WWI Digest 1249

Topics covered in this issue include:

  1) RE: Why Wait!
	by "Peter Crow" <eatcrow@hotmail.com>
  2) Re: Most Wanted
	by "David Vosburgh" <dave@vga-graphics.com>
  3) Re: figures
	by "David Vosburgh" <dave@vga-graphics.com>
  4) Re: Pegasus Web Site URL
	by "D. Anderson" <2814823733@home.com>
  5) Re: figures
	by "Steven M. Perry" <smperry@mindspring.com>
  6) Albatros D.III(OAW) Man in moon
	by Bob Pearson <bpearson@kaien.com>
  7) Re: figures
	by KarrArt@aol.com
  8) Re: Most Wanted (SVA5)
	by David & Carol Fletcher <mdf@mars.ark.com>
  9) cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
	by KarrArt@aol.com
 10) Re: now for the Spinne
	by KarrArt@aol.com
 11) cow wasRe: figures
	by KarrArt@aol.com
 12) Re: WWI Sub Chaser
	by KarrArt@aol.com
 13) SVA5 wasRe: Most Wanted
	by KarrArt@aol.com
 14) Re: WWI Sub Chaser
	by KarrArt@aol.com
 15) Re: now for the Spinne
	by "Paul Bourke" <bourkep@magna.com.au>
 16) Re: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
	by Zulis@aol.com
 17) Re: now for the Spinne
	by KarrArt@aol.com
 18) Re: Most Wanted Time?
	by "David R.L. Laws" <laws@webtime.com.au>
 19) Re: Most Wanted Time?
	by "David R.L. Laws" <laws@webtime.com.au>
 20) Re: Flycatcher, was BUILDING VAC FORM KITS
	by "David R.L. Laws" <laws@webtime.com.au>
 21) Re: Grubb Street 'Storks' is out
	by "David R.L. Laws" <laws@webtime.com.au>
 22) Re: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
	by Ernest Thomas <ethomas6@bellsouth.net>
 23) Re: Most Wanted Time? - Pfalz DVIII
	by Bob Pearson <bpearson@kaien.com>
 24) Re: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
	by KarrArt@aol.com
 25) Re: now for the Spinne
	by KarrArt@aol.com
 26) Eduard 1/48 Albatros D.III
	by infosilver@czechia.com
 27) Re: Grubb Street 'Storks' is out 
	by infosilver@czechia.com
 28) Re: CMK Figures 
	by infosilver@czechia.com
 29) Re: Grubb Street 'Storks' is out 
	by infosilver@czechia.com
 30) RE: figures 
	by Pedro e Francisca Soares <pnsoares@mail.telepac.pt>
 31) Re: Most Wanted Time?
	by "Sandy Adam" <cbbs@almac.co.uk>
 32) Re: cow accessory
	by lfendy@firstsaga.com (Leonard Endy)
 33) Re: Eduard 1/48 Albatros D.III
	by Bob Pearson <bpearson@kaien.com>
 34) Re: Most Wanted Time?( BM plastic)
	by "Peter Crow" <eatcrow@hotmail.com>
 35) Re: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
	by "David Vosburgh" <dave@vga-graphics.com>
 36) RE: Airbrushes
	by "David Vosburgh" <dave@vga-graphics.com>

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 16:58:27 PDT
From: "Peter Crow" <eatcrow@hotmail.com>
To: wwi
Subject: RE: Why Wait!
Message-ID: <19981017235827.29125.qmail@hotmail.com>

Pedro wrote...
>Pete,=20
>
>Who knows, You could learn to subliminally entice Barry to put an >even 
bigger discount on Eduard kits. My advice is if it's so damn close,>you 
go there and report your experience back to us, ;-   

  Actually, I'm going over to David Sterner's (another list member) for 
dinner in about an hour, and he lives about 4 miles away and the place 
is between here and there.. Figure I'll slowly drive by and check it 
out.. wonder if they give a 10% discount to list members also?? ;-)

  Peter

  nb.. maybe a new and wonderful relationship at a discount..;-)

  

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:21:32 -0400
From: "David Vosburgh" <dave@vga-graphics.com>
To: <wwi>
Subject: Re: Most Wanted
Message-ID: <001a01bdfa35$a5dbd460$0cd690d0@Pvosburg>

Never bought the SMER kit, on the assumption that it was a.) off-scale, and
b.) probably on a level with their Bulldog <choke>. Who made the original?

