1/2 hour of nerdy goodness

[pebbleworm]

As it usually happens, I was flipping though the old "The Built Up Ship Model" book after a successful afternoon bending wales (Maple? Maybe Beech? bends well with heat alone) and saw a reference to a worm eaten model Mr. Davis was pulling lines off of from "Mr. H.H. Rogers' famous collection of ship models". I did a little digging and found this pretty neat half hour video at:
http://www.nshof.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=447
Lots of nice models, good discussion of evolving technologies and best of all, borescope footage of the interiors! It looks like these were videos at the USNA museum in the 1990s. It's nice to see the collection stayed together, although I'm still a little irritated Annapolis scrapped the Reina Mercedes. Lots of very nice models panned slowly enough to catch the details. I liked it at least.

 

[eric67]

Absolutely fascinating, I had to wear a bib I drooled that much.
It is great to see collections like this well looked after and a great resource for companies to produce model kits based on these models.
Eric