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The attached images are quite pertinent. There is an amnesty in place until 31 Oct. It is legal IAW Section 106(1) to destroy your firearm so long as you 'with reasonable dispatch' report the destruction to a peace officer, firearms officer, or chief firearms officer. I will not speak for...

Yeah....it's a little on the outside of what reality is. I mean, it's only been 55 years since we had a carrier....and....where would we sent our sailors to relearn how to do that? It's actually been over 60 years since we had a carrier borne fighter capability.

And some better Slo-Mo video:

OK, so today I tested out the VLS launch system for the R/C version. Looking promising.

Nope...I've given it some thought and am reaching across to the RCN Command Chief's EA to set up a meeting at 3 Mess with the RCN Comd Chief...I think he's gonna like what he gets from the meeting.... :-) Everyone always gives nice things to the Officers...maybe a Chief should get something...

Dude, printing an extra set of VLS modules is easy, there's space on the missile deck to glue' em on....and adding extra NSM's is simple too. I could melt them out over the weekend and glue it all together on Monday....don't tempt me with a good time! (LOL!)

Ooooohhhhh....I just found out about the CRCN Town-Hall here in Halifax next week. Should I show up and give it to him? :-)

Hoisted a flag (ok, it's glued in place...whatever....) and am calling V2 complete. Here we have DDH 241 - HMCS MacKenzie The next one will be the first of the R/C version - we'll see how it goes. I'm quite pleased with how this is looking. I understand that this is closer to the 'actual'...

I'm gonna hafta drop in sometime and see if I can land a Harvard on the Bonnie... LOL

The key with getting 'new' helicopters will be to get them used from somewhere else than our southern neighbour. Y'know, like maybe buying the airframes that the US left behind in Afghanistan? Then we do an 'upgrade' to them? Or, maybe buy used SH-60s from Australia and refurbish them...

There are anecdotes about Flower Class Corvettes proceeding from the building slips in Canada to the UK with their first convoy, and only receiving their main armament once they arrived in the UK. Light weapons - sure, but no deck gun....

Honestly....I'm hoping to take work from whomever the 'pro' modeller is that's building ship models for the Navy....we'll see how that works out.

Here's how V2 is looking as of this afternoon. Tomorrow will see decks painted dark gray I hope.