DV
-----Original Message-----
From: Joey Valenciano <joeyval@philonline.com.ph>
To: Multiple recipients of list <wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 7:36 PM
Subject: RE: Most Wanted


>
>>1:48 injection SVA 5 (with optional floats even, maybe?)
>
>FWIW, although notesd as 1/50 scale, the Smer SVA5 fuselage compares very
>well with the Datafile's 1/48 scale drawing. But you'll have to build new
>wings.
>
>


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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:40:53 -0400
From: "David Vosburgh" <dave@vga-graphics.com>
To: <wwi>
Subject: Re: figures
Message-ID: <003701bdfa38$59cf1ca0$0cd690d0@Pvosburg>

Robert:

This sounds like an omen to me, aside from the hot pink part. And just
think, it would be fairly simple to model some 1:48 cow accessory-type
material out of Milliput to go in the grass...

Just by the way, has anyone ever stopped to think how lucky we all are that
the Germans didn't have Day-Glo colors in WWI?

DV

-----Original Message-----
From: KarrArt@aol.com <KarrArt@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu>
Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 8:03 PM
Subject: Re: figures

>Believe it or not, for some time I've had a great 1/48 cow stashed away for
>this very purpose- it was in a bag of hard styrene "O" Railroad scale farm
>animals- molded in bright psychedelic pink!
>Robert K.
>


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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:49:00 -0600
From: "D. Anderson" <2814823733@home.com>
To: wwi
Subject: Re: Pegasus Web Site URL
Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19981017194900.006d0354@mail>

At 06:54 AM 17/10/98 -0400, you wrote:
>its not up yet but will be
>www.pegasusmodels.com
>sandy
>
>
It's not actually active, but it is up. If you type in this address, you
will get to a site called "main index." It's worth going there just to
bookmark it so that you can find it easily when it is active.

Dane


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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 21:57:24 -0400
From: "Steven M. Perry" <smperry@mindspring.com>
To: wwi
Subject: Re: figures
Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19981017215724.006b1334@pop.mindspring.com>

At 09:42 PM 10/17/98 -0400, you wrote:

>Just by the way, has anyone ever stopped to think how lucky we all are that
>the Germans didn't have Day-Glo colors in WWI?
>
>DV

ROTFL.  The hippies were dangerous enough with Day-Glo. 

sp

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:13:09 -0700
From: Bob Pearson <bpearson@kaien.com>
To: WW1 Mailing list <wwi>
Subject: Albatros D.III(OAW) Man in moon
Message-ID: <02130984643099@KAIEN.COM>


Greetings all,

Sometime back someone sent me a photo of an Albatros D.III(OAW) with a
marking similiar to von Buttlar's Pfalz D.III man in the moon - except this
one has bubbles coming out of the pipe and an overpainted swastika on the
fuselage. It also has reworked fat Balkenkreuze on the rudder and fin. Does
anyone remember where it came from? The file name is Albatros45384.jpg. I
plan to profile it shortly, and would like more information if possible.

Regards,
       Bob Pearson

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:34:27 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: figures
Message-ID: <62b341c8.362953b3@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 22:21:05 EDT, you write:

<< >Just by the way, has anyone ever stopped to think how lucky we all are
that
 >the Germans didn't have Day-Glo colors in WWI?
 > >>

AND the British training units!
Robert K.

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 19:36:15 -0700
From: David & Carol Fletcher <mdf@mars.ark.com>
To: wwi
Subject: Re: Most Wanted (SVA5)
Message-ID: <3629541F.4F8A@mars.ark.com>

David Vosburgh wrote:
"Never bought the SMER kit, on the assumption that it was a.) off-scale,
and b.) probably on a level with their Bulldog <choke>. Who made the
original?"

The SVA5 was made by Artiplast, who took over the Merit dies and added a
few kits of their own (CR32, Reggiane Re2000, Sm.79 etc.)

