Comments by "Simon Nonymous" (@Simon_Nonymous) on "Drachinifel" channel.

  1. "We want the largest guns known to humanity. We want them here, and we want them now."
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  2. If you ever visit the German shore battery at Longues sur Mere, you will see direct hits from naval gunfire through the gunshield of one of the 152mm shore guns... I think the bombardment was assisted by radar ranging but it's still chilling to think of what happened when you see the entry hole and the holes made by shell splinters.
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  3. EDIT - Olympic medallist with a 'disability' that would nearly stop him serving in the USN. Do you think he and Nelson are up there in Heaven having a laugh right now? While King argues with God over the seating arrangements?
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  4.  @deanomarino31  Thunderbirds wasn't real? I am a broken man.
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  5. I am very dismayed by the so called comments section here. They are all informative, adult and also constructive when they are not totally complimentary. What sort of people are you?
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  6. Nice comment - my biggest regret was that I'd never heard of him till now.
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  7. Agincourt 25 October, 1415, and the battle of Balaclava 25 October 1854. Well spotted, but not sure what Taffy three might have been translated from!!
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  8. NB the image of the flipped tank at 24:31 is of a Tiger II, and the chap next to it is Dwight Eisenhower - it's in the Wikipedia entry on the Tiger II. The location given is Chambois, which is 57km from the ocean, therefore this is probably not due to a warship's shell, and is most likely to be due to bombing. PS - the Oerlikon on the LVT4 is not historical, it would have been the similar Polsten cannon. Just servicing my inner nerd folks!
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  9. A small plea for 'Dido' to be pronounced with the first syllable to rhyme with "my" - or is there a reason the RN mispronounced itfor the Dido class cruisers please?
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  10. Yes the chap at Historic Dockyards who guided me round the Armada section made the point that we don't really talk about our failed armada the year after this, and perhaps we should.
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  11. I wonder if the Germans had attempted Plan Z what the effect on the development of the RAF would have been as well... hopefully more orientated about flattening shipyards and antishipping capability? We can only speculate :-)
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  12. Well you're no smoothie are you? ;-) EDIT SonsOfLorgar beat me to it!
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  13. Well I'm sat with a beer making a 1:48 Airfix Blenheim and this one sails up - how nice to see your build and paint jobs. It's now over 40 years since I first went to war with a tape measure and a handful of lucky dice, so it's dead good to see people are still wargaming with models in this day and age. NB I've stumbled across a very good AFV channel and the best compliment that he gets paid is that he is the Drach of the AFV world - you sir are a yardstick of worthiness!
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  14. oh more more more please - what a thoroughly nice bloke Dr Hocker is.
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  15. "What were you doing outside with your friend dear?" "Oh just some science love." The respirator - protector of both lungs, and facial hair. Very wise.
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  16. We enjoyed your input, thank you for sharing it with us. Nb - I am not that great at science and chemistry, but you never lost me the once with your explanations and dialogue - you are very easy to listen to as well. All the best!
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  17.  @Morgan_Sandoval  I hate to say that you are right. I'm in the UK following a rebuild of a Lancaster Bomber.... it's pretty well funded but we are in year four out of a ten year project. It's the same for old buildings too - the skills are now forgotten, the tools are long gone, every part that is replaced is built by hand, no mass production lines or parts bins to raid. Even to get a Flower class corvette seaworthy would be a massive undertaking. Thank you for bringing me back to earth from the planet of dreams.
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  18. Yes there are equivalents in Scotland, eg Tarbert across Kintyre, it seems to be a fairly common procedure where the geography allows. Greetings to Norway!!
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  19. Seconded - just looking at the images used here, I am guessing there were thousands of people doing their stuff on a man made island in the middle of nowhere. I would love to know more.
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  20.  @johannderjager4146  or even just politics world wide I am afraid.
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  21. Brutal. But true.
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  22. ah what was I doing this lunchtime anyway...feet up, smile on!
