Thornycroft CMB - photos

[Simpo Two]

A little while ago I posted a draft link to my CMB site, but some rightly commented that the page 'Finished photos' was missing...

Now it's not: www.thornycroft40.co.uk/Finished%20model.htm



I'm not making another one!!

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Gorgeous. Just gorgeous.

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Thank you GG; I can't help feeling that if I'd made a plastic car, probably a Tamiya, it would have done better!

[Tempest_5]

Lovely job.

One question. Any idea how they fired the tin fish? does it just slide out of the stern and then go? Not the safest of operations I imagine.

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Tempest_5 said:

Lovely job.

One question. Any idea how they fired the tin fish? does it just slide out of the stern and then go? Not the safest of operations I imagine.

It's pushed out of the back by a ramrod fired by a cordite charge. Then you get the heck out of the way before it takes your stern off

If you look at the cockpit photos you'll see the ramrod.

I imagine they did it this way because they hadn't worked out how to fire them forwards off the deck by WW1, and/or all that weight up front on top would have made such a small boat very unstable.