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Hmm Am I evil for proposing this?

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Well, you see, Hipper and me last night were talking about
radio controlled warship combat:

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Hipper said that he couldn't do that, as they sink. :oops:

I said they look cheap because they're BB guns and they
can fire 4 pellets/second. :roll:

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Anyway, Hipper and I started talking about realistic naval combat,
especially after I figured that in 1:72 scale, 406mm (16-inch) is
equal to 5.6mm, roughly about the size of a 5.56mm NATO round,
and that 40,000+ yards (about 23 miles) at 1:72 scale came out to
555 yards or just a quarter of a mile.

So it's theoretically possible to ballistically match a 5.56mm round
to a 16-inch shell at 1:72 scale. :twisted:

And have your own mock naval gun duels between 1:72 ship targets
and a scale USS Iowa Gun turret....

Oh yeah, and this guy's model kicks ass

Behold the Graf Spee
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MKSheppard wrote: Oh yeah, and this guy's model kicks ass

Behold the Graf Spee
Bloody hell! Very impressive.
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Post by Peregrin Toker »

You're not evil, but I don't think it would be very safe with all those 5.56mm bullets flying around.
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SAFE? How could it be educationally realistic mock combat and be safe? :D
That's why you have to build armor into your model. :wink:
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Post by aerius »

1:72 scale, damn, those model ships are gonna be about 10' long. That's a pretty good sized model if you ask me. The only problem I see is that you'd somehow have to get explosive 5.56mm rounds to make it fully accurate. :)
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Well done Sheppard thanks for sharing this with us
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3rd Impact wrote:
MKSheppard wrote: Oh yeah, and this guy's model kicks ass

Behold the Graf Spee
Bloody hell! Very impressive.


I wonder if that guy plays warhammer ...
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that would make for some interesting beach play with boats and some sand-castle buildings making up a city...
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I'm looking over that site with the ship battles, and what can I say but. Kick Ass!
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We had one of those ship battles a few years back on a pond about a mile away from where I live. It was pretty kick ass. The larger battleships shot ball bearings ( 7-8mm) while some of the smaller destroyers shot regular bbs. Some of the ships literally sunk and had to be fished out.
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Ohhh!! A built in sound system on the Graf Spee... :twisted:
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You're evil, but this idea of yours sounds pretty cool.
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Use buckshot. Lots of holes in enemy ship=sinkage
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Those are AWESOME toys!!!!
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No, you're evil for several other reasons. This is just cool. 8)
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