WWI Digest 267 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Friday, 22 September 1916, Pau by "Marian Hollinger, Bradley Omanson" 2) WW I Artillry (Southern Spelling) by GRBroman@aol.com 3) Manifolds by "Shelley Goodwin" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 12:32:42 -0700 From: "Marian Hollinger, Bradley Omanson" To: wwi Subject: Friday, 22 September 1916, Pau Message-ID: <3245945A.6136@host.dmsc.net> Good day, two flights in early a.m. Wrote to Bob Fieley and Gordon Stewart. Gordon now lives at Briarcliff opposite All Saints Church. Three good flights in late p.m. Spiraled down from 1000 metres in two last and did a rendversment sur aile in last one tho wasn't concious of it at the time. Am progressing pretty well now and getting to like the Nieuport far better than I did a week ago. Can do anything with it in the air. *********************************** AN AMERICAN FOR LAFAYETTE, THE DIARIES OF E.C.C. GENET, LAFAYETTE ESCADRILLE ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 13:56:09 -0400 From: GRBroman@aol.com To: wwi Subject: WW I Artillry (Southern Spelling) Message-ID: <960922135609_290564170@emout08.mail.aol.com> This following piece was lifted from the Chapter contacts column of our monthly IPMS newsletter. Bob Horton is the author and as you may guess, is a veteran of the U.S. Artillery (Yankee spelling) who served in the Korean war. Bob is also a scratchbuilder and converter of some repute, his aircraft are incredible. Nearly all 1/48 scratchbuilt. Anyway, on to the column. Glen >Now down to heavy iron again. According to my information we will be changing our exhibit at Rock Island Arsenal Museum display area in November. I believe that the new theme is to be artillery and we hope that there is a large turnout to fill the cases. Therein lies the point of this little paragraph. I have become interested in this phase of military modeling of late as evidenced in last month's issue. I have noticed though, that artillery in general and the WW I period in particular has never been addressed to any extent in 1/35th scale. I've searched through the various catalogs and even back issues for the past several years and there are relatively very few pieces available. If you wish to get very serious about the 1914- 1918 period you really are going to have a problem. I know of only two kits available....a Verlinden issue of the 210mm Howitzer which came out late in 1995 and an old retreaded kit to an odd scale of the American version of the 75mm field gun. (Actually not 75mm, a US 3" Model 1903 with an '05 breech) The 210 kit is actually the WW II period design so it has to have some amount of reconfigurationg to bring it back to the earlier period. Not a horrendous task but one needs fairly decent reference material to accomplish it. This 210 kit is really very nicely done and if you compare with other resin kits of about the same overall size, not a bad price range. I can't speak for the Americanized 75mm as I have only seen the box...not the kit. I do understand that it was done in a rather odd range and was one of theree or four kits that were produced originally some number of years ago. (Me again, French 75mm in 1/35 released by TOM last year). So, for what it's worth, we began a complete new project of scratch building WW I artillery. It really has gotten to be quite interesting and there is material locally for the person that wants to pursue the research. Within the bounds of the QCA ( Quad Cities, Illinois) there at least six or seven different WW I pieces that are available to be used as reference material. First on the list is the Rock Island Arsenal Museum with two pieces on open display and several others held in storage. Next, at the foot of the I-74 bridge ramp in Bettendorf is a German 105 mm Krupp built field gun. To be sure it is in rather poor condition but it can be accessed quite easily. Lastly, there are a pair of American built 4.7" field guns in Lincoln Park, Rock Island. These are also not in the best of condition but can be reached very easily as a reference work and photo subject. If you were to expand your view a bit, throughout the State of Illinois there are many such pieces in parks and veterns organizations headquarters. I've found that it is well worth taking a little pouch of simple photo equipment, a sketch pad and a very small roll up pocket 10 foot steel tape ruler with me when ever I'm going to be out bumming around the back roads on some errand. This is again a plea for anyone that runs across any military material of any era to please inform me so that I can add it to our Index. In closing, I would suggest a look at scratchbuilding WW I material. One of the attractions of this period is the rather boxy construction of just about everything from planes, tanks and even artiillery. It lends a little charm as it were to make up some field piece trails and stick all of the boiler plate design rivets on this critter. Also, scratchbuilding a set of spoked steel rimmed wheels isn' t near the problem that trying to fabricate rubber tires would be. So, for now, think artillery and heavy metal. After all, we were the Queen of Battle. (Sorry, make that ARE.) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Sep 96 22:14:29 PST From: "Shelley Goodwin" To: wwi Subject: Manifolds Message-ID: <9608228434.AA843455650@mx.Ricochet.net> OK, So what about Pfalz manifolds??? The question slipped through the cracks between Udet and Four Years etc. What were they made outta & what was the "finish" or appearance? Riordan ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 267 *********************