I revised my last delorean to implement a few suggested changes.

Picture taken by my sister.

Photographed on the 24 May 1981 at Chatham during Navy Days, this was to be the last Navy Day event at before the base closed down, the event scheduled for 1982 being cancelled due to the Falklands War.

Vauquelin belonged to the T 47 (Surcouf) class were the first destroyers built for the French Navy after the Second World War. Twelve ships were built between 1955 and 1957. The ships were modernised in the 1960s and decommissioned in the 1980s when they were replaced by Georges Leygues class frigates

The ships were designed as fleet escorts rather than for independent operations therefore had a slower speed than their predecessors. The main guns were a French design firing a 127mm (5 inch) shell, which enabled them to use US ammunition.

Original design

Displacement: 2750 tons standard, 3740 tons full load

Length: 128.6 m

Beam: 12.7 m

Draught: 5.4 m

Machinery: 2 shaft geared turbines, 4 boilers, 63,000 hp

Speed: 34 knots

Range: 5000 nmi at 18 knots

Armament:

6 - 127mm guns (3 twin turrets)

6 - 57mm guns (3 twin turrets)

4 - 20mm guns (4x1)

12 - 550mm torpedo tubes (4x3)

Crew: 347

Vauquelin was refitted to concentrate on ASW mission. To this purpose, she was fitted with the Malafon (ASROC) system and towed sonar array on the stern, along with a change in her armament. She was homeported at Brest, the Vauquelin had the task of protecting the transit of French SSBNs and sea lanes of communication

Revised Armament

2 100mm guns

2 20mm guns

6 torpedo-launchers (12 torpedoes)

1 Malafon (ASROC) system with 13 missiles

1 ASW 305mm rocket launcher.

She was decommissioned in 1986.

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Victorian Railways 5'3" gauge T H Woodroffe/N C Harris 'D3' (ex-'DD') Class express passenger 4-6-0 No.D3 635, built by Baldwin (Philadelphia), Works No.36888, in 1911 as a Class D2 (later rebuilt to a D3) and withdrawn in 1964; at the Victoria Railway Museum, North Williamstown, 2 April 2016. 261 Class 'DD's' were built in 1902-20: 28 by VR Newport, 8 by VR Ballarat, 8 by VR Bendigo, 20 by Baldwin, 20 by Walkers (Queensland), 20 by Beyer Peacock, 40 by Thompsons (Castlemaine) and 7 by Phoenix Foundry (Ballarat). In 1929 they were reclassified: 26 Woodroffe 'D1' of 1902 - unsuperheated, low running plate with splashers, narrow cab; Shannon revised 'D2' of 1914 - superheated, raised running plate without splashers, wide Canadian-type cab, larger cylinders; Shannon enlarged 'D3' of 1912 with larger 'K' Class boiler, early builds unsuperheated, later fitted with superheaters, later locos built superheated, plus 94 'D2's' rebuilt to 'D3' standard. 1 'D3' was converted to burn pulverised brown coal in 1923. The 'D3's' were more efficient, economical and faster than the earlier locos. The 'D1's' were withdrawn in 1929-41 whilst the 'D3's' were withdrawn in 1958-64. The red livery was introduced by VR Railway Commissioner Thomas Tait, formerly of the Canadian Pacific, as red was the CP's livery. When displaced by more modern main line express locos, their light axle loading enabled them to be re-allocated to branch line passenger traffic.

Revised

slower fading out

I've added 10mm to the top tube and taken 10mm from the stem (now 90mm) to push the front wheel out and give longer front centres. Virtual top tube now comes out at 542mm. I also increased the fork length to take a 57mm brake, reduced the head tube extension a little and increased the angle of the top tube to 8 degrees to keep the same standover.

Oh and not to forget, I've changed the chainset and derailleurs to Shimano.

I tightened the crop as suggested by Radimage. I think it's much better...

Pit Stop Road Trip Fuel

8am

I've reversed out the main text and made it larger, the directional lines are now bold triangles, and the main shape from the background is now just an outline. I also made the subtext larger (though I believe it still needs to be a bit bigger) and got rid of the tilt it had.

revised

Thanks for the tip Aleks.

The "binoculars" are really the missile and projectile interception system, known as "Throne". The system is very useful for intercepting missiles and even the Russian tank rounds. This system can only be mounted on armored vehicles due to the explosions and fragmentations caused from the exploding munitions.

Little pcb extracted from junk camcorder, revealing factory handmade modifications.

Thanks to Alex @ CombatBrick I got a nice delivery of bits including some freebies inc. this nice sniper rifle, also wanted to show the updated fig with my velcro panel for the vest. This is now probably my fav. fig.