, you'll see the rest.
misterchugg
Active member
hi fran
it worked this time.
don't know why it didn't earlier,
maybe because i restarted the pc
weird things happen at times
thanks
ron
it worked this time.
don't know why it didn't earlier,
maybe because i restarted the pc
weird things happen at times
thanks
ron
Hi Ron mate,
So you have all the ships now? If so then I am glad you got it sorted out.
Thanks go to fran1 for pointing Ron in the right direction as well.
Raining here today so it will be either of 2 options, wash the inside of the greenhouse out or get on with the ships....
Good luck guys (and girls),
Angela
I have a problem.... Again...!!
Here is a shot of HMS Ulster about done and testing in 2004. But all viewers can see what the problem is, half the top part of the hull isn't showing properly.
At first I thought it might have been deleted accidentally so re-copied the othertop half (hulls are done in 4 sections) and went back into Trainz. Same thing.
So next step was the resetXform which I have done but that has not cured it. So I am stumped yet again. If the good half won't copy then I might mean starting the top section of hull all over again - horror! It's quite a job.
So any ideas/suggestions that I can try will be appreciated.
Angela
Here is a shot of HMS Ulster about done and testing in 2004. But all viewers can see what the problem is, half the top part of the hull isn't showing properly.
At first I thought it might have been deleted accidentally so re-copied the othertop half (hulls are done in 4 sections) and went back into Trainz. Same thing.
So next step was the resetXform which I have done but that has not cured it. So I am stumped yet again. If the good half won't copy then I might mean starting the top section of hull all over again - horror! It's quite a job.
So any ideas/suggestions that I can try will be appreciated.
Angela