On deck for November;
Tamiya 1/35 Panzer IV D. This kit is dated 1974! I think I built the same kit about 40 years ago!
3 x AIM 1/200 G4M1 Bettys. These were on deck last month, but didn’t make it.
6 x AIM 1/200 A6M3 Zeroes.
2 x Shapeways C5M Babs. One will be painted in IJN and one in IJA colors.
Should be another busy month!
Mike that is some great work. Your work is something else. Other friends have made cards of my planes. Between all of you I have cards for most of the planes I have painted. I have some I am just finishing up so something new to add to the collection.
Mike
"Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
"Wings of Glory won't skin your elbows and knees while practicing." OldGuy59
From the post on October's Workbench (Link:Post #71):
Mike
"Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
"Wings of Glory won't skin your elbows and knees while practicing." OldGuy59
Great looking cards Mike. Thanks much for the effort you put into doing them.
Of the elusive decal de davido wing of random application heritage . . .
As always an insperation to us all Dave.
They are seriously nice planes, especially like the top 2
Never Knowingly Undergunned !!
Uh-oh!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Dave, Good luck! Looks like a fun project that is going to take lots of patience! Hope to see a successful model!!!!
Looking at 3 scales, 1/144" and 2 flying sizes . . . 16" and 24" wingspan . . .
My Brother Bob found an old bag of parts from an unidentified kit that he found. Fortunately it had photo copies of instructions. It is a 1/48 scale F4U-5 Corsair, number 609 that was the last piston engine aircraft to score air victories in 1969 over Honduras. Bob had used the starboard wing for weathering tests but since he had recently built a larger scale F4U he offered it to me. I thought I would take a crack at it. Well, it was brutal, rather crude and ill fitting jumble. I plowed ahead and thought perhaps this would be an addition to some of the old models given to my step grandson Kaleb. The instructions had the option of building as a 5 or a late WWII 4. I went with WWII, but after some research thought I would flaunt history a bit and order markings for an F4U-1 of VF-17 - the "Jolly Rogers". Kaleb is eight years old and does love Pirates. I was able to order the markings of Ira Cassius "Ike" Kepford. Ike was the leading Navy ace at the end of his second tour in 1944. He was also a local boy (for me) born in Harvey Ill. and played halfback for Northwestern (Go Cats). Here are the results:
Great job bringing a model back from the junk pile.
I am sure Kaleb is going to love it.
Nice Bob, very nice!
very nice bob. i dont believe ive ever encountered that type before.
Very nice Dorand and Nieuport Bob
Bob, very nice Nieuports!
The A.R. planes made a big contribution to the French war effort in the second half of '17 and first half of '18, though they are largely forgotten now. See the black line on the bottom chart: https://linen.miraheze.org/wiki/French_Usage_Charts
Mike nothing special for them. Just painted them how I thought they may have looked. Most of what I paint is just how I want to paint them as you will see with my next post.
Now for the next few I did. These are Morane Saulnier P Parasol's. They are mentioned as MoS 21 and MoS 26. The MoS21 has that forward firing gun on the wing and the MoS 26 has a syncronised gun. I may have that backwards.
As you can see these are French planes. RAF (Shapeways) with Miscmini decals. The one on the left is the MoS 21 and the right the MoS 26.
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William, that's from a '94 Testors 3-pack, appears to have been first tooled by O-Lin back in '49. The Testor paint codes are a distinctive identifier.
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/test...hters--1137350
Some of those old tools have seen a lot of hard use and don't shoot moldings as well as they used to or have bad warping propensity... I cringe every time I think about taking another stab at the Monogram F-106 to try to build a pair of 318th FIS birds painted with one as the '60s birds my grandfather slung wrenches on in the post-Pueblo Incident deployment to Korea and the other as my old prof's "Boss Bird" near the last days of McChord Sixes.
So how many books are in your personal library?
