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03-02-2016, 16:51
Dr.Maturin

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What is the significance of your post page Avatar?

Having at long last put up an Avatar on my post page got me to wondering why other members chose thiers.
My reason is that I'm simply showing off my modeling skills. It is a shot of a Nile Gun Boat that I scratch built for a demo game at Reading some 35 years ago. Sudan campaign 1898 in 15mm. Having placed it I was disappointed that the detail could not be seen.
If however you would like to see more then go to my Album " Nile Gun Boat" for more photos. The model was built using a sketch that I found in a library book and I have never been able to find any other reference to her. 'Her' being HMS Sultan,(HMGB Sultan possibly/) her hull was made in 11 sections so she could be dis-assembled and transported overland. She carried 2 x 12 pdrs and 2 maxims. I never had to use the funnel (sticking out of the water) as she was never sunk while under my command.

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03-02-2016, 17:09
surfimp

I just like schooners. A lot.
03-02-2016, 18:25
Hjl

Playmobile redcoats on a historical war gaming forum. Could there be a better choice?! I demonstrates both my love of imperial history and being childish :drinks:
03-02-2016, 19:07
Devsdoc

My first love 16th & 17th century Surgery
Be safe
Rory
03-02-2016, 20:00
Old Salt

Avatar is Sir Thomas Hardy. Served in Royal Navy 1790-1839 Rank Vice Admiral. Commanded HMS Victory at Trafalgar.
03-02-2016, 21:44
Nightmoss

It should be pretty evident. A kitbash of Santisima Trinidad. :happy:
03-02-2016, 22:18
TexaS

It's a picture of myself in a relevant outfit.
03-02-2016, 22:59
Hyperfocal

Boys with toys
03-03-2016, 01:29
David Manley

Type 45 destroyer HMS Daring, the lead ship of the first major RN class that has go out with a load of my "stuff" in it

Thinks - i really ought to update it :happy:
03-03-2016, 03:46
Torrence

Sir Sidney Smith (1764 – 1840), Royal Navy officer and later Admiral. Famous for his great victories in the Mediterranean (and for being a showoff).
03-03-2016, 04:10
Bligh

Captain Bligh, for the reason that I think he got an unjustified bad press.
Rob.
03-03-2016, 06:17
Comte de Brueys

François-Paul Brueys d’Aigalliers, French admiral and first pyrotechnician of revolutionary France.
03-03-2016, 08:29
Dobbs

Our 1966 Columbia 31 named Grace. Sailing and fixing sailboats is what my wife and I do most of the time. I stuff gaming in the cracks. Right now, 12 of my SoG fleet has spent the last four months sailing to the Florida Keys and back aboard Grace. We spend the days sailing our big boat and the occasional evening pretending to sail little boats (and blowing each other up).
03-04-2016, 01:14
Naharaht

My avatar shows a picture of a naval officer of the period in the appropriate uniform for my rank, which is why I change it when I receive a promotion.
03-04-2016, 02:56
Tordenskjold

His real name Peter Jansen Wessel and was a sea hero in the Danish-Norwegian fleet . Born in Norway, Tronhjem, 1690. 15 years old he was ship´s boy on the triangle route Guinea, West Indies and Denmark. He was knighted "Tordenskjold" (Thunder Shield or Thunderbolt) in 1716 and same year he won a sensational victory at Dynekilen.
Tordenskjold was killed in a duel with sword in 1720 in Germany :swordright::swordleft:
03-04-2016, 12:55
7eat51

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The U.S.S. Constitution is one of my favorite ships, if not the favorite. I admire Isaac Hull, one of her captains.

These two other avatars that I use on the Aerodrome, BGG, and elsewhere are of Ripacandida and the crest of her flag, my family's hometown in southern Italy:

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03-04-2016, 16:58
Herkybird

I like Redoutable, and, for that matter, most 74's! :minis:
03-08-2016, 01:44
Union Jack

For me Collingwood is close to home, my heart and IMHO the true hero of Trafalgar.
03-08-2016, 01:58
Herkybird

Yes, he was, there is a little memorial garden in Morpeth I visited last Saturday!
03-08-2016, 11:04
Capn Duff

I wanted a Trafalgar Captain, Capn Duff was the first I came across with a pic.
03-11-2016, 00:45
Union Jack

Now that escaped me. Send me the lat and long and I'll head over when fairer weather. Or should I say when I'm out from under it. The weather that is.