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  23. This has been a most excellent video, despite me taking two days to enjoy its full goodness. Good to see Matt and his expertise, love the Trafalgar Gun lads too. Thank you Drach - it was worth the wait. One more day to Trafalgar Day - we always celebrated it at my school in Newcastle as one of its old boys was a certain Cuthbert Collingwood.
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  24. I looked at those USN after action analysis drawings, and the images of ships like CA-32 and breath a lot. Fix it or burn or swim seems to be a great motivator. Respect is indeed due.
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  25. Do you follow the Royal Armouries - Ian McCollum did a quick cameo appearance there too!
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  26. You sir, are a poet. If shewill not marry you now, I would!
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  27. @ Marcus WC Tipton - I have also read that in British counterinsurgency campaigns, they realised that a .303 or later 7.62 could go through tree trunks if the enemy used them as shelter. If the bullets didn't find their mark, the splinters could.
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  28. I wanted a quick vid while my bath runs.... I think I will watch it in the bath instead. Water, steam... all adds to the ambience!
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  29. I am sold already. I suppose I am a revisionist and iconoclast by inclination. Good to see our British/English national myths put into context under the microscope with the benefit of hindsight. Lovely to get to hear from Paul - someone I think I might just be following from now on.
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  30. Aha! As soon as i saw the title I was hoping Balasz would be here from Cap and Ball. He's a great fellow and I love his channel too, in bright Hunglish language!
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  31. Absolutely brilliant work chaps thank you. UBoat.net has long been a favourite of mine; it actually let me find out details of the U-boot that sank my great grandfather's troopship in 1917 when I was researching my ancestry. Also World War 1 submarine history deserves more attention - I hope this helps.
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  32. How very timely. Last week we were on our honeymoon, and in Pompey looking at the new Armada map display in the RN historic dockyards. Now I have three videos on this subject to enjoy.
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  33. I'm with you there. If George Cayley had access to a light and powerful internal combustion engine, or had used rocketry, maybe the Wright brothers would have stayed making bicycles. You are braver than I am though, I am not sure I'd be happy under water for so long! Enjoy your retirement.
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  34. Yes, Prime Minister.
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  35. I could listen to you all day Drach - oh it looks like I will have to!
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  36.  @kleinjahr  and weirdly, in UK English the word is still - portage! Although we pronounce it like port (the wine) + age as in "what is your age?"
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  37.  @Ragefps  you are right. Heavy bombers did a lot of bombing in support of tactical objectives in Normandy I think
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  38. Another very worthy comment - thank you
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  39. 1940 - "Not today short man with tache"
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  40. Well so far, so good. Some of the more unusual decisions emanating from the early 30s are explained well here, and are not as silly as some choose to make them out to be. Great vid - will resume after walking the dogs on the beach. TTFN! Yup - great video, very informative indeed. Thank you gentlemen.
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  41. I recall it being released in the UK and watching it every week. My uncle who was ex Royal Navy watched it with us, and thought the poor lads must have been bonkers to volunteer for submarines - he was after all on aircraft carriers! I watch it now on DVD in German, the full theatrical release.
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  42.  @victoroduarte  that made me laugh 😃
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  43. They are still there and as enormous as ever! The whole coast is worth a visit to remember this vital battle. NB - using similar technology, there were also cast concrete barges made for inland British waterways, so as to not use up steel, and three are still to be found partially submerged next to the Manchester Ship Canal at 53.39110160483134, -2.4954362884492767 - a good vid from a local lad about them can be found here: https://youtu.be/ExKPh9mszFE
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  44. Aha - I have a 45 min lunch break and here is a 37 min video. Lunch is cooked in 8 mins. Perfect!
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  45.  @mjxw  but GB did ally with the foremost European power in contradiction to your assertion, and were indeed the poor relation of the French when it came to the fighting.
