Non aircraft internet finds.

[RWG686 33,100]

An occasional thread for no aeroplane stuff. Here's the first mix.

[Gorby 17,213]

Nice collection.

You seem to have a lot of time on your hands. *

* Not that I don't. 

(Fantastic isn't it?) 

[RWG686 33,100]

Today's haul

 

[Grunhertz 17,460]

I see several @Gorbyprojects in there 

[Gorby 17,213]

14 hours ago, Grunhertz said:

I see several @Gorbyprojects in there 

I have the urge to get back to building weirdness but I've got this HUGE stash to deal with first. 

[RWG686 33,100]

This is the French cruiser submarine 'Surcouf'

She  became part of the Free French Navy. Here is the Wiki history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_submarine_Surcouf

That isn't accurate though as in 1980 , I met one of her crew who had settled in Sandbank after marrying a local girl. The only reason he ended up there was because his boat was in the Holy Loch.No mention of that in the history.

He wasn't on the last sailing because he was in Dunoon cottage hospital having his appendix out.

 

 

[Gorby 17,213]

18 hours ago, RWG686 said:

This is the French cruiser submarine 'Surcouf'

I wasn't aware there was such a thing as a cruiser sub. Fascinating. It almost makes me want to build a kit of it:

https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?fkSECTION[]=Kits&q=Surcouf*&fkCATNAME[]="Submarines"&fkTYPENAME[]="Full kits"

....Almost. 

[RWG686 33,100]

1 hour ago, Gorby said:

wasn't aware there was such a thing as a cruiser sub.

The French took advantage of the submarine omissions within the 1922 Washington Naval Treaty which limited the production of BattleCruisers, Battleships and Aircraft Carriers by planning for three underwater cruisers. These so called corsair submarines where designed to engage ships in both surface and sub-surface combat. Of the three planned submarines, France completed only one, the Surcouf, then the largest submarine in the world. She was armed with eight fore 550mm (22”) and four aft 400mm (16”) torpedo tubes. For surface combat, she was armed with twin 203mm/50 Modele 1924 guns, fitted within a pressure tight turret forward of the conning tower. The turret’s director had a 5m (16’) rangefinder with the capacity to view targets 11km (6.8mi) away. The guns 39km (24mi) range could be achieved with use of the Besson MB.411 observation plane. The reconnaissance float plane was stored in the hangar built aft of the conning tower. The Surcouf carried sufficient fuel for 20,000km (10,000 nautical mile) and supplies for 90 days.

I didn't know there was a kit of it. I see the Hobby Boss one can be bought for £15 ..just saying 

 

[Jessie_C 11,318]

15 minutes ago, RWG686 said:

I didn't know there was a kit of it. I see the Hobby Boss one can be bought for £15 ..just saying

If you don't care for Hobby Boss, there's also a Heller kit. It dates from 1976 and gets re-released from time to time.

[Mad Steve 20,611]

I had one of those Heller Surcouf kits in my cupboard for probably 2 decades until a floaty thing friend saw it and disappeared it very quickly  

[RWG686 33,100]

Especially for @Gorby

To fight oil fires after the 1991 Gulf War the Hungarians put two Mig 21 engines on a T 34 tank.

It was called 'Big Wind'

 

[RWG686 33,100]

Normal service resumes...

 

[Gorby 17,213]

9 hours ago, RWG686 said:

To fight oil fires after the 1991 Gulf War the Hungarians put two Mig 21 engines on a T 34 tank.

It was called 'Big Wind'

Amazing vehicle. An American on Scalemates built one in 1/35 a couple of years ago:

   https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=42037&p=albums&album=54645&i=17#17

And this shows it in action:

 

[Hutch6390 2,153]

Incredible - straight out of "Thunderbirds" - I want one!

[dixieflyer 4,388]

I remember seeing those jet engine fire-fighting tanks a few years back.

[DC3 3,743]

8 hours ago, Gorby said:

Amazing vehicle. An American on Scalemates built one in 1/35 a couple of years ago:

   https://www.scalemates.com/profiles/mate.php?id=42037&p=albums&album=54645&i=17#17

And this shows it in action:

 

Looks like one of Gorby's acid trips made real

[RWG686 33,100]

Tonight's lot

 

[Gorby 17,213]

10 hours ago, RWG686 said:

I was curious about that one. Apparently the second barrel is a flame thrower. Not seen that conversion before.

[Mad Steve 20,611]

That is the M4A3 Zippo 😬

They were also used in the Korean War on the E8 Shermans. 

[dixieflyer 4,388]

5 hours ago, Mad Steve said:

That is the M4A3 Zippo 😬

They were also used in the Korean War on the E8 Shermans. 

My music history professor was a gunner on a flame-thrower Sherman during the Korean War.

[RWG686 33,100]

Tonight's episode

 

[Gorby 17,213]

8 hours ago, RWG686 said:

I remember reading about that a while back. Apparently it was successful but they decided that there was no point to a 200mph train if it had to share the track with slow moving freight trains.

That Char 2 is enormous! 

[DC3 3,743]

That KV stuck in the stream/whatever has a very short barrel, never seen that before.

[Mad Steve 20,611]

Thats the early version with the slanted turret front Dave. The earliest ones had short barrels 

[dixieflyer 4,388]

The one in the stream is a KV-2, you're probably thinking of a KV-1 Dave.