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    Lightbulb Whats on your workbench for July 2015!

    July is a i need to finish last months projects! I made some progress but added more items to that list.



    Rich

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    Well Rich, I am intent on getting this finished today.
    Just got to glue the aircraft down and then varnish the base.


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    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Very nice, Rob; that should tempt those Ju.88s off the shipping
    Karl'
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    How lovely, Rob Looks perfect!
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    "We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."

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    Rob

    That is great! 1:700 scale or smaller?

    Rich

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jager View Post
    Very nice, Rob; that should tempt those Ju.88s off the shipping
    Karl'
    I will let you know after I fly my June Malta Mission tomorrow Karl.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Quote Originally Posted by richard m schwab View Post
    Rob

    That is great! 1:700 scale or smaller?

    Rich
    Done in my favourite scale Rich. 1:1200.
    Rob.
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    Great aerodrome model!

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    That looks very good indeed.
    Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!

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    Having flown the mission this morning, you should be able to see it in action over the next few days.
    Rob.
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    Can not wait, Rob.
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    I've got a Short Empire flying boat conversion going on, as well as a Dornier 24

    Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guntruck View Post
    I've got a Short Empire flying boat conversion going on, as well as a Dornier 24
    These look great, Steve!

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    Rob

    A great job on them! I limit myself to 1:300 scale!


    Rich

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    Done in my favourite scale Rich. 1:1200.
    Rob.
    Oooh I want to bomb it such a tempting target - great work Rob

    Never Knowingly Undergunned !!

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    Rob - your airfield looks wonderful! What a lovely target to bomb OR defend...

    I love your flying boats, too, Steve! They will look wonderful finished.

    Have to get working myself now!

    All the best,
    Matt

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    Quote Originally Posted by Guntruck View Post
    I've got a Short Empire flying boat conversion going on, as well as a Dornier 24

    Now that is one beauty I'm looking forward to seeing painted up Gunners.
    Rob.
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    Quote Originally Posted by richard m schwab View Post
    Rob

    A great job on them! I limit myself to 1:300 scale!


    Rich
    I will admit that the Wing roundels were a bit of a challenge Rich.
    Rob.
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    I can send you this target card if you would like it Chris.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Thumbs up

    Rob

    A dot of blue marker and a dot of red?


    Rich

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
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    I can send you this target card if you would like it Chris.
    Rob.
    Very nice work. I think I would definitely need my magnifying glass (given as a joke on a landmark birthday a couple of years ago) for that one.

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    Rob, I do like that aerodrome, very cool!

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    And now for something completely different..... a DBA 3.0 Herodatan Blemmye Army in 15mm.

    The DBA 3.0 Blemmye army list is from 350BC, so I had to use the Meroitic Ku$hite TOE from 450BC.

    Herodotus is an excellent historian, but travelers' tales got a little mixed by the time they reached him.

    From Wiki:

    Herodotus (/hɨˈrɒdətəs/; Ancient Greek: Ἡρόδοτος Hēródotos, pronounced [hɛː.ró.do.tos]) was a Greek historian who was born in Halicarnassus, Caria (modern-day Bodrum, Turkey) and lived in the fifth century BC (c. 484–425 BC). Widely referred to as "The Father of History" (first conferred by Cicero), he was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically and critically, and then to arrange them into a historiographic narrative
    The Blemmyes (Latin Blemmyae) were a nomadic Nubian tribal kingdom that existed from at least 600 BC to the 8th century AD. They were described in Roman histories of the later empire. From the late 3rd century on, along with another tribe, the Nobadae, they repeatedly fought the Romans. They were said to live in Africa, in Nubia, Kush, or Sudan.

    They also became fictionalized as a legendary race of acephalous (headless) monsters who had eyes and mouths on their chest.
    According to Herodotus, in his Histories, the inhabitants of ancient Libya claimed the existence of these creatures in the eastern part of their lands, as well as cynocephali, "and the wild men and women, besides many other creatures not fabulous". In a similar vein, Pliny the Elder in the Natural History mentions the (historical) Blemmyae tribe of North Africa as "said to have no heads, their mouths and eyes being seated in their breasts". He situates the Blemmyae somewhere in Aethiopia


    And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. ---Shakespeare, Othello
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    I have finaly finished of all my 7YW figures, now for Bolt-Action Chindits.

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    The Aerodrome is really nice!
    Cool conversions, too.
    The headless army is very interesting.
    I have an Ansaldo SV, Nieuport 17, Bristol F2B and Albatross DVa paper models on the assembly line.