Dave Fletcher
mdf@mars.ark.com

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:34:26 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
Message-ID: <9b0d4639.362953b2@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 22:19:06 EDT, you write:

<< Robert:
 
 This sounds like an omen to me, aside from the hot pink part. And just
 think, it would be fairly simple to model some 1:48 cow accessory-type
 material out of Milliput to go in the grass...
  >>

Uh, well, for a bit of ( I hope) forgiven self promotion, go to
http://members.aol.com/karrart    and check out my Jenny diorama- scroll down
till you see "Jenny", click,and it'll take you to my previous bovine
extravaganza- complete with "cow accessory-type material" AND a dog showing
what he thinks of the venerable JN-4.
Robert K.

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:50:50 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: now for the Spinne
Message-ID: <9ad31385.3629578a@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 11:05:00 EDT, you write:

<< > E.
 There's a photo of a Spinne model in the recently arrived Windsock
 14,no.5.  It looks like an "ultra light".
 
 Steve S.
  >>

very ultra-lightish indeed! the "fuselage" is just a stick. It's got some
wooly lookin' radiators though.
Robert K.

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:50:47 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: cow wasRe: figures
Message-ID: <f8ad5be2.36295787@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 16:43:29 EDT, you write:

<< >
 >Don't forget the vicious guardcow standing watch.
 >
 
 The "Line Bossie"
 
 sp >>

unh....( I can't spell a groan)
RK

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:50:41 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: WWI Sub Chaser
Message-ID: <8e9e608b.36295781@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 18:39:06 EDT, you write:

<< 
 On the I've got a question side I noticed an add in the latest SAMI
 for the Williams Bros kits. Included were the large Le Rhone rotary
 engine and the Lewis machine gun.  Has Williams Bros put them back
 into production ? If so, does anyone know of a stateside source ?
  >>

Whenever Williams Brothers releases or re-releases, I usually have no trouble
finding their stuff- some drug stores around even has the product line.
If their big gun and engine models are back in production, 'tis a happy day!
Robert K.

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:50:35 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: SVA5 wasRe: Most Wanted
Message-ID: <c39d7e5c.3629577b@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 21:22:41 EDT, you write:

<< Never bought the SMER kit, on the assumption that it was a.) off-scale, and
 b.) probably on a level with their Bulldog <choke>. Who made the original?>>

Maybe Artiplast- a 1960s Italian model manufacturer? Their ancient SM
79Sparviero trimoter has shown up as a Smer kit, and a few others I believe.
Robert K.
  

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:50:44 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: WWI Sub Chaser
Message-ID: <96eb48b4.36295784@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 18:39:06 EDT, you write:

<< Robert's last masterpiece really provided the motivation I needed. Now
 to pull out that FT17 and start planning.
 
 
 Len >>


I'm blushing! Tomorrow is OrangeCon98 which is also an IPMS regional, so the
Handley Page has at least one more show to go to- it'll be accompanied by the
newly finished 1/32 Blenheim and reworked Revell 1/28 Fokker D VII.
Robert K.

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:22:14 +1000
From: "Paul Bourke" <bourkep@magna.com.au>
To: <wwi>
Subject: Re: now for the Spinne
Message-ID: <199810180019.KAA15340@magna.com.au>

Are you talking about the series of aircraft that was predecessor to 
the Eindecker? What variant are you scratch building? 

Paul

----------
> From: S.M.Sundberg <sms@netins.net>
> To: Multiple recipients of list <wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu>
> Subject: Re: now for the Spinne
> Date: Sunday, 18 October 1998 1:01
> 
> Ernest Thomas wrote:
> > 
> > KarrArt@aol.com wrote:
> > >
> > > I've just finished my...ahem....uh....off topic 1/32 Blenheim, so now
I can
> > > get on to a scratchbuilt 1/48 Fokker Spinne! Yippee! A Spinne is so
unlike a
> > > Blenheim that my mind is already starting to cleanse itself!
> > > Robert K.
> > 
> > What's a Spinne look like anyway? And speaking of 1/48 scratchbuilt
> > stuff, didn't you do a 1/48 Bleriot? Got any notes That I  could throw
> > in the Pyro box for a not too distant project?
> > E.
> There's a photo of a Spinne model in the recently arrived Windsock
> 14,no.5.  It looks like an "ultra light".
> 
> Steve S.

