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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    Today, 10:29
    This might be what Chestertown looked like 200 years ago. I took this during my frosty morning dinghy sail.
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  • flash's Avatar
    Today, 05:45
    flash replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    There is an inevitability about that tale, John, duplicates must lend themselves to captures, or, recreations, or, pirates, or, anything but wreckage...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    Today, 01:48
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Thanks Dave, I've got these on my radar. :thumbsup: for me the difference between ships and planes is that with the planes it's the pilots that had...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    Yesterday, 18:54
    Dobbs replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Has there been any motion on the 3d printing in color for ships like Wings of Glory?
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    Yesterday, 16:57
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    A little manufacturing-side background here: Printing new paper and applying new paint is cheap, new tool-and-die steel for sculpt rework is...
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  • flash's Avatar
    11-01-2024, 05:12
    flash replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    This is the fascinating side of the game to me, John. I have no idea about Sails whatsoever, how many actual models there are & what they represent...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-28-2024, 06:26
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    That was what caught my interest, I've a notion to repaint and possibly re-rig my ships and thought that as I did it I'd rename them as a new ship...
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-26-2024, 08:27
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    The nickel summary on Stretching is "what can these models reasonably pass for, even if it means reworking the stats?" :) Goal was an early start at...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-26-2024, 08:22
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    I found 3 of your stretched threads yesterday, I didn't really understand them but I only gave them a cursory glance before copying, pasting into...
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  • flash's Avatar
    10-26-2024, 06:39
    Sudden gusts are nasty beggars, scared the wotsit out of me when we were knocked onto our beam ends in my mates boat (similar to that in Dobb's pic),...
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 21:28
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    There's a great deal that will never be official from Ares... the closest thin you'll see to it is my "Stretching Sculpts" series of threads once we...
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  • ShadowDragon's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 18:47
    Got caught in a squall sailing a Laser 2 type sailboat. With a sudden gust, the sailboat capsized. We got it upright and to shore, but the...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 18:30
    :drinks: I've had that sinking feeling twice too! The first was on our shakedown cruise after selling everything we owned. The evening was coming...
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  • Dobbs's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 18:17
    Dobbs replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    There's nothing official from Ares about Phoebe class frigates. I'd say our admiral was just giving us more 18 pounder frigates to choose from. Just...
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 16:26
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    When we were first doing initial research before I had my copies of BWAS, there wasn't anything about the Phoebes on Wikipedia to start from. :(
    18 replies | 17741 view(s)
  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 15:12
    Well it's not a happy thought :surrender: As an ex sailor of a small ship I've had 2 occasions where she was sinking and on both of them I was far...
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  • Vagabond's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 15:01
    Vagabond replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    https://www.sailsofglory.org/entry.php?43-HMS-Doris-(-Frigate) This is the Admirals original post, it's in a series that as far as I can tell is...
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  • flash's Avatar
    10-25-2024, 11:14
    flash replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Well that's ideal for a more exotic setting than the 'Ditch'
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  • Diamondback's Avatar
    10-24-2024, 20:41
    Diamondback replied to a thread HMS Doris! in Wardroom
    Pity we're gonna lose this thread. Perseverance is fairly close to an Amazon, so that "slower but better turning" would be an excellent note for a...
    18 replies | 17741 view(s)
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