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  46. When all we have is HMS Belfast, I hope the USA preserves this marvel of engineering
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  47. ​ @johnniewoodard648  and indeed your comment was about the horrors that men and women faced in the aftermath; not about how many were killed. Yes, what you wrote did make sense; we can see and respect great human achievement in the face of adversity, but doesn't it reflect badly on us as humans that this actually happened at all? That's why my heart dies when I visit war cemeteries, and observe Armstice Day here in the UK. Hats off to you, and thank you for your service.
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  48.  @johnmcmickle5685  wow, that's a great bit of knowledge, and no, I'd rather not be on one either!
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  49. Sounds like my ex wife.... she only owned one slave to be fair but that was me.
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  50. Nothing wrong with the sound Drach, you're always audible and comprehensible. The Devil's Chariots by John Glanfield is a good read for anyone who wants a more detailed look at the evolution of the tank in British/Empire service in the Great War
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  51.  @reaperking2121  enjoy being a child of many languages!
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  52.  @mjxw  well written, and thank you for taking that time. No I wan't point scoring, and I do disagree with you, even with points you have just made - but vive la difference!
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  53.  @michaelmoorrees3585  thank you so much - please forgive my ignorance!
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  54. Quite so - they used the new SABS bombsight which had to be calibrated to the Tallboy's trajectory, and the mission wasn't to unload on an area but to aim for a pinpoint target, so a small change of doctrine as well as a change in technology.
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  55.  @TSZatoichi  yes indeed - I have enjoyed both the book and the TV version
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  56. Ah over an hour of bliss.... relax, sit back and absorb :-) So... I am not enough of a navalist to quibble with any of this, but being long in the tooth with wargames rules, it is so very hard to make an objective evaluation of nearly most anything to do with weapons of war, so bloody well done for trying to walk that tightrope. My only thought - and I think I mentioned this in your AAA piece too - is that weapons should be evaluated as a weapons system, not just tube by tube. Yes I know that introduces even more data into the mix.... no I'm not going to try it myself.
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  57. Excuse my ignorance if this is the bleeding obvious or has been answered many times over. Shaped charge shells and HESH type shells in big gun capital ship warfare. Were they too late in the day to be thought worthy of use, not deemed as effective as the well established types of shells seen here and not looked at - or is there a story waiting to be told?
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  58.  @ToasterUMP40  whilst stroking your cat in a most disturbing way.
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  59. Lovely video - thank you - even the physics is broken down into bite size chunks my cat can understand. Purrfect.
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  60.  @rmdoyen1  unless you could get her to plane! ;-)
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  61. I am very sure I have actually seen this at a reenactment, plus the pricking of the vent also served to see if there was a charge in the breech
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  62. excellently funny"
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  63. Tiger II as per a comment I made a few mins ago sir.
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  64. Subscribed chaps - if you weren't 6 hours drive away I'd sign up as an unpaid volunteer. Love what you do!
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  65.  @peterthomson4632  quite so, and you can then add other aspects of post Bismarkian Germany, with the Kaiser sticking his oar in, looking for his 'place in the sun', and generally chesting up to France, Russia, and the UK. A rotter.
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  66. I love these little videos - the history as as interesting as the ships.
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  67. "Mainly trades missions with the United States"- thank you USA for lending your fire hose to the German Empire.
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  68. A very good point and well made.
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  69. Oh and bloody hell - Liquid Poly - that dates you! I've just got to the end of the vid and to be honest I'd love to see more of this, the other side of Drach, as I guess in some way we all feel like we know you a little through the history vids, it's a bit like when Ian from Forgotten Weapons sits down with a large scotch in his smoking jacket and just has a natter to camera about stuff - less intense, more fun, and so cosy. Thanks!