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 23:31:29 EDT
From: Zulis@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
Message-ID: <7cc923cf.36296111@aol.com>


This cow business intrigued me, so I took a look at a bunch of old cow
pictures.

I notice that a significant number of them have a splotchy camoflage pattern.
It appears to be in black and white but, of course, this is probably just the
effect of orthographic film.    I suppose it would be too much to hope for an
authentic methuen colour match?  perhaps a scrap of holy relic leather from
the period?

Feeling punchy on a Saturday night,

Dave Zulis

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 00:15:20 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: now for the Spinne
Message-ID: <9b0d75b9.36296b58@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 23:30:41 EDT, you write:

<< 
 Are you talking about the series of aircraft that was predecessor to 
 the Eindecker? What variant are you scratch building? 
 
 Paul >>

I guess you could say it was the pre-prepredecessor to the Eindekker series.
It was Anthony Fokker's first airplane- predating the war by a few years- a
stationary engined monoplane that's all wires and insect parts. I also think
it was the first plane to fly in the Netherlands.
Robert K.

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:50:47 +1000
From: "David R.L. Laws" <laws@webtime.com.au>
To: wwi
Subject: Re: Most Wanted Time?
Message-ID: <3626D0A4.7DCD@webtime.com.au>

In 1/48
> 
Fdh GIII ( with IIIa option )
Gotha G IV and V 
Fdh 33 or any currently un-injec-moulded German W type 
Sopwith Dolphin
Albatros D.I/II
Short I84 
Hanriot HD.1 with HD 2 Option


DAVID

( IN ANTICIPATION - I CAN COUNT BUT THE WANTS LIST EXCEEDS THE SPECIFIED
LIMIT ! )

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 14:52:04 +1000
From: "David R.L. Laws" <laws@webtime.com.au>
To: wwi
Subject: Re: Most Wanted Time?
Message-ID: <3626D0F1.643F@webtime.com.au>

... Plus a decent Spad VII

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:05:18 +1000
From: "David R.L. Laws" <laws@webtime.com.au>
To: wwi
Subject: Re: Flycatcher, was BUILDING VAC FORM KITS
Message-ID: <3626D40A.3198@webtime.com.au>

Dave 

Thanks !!!

Sold ..., well almost ... 

Well I'd reckon the best Deal would be trade - If you agree then you
might have a wish List - If you were to let me know the top 3 -5 items 
I can let you know whether I can fill the Bill from this end by
supplying one of your top selections and you can say if you'd be happy
with it as a trade  Feel free to go off topic for your wish list too !!


FYI the Lindberg range sells here at about $15-17 (Au) with Eduard at
$30ish ( usually on the plus side of that ) that's if you prefer filthy
lucre.  Hey, wev'e all got to live !

 
Many thanks 

David

Yes the Post rates are horrible at this end too !

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Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 15:08:43 +1000
From: "David R.L. Laws" <laws@webtime.com.au>
To: wwi
Subject: Re: Grubb Street 'Storks' is out
Message-ID: <3626D4D7.F57@webtime.com.au>

Any kind hearted type able to supply THE grub street URL - Usual search
pulls a huge List of their books but no obvious Home page

TIA

DAVID

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 00:34:39 -0500
From: Ernest Thomas <ethomas6@bellsouth.net>
To: wwi
Subject: Re: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
Message-ID: <36297DEF.DC2@bellsouth.net>

Zulis@aol.com wrote:
> 
> This cow business intrigued me, so I took a look at a bunch of old cow
> pictures.
> 
> I notice that a significant number of them have a splotchy camoflage pattern.
> It appears to be in black and white but, of course, this is probably just the
> effect of orthographic film.    I suppose it would be too much to hope for an
> authentic methuen colour match?  perhaps a scrap of holy relic leather from
> the period?

ROTFL
E.

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Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 22:42:06 -0700
From: Bob Pearson <bpearson@kaien.com>
To: WW1 Mailing list <wwi>
Subject: Re: Most Wanted Time? - Pfalz DVIII
Message-ID: <05420608243429@KAIEN.COM>


Sandy writes . . .

