Royal Navy Copper Qinetiq Model – RFA Tarbatness

Royal Navy Copper Qinetiq Model – RFA Tarbatness

An incredible example of craftsmanships from the days before 3D modelling, Ex Qinetiq.

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Only the Royal Navy could afford to commission these stupendous copper models. Hand built by a expert team of craftsmen to the exact scale proportions in order to gain the vessels Radar Cross Section, which is the measure of how detectable a vessel is by radar

Make sure you check out the dimensions as these are huge !

28 February 1967 launched by Swan Hunter & Wigham Richardson Ltd, Wallsend as Yard Nr: 2018 named Tarbatness. Her launch had been delayed for 24 hours by high winds. She was originally to have been built by Barclay Curle on the Clyde, but that Yard had obtained a Czech order for a bulk carrier at the same time, so she ended up being built at the same Yard as her sisters. Named after a headland on the NE coast of Scotland which separates the Cromarty and Dornoch Firths

Dimensions : 

11ft length

30in high 20in widest

Approx 70 kgs weight.

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