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Hamilton ship day. February 3rd 2002 Two NZBG members, Art and Stu traveled to Hamilton on Sunday February 3rd 2002 to meet up with some scale model boaters. Lunch was kindly supplied be Raynor Johnston (thanks Raynor). |
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The USS Artemis poses along side a USS Missouri which is also in 1/96 scale. |
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The encouraging thing here is that the main guns are at approximately deck height of the Artemis. Hopefully any shots from a battleship will penetrate the hull, not mess up the Superstructure. |
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All the fittings are by John Haynes and it was built up on a Scale shipyard hull. |
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The hull is nice and fare. You can see some of the 28kg (62lbs) of lead needed for ballast on the grass near the stern. |
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It was a very hot day and the dark decks didn't take too kindly to the sun and began warping |
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Running at about half speed. |
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Plenty of room in there. The 4 drive motors are air conditioning fan motors from a Honda Civic |
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A 1/100 scale HMS Warspite being lifted into the water. |
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Stu talked to one of the builders of the ship. He contemplated building it as a battling ship when construction was started some years ago. We wish we could have got in contact with him then. A fully armed Queen Elizabeth class ship can be armed with 8 x 1/4" mains in 4 twin turrets and 14 bbs as secondaries. |
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The Warspite on the water shwing the size difference with the Gearing. |
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HMS Belfast in 1/100 scale |
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An LCT (landing craft tank - scale unknown) hits the beach, and throws its ramp down |
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The onboard R/C tank then rolls off. |
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Dick Hopper's HMNZS Taranaki graces the water for the first time. |
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A Gato? class sub gets some shore work done on it. |
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