GSR 800

My plan is to build Hood, if she had survived the Bismarck engagement. 05:39 am Hood begins the turn to bring her full broadside to bear on Bismarck, As she does, she fires from her A and B turrets at Bismarck. The first she'll lands 60 feet from Bismarck, the second straddles her, But the third was the one that mattered. The shell hit and skidded across the deck. That's when it hit something hard. the Ceaser*barbette. The shell exploded causing the Ceaser turret to jumped of its roller while the Dora turrets electrics were severed, and unusable. Admiral Luztens realises he is in big trouble. Another shell from prince of Wales has crippled the fire control. Luztens orders the ships to turn back. Bismarck makes smoke, and retreats to towards Norway, however Prinz eugen, damaged by Hoods second salvo lags behind And is sunk by the heavy cruisers Norfolk and Suffolk. Hood and Pow* gave chase to Bismarck, but lost her in a snowstorm The two ships return to Scapa flow Hood has taken some serious damage, mainly to her deck, when an 8 inch HE* shell hit her deck,causing a large fire as the 4inch shells and UP*rockets began exploding in their ready to use lockers. Hood is in bad shape anyway, as she hasn't received a major overhaul in over ten years. The admiralty decide to finally give her a "Large Repair" this plan had been conceived in 1938, but had been delayed by WW2. But resources were in short supply,so the plan was to repair the essentials( deck armour, boilers, armour reconfiguration, extra AA, and getting rid of the Up launchers. So that is the general plan for my Hood, along with the story of how she survived. It will require some scratchbuilding, but it will be a fun project overall Something like this, but without the massive"castle style bridge" *Bismarcks turrets were given the Names Anton, Bruno,Ceaser and Dora *Prince of Wales *the UP( unrotated projectile) launcher was an experimental Anti aircraft system used on Hood They would fire rockets, which would then put out little parachutes, creating a minefield in the air, or at least that was the plan, they had a rather bad habit of drifting back to the ship, and exploding. Needless to say they were not very successful, and were abandoned in favour of the 40mm bofors. *high explosive

Nostalgia overload...

Mmmm...nostalgic..

Ah yes, sounds like a rather severe case of horrificallyinnacuratelocomotiveitus Quite incurable, I'm afraid.. But they look more like the Hunslets, than whatever the hell kind of CIE loco they were trying to simulate..

Very true. I'd rather have a accurate model of something later, than some random British Hornby yoke in blackntan sooner.. Cough"Hymek"cough..

I came to see a 500(4-6-0) I stayed for the barrier and ammonia wagon awesomeness.. Love the weathering

Awesome..

Dreadnought gets her hull painted..

WOW! She looks absolutely fantastic, the lining looks spot on:-bd

I don't know about cursed... ..Looks Pretty harmless to me..

This is a picture of Yamatos explosion Some say the explosion was seen from Okinawa...

Beautiful... Stunning stuff I want one I'll be bankrupt..

Any news on her JB? Have you got her back yet? I have a feeling Kevin would be asking for a video.. I might have a vid of my 800(not great though) if anyone's interested..

The Go to place, for Hood fans.. http://www.hmshood.com/

For Mayo to win another all Ireland, all the members of the cursed 51 team have to be dead... At the moment, there's two left..

Ah, now you have Project 4 started, you should probably spill the beans about Project 3, I'm sure ye would feel better after telling us...

I'm sorry lads,I know this I kind of old but this just cracks me up I laughed so much I broke ventus!

What a strangely rural Irish approach to things, I can see it now.. "You sawed off the top of a lamppost? Isn't that Dangerous!?" Ah, shure it'll be Grand!" Admiral Horace Hood, was command of one of the three battlecruisers that blew up at Jutland, which was also the day that Hoods keel was laid! And it was his widow who christened Hood The irony...

This is the official last photo of Hood, taken from POW as they sailed to intercept Bismarck However I have done a lot of searching for other photos of Hood, to no avail, until I found this.. This photo, if genuine, seems to show Hood literally a second before she exploded. As you can see,this shows hood as she has brought her broadside to bear, and hasjust fired full salvo, The jet of flame has erupted from her deck. What do ye think?

BBC four, right now, Documentry on Hood!

Ah well,they played well...damn curse..

Broithe, if you can find it, I would love to see that pic My own little Cutty sark..which took a bit of damage a while back.. Plus a few unfinished projects, Put on hold, in anticipation for Hood.. The Iron Duke and KGV The Iron duke kit looks like something from the sixties, clunky and with plenty of flash to take off...

Holy Moly! Yamato is certainly a big beast! Victory looks fantastic, the rigging must have taken months! Love the torpedo boat, A lot of people use stretched sprue for rigging, which is an excellent idea. I don't think I will have rigging on Hood, I don't have the patience for that sort of thing:)

Thanks! I built Belfast when I was younger too...I think she is at the bottom of loch Ennel now! I looked up Chris Flodberg...Mind blowing stuff, the seascapes are incredible! Click the link to see! https://www.facebook.com/flodbergshipmodels/