Bluebottle - The Enemy Railcar

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Post by ptlrcecil » Sat Oct 18, 2008 12:30 pm

Midge is meant to be emailing it to me so I should get the video soon.
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Post by SLRmidge » Sat Oct 18, 2008 1:12 pm

BLUBOTTLE FIGHTS BACK :twisted:
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Post by ptlrcecil » Sat Oct 18, 2008 4:41 pm

(sound of shelling)
Ratty! get around that 40 mil cannon and provide supprosive radio control interference, Ill come from behind (where it is defenceless) and crush it once and for all.
Its going down!
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Post by SillyBilly » Sat Oct 18, 2008 5:10 pm

:lol:

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Post by mhlr » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:38 pm

That looks truly indestructable!!! :lol: :lol: :sign5:
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Post by laalratty » Sat Oct 18, 2008 8:53 pm

Trust me, it isn't, I managed to break the gun off the snowplow accidentaly on purpose :roll:
And as this topic is supposed to be about speed, I should say that this combanation moved round the SLR at an absolute snails pace, and needed help on the hills....
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Post by SLRmidge » Sat Oct 18, 2008 9:55 pm

Thats it Laalratty, spoil the magic. :roll: You'll be telling 'em the gun didn't fire next :!:
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Post by LMS-Jools » Sun Oct 19, 2008 11:52 am

For new uprated BlueBottle Video See here:

http://sirdan.kwsn.users.btopenworld.co ... 21_old.mpg


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Post by alan2525 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:08 pm

Were there any Narrow Gauge Armoured Trains used during wartime?

I've seen some photos of WW1 munitions trains and I'm pretty sure a rail gun on a 2ft gauge train, complete with munitions carried in open wagons and cranes for loading shells.

Would make a nice distraction alongside the normal brightly painted and lined locos you see on the 16mm circuit.

I'm aware of the armoured simplex loco's but those are too small and too thinly sheeted in to count as an armoured train to me!

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Post by Matt » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:22 pm

yeah, the Rommley, Hythe, and Dymchurch Railway was taken over by the army, and an armored train, comprizing of a heaverly armored 2-8-2 loco, and 2 heaverly armored bogie wagons armed with anti-aircraft guns, patrolled the line during the first few years of the war. Apparently, during the Battle of Britain, they managed to shot down a german bomber.
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Post by pauly » Sun Oct 19, 2008 1:39 pm

I bet he thought it was really far away when the pilot saw it :lol:
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Post by Matt » Sun Oct 19, 2008 2:01 pm

yeah. apparently during the blitz, a german fighter few over a london station, and shot at a loco in the boiler. The engines boiler explouded, but the shrapnel from the explousion hit the plane, badly damaged it, and it crashed shortly afterwards, and the piolt either died in the crash, or was taken prisoner (I can't remember which).
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Post by SillyBilly » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:39 pm

alan2525 wrote:I'm aware of the armoured simplex loco's but those are too small and too thinly sheeted in to count as an armoured train to me!
Thinly sheeted, I don't call 10mm odd thin!

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Post by mhlr » Sun Oct 19, 2008 5:49 pm

SillyBilly wrote:
alan2525 wrote:I'm aware of the armoured simplex loco's but those are too small and too thinly sheeted in to count as an armoured train to me!
Thinly sheeted, I don't call 10mm odd thin!
I do when your faced with German Stukas :lol:
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Post by alan2525 » Sun Oct 19, 2008 6:12 pm

10mm plate is thin when you are under enemy fire!
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Post by Matt » Sun Oct 19, 2008 7:32 pm

You think that 10mm is thick, most battleships had armor of at least 12 inches!
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Post by SillyBilly » Sun Oct 19, 2008 8:03 pm

It's not a battleship though is it? Boiler metal on locos this size isn't much more than 10mm.

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Post by laalratty » Sun Oct 19, 2008 9:20 pm

THE RH & DR managed to shoot down an enemy aircraft, alegeledly because the pilot though he was a lot higher than he actually was
Anyway, here is a pic of the gun aimed exactly what it is supposed to be
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That railcar is so flimsy, it has no chance. Mwa hahahaha :lol:
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Post by ptlrcecil » Mon Oct 20, 2008 8:56 pm

And they got a fighter although the fighter was trying to strafe them and since it was a lot smaller than standard gauge got the perspective of his height wrong and ploughed into the ground. And lived to tell his story!
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Post by SLRmidge » Mon Oct 20, 2008 9:31 pm

Not surprising with it being 1/19th scale.....the pilot was probably 10 feet from the ground before he realised something was wrong :scratch: :lol:
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