Nice find Matt. It is high time my Thunder Child saw some action.
Rob.
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Nice find Matt. It is high time my Thunder Child saw some action.
Rob.
Finished two Valom Nieuport 11s - Serial 3983 (Flight Commander Kenneth Stevens Savory in 'Blue Bird' and Serial 3982 (Flight Sub-Lieutenant William Vazie Simons) of 2 Wing Royal Naval Air Service.
Despite the French insignia, 'Blue Bird' is British. The roundels on the bottom wing are British.
Close up the Nieuports and a picture of them bouncing two Fokker E.III
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Also, I've added serial / plane numbers to the Sopwith Strutters. Here are the re-paints with the Ares RNAS Sopwith. They will form the 2-seater flight for my squadron in the OTT campaign. Adding the serial number to the Redpath-ish repaint definitely makes it fantasy as the real one should have PC10 on the sides. I just wanted something different to the Collishaw one.
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Here's the squadron to day - 2 scouts and 3 2-seaters. Plans are to add 4 more Nieuport scouts and, for long distance escort missions, 2 Sopwith Strutter one-seaters.
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Very Nice
Forgot to add my most recent Napoleonics - Les Marins de la Garde Imperiale (the closest troops Napoleon had to special ops forces - expected to do any job) plus some command figures.
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Uh, wow. That is a lot of painting and so skillful.
Great Naps! I Love Les Marins. I had done some a couple of decades ago with Minifigs. Hope to upgrade these with better figures. Are these AB figures?
The group in the front are AB while the ones in the back are Miniature Figurines. A small story of why I ended up with the two sets. The uniform for les Marins are my favourite Napoleonic uniform. I'm planning to re-fight the battle of Bailen and you can't do that without les Marins so I looked and looked and only Minifigs had the figures. So, I break down and get them. A couple of weeks later AB figures comes out with les Marins. Given the quality of AB figs and favourite uniform I had to get the AB figures. So, I ended up with two sets and being cheap I painted up both. The post-hoc rationale is that the second support group can be in reserve and will deceive your opponent into thinking they're far away.
All the command base figures, except the light infantry cornet (red plume with yellow tip), are AB figures. The cornet is Essex - I think.
Nice Nappy's, never did that unit.
A couple more civ war reb units done. Working on even more Civ War and FIW figs and a Spanish fleet for Black Seas. Pics in a few days.
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1 Wing RNAS - Redford Henry 'Red' Mulock (Serial 3977 - red paint scheme) and Daniel Murray Bayne Galbraith (Serial 3986 - dark blue paint scheme). The serial numbers are for planes these pilots flew but the paint schemes are fictitious. The blue one was inspired by a later one for a RNAS Sopwith Camel (B7190 - WGR Hinchliffe). They will form part of my RNAS scout flight for the upcoming OTT campaign.
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Finally took the dive into making my own decals. Learned quite a bit. Repainted some Hanriot HD1 planes using the 76 sqdrl as a base plane.
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The first plane is the stock Scaroni. I repainted the tail and touched up the plane. Had several little black dots over it so I cleaned all that up.
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The next I used I-94 Decals for. So here is Tente Otto Palla.
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Here is the first of the decals made. Here is Tente Giochi Di Dadi.
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Here is the second of the home made decals. This one is based off of the Flavio Baracchini scheme.
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Here is the third of the home made decals. This is based off of the Giorgio Michetti scheme.
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Turned out pretty good for my first go with decal paper. Hope my next ones turn out good as well.
Your decals turned out very nicely, Dan.
Interesting, the pictures are small on the thread now, but you can click on them to see it.
Here the blue RNAS Nieuport 11 'fixed' with a blue outline to the white bars on the wings. Not demarcation lines, although the lines serve that purpose, but tape along the rib that separates the white from the CDL. I had debated whether or not to have a blue edging. The white shows up well enough to the eye but not to the camera and these schemes are meant for the OTT AAR so in went the blue lines.
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"I hope Jerry doesn't have any seaplanes up today!"
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This is one of the Shapeways 1/700 freighters from 'Clear Air Turbulence.' Now I need to complete some seaplanes to attack it.
Oh, that's NICE! :clap:
1/700 - that's just my scale!
I'll be visiting that shop ASAP.
Many thanks for posting!
An eclectic group of Eindeckers leaving my workbench this month................
My first Pfalz E.I - first to be started, but fourth to be finished!
Pilot and Unit unknown.
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Fokker E.I serial E43/15, Offz-Stv Willy Rosenstein, FFA 19, Porcher August 1915
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Pfalz E.I 215/15 Offz-Stv Willy Rosenstein, FFA 19, Porcher December 1915
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Fokker E.III 105/15, Vfw Ernst Udet, KEK Habsheim, March 1916
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Pfalz E.I, pilot and unit unknown, Autumn 1915
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Fokker E.III 608/15, Vfw Josef Jacobs, Fokkerstaffel-West, May 1916
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Fokker E.III LF196 Ltn zur See Gotthard Sachsenberg, Nr 1 Marine FFA, November 1915
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a couple more to add when time permits!
Eindecker, zweideckers, dreideckers, vierdeckers, funfdeckers, sechsdeckers, siebendeckers.....:D
Nice work Tim. These the ones you wanted cards for?
Looking damn good Tim! Particularly like the rigging.
Excellent work with the Eindeckers, Tim. :thumbsup:
Rep gun jammed... :guns:
Paul and Sven, thanks for the kind comments. I really appreciate them. :thumbsup:
Tim,
Those are some awesome planes. I don't think I would have the patience for that kind of amazing detail. :sAprvd:
Nice work guys. Dan, I really like your Hanriots. Nice decal work.
Thank you Peter. I appreciate your kind comments.
There is a whole deal of goodness in this thread -
Dan, liking the Hanriot fest - good job. :thumbsup:
Paul, natty Nieuports - doubtless I will see much more of them in the coming months ! ;)
Robert, a funtastic floating target :guns:
Tim, excellent eindeckers my friend. :cheezy:
Well done all, they look superb. :hatsoff:
Magnificent painting Tim.
Rob.:FOK:
I guess Jerry did have some seaplanes flying.
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Completed two more freighters and added some Litko mini-splash and fire markers for some interest.
Really nice stuff there Robert. Are we going to see them in a game soon ?
Here are some of the planes I have done so far this month. First up some P-47's. 61st FS. 2 Bubbletops . As usual AIM models and MISCMINI decals.
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More to come but I wait because sometimes the next set don't post correctly.
Nice target ships Robert. Who is the Shapeways designer? I'd like to add this to the Shapeways Accessories list.
Nice bubble top Jugs Bob. Great, now I'll have to get some of these!
But wait here are a few more.
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These are razorbacks from the same unit. I need to add Aerodrome props to al of the P-47's.
And a few more P-47's.
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I really like those bubble tops. :thumbsup:
These freighters are by Clear Air Turbulence. It's called a 'Three Island Cargo Ship'. It is available in WSF and FUD.
Decapod (maker of airplanes) has a EFC 1020 'Laker' in 1/600 and 1/700 scales. He also has a EFC 1013 freighter in 1/600 and 1/700 scales. I have both but have not painted them up yet.
Classic Airships has a Submarine Type UBIII (waterline model) in 1/600 and 1/700 scales. This is a triple pack. I do not have this model, but plan to order it to use in Teaticket's Mission 19 solo scenario.
Have to get photos of those ship up here Robert.