WWI Digest 690 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Roll Models by "John Glaser" 2) Re: Red Baron II by "Don RInker" 3) CMYK Colour Chart by Joey Valenciano 4) Kit ID-ing, please by The Shannons 5) Re: Kit ID-ing, please by mgoodwin 6) Re: Dawn Patrol - was Red Baron II -Reply by Peter Mitchell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 18:52:39 -0500 From: "John Glaser" To: Subject: Re: Roll Models Message-ID: <19970927235720.AAA9136@johng> Hi guys. I'm fairly new to list and haven't felt the need to write until this. I placed an order with Roll over one month ago. Recieved a confirming e-mail within a few days. Then afterr that, nothing. E mails not answered, phone messages not returned. To bad. They seem to carry a good variety at a fair price. Regards, John Glaser JohnGlaser@worldnet.att.net ---------- > From: DavidL1217@aol.com > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Roll Models > Date: Friday, September 26, 1997 6:33 PM > > A few weeks ago, I placed an email order with Roll Models: an engine, a copy > of quarter scale modeler and a Pegasus kit. The following day I got an > email, order received, mailing out. > > Well, I still have not received this and worse, my follow up emails to Roll > in the last 48 hours have not been answered. Is anyone else getting this > poor of service? John, I hop you still subscribe to see this.... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 27 Sep 1997 20:38:18 -0400 From: "Don RInker" To: Subject: Re: Red Baron II Message-ID: <199709280038.UAA25019@post1.fast.net> ---------- > From: DavidL1217@aol.com > I talked with Neil Haldar the producer at Dynamix. The delays have been two > fold. First, this last year has been spent developing modem play. Now, they > are making it Direct X 5.0 compatible. The delay seems to be with Microsoft > and Direct X. > > The anticipated release given by various sources is Nov. 1. Sierra's web > page recently change 'early Sept.' to 'Early Oct.' If you actually believe any of the above, I've got several bridges around the country and some prime real estate investment land in Florida that seems just right for you.... ;-) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 00:17:18 +0800 From: Joey Valenciano To: wwi Subject: CMYK Colour Chart Message-ID: <199709281617.AAA03092@fiesta.philonline.com.ph> Hi all, Awhile back, Richard Humberstone gave some of us a CYMK Colour Chart for use in Adobe Illustrator. Could any kind soul please shoot a copy of this file to me? I am a PC (not Mac) user. Thank you very much. ********************************************************************* Joey Valenciano WW1 modeller, teacher, jazz musician, joeyval@pusit.admu.edu.ph sitarist tel. (632) 921-26-75 Metro-Manila, Philippines "The more you know, the more you don't know." ********************************************************************* ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 17:52:14 -0500 From: The Shannons To: wwi Subject: Kit ID-ing, please Message-ID: <342EDF9E.6857@ix.netcom.com> I have a bit of a mystery kit of the S.E. 5A that I bought at a local hobby shop as a bagged kit for $6.00. First of all, I am convinced that it is based on the Aurora kit, in its Monogram revision, but there is no logo of either on any of the materials. The instructions do list a P.O. box 48745, Niles, Ill (sic) 60648 as the source of replacement parts, but the Monogram logo is not molded on the kit nor does it appear anywhere on the materials. Instructions are multi-language, with serial number 6950-0200, the sprues have 5205-00xx numbers, and the very poor decal sheet is 5205-0300 and marked 5/89 on the back. Markings are for the USAAC 19 of 'C' flight, No. 25 Aero Squadron. Turning to the kit, which is overscale for 1/48, the nose is correct, the tailplane is as well (I thought the Monogram tailplane stayed a little too small in the correction?), the struts are huge planks, ala Aurora/Monogram. all the other parts (main sprues of dark olive drab and one of black fittings for the engine and gun parts) are definitely of the modified Monogram (everything is cleanly molded, I don't see how it could be done without the original molds and the high-pressure injection). EVERY Monogram kit I have come across has had the logo in the materials and molded right onto some parts (IIRC, their SE5A has it on the bottom wing, just outboard of the fuselage junction area) so it is strange that no one seems to have taken the time to announce their output in this one. Any help? I have a sneaking suspicion it is just a bagged Monogram kit, but there seem to be some discrepancies, and I don't know if Niles and Morton Grove are the same location. -- This has been Mark and/or Mary Shannon at Shingend@ix.netcom.com History manages to get away with cliches no novelist could. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 28 Sep 1997 16:14:51 -0700 From: mgoodwin To: wwi Subject: Re: Kit ID-ing, please Message-ID: <342EE4EB.2D5C@ricochet.net> The Shannons wrote: > > I have a bit of a mystery kit of the S.E. 5A that I bought at a local > hobby shop as a bagged kit for $6.00. > > First of all, I am convinced that it is based on the Aurora kit, in its > Monogram revision, but there is no logo of either on any of the > materials. The instructions do list a P.O. box 48745, Niles, Ill (sic) > 60648 as the source of replacement parts, but the Monogram logo is not > molded on the kit nor does it appear anywhere on the materials. > Instructions are multi-language, with serial number 6950-0200, the > sprues have 5205-00xx numbers, and the very poor decal sheet is > 5205-0300 and marked 5/89 on the back. Markings are for the USAAC 19 of > 'C' flight, No. 25 Aero Squadron. > > Turning to the kit, which is overscale for 1/48, the nose is correct, > the tailplane is as well (I thought the Monogram tailplane stayed a > little too small in the correction?), the struts are huge planks, ala > Aurora/Monogram. all the other parts (main sprues of dark olive drab > and one of black fittings for the engine and gun parts) are definitely > of the modified Monogram (everything is cleanly molded, I don't see how > it could be done without the original molds and the high-pressure > injection). > > EVERY Monogram kit I have come across has had the logo in the materials > and molded right onto some parts (IIRC, their SE5A has it on the bottom > wing, just outboard of the fuselage junction area) so it is strange that > no one seems to have taken the time to announce their output in this > one. > > Any help? I have a sneaking suspicion it is just a bagged Monogram kit, > but there seem to be some discrepancies, and I don't know if Niles and > Morton Grove are the same location. > -- > This has been Mark and/or Mary Shannon > at Shingend@ix.netcom.com > > History manages to get away with cliches no novelist could. Mark, The other possibility is Lindberg. Does this kit have starving horse syndrome, i.e., wing ribs very prominent and oversized fuselage stitching? The decals sound vaguely like a Lindberg reissue, but I'm not certain... Cheers, Riordan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 09:14:39 +1000 From: Peter Mitchell To: wwi Subject: Re: Dawn Patrol - was Red Baron II -Reply Message-ID: > The greatest moment of the whole game for me is when I was >challenged to >single combat by Lothar Von Richtofen, and he showed up with two of >his >Buddies! These filthy Huns cannot be trusted! >Yours, >James D. Gray Mick Mannock does the same thing if you take up his challenge. Pete :-) ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 690 *********************