> > Looking again at the pic in Windsock 11/4 of Forstmann's Jasta90
(sorry!)
> > crash - I can't decide whether the tail colour is the same as the dark
> > (black?) band or slighlty lighter - it seems darker to me than the
shadow
> > side of the fin and I would think from this print that it had a dark -
> > probably black - tail. Maybe of course there are other prints of the
same
> > pic or other pics that would decide this one way or the other. I checked
> > the web page and see that the modeller (Steve Hustad) has chosen to
> believe
> > it had a half black and half white tail. 
> 
> I still think that the darker colour is due to the curve of the fuselage.
In
> any case I will ask Greg VW about this a/c next time I talk to him.

I just went back to Greg's drawing of it and he has the tailplane as being
darker than the fin - perhaps a dark grey. And looking at the profile I did
of it last month, I see the same thing. 

regards,
       Bob Pearson

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 02:26:56 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
Message-ID: <90b1c721.36298a30@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 23:43:11 EDT, you write:

<< 
 This cow business intrigued me, so I took a look at a bunch of old cow
 pictures.
 I notice that a significant number of them have a splotchy camoflage pattern.
 It appears to be in black and white but, of course, this is probably just the
 effect of orthographic film.    I suppose it would be too much to hope for an
 authentic methuen colour match?  perhaps a scrap of holy relic leather from
 the period?
 Feeling punchy on a Saturday night,
 
 Dave Zulis>>

Does Punchy like it?
RK
 
 

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 02:26:58 EDT
From: KarrArt@aol.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: now for the Spinne
Message-ID: <a3a0e0a9.36298a32@aol.com>

In a message dated 98-10-17 03:54:53 EDT, you write:

<< 
 What's a Spinne look like anyway? And speaking of 1/48 scratchbuilt
 stuff, didn't you do a 1/48 Bleriot? Got any notes That I  could throw
 in the Pyro box for a not too distant project?
 E. >>


Yep- I did a 1/48 Bleriot. I gathered all my material, drew my own drawings(
crude affairs on typing paper, but sloppily accurate.) THEN I got my hands on
one of the Pyro kits- the parts matched my drawings almost perfectly.  From
the kit I used the prop and engine, suitably cleaned up and detailed, but the
parts are really pretty good from the box, being a little incomplete rather
than inaccurate. I scratched the wings from clear styrene, fishing line and
Floquil Crystal Coat and did the fuselage from bamboo sticks, rigged with
invisible thread. The kit fuselage is pretty accurate, but needs thinning down
and it looks like if you were to get all the parts thin enough, it would
collapse under its own weight. The wings are gorgeous- if I were to make
another one, I'd probavly try to vac thin plastic right over the kit parts so
I could get that translucent effect. Oh yeah- I did use after-market spoked
wheels, but I forget who made them- might have been Tom's ModelWorks, but I
don't know.
Let's see, what else. The kit is a little simplfied in the area right behind
the engine- there's quite a bit of plumbing here, and getting the Anzani
exhausts just right is kinda tricky.
Out of the box with some judicious painting to somehow simulate that light-
through-the-fabric magic, the kit's a winner.
Robert K.

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 98 11:02:54 -01
From: infosilver@czechia.com
To: wwi
Subject: Eduard 1/48 Albatros D.III
Message-ID: <Chameleon.981018110657.infosilver@trixi.czechia.com>

Hi all,

I just placed short information with sprues and decals pictures at

http://www.czechia.com/silverbird/wwi

I remember having seen Frommherz's 'Blaue Maus' somewhere on the Web. 
Could anybody be so kind and advice an URL?

TIA 

Ivan Subrt  



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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 98 10:00:15 -01
From: infosilver@czechia.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: Grubb Street 'Storks' is out 
Message-ID: <Chameleon.981018100454.infosilver@trixi.czechia.com>

Forgot to quote distributor address for friends from down under:

Capricorn Link (Australia) Pty Ltd.
PO Box 6651
Baulkham Hills Business
Centre
NSW 2153, Australia

Tel.: 612 9899 8322
Fax:  612 9899 8221


Forrester Books NZ Ltd.
10 Tarndale Grove
Albany
Private Bag 102907
North Shore Mail Centre
Auckland, New Zealand

Tel.: 649 415 2080
Fax:  649 415 2083

Ivan




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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 98 11:01:16 -01
From: infosilver@czechia.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: CMK Figures 
Message-ID: <Chameleon.981018110242.infosilver@trixi.czechia.com>

Hi all, just posted some CMK WWI figures pictures to my WWI page.
If interested check 

http://www.czechia.com/silverbird/wwi

Cheers!

