Very nice Chris. Hope she fares well in the skies.
Very nice Chris. Hope she fares well in the skies.
She's a beauty
Reminds me, I must get on with mine..................
Very nice Fokker fodder Chris !
Thanks chaps, unfortunately I can see a but missed near the tail, flaming camera, this has now been repaired.
Glad you like it, got a nice selection of early equipment now
An upcoming public gaming event at the FLGS had us scrambling to find an appropriate set of defenders against the Zeppelin menace.
What better subject for a model than Leefe Robinson's BE2c? Hello, Shapeways, I need an aircraft....
Roundels by 144 direct. Other decals run off my inkjet printer.
Colors by Vallejo.
Now, where's that Zeppelin?
May I ask how you got the beams from your searchlight to show up so well Bob.
I have a mini searchlight from a model boat, but I can't get it to produce those beams without very heavy smoking.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Thanks Bob.
That will give me a starting point for experimentation.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Great repaint, Bob.
..nice Zeppelin picture.
Voilŕ le soleil d'Austerlitz!
Very nice BE2 there Bob!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Excellent effort on both the aircraft and the Luftschiff photo.
Very nice indeed!
REP!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Splendid work Brian, an excellent example of the type.
Very nice Brian. Not so nice for the poor crew about to set off and face an Eindecker or two.
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Great one Bob. Love the shot with the Zep.
Beautiful
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
Lovely work on the BE.2s Tim, they will look fantastic on the table as 'Fokker Fodder'.
Great work, as always, Tim.
Your backdrop really adds to the feel.
Great painting, Bob, Brian and Tim!
Had this on the Shapeways thread but moving it here... A RAF Be2e
http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/att...1&d=1500085656Attachment 232526
Attachment 232527
Reduced Aircraft Factory figure from Shapeways
Looks great!
I have a couple of these myself, but they're not near the front of the painting queue yet.
When I get to 'em, I'll use yours as inspiration!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Hi
Am near to completing a couple of Shapeways BE2c, I think they were the later model with vertical exhausts and a rear facing observer with mg.
Can anyone please advise the firing arc(s) to put on the base as most seem to only have a front arc (which is near impossible without shooting off propeller or struts) o I am assuming is rear facing (over pilot and to sides) but with a blind spot again at the rear?
I would assume two narrow arcs to either side of the rear?
Second question, are there any plane cards for this model?
Thanks
Baz
Can you provide one with rear firing arcs only?
Very nice work.
My Pair of Be2c’s from Shapeways.
One in livery of early 1915 (unit unknown), I have used discretion and numbered it 925 which was one of the early Bristol factory Be2c’s (200) provided to France and one in France 1916 16th squadron colours and again a batch number produced by the royal airforce factory.
What he said!
My Rep guns are jammed as well!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
really great looking aircraft Sir!
Lest we forget
One of the personal accounts I have read (possible: Wind in the Wires, Duncan Grinnell-Milne), stated that one of the armaments option for the BE 2c was a machinegun in a fixed mount, firing forward, at a roughly 45degree angle. Very awkward to use, but yes, mounted thusly to clear the propeller arc. "Fokker Fodder", (Paul R Hare), has the 2c also using a couple of other mounts: either in a rack on either side of the observer's cockpit (in front), and the observer could switch the machinegun from left to right rack in flight; a third option was mounted , apparently on the right side only, firing from a fixed mount, to a 45 degree angle forward (different from the first mount mentioned: the first one was 45 degrees in the vertical plane: this is 45 degrees right in the horizontal plane). Quite a large measure of experimentation in these early birdss.
Interestingly the model supplied (as a late BE2c) has the mg in the front observer position but pointing back over the pilot left shoulder. Assume it is on a rial so can move to the opposite side, but not sure how practical to fire above the pilot in the middle position?
Very nice BE2c's! For that model I chose the "goal post" mounting, with a Lewis attached to a bar for firing over the pilot's head, as shown below. There were a lot of choices of gun mounts to choose from, none of them very good. I always wondered why the RFC didn't learn from experience and do as the Belgians did with their BE2c's -- swap the observer and pilot and give the observer a more conventional gun mount. Perhaps they were just trying to produce aircraft as fast as they could and had no time & manpower for improvements.
Although not technically a BE2 class aircraft, I thought it best to put my BE12e in this thread. Its a Shapeways by Reduced Aircraft Factory model which I painted based on a drawing of one located on the Wings Palette website (wp.scn.ru) added below. Will be useful in bombing runs in the Sinai even though the color scheme may not be right for that theater. Used Testor's matt olive and Humbrol linen.
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It was essentially an improved single-seat version of the B.E.2. but you could've created a new thread Craig. Looks good.
"He is wise who watches"
Fantastic collection of canon fodder, well done everyone.
Never Knowingly Undergunned !!
Two BE2c from 4 Sqn RFC, Allonville, France.
#1701 Capt JC Halahan & Capt. McLeod, late 1915.
#1779 unknown crew, Jan. 1916.
From "Ronny Bar Profiles - British Two-Seaters of the Great War"
shapeways Reduced Aircraft Factory - late fin version
decals: homemade plane #'s and "S," the rest by miscmini
Custom bases & cards
Attachment 314861
Last edited by malachi; 05-19-2022 at 21:19.
Nicely done Chris
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
Awesome work on the planes and the cards as well. It's the total package, Rep inbound.
Thanks, all
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