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    My painting has stalled... but I added this to my virtual workbench, along with the D.III.



    And a Lohner L is in the works, too.


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    Hurrah, my delays in looking at the Lohner L have paid off! :-) [I don't have a lot of good source material on that one.]

    On my virtual workbench is Sikorsky S-16, SIA 7B, Nieuport 11&16, Grigorivich M-9, and maybe a railroad station - target in full color.

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    My last (hopefully!) 3 Fokker DVIIs for Jasta 13, then the next round of Jasta 18.
    Plus a BE2, a repaint Dr1 that needs a bit of tidying up, and a Pfalz DIII for an experimental project.
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    Now I really am going to have to get back onto my WWI painting Tim.
    They are another bunch which will set the hearts a flutter when finished.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Whose lozenge decals are you using to redo the Stark DVIIs, Tim? Those are looking gorgeous, as always I have to get going on some of my models before summer slips away and I'm back in school!

    And the virtual stuff coming up is exciting, John and Daryl - especially the Lohner! VERY excited to see this little lovely

    All the best,
    Matt

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    The lozenges are Valom, as are the balkankreuzen.

    The Jasta 13 beasties on the left already have the lozenge on the underside of the top wing, and both surfaces of the lower wing.

    The now decal-less Valom kits will eventually get cloaked in Reviresco full-body decals, like my earlier "Stark" and "Factory Fresh" DVIIs.

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    Well the aircraft are piling up:

    5 Albatros DIII's
    1 R504K
    4 ME109's
    3 Blenheims
    3 JU52's
    3 JU88's
    12 Swordfish

    and the ships

    1 Prince of Wales
    1 Roma
    8 Japanese destroyers
    1 Fuso
    2 Japanese Heavy Cruisers
    2 Japanese light cruisers
    1 Hornet
    1 Enterprise
    2 Conditiori Cruisers
    4 Navigatori Destroyers
    Littorio
    Veneto Vittorio
    4 older Italian Battleships

    Enough to keep me going for an eternity.
    See you on the Dark Side......

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    The good thing about unpainted minis is we can't die until they are finished.... right?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teaticket View Post
    The good thing about unpainted minis is we can't die until they are finished.... right?
    I'll drink to that!

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    That's what I'm hoping, Peter! Between planes and large-scale figures and some wargaming bits and bobs, I've got LOTS of years left!

    I've finished up The Riddler and a Stark DVII repaint - I'll have to get those posted so folks can see I actually HAVE accomplished (a little) something...

    All the best,
    Matt

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    Quote Originally Posted by matt56 View Post
    That's what I'm hoping, Peter! Between planes and large-scale figures and some wargaming bits and bobs, I've got LOTS of years left!

    I've finished up The Riddler and a Stark DVII repaint - I'll have to get those posted so folks can see I actually HAVE accomplished (a little) something...

    All the best,
    Matt
    Matt, get those photo'd up so we can see them! (says the guy who has a dozen planes he hasn't taken photos of)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teaticket View Post
    The good thing about unpainted minis is we can't die until they are finished.... right?
    If I can stay out of the O club I would get more done

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    .....and now my Thirty Years War Swedes have turned up! Back of the queue lads
    Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!

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    Finally started on of my B-24s. After reading 'We Flew Alone' I had to paint up a PB4Y-1 for some Pacific action. Just have to work up a few more decals and add in a few mgs to finish her up.

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    What a pretty paint scheme, Peter! I love it - she will be swell to fly, and I look forward to seeing her finished.

    Where did you snag the "Adventure Wheels" models?

    All the best,
    Matt

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    Matt, I found these on either Amazon, Walmart or ebay. They also go under the name 'Tailwinds'. The B-24 is 1/200. The B-17 is ~1/210, close enough for me! Some of the fighter planes in the line are much larger than 1/200 so I didn't get any. I don't think the Maisto lines are consistant with any scale.
    They can be found for less than $10.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teaticket View Post
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    Very "Liberating" paint scheme!

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    I am now looking at these magnificent beauties and thinking why did I not do the Pacific.
    Then I look at my gaming space and I know why. If anything could have swayed me it is that model. How far out into the Atlantic did they go?
    Rob.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    I am now looking at these magnificent beauties and thinking why did I not do the Pacific.
    Then I look at my gaming space and I know why. If anything could have swayed me it is that model. How far out into the Atlantic did they go?
    Rob.
    They had a range of 2900 miles. I know in the Pacific they would routinely do 800 mile searches, some to 1000 miles.