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  70. David, what you write about averaging out any minor errors in the flight of a projectile is correct and very well explained - it's the same with diabolo air weapon pellets being fired from a rifled barrel. However I am sure I read in Flowers and elsewhere that the fins were a redesign to prevent tumbling experienced with initial straight fin designs. I am trying to find out how fast it would be spinning on impact, as I imagine that this gyroscopic effect would help keep the bomb stable? If I find out I am wrong - I'll stick an edit on the end of this :-)
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  71. I've just checked in Stephen Flowers' book "the operational history of Barnes Wallis' bombs", which is pretty thorough, and he writes that the fins were at first straight, but oscillation led to the trial and then use of the angled fins to use the gyroscopic effect to stabilise the bombs especially as they passed through the sound barrier. I can't find any data on how fast the bomb was spinning when it hit though.
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  72. When do we see your Swordfish video Drach?
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  73.  @dylanshandley1246 spot on - see below for handy cheat measures!
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  74. Aaron - yes I know. Here's the easy ones that come up a lot in weapons that I seem to know off by heart... .3" = 7.62 mm, therefore 3" equals 76.2mm, and also 0.5" = 12.7 mm; this covers quite a lot of rifles, pistols, SMGs and cannons from WWII. There are approx 30cm in 12", so getting naval, your 6" guns are approx 15cm, 4" guns are approx 10cm, 16" guns are approx 40cm, and so on.
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  75. More than once but hey, it's a long video, and look at how much you got right :-)
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  76. Ah time to log in and listen to the second half of this excellent piece. Cheers chaps!
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  77. Indeed. I suggest that if they had tried rescue they risked being attacked too,plus I am not sure what their ASW capacity was but I would doubt they were up to fighting a modern nuclear submarine.
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  78. I am the odd one who had never heard of Vince O'Hara - until now. I consider myself educated, and thank you.
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  79. Thankyou Canada
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  80. What a smashing bloke - thank you both for this.
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  81. 24:14 "being able to stay submerged for days at a time"; I appreciate yes it would have enough battery storage to facilitate this, but I didn't hear anything about any new technologies in the Type XXI to scrub the air etc, as this is the other limiting factor. Or did I miss it?
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  82. Would Peasholm Park in Scarborough be interested in HMS Hermes for their warhip battles in the lake there? EDIT - email sent
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  83. Oh so clever, you'd think you are an engineer. Oh, you are. Your analogue was very well done, it tempts me to ask you to progress this process with the question: what did they do to projectiles to try and counter this? Eg rounds that won't shatter and so forth, AP-C shells... I hope you managed to hoover up all the shrapnel in any case, it was fun watching you do what I did in the 80s with my BSA Airsporter in the name of science.
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  84. Did you eventually run out of apostrophe's Drach ;-) Great vid anyhow, possibly one of my favourites; the museum at Arromanches is very worth half a day, as is the 360 degree cinema there too. It's not all about having the best tank, it's all about having POL ammo and compo.
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  85.  @Keaperman  I vote for this too (Admiral King episode plse Drach) - speaking as an Englishman - he was no fool. He fits in with western democracy commanders like le May, Rickover, Montgomery, Harris... not peoplr you wanted to be on the wrong side of , but they didn't fanny around trying to pleae all of the people all of the time.
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  86.  @observationsfromthebunker9639  and number 4 - the German HSF never set out to challenge the RN again in the vital area of the North Sea in this war, and the blockade of Germany played a large part in its collapse in 1918. This was the British war aim achieved, the battle was decisive. No, there was a lack of effective pursuit, but - did it matter?
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  87. Just watching this video all over again and it's work of the highest quality from both presenters, plus the many people who made this happen. We will visit and enjoy - keep safe ship mates.
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  88. me too
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  89. Beautifully written - thank you.
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  90. it is now on my post retirement visit list, even though the missus is ex RAF. That's diversity for you all.
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  91. Very well put.
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  92. Or maybe HMS Thunderchild?
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  93. I'm only halfway through watching, but I love this video for the ship it celebrates. It's on my bucket list of things to see. NB - I think it would be in good taste to raise a glass to Nicholas Monserrat. I wonder how many of us would appreciate this vessel and her story if it was not for the Cruel Sea and Three Corvettes?
