Blackronin

I needed a balloon so I decided to scratchbuild one. With the nice help of Dave (Clipper) on correct measurements I start making the paper moulds for the Balloon. You can look for the plans in the file section:



After the moulds were created, I cut the numerous parts in cardboard from a pizza package. I love pizza and I love cardboard.

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"Rittmeister Joachim, why have you left alone? Haven't I told you that you should take your flight with you?" "Jawoll, Hauptmann Schroeder. But as I was testing my new plane, I thought that I should go alone." "Why?" "I didn't want to put them at risk." "But you put yourself at risk by going alone, yes?" "Jawoll, Hauptmann Schroeder. I just..." "I understand, son. You almost lost one of your men. But listen to this very carefully:

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I've never had seen Hauptmann Schroeder so agitated. He was running to me, shouting my name without his usual stating of my rank. "Joachim! Joachim! Come quickly!" I thought at first that all hell had broken loose. But then he told me that Willarm had been brought by some soldiers in a truck and that he was in the infirmary. I got there first. When I got near his bed he smiled to me. "You thought you had got rid of me, didn't you?" I patted him on his shoulder and I sat in an

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Popped over to the Hospital today to see how young Gordon was doing and to slip him a bottle of Glenmorangie Scotch, it being his tipple. He seems to be recovering well and has all the nurses eating out of his hand. He tells me this missing German chappie is not Willibald as I thought but Willarm.
Anyway, to cut to the chase. After I left Gordon to the tender mercies of the Quacks, I borrowed the Squadron Alvis and drove out to the forward battery nearest to where he was reported last. They

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Pre-Scenario briefing:

Inês wanted to play again with F. O. Kyte and to be able to do it properly she wanted to know more about him. As I told her about the myth already created around Kyte's, she devised the idea of a Special Table for this Ace. I merely helped her to create a credible and funny table. Here it is:

F.O. Kyte Gin-in-the-blood Level Table
1 - No Gin, No ability! "I knew I should have brought my flask!"
2-3 - Some Gin - Acrobatic Pilot

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