For the Man who has nearly everything!
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For the Man who has nearly everything!
http://boston.craigslist.org/***/boa/4123570382.html
Price: $20,000.00 Firm
Motion Picture/Museum Quality 20 foot US Navy Destroyer 1:18 scale Model
based on post WW 2 Fletcher Class Destroyer
Length: 20 feet
Width: 3 feet
Height: 6.5 feet
Weight: 1 Ton
Electric: 110 volt charger/12 volt system & Solar powered Deck lights
Engine: 12 volt / 55 pound thrust
Running Lights
Marine Radio
2 anchors [1 fully operational from cockpit]
Forward Stack "Smokes" [via fog machine]
Gun Mounts rotate
Sound effects via Mp3 player and Deck Speaker:
1. General Quarters 2. Ship calls
Solar Power for deck lights. The deck lights operate all night.
Helicopter: UH60 - Nav lights work, Propeller works.
This boat is sea worthy and has an inside cockpit with
1. Foot Pedal Steering
2. Hand operated Throttle Controls
Speed 5.5 knots
Gauges
Power level.
Run light switches.
Spotlight [on the top mast]
Rear view mirrors
Cockpit/Bridge windows open and close.
TRAILER NOT INCLUDED. Tax, Title, Registration
are buyer's responsibility. Buyer must make
all arrangements for pickup and shipping at
Buyer's expense.
SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY.
The ship is featured as cover & story in
Broadside Magazine November 2012 issue
by the USS Constitution - Model Shipwright Guild
The Patriot Ledger published an article and
video of the ship in operation at these links:
Link 1:
http://www.patriotledger.com/photos/x32 ... 1-18-scale
Link 2:
http://www.patriotledger.com/videos/x69 ... -destroyer
Price: $20,000.00 Firm
Motion Picture/Museum Quality 20 foot US Navy Destroyer 1:18 scale Model
based on post WW 2 Fletcher Class Destroyer
Length: 20 feet
Width: 3 feet
Height: 6.5 feet
Weight: 1 Ton
Electric: 110 volt charger/12 volt system & Solar powered Deck lights
Engine: 12 volt / 55 pound thrust
Running Lights
Marine Radio
2 anchors [1 fully operational from cockpit]
Forward Stack "Smokes" [via fog machine]
Gun Mounts rotate
Sound effects via Mp3 player and Deck Speaker:
1. General Quarters 2. Ship calls
Solar Power for deck lights. The deck lights operate all night.
Helicopter: UH60 - Nav lights work, Propeller works.
This boat is sea worthy and has an inside cockpit with
1. Foot Pedal Steering
2. Hand operated Throttle Controls
Speed 5.5 knots
Gauges
Power level.
Run light switches.
Spotlight [on the top mast]
Rear view mirrors
Cockpit/Bridge windows open and close.
TRAILER NOT INCLUDED. Tax, Title, Registration
are buyer's responsibility. Buyer must make
all arrangements for pickup and shipping at
Buyer's expense.
SERIOUS INQUIRIES ONLY.
The ship is featured as cover & story in
Broadside Magazine November 2012 issue
by the USS Constitution - Model Shipwright Guild
The Patriot Ledger published an article and
video of the ship in operation at these links:
Link 1:
http://www.patriotledger.com/photos/x32 ... 1-18-scale
Link 2:
http://www.patriotledger.com/videos/x69 ... -destroyer
Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
I don't think that would fit in my bath tub.
If you're gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough-
Isiah 55:8&9
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Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
Pitchy?
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Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
yes, but it would be a hoot to throw depth charges by your buddy's boat dock.Rusty wrote:I don't think that would fit in my bath tub.
Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
It's a great idea, but it's lost a bit in the execution. I wonder why he did not stick to the Fletcher class outline and armament? If he needed more beam, a Flower class corvette or maybe a Butler class destroyer escort would have worked fine.
It just seems like a lot of work and expense to create a very detailed and intricate model that isn't really a model of anything.
It just seems like a lot of work and expense to create a very detailed and intricate model that isn't really a model of anything.
Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
Still, pretty cool. I wonder what they would say at the dock when I roll up with that at my next Bass tournement?