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  94. nice trivia thank you
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  95.  @robertmutton4973  fascinating isn't it? I was looking at Turbinia for real only just last week, and thought there was gearing connecting the turbine to the prop shafts... so assume it was a 1:1 system, not reduction gearing which came along later?
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  96. Very very interesting! I don't agree with some of the ways you've evaluated weapons but.... it's a brilliant Baedeker guide to AAA on World War II ships, and I'veenjoyed every bit of it. Thank you.
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  97. yes I was trying to guess how big they were until I saw a human hand;
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  98.  @grahamstrouse1165  very interesting information, but are you replying to the right comment? 🙂
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  99.  @BlackHearthguard  I believe so, although the wartime claims of how many tanks were hit/destroyed wasn't fully upheld once the Field Research Units looked over destroyed and abandoned tanks. And were Thunderbolts also used in this way - I think they could carry rockets?
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  100. Quite so. Just as air superiority is there to support and deliver the ground victory.
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  101. Fisher and Tirpitz - torpedo boys. 1 - Compare and contrast, with observations on geekiness. 2 - Did any other nations have similar torpedo-centric contemporaries to these chaps, who were saw technology as a good thing?
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  102. aha - I was about to find out where it was and you did it for me - it's on the List of Places to Visit
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  103.  @jerry2357  if I hadn't had a glass of wine and wasn't rebuilding my house, I'd be on the M6 North tonight to see it tomorrow. I recall there is also a museum called the Devil's Porridge not too far away, and lots of mountain bike tracks and... actually we want to move up and live there. Thank you for the info - - it really is appreciated.
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  104.  @jerry2357  I grew up in the 70s - that sounds like a full day out with sandwiches and a flask to me ;-)
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  105. A thought, looking at the still images you used in this most excellent video. Could you - or another expert with you - give us some narrative, context, and explanation to some of this battle damage? Eg 13:41 where my amateur interpretation is that there was a penetration just at the top Plimsoll marking, which blew out through the compartment above the penetration. I think this might make an interesting episode. Open to all opinions!
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  106. I actually like the rough cut version - it hints at all the buggering around you have to do to provide the full edited version...
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  107. at least they didn't repeat that mistake in World War II.....
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  108. Another great piece - thank you. As I'm usually busy making plastic models it's great to have these audio based videos to enjoy while my hands and eyes are busy. (Audio based video - does that make any sense by the way!)
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  109. Possibly your best video yet!
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  110. Glass raised in tribute. A great miniseries Drach, thank you.
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  111. enjoy Bovington!
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  112. 48:30 a pinnance - or a pinnace?
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  113.  @donovangray7518  Left handed pilots
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  114. I fluked an A in my Latin A Level blathering on about Vergil's version of this battle in the Aenid; we are definitely in the hands of Augustus' propagandists, I think.
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  115. Drach, and community: I saw the wargames models used in this video. I am an old school wargamer (models, dice and tape measure) but if I wanted a Great War naval wargame for my PC, what's out there? I'm thinking sandbox style so you could in theory refight this battle 'as was' but also play with those 'what if' questions we all love.
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  116.  @thomasvandevelde8157  what a load of rubbish - little of what you write is true. EDIT - I hadn't seen your other posts here, it was your first Turing post I was referring to. Sorry old boy - your other stuff is good to read. Apologies once again.
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  117.  @alganhar1  convoying, whether escorted or not, had been a proven method since the wars with Napoleon... just reinforcing your pont.
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  118.  @seanmac1793  I made two posts in this thread, please let me know what is was you wanted me to expand on, thank you.
