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Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 23 Aug 2008, 16:06
by ChrisHunt
OT - Del, that wouldn't be a C42 would it? If so some backpack mate!
Regards,
Chris
Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 23 Aug 2008, 17:45
by hobby
Please bear in mind that Dave B believes that on this forum half of us use FS9 the other half have moved on to FSX.
For a pensioner who has to make his computer last and has been using FS9 for yonks I am unlikely to move to FSX. I have too much FS9 stuff eg FSNav, ActiveSky weather and a very great deal of scenery.
I have managed to put two operating cats plus arrester wires on our current HMS Eagle in FS9 using RB's cat and arrester gauges.
The new model looks 'magnificent' no pun intended!
Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 23 Aug 2008, 17:48
by Trev Clark
Oh, you sailors! Nobody even mentioned the big white aeroplane underneath the carrier pics!
Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 23 Aug 2008, 17:58
by basys
calypsos wrote:Oh, you sailors! Nobody even mentioned the big white aeroplane underneath the carrier pics!
Does it Sail, Steam, or Sink ?
If it doesn't come back up again,
its OFFTOPIC
When ?
ATB
Paul
Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 23 Aug 2008, 18:29
by John
hobby wrote:I have managed to put two operating cats plus arrester wires on our current HMS Eagle in FS9 using RB's cat and arrester gauges.!
? Which HMS Eagle is that? I only know of one other and that's FS98. Do tell ;-)
Thanks
John
Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 24 Aug 2008, 11:19
by hobby
Sorry, my error.
Definitely HMS Ark Royal - it is written thus on a battle honours board on the port side of the island!
Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 24 Aug 2008, 11:26
by Garry Russell
Re the annae size....it not always the size that makes them too big
There is a tendency for them to be textured black which exaggerates the size. :think:
Garry
Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 24 Aug 2008, 11:50
by Mickey D
They're my working notes off Norfolk!!
My machining drawings looked like that Dave, but usually scribbled on the back of a fag packet.

Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 24 Aug 2008, 11:54
by DaveB
Hello Mate
Consistantly good shots of Eagle during that period are hard to come by and odd as it may seem.. the clearest of the ones I've seen would suggest her whips were either painted black or they were all very dirty

On ALL ships.. the aft aerials suffer dirt from the stack/s and ships with larger aft masts will have the top painted black in an attempt to lessen the effect (hide the dirt)
Personally, I can't recall any whip being painted black in my time (they were not painted at all to be honest.. by the ships crew that is.. they came grey as new and that is the only paint they ever got to the best of my knowledge) but.. the Suez was a little before my time
MickeyD.. I used to smoke ciggies back then and always found the packets a useful source of writing material!
ATB
DaveB :tab:
Re: Hello Sailors!!!!!!
Posted: 24 Aug 2008, 12:24
by Garry Russell
Thar's what Imean Dave
They are not black but get textured black in models which makes them look bigger than they really are
Garry