Ivan Subrt



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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 98 09:51:08 -01
From: infosilver@czechia.com
To: wwi
Subject: Re: Grubb Street 'Storks' is out 
Message-ID: <Chameleon.981018095953.infosilver@trixi.czechia.com>

Grub Street Ltd. do not have a website as of Oct 10, 1998 when I was 
discussing publishing rights for some OT titles at Frakfurt (Germany) 
Book Fair with Mr. J. Davies.

You can contact them at:
Grub Street Ltd.
The Basement
10 Chivalry Rd.
London SW11 1HT, U.K.

Tel.: +44 171 924 3966
      +44 171 738 1008
Fax:  +44 171 738 1009

They do mail order when their titles can not be obtained at the place 
customer resides, requesting full retail price + GBP 3.00 per 
hardback/2.00 per paperback (information from catalogue)

U.S. Distributor:
Seven Hills
Book Distributors
49 Central Ave
Cincinnati
Ohio 45202, U.S.A.

Tel.: 513 381 3881
Fax:  513 381 0735

Cheers!

Ivan Subrt


 



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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 09:41:58 +0100
From: Pedro e Francisca Soares <pnsoares@mail.telepac.pt>
To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" <wwi>
Subject: RE: figures 
Message-ID: <01BDFA7B.C9B44D40@fei1-p8.telepac.pt>



-----Original Message-----
From:	Joey Valenciano [SMTP:joeyval@philonline.com.ph]
Sent:	Saturday, October 17, 1998 9:09 PM
To:	Multiple recipients of list
Subject:	Re: figures 

At 07:02 PM 10/16/98 -0400, you wrote:
>If you ever want to do, say, an equivalent Jasta 5 diorama I'd be willing to
>donate all the figures I've got squirreled away, herr DioramaMeister...

Don't forget the vicious guardcow standing watch.

No chance with that one, Joey, the cow is probably copyrighted... maybe if you could contact her legal heirs...

Pedro ( hidding fast :-)



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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 11:20:44 -0700
From: "Sandy Adam" <cbbs@almac.co.uk>
To: <wwi>
Subject: Re: Most Wanted Time?
Message-ID: <199810181021.LAA05391@beryl.sol.co.uk>

> .......... and the Blue Max fuselage is great, but buying it just to get
the
> fuselage is a waste, especially since the rest of the kit is merely ok
and the
> plastic is pretty cheesy.
> Robert K.

I agree with your view of BM plastic - I prefer just about every other
grade used in kits - yet I've spoken about exactly this to Chris Gannon and
he says that he has the soft stuff specially made for him - at extra
expense - because his feedback is that modellers prefer it!

Certainly it's easy to gouge out the thick cockpit interiors with this
cheesy stuff but for external finish I think it's awful. Does anybody on
our list actually like it? Maybe we can give him some feedback when his
site is up (and running).
Sandy

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:33:51 GMT
From: lfendy@firstsaga.com (Leonard Endy)
To: wwi
Subject: Re: cow accessory
Message-ID: <3629c2eb.27372379@legend.firstsaga.com>

On Sun, 18 Oct 1998 02:29:47 -0400, you wrote:

>In a message dated 98-10-17 23:43:11 EDT, you write:
>
> I notice that a significant number of them have a splotchy camoflage pattern.
> It appears to be in black and white but, of course, this is probably just the
> effect of orthographic film. 

Just in....cow modeler hit w/lawsuit by a certain computer
manufacturer for copyright infringement.  When questioned the modeler
would only say: " I think the whole thing is udderly ridiculous".

Also...I found most of all the Williams Bros kits at Roll Models.

Not feeling punchy because she doesn't like it...
	
