That's Bob Pottle's work. The interiors are well organized and neat and hold up very well for a loooog time.
Hi Curt, Thanks for posting the photos of my models. The first two are of SNS Espana, built in 1998, sold in 2001 or 2002 and never used again. I offered to buy it back several times but the new owner wouldn't sell it unless I bought his entire collection of more than a dozen hulls. The next photo has HMS Terror in the foreground and was taken at the 1997 model show at the Halifax Forum. The WWI model of Terror was built in 1996 and was my second for R/C naval combat. (The first was a WWII HMS Terror built in 1984.) In the photo you can see the stern of Ralph Coles' mock-up for HMS Erin. Also on the table but not in the photo was a mock-up of HMS Agincourt. Both projects were scrapped due to lack of interest in the hulls. Just behind Terror to the left is the hull for my HMS Courageous, completed in July 1997. She was sold around 2003 and is now in the U.S. Washington Treaty Combat fleet. Behind the Courageous hull is the hull plug for the British Kent Class and Spanish Canarias Class heavy cruisers. The hull mold was completed in 1998 and produced a couple of Kent Class cruisers and SNS Canarias for the NABS fleet. The Canarias remains in action in the U.S. and was great fun to battle with. The mold was sold to Tugboat and Strike Models bought it from him last year. The second photo of HMS Terror is from 1996 - 1997 before all the details were shot off, mostly by your Bismarck! Note the extensive use of plexi-glass armour drilled to lighten it. I was surprised by how easily it shattered and it was replaced with 2mm thick styrene for the first Cannats competition in 1998, when it was a back-up model for the new SNS Espana. The only photo of HMS Gorgon shows her at a Maritime Museum of the Atlantic model show in front of Hood, with Warspite's bow to the right. Judging from the Hood's incomplete superstructure and missing 6" gun battery the photo dates from 2003. Built in 2000 Warspite was my most successful combat model and was used at the 2003 IRCWCC NATS. She teamed up with Marty Hayes' earlier version of Warspite at a few Cannats, when they were usually the only Allied ships to remain afloat! Warspite will be replaced anohter QE in 2011. In a few photos you've captured images related to most of the R/C naval combat models I've built since 1996. In order of completion: HMS Terror, HMS Courageous, SNS Espana, SNS Canarias, HMS Gorgon, HMS Warspite and HMS Hood. Those were followed by HMS Minotaur, HMCS Prince Robert and IJN I-400. Nine of the ten models were sold, though I bought Gorgon and Terror back, refitting Gorgon and eventually scrapping Terror. Gorgon and Minotaur are my only battle ready models though others are under construction. Thanks again Curt! Bob
NP Bob. Brings back great memories of the early days of Nabs. They were fun times! I will keep digging around. I'm sure I saw a couple of pics of the I-400 underwater just barely an inch off the Grove bottom. Does your Gorgon still have the interiors ? simm37 is looking for interior views of the layout of the Gorgon. I thought I had a pic of that but checking my vast amount of photos I couldn't find it. If you have any send them to simm37 or post them here. I found pics of Roberts and Tom Cromwell has his Erebereus not sure how you spell it but it's the one that looks like Terror but with a rudder at the bow.
Curt, I know photos of the interior layout of Gorgon are needed but haven't been able to post a new set because our computer has gone wonky and the Kodak Easy Share program no longer works. We're abut to buy a Mac and I don't know if our camera is compatible with Mac software. I'll provide a verbal description of the layout instead. If I remember correctly Scott Ellis scanned and posted about a dozen photos of Gorgon I'd shot at different stages of construction and his website was linked to NABS'. The photos clearly showed the equipment layout. When he suddenly took down his R/C combat website the link was lost and I haven't been able to find the original photos. After looking at the photos you posted I realized Iwas wrong about the third one. That isn't the Kent/Canarias Class hull plug in the background behind HMS Terror, it's the Hood plug. That confirms the 1997 date because it was that fall that the Hood mold was made. Bob
Was it Hood or was that Courageous? I think it was Courageous because that was the next one you were working on after Terror. I think I got more pics of it from other angles on the table the full hull. I'll dig them up and post them here for you.
Curt, The cut-out grey hull behind HMS Terror is the Courageous. The ram bow is distinctive. The orange plug behind it is Hood's. I made only 2 plugs with that material, the other being for Kent and Canarias class heavy cruisers. When I looked at the photo more carefully I realized the plug is Hood's due to the bulge which is much larger and completely different in shape from the heavy cruisers'. Bob
Your right. I got a better look at the pic and I could see the Hood and the Courageous. Boy it was that long ago?
