I need to work on some old projects. All from Shapeways and all WW1!
Rich
I need to work on some old projects. All from Shapeways and all WW1!
Rich
Mountains of repaints, and hopefully a start on my Shapeways pile too.... I particularly want to have a crack at Jasta 7, and make a little headway on my 1916 60 Squadron.
I am working on the Valom double set of Fokker Dr.1s
These kits are very fiddly and require much patience.
Daniel Lee
I have encountered a problem with the Valom Fokker Dr.1
As you can see metal parts 4 and 5 don't look like they do in the drawings.
They don't have the structural integrity needed to do the job.
Any ideas how to best solve the dilemma?
At the moment I am finishing off some German fighters to chase Lancasters around at Doncaster. 109s are HBM. 190s are AIM (which started life as HBM models but are now produced by Dave Schmidt). After this, I might do some Vikings for a change.
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
BV-222s? Ambitious.... ;-)After this, I might do some Vikings for a change.
Oooooooo! Shiny!
Run for your life - there are stupid people everywhere!
Did you build the car as well?
Fantastic map!
Too much Wishbone Ash and G & T . . .
WOW some great things going on. The map is crazy cool.
David Wishbone Ash ? I haven't heard that name in years and now have to look to see what they played.
Did their "Blown' Free" in my music theory class in days gone way past!
This one is about as obscure as I am:
"Bring me a wheel of oaken wood
A rein of polished leather
A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky
Brewing heavy weather."
Drank a lot of Southern Comfort to that one . . . ah they don't write like that any more.
Just checked out You Tube and remember Blown Free very well. It's funny how for me music and food bring back memories of places I have been.
Dave sitting here and having a cold beverage I wonder if you also listened to Uriah Heep?
I have to work on my ZVEZDA BVlenheims (1/200). I have one done and 2 more to do and paint. Also did a repaint of 2 NEXUS Hurricanes. Did them in my Russian paint scheme to go along with the SB-2's I have.
For me being thick as a brick all whilst sitting on a park bench watching Fyling Dale Flyers with Jack in the Wood with a Broadsword by my side awaiting the beastie....heady days indeed.
See you on the Dark Side......
These guys showed up today after work . . .
More in the officer's club . . . check out the events: http://www.westernfac.com/
All except Dr. Who in my collection. I also raised my kids on Slack Bladder, Red Dwarf and Python.
I was too late seeing this to answer the Heavy Horses reference.
Have a lot of the aforementioned Wishbone Ash and some Uriah Heep (although mostly on vinyl for those)
Saw Wishbone here in Portland a few years ago. Only Andy Powell left from the original, but still a damn good show.
My bench has some British armor for the early desert and some Albatros DIIIs.
My DIIIs are going to be Jasta 11 birds. One for Karl Emil Schaefer I need some help. I find 2 plates, one with a black spinner and nose stripe, another with red.
Which should it be? Is this a case where it is not known or he had two planes like these? Thanks in advance for any help.
Not known, by me at least - most photos of German WWI aircraft were taken using orthochromatic rather than panchromatic film - unfortunately that means that red and black are nearly impossible to distinguish in many cases. My gut call is that black is the more likely (when Jasta 11 pilots started slapping red on it wasn't generally so restrained as spinner and wheel hubs), but nobody can really argue with either interpretation.
Well Jasta 11 about that time went red big time ... I suppose this doesn't help much as it's a different jasta but it is the same time frame !
But the black would seem to be correct according to this site:
http://www.mincbergr.net/index.php?p...28w---schaefer
But then you could look at this one and say red spinner and hubs is right !
Fact is the paint job could have changed over the space of a week or two so go with what looks best to you Peter !
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Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
That Krefft plane is a fine looking beastie - might have to add that one to my to-do list.
Final details for the Type VIIC U-Boat. See pictures. Still needs a skeg to protect the prop's, detailing the 88mm deck gun and flak MG, improved scale water, etc.. Then plans for the conversion to Type VIIC/1941, which was the second most numerous U-Boat. That will pay tribute to the U-995 surviving at the Marine Ehrenmal in Laboe, with the Winter Garden superstructure. Would love to find a usable quad 4X20mm flak for that.
Always nice to arrive home and find the elves at work! The IJN will be pleased to hear their destroyers are in the prototype stage
What do I spy? Sails! Yikes! Doing a mortar install on her later tonight . . .
In ponderland, we have some ideas coming together on 1/200" scale Radar towers . . . looking into printing them onto clear plastic sheets and fold them into 3D land . . .
Love the transparent idea along with the fragile diagonals . . . then this bowl of resin snacks to trim and fill and sand . . . 30 treasures awaiting dreams of flight . . .
And the flying stuff continues to be prepped for the end of October's event, 14 aircraft to prepare . . .
so many things, so little time . . .
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The FAC items being prepped in between the game stuff:
A 48" Moth vintage plan from 1937
A 36" Turbo Porter ready to go!
A 42" Original 1911 Cessna with CO2 motor . . .
All stacked in the living room awaiting boxing for transport to the contest.
The large boxes contain 2 B-24J bombers and an Avro Lancaster-all 4 motor rubber band powered 1:48" scale models already to go! Will be a great contest indeed, how much G & T to pack into the cooler is the next challenge!
Where do you store all your stuff Clipper??
You must have the worldrecord in modelbuilding
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Dave, your insanity reaches new heights!
Don't you (or your elves) ever sleep?
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