500,000 year old woodworking discovered.

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Every photo taken throughout the ship's long life shows seven slots- it's only the builders drawings that showed five.
The model now has seven-...

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Cue Pink Floyd:
"We don't need no edukashun..."

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3 am, my brain is probably below my waistline....

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Now you have me worried!
The sizes of the paddle frames are about scale- I hope they will stand up to a bit of use.

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Amazing detail....

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A bit of progress- hull nearly complete, and a start made on the feathering paddles.
Which will be a slow job!
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Even got the odd 2CV bits!

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Reminds me of an ancient one my dad used to recite:
A for 'orses
B for mutton
C for ships... etc.

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Good job it was not delivered by UPS...

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:-)

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Pless- for the sheer volume...
Plus, he's a good guy.

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In Europe- probably Naples.
But I was driving a Lotus...
Paris- driving a right hand drive Renault 4.
All the hard boys thought my wife...

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Sad.
We are losing the good guys.
RIP.

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That's not a model-that's heavy engineering!

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Curses department!
I thought I had made a neat job of the paddle boxes; I copied the details from the original builder's drawings.
Just looked...

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Looking a bit nearer!
I am laying off the woodwork for a while, to make the feathering paddles- probably a few weeks work there. I have to make...

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But were they building boats? found next to a river, anyway. :-)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-66846772...

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Same here, on my PC

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Still think that they have not resolved the cooling....

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More fun with a 262!...