Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

by **Scooter** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:23 pm

I'm speechless.....

The level of detail is amazing.
http://www.bismarck-class.dk/shipmodels/german_models/admiralgrafspeeterra.html

by **madjack** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:30 pm

...now that is just too damn cool...I wonder how many cases of whiplash he has caused by folks doing double and triple takes...he needs guns that actually fire to go along with the Wagner...man what a site that must make...
madjack

by **Steve_Cox** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 7:33 pm

Where's Homeland Security when you need them?

by **mikeschn** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:17 pm

That is awsome...

We can spin off yet another diversion for the folks here...

Mike...

by **IndyTom** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:21 pm

I have seen one like that sitting on a trailer in a hotel parking lot in St. Louis. It was a model of one of the ships that served in the Pacific during WWII and inside the hotel there was a reunion of all the guy that served aboard who were still living.

Even up close, the detail these guys go to is absolutely amazing. :shock:

It is such a shame that we are losing that generation so rapidly now.

If you are here and you are part of The Greatest Generation, Thank You, from one of the young'uns. :applause:

Tom

by **IndyCubby** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:32 pm

Wow!

I like how the website says that the builder can cruise the lakes of Maine listening to Wagner. That made me laugh. :lol:

Very cool find, Scooter.

by **apratt** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 8:41 pm

That is cool!!! It would be fun building something like that. I wish my dad was alive to see that. He would have loved that. :thumbsup:

by **Jst83** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:12 pm

How impressive, It's even got little people on the ship :thumbsup:

by **prohandyman** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:42 pm

I ran across an entire club a few years back that do nothing but scale warships, and yes, some had working guns.

by **doug hodder** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:49 pm

Scooter...that is way cool!!!! I've got a guy that lives just down the road from me and he has built the largest PT boat since 1945 at least that is what he tells me...a 1/4 scale boat powered by a 550 Kawasaki jet ski engine...He's redoing it this spring...sorry no pics of it, I was to be his chase boat last time he went out, but ended up working instead. Mostly a parade thing and for static displays at military functions...Doug

by **s4son** » Tue Feb 20, 2007 9:57 pm

That is awesome! Makes me want to build some 1/20 scale British torpedo bombers.

Scott F.

by **Ira** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 8:05 am

Well, we finally found someone nuttier than a TD builder.

Can you imagine the looks this guy got when he was talking about THIS build to everyone?

by **Turtle49** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 9:24 am

Thats very cool. I found these a couple of months ago:

1/5 Sherman Tank
Sherman Tank Toy Project

There are more...but how much fun would that be.

by **neal b** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:50 pm

that is great that guy has some awesome skills great build :thumbsup:

neal

by **angib** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:07 am

In the days before simulators were affordable outside aviation, a British ships' officer training school used similar sized models of real merchant ships - the supertanker was a little bigger than this. The trainees had to look through slits where the bridge windows would be and they were given realistic amounts of engine power - so absolutely tiny, like 100W (1/8hp), to give a realistic time to stop the models in reverse.

I wish I could find a photo as they left the accommodation blocks open at the top to get in and out, and there is a lovely photo of one of these training ships with an umbrella over the trainee!

Andrew

Teardrops n Tiny Travel Trailers

check this battleship!!

check this battleship!!

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