Len
Visit the Swap'N' Shop pages...
http://www2.firstsaga.com/lfendy/fof_site.htm

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 03:57:31 -0700
From: Bob Pearson <bpearson@kaien.com>
To: WW1 Mailing list <wwi>
Subject: Re: Eduard 1/48 Albatros D.III
Message-ID: <10573168643623@KAIEN.COM>


Ivan,

The Blaue Maus can be seen at

http://www.overthefront.com/SiteMill.html/07JastaBoelcke.html

Regards,
        Bob Pearson

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> From: infosilver@czechia.com
> To: Multiple recipients of list <wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu>
> Subject: Eduard 1/48 Albatros D.III
> Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 05:21:11 -0400
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I just placed short information with sprues and decals pictures at
> 
> http://www.czechia.com/silverbird/wwi
> 
> I remember having seen Frommherz's 'Blaue Maus' somewhere on the Web. 
> Could anybody be so kind and advice an URL?
> 
> TIA 
> 
> Ivan Subrt  
> 
> 


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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 06:04:02 PDT
From: "Peter Crow" <eatcrow@hotmail.com>
To: wwi
Subject: Re: Most Wanted Time?( BM plastic)
Message-ID: <19981018130402.11211.qmail@hotmail.com>

......>cheesy stuff but for external finish I think it's awful. Does 
anybody on
>our list actually like it? Maybe we can give him some feedback when his
>site is up (and running).
>Sandy
>


  Count me in on the negative side.. having done two of their kits (DH-2 
& Pfalz D-XII), I think the plastic is the worst part of the kit.. lack 
of clear info on the instruction sheets would be my only other 
complaint..

 P. Crow.. up early with a slight hangover after a great dinner at a 
fellow list members house..

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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:07:49 -0400
From: "David Vosburgh" <dave@vga-graphics.com>
To: <wwi>
Subject: Re: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures
Message-ID: <003601bdfaa0$b16c0640$11d690d0@Pvosburg>

According to my sources, the German cow-camo was actually a two-tone scheme
of light unbleached cowhide (FS17855) and hot pink (FS38903), which of
course on orthographic film reads as black. So R.K.s O-gauge cow is more
accurate than might be apparent from first glance. Unfortunately when NASM
restored their original "Muhkuh" (NAM 678, Cat. No. 1950-92) back in the
mid-Seventies the firm which printed the covering ran out of the proper inks
and substituted black and white, figuring that nobody would notice. They
didn't... (not that it mattered, since most of it mysteriously vanished and
later turned up in a tag sale at Karl Schneide's house) so now it's become
Gospel and everybody makes their WWI German cows look just like the one in
D.C..

I'm working on a profile now. Anybody got Ray Rimell's fax number?

DV
-----Original Message-----
From: Zulis@aol.com <Zulis@aol.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu>
Date: Sunday, October 18, 1998 3:09 AM
Subject: Re: cow accessory type material wasRe: figures


>
>This cow business intrigued me, so I took a look at a bunch of old cow
>pictures.
>
>I notice that a significant number of them have a splotchy camoflage
pattern.
>It appears to be in black and white but, of course, this is probably just
the
>effect of orthographic film.    I suppose it would be too much to hope for
an
>authentic methuen colour match?  perhaps a scrap of holy relic leather from
>the period?
>
>Feeling punchy on a Saturday night,
>
>Dave Zulis
>


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Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:37:44 -0400
From: "David Vosburgh" <dave@vga-graphics.com>
To: "WWI M.M.L." <wwi>
Subject: RE: Airbrushes
Message-ID: <000c01bdfaa4$df565700$10d690d0@Pvosburg>

A couple of weeks back Matt wrote that he was using a Thayer & Chandler Vega
2000... I just got a catalog from a place called BearAir Express in Natick,
MA which has a "Vega 2000 Delux Kit" with 3 tips, 6' hose, jars, etc. for
$57. Problem is that on the T&C cross-reference chart they print only the
1000GF (also $57, but no goodies)is listed as being able to handle enamels.
Anybody know why this might be?

The prices seem to be pretty good on Iwata, Paasche, et al. as well. If
anybody wants the address/phone # let me know off-list.

BTW, sorry about the cow thing...

DV


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