Mike
"Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
"Wings of Glory won't skin your elbows and knees while practicing." OldGuy59
The trouble with moving is that sometimes you put something in a clearly marked box...then forget where you put the box. But finally stumbled across my half-finished Fokker E.IV with Gulf racing colors. And somewhere in the box in the garage is the actual propeller for this.
Somewhere I have the original sketch...
Anyway, good enough for play. On to the Fokker D.IIs and Airco DH.2s.
Nice colour scheme reminds me of the Ford GT40 I drove when I retired.
Never Knowingly Undergunned !!
Bruce, that is awesome!
I did one for Belgium because under "List of WW I Entente Aircraft" it lists Belgium, and many others, having them. This is the list of the countries that had them.
Argentina
Argentine Naval Aviation
Belgium
Belgian Air Force
Chile
Chilean Air Force – One aircraft only.
France
Aéronautique Militaire
Estonia
Estonian Air Force – Postwar.
Greece
Royal Hellenic Navy
Japan
Imperial Japanese Army Air Service – received 40 Nieuport 81 E.2 from France in 1919, supplemented with 57 licence-built aircraft.[5]
Poland
Polish Air Force
Portugal
Portuguese Air Force
Romania
Royal Romanian Air Force
Russian Empire
Imperial Russian Air Service
Serbia
Serbian Air Force
Thailand Siam
Royal Siamese Aeronautical Service – One aircraft only.
United Kingdom
Royal Flying Corps
No. 45 Squadron RFC
No. 46 Squadron RFC
No. 65 Squadron RFC
No. 84 Squadron RFC
Royal Naval Air Service
No. 7 Squadron RNAS
No. 10 Squadron RNAS
United States
American Expeditionary Force
Soviet Union
Workers' and Peasants' Air Fleet
This is the link I use to find who had what planes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...tente_aircraft
As it was supposed to. I have a second E.IV that I am thinking of using the Mazda Le Mans winner as an inspiration, but that is inherently more obvious as non-historical. This one kind of seems like it was within the realm of possibilities. The more radical Blues Brothers/E.V project will have to wait and see if I can make my own decals (Yellow Submarine Blue Meanie and Glove, and the Blue Peter Max).
Good looking plane Bruce. That is some fantastic work.
So how many books are in your personal library?
BobP, according to French Aircraft of the First World War by Dr. James J. Davilla, et.al., the Nieuport 12 was used by France, Chile, Estonia, Poland, Russia. Siam, and the United Kingdom. The Belgian Air Service in the First World War by Walter Pieters has no mention of the Nieuport 12. Windsock Datafile 68: Nieuport 10-12 mentions 2 Belgian squadrons using the Nieuport 10, but none using the Nieuport 12.
I prefer well researched books rather than the vagaries of Wikipedia.
So how many books are in your personal library?
Well I guess my Belgum Air Service will have a Nieuport 12.
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My attempts at online research led me to try accessing the Belgian Defense website. I was hoping to find a list of aviation units and their histories, so I could put a reconnaissance squadron on the card. First, I don't read whatever language their website is using. I could have handled French, German, or English. I could have taken a swing at Dutch. With that handicap, I did get to the Air Force part, but I couldn't find any listings of actual squadrons, nor their histories. Complete bust. Wikipedia is only as good as its contributors, and there doesn't appear to be anyone contributing anything detailed for the WWI Belgian Air Component. It provided only a slightly confusing mention of a few of the fighter squadrons, not really mentioning the other roles performed by the others. So, I took a stab.
Also, many air forces didn't start with dedicated role squadrons in WWI, as nobody really had clear ideas of what airplanes would do, tactically, let alone operationally or strategically. As the French started narrowing the mission scope of their squadrons, the Germans followed suit, and then everyone else did in self-defense.
It would be nice to have a good library to draw from, and I did have access to a 6000+ book aviation library before COVID-19, but even that library would have very little for the Belgian Air Force, I suspect.
Are we having fun, yet?
Mike
"Flying is learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss" Douglas Adams
"Wings of Glory won't skin your elbows and knees while practicing." OldGuy59
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