This is where I'll open up the general discussion area much nearer the date. However so you are aware the GB will run from 1/3/2022 through to 31/5/22.

Chris

Open for your general chit-chat gentlemen

Hmmm...."one shouldn't forget Pirate Radio"
The Revell Offshore Oil Rig as a base for a radio, or a converted AWACS plane circling in international waters...

Or even a drastically re-purposed (and ancient...) FROG lightship! 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 07, 2022, 08:39:12 AM
Or even a drastically re-purposed (and ancient...) FROG lightship! 

Did they ever make a kit of the Glomar Explorer?  Because the derrick would make an excellent structure for aerials

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 07, 2022, 08:39:12 AM
Or even a drastically re-purposed (and ancient...) FROG lightship! 

The Frog one has been redone by everybody in the east,and even by Revell. Should not be difficult to find.
And for yankees, there is (was) the Nantucket lightship,by Pyro/Kleeware/Lifelike etc

Flower Class Corvette, or what the heck maybe a destroyer. 

In December 1964 Dutch Marines raided the REM Island pirate TV/radio station Radio and TV Noordzee,
which was more than a bit of overkill.




https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REM_Island

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 07, 2022, 08:39:12 AM
Or even a drastically re-purposed (and ancient...) FROG lightship! 

What model are you speaking about?

Quote from: ysi_maniac on February 07, 2022, 09:19:01 PM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on February 07, 2022, 08:39:12 AM
Or even a drastically re-purposed (and ancient...) FROG lightship! 

What model are you speaking about?

https://www.scalemates.com/kits/frog-345p-trinity-house-lightship--162753#

Or one of the Trumpeter Liberty ships for just about any "piratical" role (post-WW2?):

SS Jeremiah O'Brien ( 1/700 / 1/350 )

SS John W Brown ( 1/700 )

Quote from: loupgarou on February 07, 2022, 08:33:19 AM
Hmmm...."one shouldn't forget Pirate Radio"
The Revell Offshore Oil Rig as a base for a radio, or a converted AWACS plane circling in international waters...

I would hope that it was circling OVER international waters, otherwise it's circle will soon become a spiral, and it might thereafter come to qualify as Pirate Sonar...

The problem there would be landing for fuel/maintenance/crew swap etc... Any airfield big enough to take a 707 is going to be under the control of some or other government.

An airship might work: it could be designed in such a way as to make self-maintenance possible (internal access to the engines, for example), and it could be refuelled/supplied/re-crewed by a helicopter hovering above it and lowering cargo/people/fuel lines in a similar manner to VERTREPing a ship. As long as nobody saw the resupply operation actually going on, the helo could credibly conceal it's true purpose when landing back ashore. Alternatively, the airship could rendezvous with a surface ship, or even combine the three: i.e. the ship leaves port with a helo on board for 'research' or some such esxcuse, then launches it on a re-supply mission to the airship once it's over the horizon.

The US Navy re-fuelled their airships in flight by dropping a hose from the airship to the deck of a tender and pumping the fuel UP to the airship. That would seem to be still possible today I reckon.

ill throw one of the staples of cyberpunk fiction into this mix

The Panzerboy   usually smugglers who run borders initially, they used fast jets, stealthy load carriers, but as the borders got tougher they changed to the aforementioned Panzers, either hovercraft or ground effect vehicles  some are heavily armed, others went for stealth and armour.
The GMC banshee from Shadowrun is an example https://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en-GB&gbv=2&biw=1434&bih=792&tbm=isch&oq=&aqs=&q=gmz+banshee+shadowrun

Is there room for Astronaut Mark Watney, Space Pirate? 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhzLRS-Yzlk

I seem to recall reading in one of Nicolas Freeling's Van der Valk books.........probably "Guns before Butter"  ..........a reference to butter pirates; smugglers using fast cars (suitably reinforced) to move contraband butter between Belgium and Holland; or maybe it was the other way about.

Then, of course we have "NARCOSUBS"  and  Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa.