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Incredibly work starting this one Alvama. But as other members said as well, she
does not really look like an ''ice-carrier'' yet. I remember seeing the Habakuk in
a Discovery documentary, where she mostly looked like a kind of wood, with metal
structures sticking out of it.

Anyway, good luck and I'm sure you'll make a beautiful draw out of it.

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Also, even with the cooling system, it would still melt within a year.

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that's why they used pycrete.....but I don't know how good that would work

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Pycrete is very strong, but it melts only a little slower than normal ice.

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The ship was planned with only pycrete.
Not plain ice, acelanceloet.

There where two test ships. Models of habbakruk from pycrete.
The first one sank pritty fast. And the 2nd one is still on the bodem somewhere (metal parts)

Colambikes first picture is fan art. Pure fake.
The ship could have been build. But the risk to spent millions on it for a year... Thats why it wasnt build.
Only the metal superstructure would have been painted(found it on the web for somebody his model)
The superstructure was to be metal.

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Mitchell, Habbakuk never got past initial planning, every single picture or drawing of it is "fake" as you say.

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really? then it is weird that it even lasts a year or would that be when it was used only in the northern atlantic?

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The Canadians did construct a small vessel out of pykrete as a, what's the word... concept demonstrator? It took three hot summers to melt it AFTER they turned off the cooling system. On the other hand, some of those de-bunking TV shows have attempted to do the same project but had their boats melt before they could even launch them. Go figure.

Still working on the ice effect, wait some days.

But there where two smaller versions.
So that is actually ferther then planning...

Mythbusters made a speedboat of pycrete. Wich was succesfull for some smaller time...

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-Clemencau class aircraft carrier
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-Poolster class AOR
-Amsterdam class AOR
-Minas Gerais aircraft carrier