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Offline Louis De Sousa

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Heres the QE2 in white and grey after the Falklands War.

http://videoboss.smugmug.com/gallery/2393498_wQrZR#P-1-12

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Offline Andrew Collier

Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #1 on: May 27, 2009, 10:15 AM »
Nice link thanks, love the way all these new galleries keep appearing!
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Offline Twynkle

Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #2 on: May 27, 2009, 11:06 AM »
Do you think she looked smaller in her 'white and grey' look?
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Offline Andrew Collier

Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #3 on: May 28, 2009, 10:14 AM »
Don't know about smaller, but chunkier deffinatly, less sleek.

Without the long horizontal dividing line of the charoal hull and white uppers that we're more used to, you kinda loose the sense of the ships great length a little....
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Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #4 on: May 29, 2009, 12:36 PM »
And another one of herself from my collection.... Stunning, l always thought she looked very smart in the grey colours, However when the rust poped through it did spoil the looks, interesting to see the black davits.
And if you look closely a door open in the back of the CUNARD

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Offline highlander0108

Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #5 on: May 29, 2009, 01:14 PM »
Great photo Myles and I do agree with you after seeing this pic.  I think the color scheme could have been improved a bit with a white waterline strip as she currently has between the grey hull and the red bootstripe color and perhaps another stripe of a darker color, black perhaps, between the grey hull and the buff superstructure color. This photo illustrates how washed out the ship looks in this color scheme.  The black and tan colors in the area of the davits is quite striking.  Also interesting is to her her "nostrels" in use with the lines to the tugs.  Despite the color changes, there is no hiding her classic lines we all miss so dearly.

Where abouts was this taken?  Looking at the flags flying from the mast, somewhere in the UK?
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Offline Malcolm

Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #6 on: May 29, 2009, 02:04 PM »
And if you look closely a door open in the back of the CUNARD

Unfortunately the resolution of the picture isn't great enough to enable to picture to be sufficiently enlarged :( Is the original picture at a higher resolution? If so would you email me a copy? :)

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Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #7 on: May 29, 2009, 02:11 PM »
Its a great photo, do you see that she's got a couple of tenders missing?
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Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #8 on: May 29, 2009, 02:15 PM »
Its a great photo, do you see that she's got a couple of tenders missing?

Typical geeks! ::)

It's a great photo but: an open door and missing tenders are FAR more interesting! :D

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Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #9 on: May 29, 2009, 02:20 PM »
Typical geeks! ::)

It's a great photo but: an open door and missing tenders are FAR more interesting! :D

yeah and this geek can delete your account or ban you so watch out!   :P
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Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #10 on: May 29, 2009, 02:38 PM »
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Quote from: Cunardqueen on Today at 12:36:19 PM
And if you look closely a door open in the back of the CUNARD


Unfortunately the resolution of the picture isn't great enough to enable to picture to be sufficiently enlarged  Is the original picture at a higher resolution? If so would you email me a copy?

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Offline Malcolm

Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #11 on: May 29, 2009, 05:15 PM »
yeah and this geek can delete your account or ban you so watch out!   :P

Hey! I'm not just calling you a geek but me as well. I wasn't being rude about one person but spreading it about ;D

Offline Malcolm

Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #12 on: May 29, 2009, 05:18 PM »
With pleasure !!!

That door isn't how I'd imagined. After the Round Britain trip I thought I'd seen all there was to see about that ship - how wrong I was :(

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Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #13 on: Jun 01, 2009, 08:31 AM »
She looks so clean and crisp in the photo, unfortunately the grey really showed the dirt.

Offline Twynkle

Re: QE2 in white/grey
« Reply #14 on: Jun 01, 2009, 06:01 PM »



Hey Scott

Your lion is great!
(it looks every bit as good as the ones in the QE2 lifts - (elevators!)

Rosie