±Recent Visitors

Recent Visitors to Com-Central!

±User Info-big


Welcome Anonymous
Nickname
Password
Membership:
Latest: HighestAce
New Today: 0
New Yesterday: 0
Overall: 6648
People Online:
Members: 0
Visitors: 220
Total: 220
Who Is Where:
 Visitors:
01: Photo Gallery
02: Home
03: Community Forums
04: Home
05: Home
06: Home
07: Home
08: Home
09: Community Forums
10: Community Forums
11: Community Forums
12: Community Forums
13: Community Forums
14: Community Forums
15: Home
16: Community Forums
17: Photo Gallery
18: Treasury
19: Downloads
20: Community Forums
21: Home
22: News Archive
23: Community Forums
24: Community Forums
25: Home
26: Community Forums
27: Community Forums
28: Home
29: Community Forums
30: Community Forums
31: Community Forums
32: Photo Gallery
33: Member Screenshots
34: Community Forums
35: Community Forums
36: Home
37: Home
38: Home
39: Home
40: Home
41: Home
42: Community Forums
43: Home
44: Photo Gallery
45: Community Forums
46: Community Forums
47: Community Forums
48: Member Screenshots
49: Community Forums
50: Home
51: Photo Gallery
52: Community Forums
53: Community Forums
54: Community Forums
55: Home
56: Community Forums
57: Community Forums
58: Community Forums
59: Community Forums
60: Your Account
61: Community Forums
62: Community Forums
63: Member Screenshots
64: Community Forums
65: Community Forums
66: Home
67: Community Forums
68: Home
69: Community Forums
70: Community Forums
71: Community Forums
72: Community Forums
73: Community Forums
74: Community Forums
75: News
76: Community Forums
77: Community Forums
78: Community Forums
79: Community Forums
80: Community Forums
81: Community Forums
82: Community Forums
83: Your Account
84: Community Forums
85: Downloads
86: Home
87: Community Forums
88: Downloads
89: Community Forums
90: Home
91: Community Forums
92: Member Screenshots
93: Home
94: Community Forums
95: Community Forums
96: Community Forums
97: Community Forums
98: Home
99: Community Forums
100: Community Forums
101: Home
102: Your Account
103: News Archive
104: Community Forums
105: Photo Gallery
106: Community Forums
107: Home
108: Community Forums
109: Community Forums
110: Home
111: Your Account
112: Your Account
113: Community Forums
114: Community Forums
115: Home
116: Home
117: Community Forums
118: Community Forums
119: Community Forums
120: Photo Gallery
121: Community Forums
122: Member Screenshots
123: Home
124: Community Forums
125: Home
126: Home
127: Home
128: Downloads
129: Community Forums
130: Community Forums
131: News Archive
132: Home
133: Community Forums
134: Community Forums
135: Home
136: Member Screenshots
137: Home
138: Community Forums
139: Home
140: Community Forums
141: Home
142: News Archive
143: Community Forums
144: Community Forums
145: News Archive
146: Community Forums
147: Community Forums
148: Home
149: Downloads
150: Community Forums
151: Downloads
152: Community Forums
153: Home
154: Community Forums
155: Community Forums
156: Home
157: Home
158: Community Forums
159: Community Forums
160: Community Forums
161: Your Account
162: Home
163: Community Forums
164: Community Forums
165: Community Forums
166: Community Forums
167: Community Forums
168: Community Forums
169: Community Forums
170: Community Forums
171: News
172: Community Forums
173: Home
174: Community Forums
175: Community Forums
176: Community Forums
177: News Archive
178: Home
179: Community Forums
180: Home
181: Community Forums
182: Community Forums
183: Community Forums
184: Downloads
185: Home
186: Community Forums
187: Community Forums
188: Home
189: Community Forums
190: Home
191: Community Forums
192: Community Forums
193: Community Forums
194: Community Forums
195: Home
196: Home
197: Community Forums
198: Home
199: Home
200: Community Forums
201: Community Forums
202: Community Forums
203: Community Forums
204: Community Forums
205: Member Screenshots
206: Community Forums
207: Community Forums
208: Home
209: Home
210: Community Forums
211: Home
212: Home
213: Community Forums
214: Community Forums
215: Photo Gallery
216: Community Forums
217: Photo Gallery
218: Community Forums
219: Photo Gallery
220: Community Forums
Staff Online:

No staff members are online!
Forum FAQForum FAQ  Log in to check your private messagesLog in to check your private messages  LoginLogin
SearchSearch  ModeratorsModerators
The Matchstick Navy :: Archived
A general meeting place for all pilots!
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page     Forum Index ›  Officer's Club

Topic Archived View previous topic :: View next topic  
Author Message
wheelsup_cavu
Power User

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 29, 2010
Posts: 974
Location: Corona, California
PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:41 am
Post subject: The Matchstick Navy
Modeller spends 62 years building a unique fleet of 430 ships that's a tribute to the Royal Navy.

Link

Simply amazing work.


Wheels

_________________
Cheers Smile
Wheelsup_cavu

Planes of Fame Air Museum | March Field Air Museum | Palm Springs Air Museum
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Shades
Forum Tree-Rat

Offline Offline
Joined: Mar 07, 2005
Posts: 6475
Location: 3rd Branch up, 'Ye Olde Oak', Green Wood.
PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 8:55 am
Post subject: Re: The Matchstick Navy
Geeze!
That's amazing!

_________________
Skwerl's place.

Com-Central's cutest, fluffiest, twitchiest, tail.
CPU > Intel i9-9900k (o/c 4.9GHz); COOLING > BeQuiet! Dark Rock Pro 4;
MOBO > ASUS PRIME Z390-A; RAM > 2x32GB Corsair LPX 2666MHz;
GPU > Gigabyte GEFORCE GTX650Ti PCI-e 3.0 2Gb GDDR5;
AUDIO > Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music (plus - Universal Audio UAD2 Quad Custom accelerator);
HDD > 3x1TB+ M.2. SSDs; LCD > DELL - S2419HGF (1920x1080);
PSU > 650W be quiet Straight Power 11 - 80+ Gold;
CASE > BeQuiet! SILENT BASE 601; OS > Windows 11 Home Advanced (64-bit).
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website ICQ Number
Shadow_Bshwackr
Janitor

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 21, 2005
Posts: 7019
Location: Central Illinois, USA
PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:00 pm
Post subject: Re: The Matchstick Navy
- The Daily Mail
The patient hobbyist began assembling his collection in 1948, using simple tools of a razor blade, tweezers and sandpaper to carve the matches and boxes and pieces them together using PVA and balsa wood glue.

More than 650,000 matches have been used to create every class of ship in the Royal Navy in incredible detail on a scale model of 1:300. And he has even crafted 1,200 model aircraft out of matches to make his scale-model carrier ships look even more realistic.

Incredible indeed! He's been at this since age 17 and now he's into his 70's...

Thanks Wheels!
Back to top
View user's profile Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Kitform
Bar Maid

Offline Offline
Joined: Jan 22, 2005
Posts: 2011
Location: Cleveland. UK.
PostPosted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 11:53 pm
Post subject: Re: The Matchstick Navy
- The Daily Mail
And he has even crafted 1,200 model aircraft out of matches...

Unlike some pilots who turn their aircraft into matchsticks. Smile
Back to top
View user's profile Send e-mail Visit poster's website Photo Gallery
Display posts from previous:   
Post new topic    Revive this topic    Printer Friendly Page    Forum Index ›  Officer's Club
Page 1 of 1
All times are GMT - 6 Hours

Archive Revive
Username:
This is an archived topic - your reply will not be appended here.
Instead, a new topic will be generated in the active forum.
The new topic will provide a reference link to this archived topic.