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vanvlak
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:15 am 
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Thanks gents. this model, first of my Ottoman opposition to the Knights, has been ready for weeks, just waiting for a varnish and fixing to its base  :(  :(
She looks tough...

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 8:51 am 
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Oooohhhh...based on a US export desgin perhaps?  Quite unexpected given the Prussian assistance to Johnny Turk, no doubt it will be an unfortuant suprise for the knights too.

Does she have a name Sir?

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:24 am 
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Hmmm, nice, and I was hoping I'd gotten over that bug.....you reopen old wounds 'V', curses

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:30 am 
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(Tas @ Aug. 17 2007,09:51)
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Oooohhhh...based on a US export desgin perhaps?  Quite unexpected given the Prussian assistance to Johnny Turk, no doubt it will be an unfortuant suprise for the knights too.

Does she have a name Sir?

Perfectly simple explanation.
After the kidnapping of Mrs. Pericardis /Sheikh Rajzuli incident in North Africa which led to the Marines landing in Tripoli, Sheikh Rajzuli , who turned out to be a hero and a Scotsman,    was appointed War Minister to the Ottoman Emperor, and promptly went about using Mrs. Pericardis' (by now Mrs. Rajzuli) influence with her cousin, Josiah Woodward Rockfeller, to get a modern American Aeronef donated to the Ottoman Navy in a bid to outdo the Germans, who were in the meantime harangued by the German knights into withholding military aid for the Ottomans. All very clear, see, and I didn;t even have to mention Sheikh Rajzuli's booming tartan fez industry.  :p

As for the name, still undecided between 'Mrs. Pericardis', 'Moonraker', or something on the lines of 'Yavuz' or 'Osman Pasha'.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 9:31 am 
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Hmmm, nice, and I was hoping I'd gotten over that bug.....you reopen old wounds 'V', curses

Dashed sorry old man.  :D  :D  :p

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Oh not to worry. maybe a brandy will cure me.....maybe...........I think I'll have another.

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:28 pm 
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anything less than 3 is damned uncivlilised Sir!

The rationality of that explanation is eather straight forward I think.  It certainly makes more sense than most British foreign policy of the same period! (oops, did I say that out aloud?..._)  As to the name, anything with a Pasha is good!

Coincidentally, in the latter stages of our beloved 19th Century (for real that is!), Germany had secret hopes of an alliance with the US.  This was because the US was being forced into a clash with the Japanese over Pacific resources, and who were in turn allied to the British.  This would then lend itself to a Bitish/Japan v German/US face off.  Add a tumultuat Russia and an undecided France into the mix and it all becomes rather interesting.

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(Tas @ Aug. 17 2007,07:28)
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Coincidentally, in the latter stages of our beloved 19th Century (for real that is!), Germany had secret hopes of an alliance with the US. ?This was because the US was being forced into a clash with the Japanese over Pacific resources, and who were in turn allied to the British. ?This would then lend itself to a Bitish/Japan v German/US face off. ?Add a tumultuat Russia and an undecided France into the mix and it all becomes rather interesting.

Surprisingly enough, I didn't know that. If that had actually happened, imagine the ramifications for WWI.

Back on topic, I like it Van. It looks like a flying Ironclad.

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In an effort to be super-civilised I'm now on my 7th brandy, the monocle has slipped and I find myself incapable of ordering a fleet, dash this South American temperament to over indulge.  :laugh:

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(Dwarf Supreme @ Aug. 17 2007,23:37)
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(Tas @ Aug. 17 2007,07:28)
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Coincidentally, in the latter stages of our beloved 19th Century (for real that is!), Germany had secret hopes of an alliance with the US. ?This was because the US was being forced into a clash with the Japanese over Pacific resources, and who were in turn allied to the British. ?This would then lend itself to a Bitish/Japan v German/US face off. ?Add a tumultuat Russia and an undecided France into the mix and it all becomes rather interesting.

Surprisingly enough, I didn't know that. If that had actually happened, imagine the ramifications for WWI.

Back on topic, I like it Van. It looks like a flying Ironclad.

I think it was more Germanic wishful thinking that anything else.  During the cruise of the US "Great white fleet", it was the Germans more than anyone who hope for an "incident" to make such an alliance a possibility

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In an effort to be super-civilised I'm now on my 7th brandy, the monocle has slipped and I find myself incapable of ordering a fleet, dash this South American temperament to over indulge. ?:laugh:

Most civilised indeed!

Dont worry aout over-indulging, send one of those toadying staff officers out in your stead!

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Excellent job on that "yank-looking", Ironclad, old boy ... and excellent bit of history this ... The Rajzuli a Scot !  Who would have thought !?  [note to Tac Cmd crew - go out a rent "The Wind and the Lion" - do it now !  :;): ]  And interesting bit of [real] history too, Tas ... Of course a Yank/Boche Alliance ... quite uncivilized, old boy ! :D

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'I'm a Yankee-Doodle Kaiser..."  :p

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That sounds like a catchy name for a tune ! :laugh:

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Anybody else think that Luis's magnetic pole base on his P39 would be a good method for basing Aeronefs?

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