    Service in the Atlantic Ocean
    The Liberator contributed heavily in the Atlantic battles. According to one author, RAF Coastal Command Liberators sank, or assisted in sinking, 70 U-boats, starting with U-597 sunk off Iceland 12 October, 1942 by No. 120 Squadron. Four of these kills were made by Czech pilots of RAF No. 311 Squadron. Some of No. 311 Squadron's Liberators were equipped with four 5-inch rockets on airfoil-shaped mounts forward of the bomb bays, and such rockets were used in sinking one U-boat.
    The RCAF's No 10 Squadron sank or helped in sinking 2 U-boats ( U-341 and U-520. The latter boat was not sunk by a Liberator though).
    USAAF Liberators participated in sinking 10 U-boats, while US Navy Liberators added 13 more.
    Liberators were also operated by the RAAF (in the Pacific), the South African Air Force (over Southern Europe), the Dutch Air Force (in the Pacific), and by India and France post-war.

    Service over Europe
    The most famous Liberator mission was made from the Benghazi area of Libya on 1 August, 1943 by 179 B-24s of the USAAF IX Bomber Command. The targets were seven refineries near Ploesti, Rumania, well out of reach of any other Allied bomber at that time. While the target was badly damaged, it was quickly repaired. Two bombers crashed on or shortly after take-off, 12 aborted, 43 were shot down by the enemy, 56 others received significant battle damage, and 8 were interned in Turkey. Only 99 returned to their own bases, while 15 others managed to land in other Allied-controlled areas.
    The US 8th Air Force used Liberators along with B-17s to attack strategic targets in Europe from English bases. Loss rates were initially very high for both bomber types, but eased considerably as Luftwaffe resistance collapsed in the face of long-range fighter escort in the first half of 1944. The accurate German flak was always a serious threat and the Liberators, because they flew a few thousand feet lower than the Fortresses, became known as "flak magnets". A positive aspect of the lower altitudes was improved bombing accuracy.
    There are many who believe the Liberator was not as tough as the B-17 against the fierce opposition over Europe. There are various arguments as to the validity of this assessment. One might point out that the highest losses of any 8th Air Force bomb group was achieved by a B-17 unit, but this is not entirely fair because B-17 and B-24 groups often did not hit the same targets. It is enough to say that both types did the job they had to do.

    U-boats sunk by this aircraft

    1942
U-597, U-216, U-599, U-611,
    1943
U-529, U-623, U-524, U-635, U-632, U-189, U-332, 
U-109, U-456, U-258, U-304, U-200, U-628, U-535, U-951, 
U-232, U-514, U-506, U-558 +, U-598, U-404 +, U-706 +, U-84, 
U-468, U-604 +, U-341, U-389, U-419, U-643, U-470, U-844, 
U-964, U-540, U-274 +, U-848 +, U-966 +, U-508, U-280, U-849, 
U-391,
    1944
U-271, U-177, U-990, U-292, U-629, U-373, U-441, 
U-821 +, U-971 +, U-317, U-988 +, U-478 +, U-586, U-319, U-347, 
U-471, U-969, U-608 +, U-618 +, U-466, U-867, U-863, U-1060 +,
    1945
U-681, U-1106, U-326, U-1017, U-534, U-579, U-1008, 
U-3523,
    75 U-boats lost to B-24 aircraft. + means that the B-24 shared the credit for the sinking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by jbmacek View Post
    I'll drink to that!
    Me too

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Helmut View Post
    Very "Liberating" paint scheme!
    What else could I do with some 'free' time?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teaticket View Post
    They had a range of 2900 miles. I know in the Pacific they would routinely do 800 mile searches, some to 1000 miles.

    Service in the Atlantic Ocean
    The Liberator contributed heavily in the Atlantic battles. According to one author, RAF Coastal Command Liberators sank, or assisted in sinking, 70 U-boats, starting with U-597 sunk off Iceland 12 October, 1942 by No. 120 Squadron. Four of these kills were made by Czech pilots of RAF No. 311 Squadron. Some of No. 311 Squadron's Liberators were equipped with four 5-inch rockets on airfoil-shaped mounts forward of the bomb bays, and such rockets were used in sinking one U-boat.
    That is a very useful piece of information thanks Peter.
    Now all I need is to find where I can get hold of them on E-bay.
    Rob.
    "Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    That is a very useful piece of information thanks Peter.
    Now all I need is to find where I can get hold of them on E-bay.
    Rob.
    Looking to do a little Liberator vs Condor action, Rob?
    Karl
    It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus

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    Very nice paint job there, Peter.

    Karl
    It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus

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