Neil

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Originally Posted by Herkybird

Yes, he was, there is a little memorial garden in Morpeth I visited last Saturday!
03-11-2016, 02:45
Herkybird

Hi Neil, its near the Oldgate bridge along the river Wansbeck just outside Morpeth.

Not too much to it really, just a few plaques giving info on him and some (alleged) oaks he planted on his few visits to his home in Morpeth.
03-13-2016, 16:13
csadn

The skull tells you how you'll end up if you cross me.

The musket and saber tells you how it will happen.

The surround tells you who'll dispose of the evidence. >:)
03-13-2016, 16:31
Bligh

Very Piratical Chris.
I hope you fly that on your ships.
Rob.
03-13-2016, 17:09
Herkybird

And there was me thinking it was all pirates end up as shark bait! :Arrrr:
03-13-2016, 17:13
Devsdoc

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Originally Posted by Herkybird

And there was me thinking it was all pirates end up as shark bait! :Arrrr:

That is why you have lots of hooks. It bites the hand that feeds it! :shock: :sad: :happy:
Be safe
Rory
03-14-2016, 00:26
TexaS

Jay Elliot described Grace Hopper as appearing to be "'all Navy', but when you reach inside, you find a 'Pirate' dying to be released".

:Arrrr::happy:
03-20-2016, 22:15
csadn

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Originally Posted by Herkybird

And there was me thinking it was all pirates end up as shark bait! :Arrrr:

*Everyone* ends up shark-bait when living at sea -- some of us are willing to accept it as The Cost of Doing Business.... >:)
03-23-2016, 21:18
Diamondback

I hoisted the Skull & Bones both to warn of my congenital problem with authority, and since I'm a WWII Studies major in honor of Tommy Blackburn's Fighting Seventeen and their F4U Corsairs, the original USN Jolly Rogers.
03-24-2016, 15:04
Comte de Brueys

VF-17 - I'm shure we get one "Jolly Roger" with the next WGS series. :thumbsup:

...and maybe a CV-17 miniature to reinforce USS Constitution. :sly:
03-24-2016, 15:26
Diamondback

CV-17 was USS Bunker Hill, CVG-17 was... rather more complicated, given how the USN dissolved and reformed airgroups and squadrons after every cruise.

For example, there was another Marine Fighter Squadron 214 before Boyington's Black Sheep that is largely forgotten, the "Swashbucklers"--they were so thoroughly wiped out in their last battle that they were dissolved, with guys on leave in Australia coming back and having no idea where their unit had gone and BUPERS (pronounced like "Bloopers" and known for creating many of same) not knowing where they were supposed to be. I met one of those men at a Museum of Flight event, and when he told his story and expressed uncertainty why he'd been asked to be there I told him, "Marine, you may not have been one of the famous Boyington's Black Sheep, but you were still part of a Marine Fighter Squadron 214--so your story is still part of their history, and DOUBLY important in ensuring that the Swashbucklers who you fought with have their place in history remembered too." I'm no diplomat, but even I know the importance of letting a veteran know that their sacrifices and those of the people they served with are remembered...
03-24-2016, 18:42
Cmmdre

My avatar is the character Danny Noonan from the movie Caddyshack. It is from the Yacht Club scene and is a reminder to not take things too seriously. I use it over at BGG - BoardGameGeek.com as well.
03-25-2016, 10:51
Nemo

My Avatar is the sea Lady, 10 years ago i get the Model Kit now I wait that my kids get Bigger
so that I can build the ship
So in 15 years...

You Need goals in life :clap:
03-25-2016, 11:39
Dr.Maturin

Name Change

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Originally Posted by Nemo

My Avatar is the sea Lady, 10 years ago i get the Model Kit now I wait that my kids get Bigger
so that I can build the ship
So in 15 years...

You Need goals in life :clap:

Will you change your name to NOAH and start collecting animals??
03-26-2016, 03:52
Nemo

I think Noah Needs 120 years, i think i am faster:happy: