You can always put a little black dot there yourself if the released model does not have it.
Just placed my pre order from here since I learned my lesson from the last one I placed from another vendor. Now I know I will get them when they are released.
I am curious which colour scheme or pilot of each plane type from Series 8 do people like best? If you don't like any for a particular plane just omit it.
For me:
N28- O'Neill
Fokker E.V- Lowenhardt
CL.IIIa- Baur/Von Hengl
Macchi- Arcidiacco (this was the hardest choice of all planes- like them all :P)
For the colour scheme Terry, I go with.
Rickenbacker.
Ostercamp.
Hager/ Webber.
Arcidiacone.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Ostercamp is the only one I'm going to buy from this series – due to the wing issue. His wasp like DVIII is one of my favourite planes/colour schemes.
Guys, does anyone know Macchi's maneuver deck letter? It is for General overview of released minis - WWI
And while we're at it, does anyone have any idea how many Macchi M.5s were captured by the Austrians during the war?
Fokker E.V = Osterkamp
Nieuport 28 = They all look the same dont they? seriously tho, O'Neil's shark mouth wins the day.
Macchi M.5 = Haviland just beats Arcidiacono to first place.
Hannover = Hager/Weber i think.
Also just wondering - how many official aircraft do people tend to own? 92 for myself. Just trying to work out if ive gone from hobbyist to mentalist
Not totally up to date but should give you an idea Dan.
http://www.wingsofwar.org/forums/sho...res-do-you-own
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Hi Bruce,
according to Windsock Datafile No.86 "Macchi M.5" by Gregory Alegi, this machine run out of fuel on 19 November 1917 while being flown by Secondo Capo Cannoniere (Naval Rank) Daniele Minciotti of 260a Squadriglia. He pursued an enemy aircraft well deep into Austrian lines then had to perform an emergency landing thus presenting the Austro-Hungarians a fully operational machine.
The M.5 was then flown by Fähnrich i.d.R. Friedrich Welker until 23 February 1918 when the machine crashed near Trieste harbour killing the pilot.
A note on the Italian pilot: Daniele Minciotti was born in Assisi on 6 January 1891. He took part in the Italo-Turkish war in 1911 then earned his wings during WWI. He was the first Italian pilot to perform a night bombing on the enemy coast setting aflame the hangar of Trieste. He was awarded the Silver Medal for Military Valor.
Mau
By the way, did you know that the Macchi M.5 is based on the Austrian-Hungarian Lohner Type L (serial L.40)?
The design was essentially a more powerful version of the Lohner E, and became highly influential. Apart from licenced production by UFAG, the L provided the basis for designs by other major manufacturers. In Germany, Hansa-Brandenburg manufactured a modified version of it as their first flying boat, the FB, and in Italy, a captured example was used as a pattern aircraft by Macchi, who produced it as the L.1. In turn, the L.1 would provide the foundation for a large number of Macchi designs over the coming years.
On May 27th 1915 the aircraft (serial L.40) was captured and taken intact near the naval air station of Porto Corsini. The captured flying boat was copied by Macchi-Nieuport and the L.1 was built within a month. The L.1s were delivered to Italian maritime reconnaissance and bombing units based on the Adriatic. An improved version was developed as the Macchi L.2
The Macchi M.5 is a further development of the L.3
A restored example of an Austro-Hungarian Lohner L (serial L.127) is preserved at the Italian Air Force Museum at Vigna di Valle.
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner_L
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lohner_Type_L
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchi_M.5
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I did not! In fact, I know very little about Great War era seaplanes. I'm more familiar with their WWII brethren, whether seaplanes or float planes.
Thanks for the info, I'll be looking at the Macchi a little more closely now... and wondering if/when we'll see another seaplane sculpt produced by Ares.
Wish we had a more definitive release date, as I want to preorder and the end of the month paycheck is making more sense than the 15th due to having taken some time off around the holidays. I wanna take advantage of the Aerodrome Accesories preorder, it's a great deal.
Do we have an official release date for these that isn't as vague as "january/february"? We are a few days from half-way through January without a target date, so I am going to suppose that February is the more likely scenario.
Not quite yet, but very soon.
The AA site will give you exact shipping quotes. Just add the items you want to your cart, and then view your cart and enter in your shipping info. This is all before you start the check out process, so if you don't like what you see, you have not wasted much time... although I can't foresee any reason you'd see something you don't like
Ares' site now says March for the release date on these bad boys. That's good news for my wallet!
Just hope it's in the begining of March.
Yes saw that ARES site has a release of March and good to hear. Hope the next WWII set will be out soon after that.
Good news all round then.
rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
So, these Macchis are going to be the first official planes that you can't display without the base, aren't they? I wonder if anyone plans to create a carriage assembly for these guys on Shapeways...
They are certainly going to need something to support them if we want to film them as landed on water.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
I'm not sure but those floats on each side could do the job if they are low enough.
Attachment 149856
This would work when landed on water but on land you would need a carriage like this one
The Lohner is exhibited hifgh up, photos from above are rare. Here some from the Museum staff:
http://forum.largescaleplanes.com/in...howtopic=45927
Plane is unarmed, alas.
Very nice and useful pictures Andrea.
Even when we visited last April we could not get pictures from that angle.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Unless you were are German pilot! ThereThere are several accounts of German pilots landing severely damaged sea planes and flying boats on grass landing strips without further damage to the plane
Clearly they are much stronger than they look, James.
David I will try and find the actual record of the dry landings the Germans performed with damaged sea planes. One account was of an amazing VSL. 12 FEET and he saved the aircraft!
Looks like a delay due to the strike at the ports on the West coast. But I have my order in.
That explains that then.
Thanks chaps. i won't hold my breath.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Dammit wheres these planes? im going into cold turkey!
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