Well, Canberra is slowly coming out of COVID restrictions. We are able to travel around the ACT and NSW, but not other states yet. So the output of craft stuff is still our main way of filling in time. Mum and I have been making 2 sorts of cards. There are some pretty arty cards like the flowers one, and some crazy ones like the one with the snarky cat. I really like the snarky cat series and am bothering Mum to do more of them. Dad and I are building more ships, all 1/700 scale. The first photo has 3 ships that are important in the history of Pearl Harbour. The small one is the destroyer USS Ward, which sunk a Japanese midget submarine just outside the harbour on the morning of the attack. The middle-sized ship is USS Arizona, the battleship whose wreck is the centrepiece of the Arizona Memorial (see my post of Jan 11, 2014 for images of the site). The largest is USS Missouri the battleship that Dad and I were able to clamber over when we were at Pearl (see the post from Jan 15, 2014 for images of her). And for those who thought that RMS Titanic was the largest ship ever built, just compare it with the Queen Mary 2. The QM2 is not even the largest ship today as many tankers, container ships and aircraft carriers are longer and heavier. However, it is the largest ship that this small bear has ever been on (there are lots of images of that trip, just type Queen Mary in the search box at the top of the page).
Labels: boats, cards, models
# posted by Bart Bear @ 5:08 pm