"When you should shoot, shoot. Don't talk."- Tuco
Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
Nice, but I was thinking of something more in the Iowa/Missouri class
Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
Maybe a PT Boat for that would suffice? I always thought it'd be fun to have a 1:1 (or more like 1:2 or 1:3) scale PT, fully operational (well, I'll allow maybe empty tubes!) - ever since I and others of our Little League team got a tour of the Inland Sea in Japan at full tilt courtesy the local USN's Admiral's personal PT, complete with polished teak deck--which we had to lay flat on @ full throttle--and brass everywhere.J Buck wrote:Still, pretty cool. I wonder what they would say at the dock when I roll up with that at my next Bass tournement?
Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
Does it have a live well?
Mike
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Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
"You'd better get an EARLY start @ on 5.5 knots!!!"J Buck wrote:Still, pretty cool. I wonder what they would say at the dock when I roll up with that at my next Bass tournement?
Yep.Model 52B wrote:It's a great idea, but it's lost a bit in the execution. I wonder why he did not stick to the Fletcher class outline and armament?
It just seems like a lot of work and expense to create a very detailed and intricate model that isn't really a model of anything.
I served on a Sherman class destroyer that was converted to a DDG; would love to one of those converted to a private yacht. Lots of room with all (well, ok, SOME) of the armament removed. I'm thinkin' "pirate hunter"!
Griff,
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There is a fine line between hobby & obsession!
AND... I'm over it!!
No I ain't ready, but let's do it anyway!
Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
I was thinking about this some over lunch. If you stay with the 1:18 scale then a Mk 12 5"/38 naval gun will have a .277" bore diameter, 10.5" long. The .270 Win isn't real efficient in a 10" bore but you'd get a great muzzle flash.
Alternatively, you could go down slightly to a 6.5 TCU (.264") or up slightly in bore to a 7mm TCU (.284"). Both of those do fine in a 10" barrel and the muzzle flash would still be realistic with a suitably slow burning powder.
Plus, you could get the round to function through a short recoil operated or roller locked (to avoid an unsightly gas tube or operating rod), box fed, semi-auto pistol that could be mounted in a fully trainable scale copy of a 5" turret and fired with a solenoid.
Or I suppose you could design lever action that would fit in a scale turret - sort of a .223 caliber BLR with a large box magazine, re-chambered and re-bored for 7mm TCU - that could be servo operated. I'm not sure on that though as I ran out of napkins to draw the blueprints on.
Alternatively, you could go down slightly to a 6.5 TCU (.264") or up slightly in bore to a 7mm TCU (.284"). Both of those do fine in a 10" barrel and the muzzle flash would still be realistic with a suitably slow burning powder.
Plus, you could get the round to function through a short recoil operated or roller locked (to avoid an unsightly gas tube or operating rod), box fed, semi-auto pistol that could be mounted in a fully trainable scale copy of a 5" turret and fired with a solenoid.
Or I suppose you could design lever action that would fit in a scale turret - sort of a .223 caliber BLR with a large box magazine, re-chambered and re-bored for 7mm TCU - that could be servo operated. I'm not sure on that though as I ran out of napkins to draw the blueprints on.
Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
I'll bet those depth charges could harvest a lot of fish.
If you're gonna be stupid ya gotta be tough-
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
Isiah 55:8&9
It's easier to fool people than it is to convince them they have been fooled.
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Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
All you have to do is get a Letter of Marque and you'd be set. Theoretically the .gov can still issue them, but they won't.Griff wrote:"You'd better get an EARLY start @ on 5.5 knots!!!"J Buck wrote:Still, pretty cool. I wonder what they would say at the dock when I roll up with that at my next Bass tournement?Yep.Model 52B wrote:It's a great idea, but it's lost a bit in the execution. I wonder why he did not stick to the Fletcher class outline and armament?
It just seems like a lot of work and expense to create a very detailed and intricate model that isn't really a model of anything.
I served on a Sherman class destroyer that was converted to a DDG; would love to one of those converted to a private yacht. Lots of room with all (well, ok, SOME) of the armament removed. I'm thinkin' "pirate hunter"!
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Re: For the Man who has nearly everything!
Cool, but impractical as it don't have no power.
I say a small block Chevy with a mild cam and light compression for longevity and quietness.
A quad fifty on the front, operated electrically from the bridge and a GE mini gun on the back.
You would have the whole lake to yourself. An occasional burst from the mini gun would keep the yuppie sailers away.----6
I say a small block Chevy with a mild cam and light compression for longevity and quietness.
A quad fifty on the front, operated electrically from the bridge and a GE mini gun on the back.
You would have the whole lake to yourself. An occasional burst from the mini gun would keep the yuppie sailers away.----6