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Fleet Base Greater Sydney 1803 – Wentworth Falls 28 Oct 2018 Mission Report

8 November 2018 Phil Chapman 0

Mission Sitrep No. FBGS-1803 Mission Report Date of Mission: 28 October 2018 Location of Mission: Wentworth Falls Lake, Wentworth Falls, NSW Weather: It wasn’t looking good on the […]

Fleet Base Greater Sydney 1802 – TF72 Penrith 21 Oct 2018 Mission Report

24 October 2018 Phil Chapman 0

Mission Sitrep No. FBGS-1802 Mission Report Date of Mission: 21 October 2018. Location of Mission: Penrith Regatta Centre, Penrith, NSW. Weather: Weather was threatening at […]

1805 – CMSS Expo Event Report

16 September 2018 Craig Taylor 0

Event Sitrep No. 1805 – TF72 Canberra Model Shipwrights Society Expo Report Date of Event: 15th and 16th September 2018 Location of Event: Mount […]

Fleet Base Perth 1806 – TF72 July Mission Report

15 July 2018 Craig Taylor 0

Mission Sitrep No. FBP-1806 July Mission Report Date of Mission: 15th July 2018 Location of Mission: Jackadder lake Reserve, Woodlands, WA Weather: The day started […]

1804 – Steam Museum Military Vehicles Day Event Report

15 July 2018 Craig Taylor 0

Mission Sitrep No: 1803 Event Report Date of Mission: 15th July 2018 Location of Mission: Campbelltown Steam & Machinery Museum Military Vehicles Day, Menangle Rd, […]

1803 – Port Macquarie Hobby Show 2018

9 July 2018 Craig Taylor 0

Event Sitrep No. No. 1803 – Port Macquarie Model Boat Show Date of Event: 7th and 8th July 2018 Location of Event: Panthers Club, […]

Fleet Base Hunter Central 1802 – TF72 June Mission Report

23 June 2018 Craig Taylor 0

Date of Mission: 23 June 2018 Location of Mission: Australian Motor Homes Tourist Park, 12 Mile Creek, North of Newcastle. Weather: Clear Sky, calm […]

1802 – St George Model Boat Club Annual Regatta Event Report

17 June 2018 Craig Taylor 0

Mission Sitrep No: 1802 Event Report – St George Model Boat Club Annual Regatta Date of Mission: 17th June 2018 Location of Mission: Scarborough Park, […]

Fleet Base Wagga Wagga 1801 – Carriers and Escorts Regatta 2018

11 June 2018 Craig Taylor 0

Mission Sitrep No. FBWW-1801 Carriers & Escorts Mission Report. Date of Mission: 9th and 10th June 2018. Location of Mission: Oasis Regional Aquatic Centre, Wagga […]

Fleet Base Perth 1805 – TF72 June Mission Report

4 June 2018 Craig Taylor 0

Mission Sitrep No: FBP-1805 June Mission Report Date of Mission: 4th June 2018 Location of Mission: Jackadder lake Reserve, Woodlands, WA Weather: The weather gods were shining on us […]

Task Force 72 added 12 new photos.

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Some of the most interesting display models can be found at the international navy expo's and conferences.

Shipbuilders use them to help sell their designs to their prospective customers, the worlds' navies. ...

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Task Force 72 added 6 new photos.

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This year the Task Force 72 Annual Regatta will be held on the 24-25 of November at Naracoorte in South Australia.

We'd love to see you there! ...

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Many visitors to this site ask where you can buy the models shown in the images featured.

The short answer is that most of them are not for sale.

They are labours of love by the people building them and they are often reluctantly parted with, if they are parted with at all.

The options for most people wishing to own a model are to pay a professional model builder such as Defence Models and Graphics to build one to order, or build one yourself.

A key source of 1:72 scale model kits is Fleetscale in the United Kingdom. They do a large range of models, including frigates and destroyers, as a UK company they specialise in RN vessels.

The range includes:
The County class destroyer
The WW2 C class destroyer
The Daring Class destroyer
The Type 12M or Leander class frigate
The Type 21 or Amazon class frigate
The Type 22 or Broadsword class frigate
The Type 23 or Duke class frigate
The Type 42 or Sheffield class destroyer
The Type 54 or Daring class guided missile destroyer

For the more experienced ship modeler they also do a wide range of 1:72 hulls.

If this sounds interesting check their website out at www.fleetscale.com/. ...

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On this day (12 Nov 2005) the guided missile frigate HMAS Canberra was decommissioned at Fleet Base West, (HMAS Stirling).

Commissioning 21 March 1981 Canberra was the first of the RAN's six FFG's to be paid off. During her 24 years of service she had steamed nearly 800,000 miles.

Canberra was assigned to escort the Royal Yacht Britannia during Queen Elizabeth II's visit in 1988, helped enforce the post-Gulf War United Nations' sanctions against Iraq Operation Damask, (1992-1993), was part of the Australian responses to the 1998 Indonesian riots and the 2000 Solomon Islands Civil War, and returned to the Persian Gulf s part of the War in Afghanistan for Operation Slipper, (2002).

The frigate was marked for conversion into a dive wreck and artificial reef off Barwon Heads, Victoria, and was scuttled on 4 October 2009. ...

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Task Force 72 members build some quite remarkable models, all in the same scale of 1:72. This means that when a tugboat passes a battleship you can get a perfect example of the size difference as both are in scale to one another.

That said we appreciate the work others do in building to other, particularly smaller, scales. The intricate detail in such a small model is a sight to behold.

This spectacular model of the Arleigh Burke class destroyer USS Cole (DDG-67) in 1:350 scale was built by Hyun Soo Kim and features on the Modelshipgallery website.

You can see more of his wonderful work at www.modelshipgallery.com/gallery/users/Hyun-Soo-Kim/user-index.html

Enjoy his work. ...

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