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  119.  @seanmac1793  it was about his post on Turing, which seemed a bit out of context to me, and not about his other good posts here - sorry as my comment didn't connect to his - my fault. In a nutshell, the relevant dates were 1952 when he was convicted of gross indecency, and 1954 when he died, officially by suicide; the relevant place is England. (Not somewhere in the 1960s). The phrase 'chemical castration' isn't one I hear frequently but yes, he undertook what was believed at the time to be a suitable treatment for sex offenders. I am glad we have moved on a long way since then. So no, he wasn't left to die from chemical castration, and there is reasonable speculation his death might have been accidental rather than suicide. The Govt did in fact get involved, as his security clearance was removed - to remove the risk of him being blackmailed over his sexuality and sexual activities - again, how times have changed. COLOSSUS was not being used operationally at this time but possibly two machines survived to be used as training aids. Thomas' post is a bit confusing as I am not sure what his point really was, but Turing was not left to die as suggested. NB - thanks for some interesting insights on Admiral King - a 'marmite' person I think?
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  120.  @seanmac1793  no problem, I also amended my comment so Thomas doesn't think bad of me, thank you for avoiding some unneccessary misunderstanding. I totally agree with your summary of King. A man of his time, like Rickover, or Bomber Harris. I am glad he was on our side!
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  121. Another excellent video - thanks to you both!
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  122. Did a Google search but no joy - what's the difference between naval spec and merchant spec please? I assume the latter is cheap and cheerful.... thank you.
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  123.  @davidbrennan660  Sherry?
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  124. Ah more Dr Fred... I'll put the kettle on and make some toast before settling down to enjoy this. EDIT Excellent science gentlemen, thank you. I ended up with a glass of red and the cheese board... it's a hard life. Now to watch the bang bang crash videos you linked to.
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  125.  @lwilton  funnily enough I was going to suggest that both the Battle of the Atlantic and the USN submarine campaign against Japan were the battles that were very important in winning a war, but I don't think they fit Mahan's 'decisive battle' criteria; they do however fit the rest of his thinking, in that the Allies retained enough control of the Atlantic to meet their war aims, while in the Pacific, the Japanese did not. I can also agree that things had moved beyond one decisive battle in both the north Atlantic and the Pacific, in that it took a number of battles to write down German or Japanese forces. To be fair to Mahan, he was thinking and writing in the days before air power and submarines became effective. I wonder what he would have thought if writing in 1946? Just a wee thought anyway.
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  126.  @rdfox76  very worth reading - thank you for some excellent thought
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  127. Dido, not Dido....
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  128. St Nazaire - say it like it is spelt Drach... 24:15 - you nailed it like a boss. I will e-mail you a croissant and a beret! Pausing at halfway to refill my glass, and carry on enjoying. So, no mention of the blancoed webbing or rubber soled boots?
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  129. Now I was today wondering about putting a request n for just such a video - how wonderful!!
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  130. Brilliant video!
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  131. 8:33 in and liked for saying that in our first world luxury, when did you last spend more than 4 hours in any environment when you were NOT able to just touch a dial/knob/button to warm yourself up. Additionally - in these days of perfect food, good to see you struggle with staple foods from days gone by. I can certainly tell you that when you are really hungry, you don't pick at your food for lack of sugars, salts and flavourings. Great video! I love the reaction to Scotch Coffee! Coffee made by someone who had only read about it, not tasted it. Utterly vile.
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  132. If an army marches on its stomach, what does the navy do?
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  133. Lovely to watch and listen too while I varnish and glaze a 1:72 Hurricane... it's what Saturdays are for!
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  134.  @emjackson2289  and you can see it off the A189! I think they also make breathalysers there (possibly.)
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  135. @onenote6619  yes that seems likely. I don't think it was until nuclear subs that there was enough power to electrolyse water to extract oxygen etc so the XXI would have been as limited as most subs of it's era?
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  136. and if you're still commenting, it makes everyone's day better too, I wish you a swift recovery
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  137.  @davidstrother496  me too please.
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  138.  @PlosmanD  really good thoughts; I'd suggest that in the book Compass Rose didn't go down in good order, and went down quickly and unexpectedly in the wee hours, the angle of her list prevented use of the proper lifeboats; the book documents both the problems of lifeboats when she went down, and also that she was torpedoed, thus the lack of the lifeboats was instrumental in the subsequent deaths of most of the crew. I would also suggest that in today's age, we forget how quickly advanced first aid has come; this was set in an era where first aid was pretty primitive compared to what we know now. To me, it portrays the tragedy of war in a semifictitious way; it is shocking, emotional, but as you ask - how much of that was real, and how much of it was dramatised for effect? I would also like to know. Thank you for asking a really good question, I look forward to understanding the books more.
