The Bat Boat

[kpnuts]

Hi all this is my first post on here tc2324 suggested I join as he thought this would go down well here.
It's actually revells 1/72 flower class corvette, I started building it as a corvette and was going to rc it but as often happens I got bored (I very rarely build as it should be) I had the airfix working jet engine which I found very dissaponting detail wise so I came up with this.
I hope you like it, I thought when finished it looked quite boring but it seems to have gone down well where I've posted it.

[NARSES2]

Wellcome aboard, nice work 

[Philbouq]

Welcome!

do you have pics of the whole ship? from the side.
I really like Bat projects but I cannot imagine what this one looks like.

Some pics of the WIP also?

[Rheged]

I was imagining a slightly different item here..........

Kipling wrote about racing "bat boats" (a sort of sail hydrofoil)  in a short article associated with his short story "With the Night Mail"

http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/rg_withnight1.htm

Come to think of it, his postal airships could be considered early whiffery.

[TheChronicOne]

Too cool for school, bro!!  Not to shab, not to shabby at all!  Welcome, BTW. 

[kpnuts]

Hi thanks for the replys I have pics of the whole build should anyone be interested

[McColm]

Looks very interesting

[TheChronicOne]

Hi thanks for the replys I have pics of the whole build should anyone be interested

Knock yourself out, bud! I'm sure a lot of us here would love to see the process. You might even consider going to the "blogs" section here and starting your own model building blog! That's what I do.. aside from group builds, I put everything in my blog. I also have a separate thread right here in the "picture posts finished builds (aircraft)" section for just pictures of the actual finished models (and conversation).

[Weaver]

I love it!

That's just the sort of thing the 1960s show would come up with: the designers would specify a fast-looking luxury yacht, the producers would nix it on budget grounds, then the production department would find something slow, unglamourous but cheap and dress it up to look the part.

[Philbouq]

Hi thanks for the replys I have pics of the whole build should anyone be interested

Of course, we're!!

Knock yourself out, bud! I'm sure a lot of us here would love to see the process.

indeed!

[TheChronicOne]

Hi Phil, looks like a "welcome" is order for you as well (from me, anyway). Great to have you! 

[Philbouq]

Hi Phil, looks like a "welcome" is order for you as well (from me, anyway). Great to have you! 

Ooops...
I plead guilty!

I spend too much time in the net and not enough at my desk... 

[TheChronicOne]

Hi Phil, looks like a "welcome" is order for you as well (from me, anyway). Great to have you! 

Ooops...
I plead guilty!

I spend too much time in the net and not enough at my desk... 

I know the feeling all too well. . .