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Modelling Projects / N/S Savannah
« on: August 22, 2016, 01:03:42 PM »
She was the first nulcear powered cargo/passenger ship and was launched in 1959, taken into service in 1962 and taken out of service in 1972.
First - thank you Haddock for the model - but it came with the proviso that he expected me to do something different/strange with it.
So lots of racking what is left of my brain and some ideas came to mind but not good enough I think to satisfy Haddock. Then it hit me ( no,not she who must be obeyed) but how was the ship greeted when she was launched and how would she be greeted now.
So she will be placed just leaving a long jetty with people on the left dressed in 1960 style with pleasure boats and greeting placards saying such things as "Go Savannah Go" and "Nuclear power is good and the future". The people on the right will be dressed in 2100 style with greenpease demonstration boats around her, and anti-nuclear posters. The sea will also change from bright blue and smooth on the left to darker and choppy on the right.
AND BEFORE SOME OF YOU COMPLAIN THAT THE MODEL IS POLITICALLY AND ENVIROMENTALLY BIASED - ITS JUST AN IDEA TO SHOW THE CHANGING ATTITUDES OF SOME PEOPLE OVER THE INTERVIENING YEARS. AND AS I ALWAYS SAY ITS JUST A MODEL AND ITS FOR FUN.
First - thank you Haddock for the model - but it came with the proviso that he expected me to do something different/strange with it.
So lots of racking what is left of my brain and some ideas came to mind but not good enough I think to satisfy Haddock. Then it hit me ( no,not she who must be obeyed) but how was the ship greeted when she was launched and how would she be greeted now.
So she will be placed just leaving a long jetty with people on the left dressed in 1960 style with pleasure boats and greeting placards saying such things as "Go Savannah Go" and "Nuclear power is good and the future". The people on the right will be dressed in 2100 style with greenpease demonstration boats around her, and anti-nuclear posters. The sea will also change from bright blue and smooth on the left to darker and choppy on the right.
AND BEFORE SOME OF YOU COMPLAIN THAT THE MODEL IS POLITICALLY AND ENVIROMENTALLY BIASED - ITS JUST AN IDEA TO SHOW THE CHANGING ATTITUDES OF SOME PEOPLE OVER THE INTERVIENING YEARS. AND AS I ALWAYS SAY ITS JUST A MODEL AND ITS FOR FUN.