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  139.  @ills6  is there ever really a bad time for it? I hope not 🙂
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  140. Good good! Big fan of the Western Approaches museum, great to see them doing what the bloody Council should have done in the first place. If it's any consolation, Liverpool lost it's world heritage status recently.... there is more to culture than football grounds, bars and restaurants!
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  141. or water that brown and murky...
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  142. Visited the museum just this very week - well worth it, spent over three hours down there soaking up the atmosphere, and standing where people who helped win us the war stood.
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  143. Ed Nash did an episode on them on his YT channel about four weeks ago - it's an amazing story!
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  144.  @Rob-e8w  wow I knew Whitehead Park very well, never saw the torpedo. Cheers for the info!
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  145. C'mon Drach - theatre; theee atter, stress on syllable one 😃What a shame about the sad ending though; too reminiscent of 'Johnnie' Walker of the RN. Also good proof that a bit of micky taking and nicknames are character building. Snowflakes take note!
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  146. Always HMS Compass Rose in my mind.
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  147. I can't answer the first part, but on the second part - yes. Barrel whip is one issue, in that the longer and slimmer a barrel is, the more like a tuning fork it gets, so harmonics become increasingly an issue. Also to keep the projectile accelerating down the longer tube requires more propellant, leading to the breach/barrel needing to be stronger at the closed end, a bigger charge needs to handled, plus higher bore pressures can lead to quicker throat and bore erosion. I'm coming at this from small arms and tank guns, and there's a reason why they pretty much tend to sit within a certain range re calibre or the L number. Guns like the German 7.5cm L70 and 8.8cm L71 were unusual I'd say. Hope that helps :-)
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  148. as Im sticking together an Airfix kit these videos are the perfect accompaniment
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  149. Awful pun but high standard production as always
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  150.  @ronin3381  basically flash hiders to mitigate the effect of muzzle flash on the gunner's eye. You'll see them on infantry weapons such as the Bren gun or the No 5 jLee-Enfield jungle carbine.
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  151. Great video - I play U Boat sims far too much! Can I just say I will always call a hydrophone a hydrophone, and never passive SONAR.
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  152.  @wulfie1199  I would love this too, we are saving up for a trip on her ourselves
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  153.  @bertbaker7067  good question, and maybe, how did it compare to the system on HMS Warrior?
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  154.  @Drachinifel  I use a lot of Vallejo for Airfix type kits, AK interactive is ok too. Mostly airbrush but with decent brushes their airbrush paints work well.
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  155. Rather!
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  156. An excellent video, I am looking forward to the Baltic section.
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  157. Feet up for lunch, cheese and pickle sandwiches, and water towers.
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  158. Rocks don't sink as fast as Mk 14s.
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  159. apologies if I heard/understood wrong - is the museum looking for the model ships painting? I'm a plane modeller but can adapt if that's what they need.
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  160. Hurray! What a shame you couldn't release it on 21 October. I can't wait till ?2033? when the current renovation programme on HMS Victory will be finished :-)
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  161.  @ukaszgrzesik7231  good idea, I second this (maybe with explanations of what 'damage control' parties actually do down there, not just 'do damage control')
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  162. Yery much so Tom; in the 70s there was only one AVRO Lancaster kit I knew of, landing with an engine on fire. I now keep all my kit boxes, but my favourite is still the Vickers Wellington where a crew member walked out onto the wing during flight to put out an engine fire. https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.gforcemodels.co.uk%2Fairfix-172-vickers-wellington-mkiac-641-p.asp&psig=AOvVaw2pMK9x5cQTlqx01nmhBdSg&ust=1628974198705000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCMjFmvfvrvICFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD
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