July is a i need to finish last months projects! I made some progress but added more items to that list.
Rich
July is a i need to finish last months projects! I made some progress but added more items to that list.
Rich
Very nice, Rob; that should tempt those Ju.88s off the shipping
Karl'
It is impossible for a man to begin to learn what he thinks he knows. -- Epictetus
How lovely, Rob Looks perfect!
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
Rob
That is great! 1:700 scale or smaller?
Rich
Great aerodrome model!
That looks very good indeed.
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
Great aerodrome, Rob!
Having flown the mission this morning, you should be able to see it in action over the next few days.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Can not wait, Rob.
"We do not stop playing when we get old, but we get old when we stop playing."
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!
Rob
A great job on them! I limit myself to 1:300 scale!
Rich
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
Rob
A dot of blue marker and a dot of red?
Rich
Rob, I do like that aerodrome, very cool!
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 narrativeThe 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
I have finaly finished of all my 7YW figures, now for Bolt-Action Chindits.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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
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.
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......
The good thing about unpainted minis is we can't die until they are finished.... right?
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
.....and now my Thirty Years War Swedes have turned up! Back of the queue lads
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
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.
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
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.
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.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
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.
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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