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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.

I went to Lisgar back in the day....I was able to walk from school, through the main floor at NDHQ to the Rideau Center to catch a bus.

Deep thought.....is that what Trump's end-game actually is? Getting Europe to take responsibility for Europe? Convincing them to put 10K troops on the ground to 'deter' the US would actually act as a deterrent to anyone else, and would start making Europe pay their own way in terms of...

I head to bed after the wife does, so I usually pop on an episode of MASH then when that's over, switch to the fireplace channel at low volume for 'ambiance' for the night. At some point it switches over from a fireplace to waterfront/waves, and I imagine that as I get older, the 'running...

Yamato turret armour - shot with a 16" projectile. It's 26 inches of hardened (Face hardened I think?) Steel. Theoretically, a modern RPG-7 Tandem Charge warhead could penetrate this. Javelin (open source) says it could penetrate as well. AT-4 could not, nor can the M-72.