Some 28mm Frenchies, just for a change
15mm Vikings
Three "War Rocket" fleets
I have been well and truly diverted from all of my core projects just now!
Mine is a short list. since they will receive RAF schemes it will make for less time at the paint shop. I just received three Peters planes 144 scale Beaufighter`s add to that a Crown boxed Lancaster and the long delayed Shapeways Martin Maryland!
Rich
Origins... (always is a lot more work than you think...) (until the fun happens! )
Ken Head - "The Cowman"
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it. Robin Williams
I am repainting a Gotha G.V to an Austro-Hungarian Gotha G.IV to donate it as a prize for Prague Summer Con 2013.
Karl
Porches are important on a different level!!!
Rich
I only have 1/200 WGS projects pending this month:
2 x Air 200 Messerschmitt Bf 109F (Channel Front 1941)
3 x AIM Savoia Marchetti SM.79 (North Africa 1941)
3 x AIM Fiat G.50 (Spanish Civil War 1939)
3 x AIM Macchi MC.200 (North Africa 1941)
1 x Zvezda Junkers Ju 52 (Crete 1941)
2 x Shapeways Glenn Martin 167F (Syria 1941)
2 x Shapeways Heinkel He 51B (Spanish Civil War 1937)
2 x Shapeways Polikarpov I-15bis (Spanish Civil War 1939)
2 x Shapeways Fiat CR.32 (Spanish Civil War 1937)
2 x Shapeways PZL P.11c (Poland 1939)
2 x Shapeways CAC Boomerang (New Guinea 1943)
1 x Shapeways CAC Wirraway (New Guniea 1943)
Then I have some Ares repaint jobs -
2 x Supermarine Spitfire Mk.I (PR version to RAF Fighter Command 1940)
2 x Hawker Hurricane Mk.I (Belgian version to RAF Fighter Command 1940)
2 x Kawasaki Ki-61 Hien (modify to radial engine Kawasaki Ki-100)
Target is eight aircraft complete by 30 June.
A couple of 109's , P40 , Yak, Hurricane , Gotha, Alb. DII, and III. Some will make it to next mo. because I work slowly, almost backwards
Looks like a low output month here, only have a couple dozen painting projects, all that is left on my Wings bucket list is another Staaken build of 6+, the FF60, and the Shapeways Balloons due in today. Getting to the end of my lists . . . oh my! Down to my last 30 Shapeway minis and the designers seem to be running low on projects as well . . . is the end near? Eschatology is fun until it arrives . . . might be time to open a second front, I hear the drums in the deep . . .
I was just about to throw away some offcuts of expanding foam when I had an idea.
Ian
Now a touch up of red/orange/grey/black spray and you have a mega-winner!!! I have to try this, I have several cans of the foam I picked up to try some pressure molding on balloons . . . unless the elves have used it for some wacky party gig . . .
It looks great Ian,
but I bet the pilot wasn't very pleased with your idea.
Rob.
I made some smoke that's much longer after the success with flames. These are so simple to make.
Ian
Ok Ian, walk me through it step by step, I have a can of spray foam in my left hand then . . . . careful, elves are watching, should they not be smoking?
Step one is optional, lay new floor.
Step 2, leftover foam!
Step 3, cut into narrower sections.
Step 4, tear bits off the edges till they turn round.
I cut a slit for the wing but found out later that this is best to leave till after its painted.
That's it really, you can make them whatever shape you like, the foam holds its shape really well.
I found watered down paint good for the smoke.
The workbench soon turns into Cahos! The elves will love it. I'm sure you can smoke during all stages.
Nice work Ian.
Judging from old film footage, smoke trails should be a lot longer than we do them.
Thanks for the "How to."
Rob.
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Nice bit of lateral thinking there
Dave, I'd tell you that you were incorrigible if I could spell it.
What a splendid addition to your Armada of aircraft.
Keep up the good work.
Rob.
Excellent stuff Dave.
Just finished 3 Sopwith 1 1/2 strutters for France. Staring on various Russian ac.
Nice to see Albert popping in for a visit Dave.
Rob.
Dave
You are trying to kill me! I am attempting to build four planes and you finish 20!
Rich
I have been working also.
Rich
Did have 2 Velom Pups ready to have the top wing added but a door bell and a sudden move from me sent item literally flying and of course the struts have gone missing from one , I have a beige carpet and the struts are brass, nightmare
Yikes! That is why I have one of those sticky tape lint rollers nearby to snag such items I cannot see . . . if that doesn't work I send in the elves . . .
Unbelievable, Dave...
This is an incredible combination of mass production & unique and beautiful planes.
Four more very nice Busses there Clipper.
It is incredible what you can get done whilst away at church.
Rob.
OK, Dave, you need to take some time off, and let the rest of us catch up.
Seriously, your making me tired just reading this post. And I keep wondering why "Incredible" keeps going through my mind when I read you stuff.
BTW: when did they mount top wing guns on Pups?
A Comic version?
Karl
This page will give you the weights of the most common weapons.
http://www.century-of-flight.net/Avi...achineguns.htm
The Lewis gun is the lightest of the guns used but, because of its open-bolt action it could not be synchronized. Other guns that were synced weighed up to twice as much. I can not find a source to quote right now except that the load limit for guns, ammo, and sync was generally around 150 pounds or so. As I stated in another thread elsewhere on the forum, the usual ammo load for a scout was 400 to 500 rounds regardless whether a plane had one gun or two. Even the two-seaters did not carry much more than that. A number of planes originally equipped with one gun were often rearmed with two but it seldom worked satisfactorily and most returned to their original configuration.
And one other thing: The mounting of a Lewis on the wing necessitated a mechanism (the Foster Mount) to bring it into the cockpit to be reloaded or you would only have the one drum for the entire mission.
And here is a picture of a Lewis drum:
Note that this is of a Polish 7.92mm model but that is not much different from a 30-06 or .303 used by the Entante.
Finally. I found a reference that 500 rounds averaged somewhere around 92 pounds depending on caliber and belt. I would think that drums would be a bit more than that.
Last edited by Suffern; 06-17-2013 at 20:00. Reason: correction
What we really need then is a slightly built pilot, like Albert Ball, to offset the extra weight.
Rob.
The overwing mount in the pic doesn't look like a Foster mount -- one wonders if the idea was for the pilot to stand up in order to reload it (such mounts existed -- there is an infamous tale of a pilot dealing with a jammed Lewis drum who fell out of the cockpit when the unit stalled; the only reason he didn't die was that jammed drum).
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