For sale: warship. SOLD!
For sale - one light aircraft carrier.
Mileage - high, but reasonable for age.
This classic vessel is a rarity, and an ideal opportunity for the dedicated hot-rodder to really express his skills.
SOLD!
For sale - one light aircraft carrier.
Mileage - high, but reasonable for age.
This classic vessel is a rarity, and an ideal opportunity for the dedicated hot-rodder to really express his skills.
SOLD!
Discussions
8 years ago
She's been sold!
8 years ago
It is a great gift for child.haha.
Reply 8 years ago
I'd like to see somebody knit a cosy...
8 years ago
Pile it full of religious zealots (of ALL denominations), and you'll have a worshipful warship... ;$
Then someone can bomb it, and they'll all rust in pieces... ;$
But (very slightly) more seriously, I think I'd go for a 'Cal' look - shave and fill all the lumps and holes on and in the hull. Really smooth it out.
The deck protruberances would have to go - except I'd want to centralise the take-off ramp, to give a 'bird-man' launch-pad.
All the towers would have to be smoothed as well - and raked to give the 'classic' smokestack look.
Reply 8 years ago
...do you know how long that would take?
Reply 8 years ago
I don't know... With the money to afford it in the first place, I could fairly easily get access to a dry dock - as well as the workforce.
And I could probably persuade a few actual Rodders to collaborate on the design etc.
I'd guess the hull could be sorted within six months or so, but the deck and towers may well take a year or two, depending on how they affect the structural integrity.
And then there's potentially another few years to fit it out the way I'd want it - which I haven't figured out yet.
I'd still want to have a good go at some of the stuff myself, of course.
All-in-all, we're probably talking 5 or 6 years - minimum - so allow 10.
Still, it'd be worth it in the end, just for the artistry of the thing!
Reply 8 years ago
Can I go for a little trip with you when it's done?
Reply 8 years ago
Sure, why not? -
Although...hang on, this is Instructables...Could I trust you not to 'tinker'..? ;)
8 years ago
Instructaship? We could man it using all the forum goers, and show the world how to make.
8 years ago
That would be the pinnacle of any film makers career. Oooh, floating film studio.
(I'm just itching to see what James-Bond-villain type characters come out of the woodwork for this. 'twould be any super-criminal-warlord's dream)
8 years ago
I would love one, just knock all that control stuff off, cover it with grass seed and manure, Bam! Super Chinampa!
8 years ago
I'm not quite rich/evil enough, but I'd like one.
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8 years ago
I wonder how much they'll get, scrap steel prices aren't that high, bet it ends up being broken at Alang India.
Reply 8 years ago
. As long as it's not a French aircraft carrier. :)
8 years ago
How much will cost to send it packed to Villa Elisa, Buenos Aires, Argentina?
I'm doing the pool in the backyard to put it!
Reply 8 years ago
Are you sure you're not planning to have another crack at the Falklands?
(It would be an ironic move, after all.)
Reply 8 years ago
No, I'm not a "brilliant strategist" as was Galtieri!
Furthermore, they are not the Falklands, are the Malvinas...(stop here, OK?)
Reply 8 years ago
;-)
All good fun.
8 years ago
Can I get it gift wrapped?