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18 November 2014 at 18:36 #9140
Colin Bishop
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18 November 2014 at 18:36 #53684
Colin Bishop
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Robin Buckland has alerted me to an advertisement in Military Modelling Magazine concerning a sale by PPI Auctions of warship models being disposed of by QinetiQ Ltd (UK). You can see the details here:

**LINK**

I am not sure what these models were originally built for and they do not appear to be working ones but quite interesting all the same and worth a look.

Colin
18 November 2014 at 18:43 #53685
Dave Milbourn
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The prices look pathetic for such (apparently) nice models, even if they are statics.
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18 November 2014 at 21:51 #53687
Francis Macnaughton
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The information provided if you click on the QinetiQ link says they are made of soldered copper for "signature data collection". I wonder if that is radar cross section measurements as they are all waterline models. The weights given suggest quite a lot of valuable copper so perhaps these are likely to appeal to scrap merchants?
18 November 2014 at 22:16 #53689
Colin Bishop
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There is now an advert on the website in the right hand column.

Francis, you could well be right. The models look to be of rather limited interest to modellers.

Colin
19 November 2014 at 00:17 #53692
ashley needham
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Cor…the size of them !!! would make great garden ornaments! Ashley
19 November 2014 at 16:31 #53698
Trevor Holloway
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I can't see where they are !

Ashley, I'm sure you could get them working.
20 November 2014 at 08:19 #53707
ashley needham
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Not sure about that. if they are copper, the tophamper will be enormous and no amount of additional underwater bouyancy will get them stable..or even float! Shame. Also the transport issue.. a 3m model will not fi in the Ignis.

if only I had the room, they are spiffing models for the silly money.

Ashley
27 November 2014 at 00:05 #53866
Colin Miller
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The ships will probably be brass not copper, they build all the ships in brass and then run tests on them for radar signatures, magnetic interference all those kind of things.

They still make them to this day if you look here

http://www.wmunderway.8m.com/cgi/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1361375923

You can see some of the brass ships being built for testing
4 December 2014 at 16:48 #54098
Armando Loni
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I worked at QinetiQ for 12 years – at a different site – built a few commissions for them as well (aircraft and AFV's). A lot of stuff was made by workshop apprentices in the early days, probably pre-QinetiQ (DRA/RSRE) – exceptional quality a lot of it was.
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