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Ark Royal model started in 1992 is ready - BBC News
Ark Royal model started in 1992 is ready
It has taken more than 25 years of painstaking work, but a Cornish model maker has finally unveiled his masterpiece.
Dave Fortey's 13ft (4m) long model of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is radio-controlled and has working parts.
It will be on show this weekend at the London Model Engineering Exhibition at Alexandra Palace.
Ark Royal model started in 1992 is ready
It has taken more than 25 years of painstaking work, but a Cornish model maker has finally unveiled his masterpiece.
Dave Fortey's 13ft (4m) long model of the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is radio-controlled and has working parts.
It will be on show this weekend at the London Model Engineering Exhibition at Alexandra Palace.
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I hope he can get it out o the workshop!
Amazing work
Amazing work
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The London Model Engineering Exhibition? Blimey.
I remember going to that some 40 years ago with mates from school. The venue then was Wembley Conference Centre. The ideal opportunity for getting new goodies to add to the modelling stash!
I remember going to that some 40 years ago with mates from school. The venue then was Wembley Conference Centre. The ideal opportunity for getting new goodies to add to the modelling stash!
I remember taking sons, now 44 and 45, there about 30 years ago, with their youngest brother then a toddler. Don't know about them but I was blown away by the exhibits
Putting on a very faded anorak, Sea King HAS1 as shown here didn’t have six bladed tail rotors.
But the detail is surely magnificent from what can be seen in the photos!
But the detail is surely magnificent from what can be seen in the photos!
That bloke is nicking a Wessex!
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I guess the same bloke who would point out that in 1976 there was no COD Gannet, no 824NAS Wessex HAS3, certainly no Forth Road Bridge blade holds on the Sea Kings (they took half a day to instal!) and the 892 F4Ks all had the tail fin topped off with the RWR?!! 
John Eacott,
I saw the COD Gannet in 1978 so it would certainly have been around 2 years earlier. Can’t argue with the rest though, and by 1976 wouldn’t at least the Buccaneer roundels etc be toned down?
I saw the COD Gannet in 1978 so it would certainly have been around 2 years earlier. Can’t argue with the rest though, and by 1976 wouldn’t at least the Buccaneer roundels etc be toned down?
Picky, picky, picky....
.....I think it's bloody fantastic. As Big Rick was fond of saying "Details bloody details - yes, I will have another bacardi and coke thank you".
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