French Target (Golo Transport)

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  1. rcengr

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  2. NickMyers

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    RE: French Target
    Do want!
    Mark, is your mental dial permanently stuck on 'Awesome' ?
     
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    RE: French Target Oooh, that looks great!
     
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    RE: French Target Wow!
     
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  5. Kun2112

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    RE: French Target
    As usual, amazing work. I really am going to have to pick up one of your kits some day. That looks laser cut, so is this one of those kits??? ;)
     
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    RE: French Target Is that the Golo?
    Awesome!
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  7. buttsakauf

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    RE: French Target Class? Specs? Looks like 2 shafts, 1 rudder, 24" long or so. Way cool.
    Das Butts
     
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  8. absolutek

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    RE: French Target Very nice! Are you going to be selling them?
     
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  9. CURT

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    RE: French Target As Lord Darth Vadar would say.....'Impressive'
     
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  10. rcengr

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    RE: French Target
    The ship is the French transport "Golo". I'm putting together kits for RichelieuBB to take to nationals as convoy ships, so he has dibs on the first run. This the first prototype, I need to make a few changes and run another prototype before they will be ready.
    Specifications:
    · Launched 1933
    · 2152 tons standard
    · 1300 tons cargo
    · 294'6" x 44'6" x 15'9" OA
    · Two shafts, 1850 BHP diesels
    · 12.5 knots
    · Two 75 mm
    · Two 37 mm AA
     
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  11. NASAAN101

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    RE: French Target Mark.
    She's tiny!!! I've never heard of her!!
    Nikki
     
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  12. rcengr

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    RE: French Target
    Ready for float test
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    RE: French Target question, do you make these kits to sell?
     
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  14. mike5334

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    RE: French Target That is a really good looking ship. Nice job Mark.
     
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  15. CURT

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    RE: French Target Very nice Target ship.
     
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  16. rcengr

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    RE: French Target
    Mod Note: Mark, what do you keeps doing that keeps posting a giant textarea field and covering the page with it?
    I have no idea. I post as normal, then try to pull up the thread and get a blank screen. It's the same whether I use my PC or my Android. Maybe there is some configuration problem with the thread and it just needs to be deleted and started over.
     
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  17. rcengr

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    RE: French Target
    Had a little convoy action today. Golo Mk1 and Mk2 on the water for the first time, with the Roanoke on escort duty.
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  18. CURT

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    RE: French Target They look great!
     
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  19. rcengr

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    RE: French Target
    The Golo doesn't quite turn in its own length, but it pretty maneuverable nonetheless. In this video it was still a little fast, about 32 sec/100 ft, so it has slightly more power than it should.
     
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  20. tgdavies

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    RE: French Target I'm scratch building a Golo (not one of these kits -- are they available?)

    What's a good motor choice for something this size? I'd like to go brushless...
     
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