WWI Digest 830 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Finding books by "Gary Hackney" 2) To rich for my blood... by Redwilde@bdsbbs.com (Redwilde) 3) Re: Nicknames (was Message kickbacks) by Geoff Smith 4) Re: Finishing kits by bucky@mail.ptd.net (Mary-Ann/Michael) 5) Re: Paint inter-reactions by Jesse Thorn 6) The Bandy Papers [was Re: Nicknames (was Message kickbacks)] by Bob Pearson 7) Re: HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION! by rnrniles@2xtreme.net (Russell W Niles) 8) Re: Possible early French 3-color variation by "Tom Werner Hansen" 9) RE: Fokker D.VII by Matthew Zivich 10) (no subject) by Lee Mensinger 11) Re: Kit of the Year by DavidL1217 12) Re: l.M.G. 08/15 SPANDAU by Mick Fauchon 13) Re: Kit of the Year by "John Glaser" 14) Re: Finishing kits by Riordan and Michelle Goodwin 15) Re: mailing weirdness - as well by Mick Fauchon 16) Re: mailing weirdness - as well by Mick Fauchon 17) Re: Kit of the Year by Ernest Thomas 18) Re: HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION! by huggins@onramp.net (John Huggins) 19) Smer Nie. 11 construction notes by Riordan and Michelle Goodwin 20) Re: mailing weirdness - as well by Riordan and Michelle Goodwin 21) Re: Kit of the Year by DavidL1217 22) Re: HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION! by "Scott M. Head" 23) Re: mailing weirdness - as well by Mick Fauchon 24) Re: Kit of the Year by John & Allison Cyganowski 25) Re: mailing weirdness - as well by Lee Mensinger 26) Re: Fokker D.VII by DavidL1217 27) Re: Kit of the Year by kevinkim@interlog.com (Kevin & Kimberley Barrett) 28) Re: Smer Nie. 11 construction notes by Joey Valenciano 29) Re: HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION! by Ernest Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 01:00:34 -0500 From: "Gary Hackney" To: "WWI Modeling List" Subject: Finding books Message-ID: I wrote yesterday looking for Jane's. Meanwhile I found a great book-finding site, www.abebooks.com. This is a network of over 1600 used bookstores in several countries, with on-line searchable inventories. When you find what you want a form pops up that you complete and email to the store that has it. I searched all stores at once and found seven copies of Jane's, a couple 1919 editions of Rickenbacker's "Fighting the Flying Circus", several copies of Springs' "War Birds", and also some Harleyford & Bruce books. I also found the Munson 1914-1919 Bombers book I was missing. The only drawback is that I found no mention of it being a secure site, so as always send your credit card numbers at your own risk. Gary Hackney ------------------------------ Date: 4 Jan 1998 01:22:14 EDT From: Redwilde@bdsbbs.com (Redwilde) To: wwi Subject: To rich for my blood... Message-ID: <88389495839028@bdsbbs.com> > >> Price: $214.50 > >> Shipping & handling charge: $3.95 > >> Total charge for item: $218.45 > >> Binding: Hardcover Wow. I got mine back in the late 70s at Barnes & Noble for $3.95 each. (alas only vols 1-4). If I'd only known then to buy every one they had in stock..... Brian ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 07:27:38 -0500 From: Geoff Smith To: "INTERNET:wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: Nicknames (was Message kickbacks) Message-ID: <199801040728_MC2-2DF2-7508@compuserve.com> Joey wrote: >If the "Tin Whistles" you're referring to are aircraft then they're >probably the Breguet U2. I quote from the FMP French book: (snip) I should have made that clearer, yes, the passage goes : " the air filled with the rattle of Avros or Pups or Nieuports or visitin= g B.E.s or Tin Whistles; " Thanks for the info. I'd never heard this one before. Bob wrote: >Aren't the Bandy Papers something? I reread all 7 or 8 volumes of them o= n my >two-month trip across Canada in '96. I'm really enjoying these,and I'd recommend them, trouble is the guy who lent me them was only aware of the first 4. So now he's got to search the= old book shops for the others and I'm not flavour of the month any more. = : - ) Regards, Geoff ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:40:14 -0500 From: bucky@mail.ptd.net (Mary-Ann/Michael) To: wwi, Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: Finishing kits Message-ID: <199801041540.KAA13243@pease1.sr.unh.edu> At 01:54 PM 1/3/98 -0500, mbittner@juno.com wrote: >One of the greatest feelings for me when finishing up a kit is cutting up >the left over sprue and throwing it away. Plus, when I crush up a kit's >box for recycle, it gives me a feeling of accomplishment almost as much >as putting the finished kit on the shelf. Ah yes, and don't forget the gently climbing turn that shows off the underneath just befoe you put the model on the shelf! Mike Muth ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 10:48:18 -0400 From: Jesse Thorn To: wwi Subject: Re: Paint inter-reactions Message-ID: >5. Watch out for solvents. If you use Future to gloss the model you can >make Decals "snuggle down" by coating the decaling area with future, Isopropyl alcohol is a solvent for Future as I found much to my dismay one day after trying to clean oil residue left over from handling a model with the stuff. Do not apply isopropyl to Future! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 07:58:45 -0800 From: Bob Pearson To: WW1 Mailing list Subject: The Bandy Papers [was Re: Nicknames (was Message kickbacks)] Message-ID: <15584573718322@KAIEN.COM> Geoff, In case you need the titles of the others in the Bandy series, here they are. In some volumes THAT'S ME AMONG THE RUINS is incorporated in IT'S ME AGAIN. THREE CHEERS FOR ME THAT'S ME IN THE MIDDLE IT'S ME AGAIN ME AMONG THE RUINS ME BANDY, YOU CISSIE ME TOO THIS ONE'S ON ME ME SO FAR Good luck in your search, I only found the final volume two or three years ago - it was published in 1989. Regards, Bob Pearson Geoff wrote . . . > I'm really enjoying these,and I'd recommend them, trouble is the guy who > lent me them was only aware of the first 4. So now he's got to search the > > old book shops for the others and I'm not flavour of the month any more. :- ) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 08:25:58 -0800 From: rnrniles@2xtreme.net (Russell W Niles) To: wwi Subject: Re: HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION! Message-ID: <19980104162556588.AAA148@125.usr6.2xtreme.net> >TO: ALL SUBSCRIBER TO THE WWI MAILING LIST > >If you could have ANY ARTIFACT from the WHOLE OF RECORDED HISTORY >but YOU COULD NOT SELL IT, What would it be? > >The first person who wants the same thing as me wins ABSOLUTELY NOTHING >except maybe a modicum of my respect which, in this cold cruel world, is >worth less than Atari stock. > >The phones lines are open! Call now! > >Ernest. >ethomas6@bellsouth.net I think I would have to say, a piece of the Cross, or the Holy Grail. Russ Niles IPMS 4450 rnrniles@2xtreme.net Too close for missles....switching to guns. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Jan 1998 22:56:26 +0100 From: "Tom Werner Hansen" To: Subject: Re: Possible early French 3-color variation Message-ID: <199801041657.RAA29878@d1o211.telia.com> Construction notes on Smer Ni.11? Me, too, please. I'm finally well into the ESCI Ni.17 with *major* surgeries performed + Tom's Modelworks interior bits. So I'm getting ready for another Nieuport, this time the SMER one which has been lying around for a while, so somebody else's experience with the same one would be appreciated. Tom ---------- > From: Ernest Thomas > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Possible early French 3-color variation > Date: 03. januar 1998 20:50 > > Riordan and Michelle Goodwin wrote: > > > > As I neared completion of a Smer Nie.11, I started looking closely at > > the FMP and misc. refs. I relocated a picture of a captured 11 (N1135)of > > Escadrille 26 standing on its nose on pg 46 of the Phoebus Fighters of > > WWI book (this one is not completely worthless). Noticed at least 3 > > different shades of color on the top plane. Then looked at the color > > notes section of the Russian FMP book and found that there were more > > than two colors listed for the early Nie.s received by the IRAS from the > > French (why is there no section like this in the French book?). As well > > as brown & green there was red-brown, olive, and khaki. I know this > > apparent 3-tone finish of N1135 can be accounted for to some extent by > > variation in paint batches, overspraying of colors, fading, photographic > > processes, etc. but it also suggests a possible precursor to the later > > 5-color scheme, which I interpret as a brown or red-brown/green/khaki or > > olive scheme. > > > > Anyone for Smer construction notes? > > > > Cheers, > > > > Riordan > > > > -- > > --------------------------------------- > > This e-mail has been brought to you by > > - Riordan and Michelle Goodwin - > > ***************************** > > Great Gift Ideas at > > Jewels of the Silk Road > > http://www.silkroadjewels.com > > ***************************** > > I'd love some smer construction notes. TIA. > > Ernest Thomas > ethomas6@bellsouth.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 14:38:02 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Zivich To: wwi Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: RE: Fokker D.VII Message-ID: Sounds like Tony Fokker & Walt Disney were cut out of the same cloth. MZ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 13:49:49 -0600 From: Lee Mensinger To: wwi, ethomas6@bellssouth.net, "lemen@sat.net" Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: <34AFE7DD.6EF192FD@sat.net> TO: ALL SUBSCRIBER TO THE WWI MAILING LIST > >If you could have ANY ARTIFACT from the WHOLE OF RECORDED HISTORY >but YOU COULD NOT SELL IT, What would it be? > >The first person who wants the same thing as me wins ABSOLUTELY NOTHING >except maybe a modicum of my respect which, in this cold cruel world, is >worth less than Atari stock. > >The phones lines are open! Call now! > >Ernest. >ethomas6@bellsouth.net A hand written biography, signed on each page by Jesus Christ and his Mother. Don't worry about selling it no one would have enough money...Lee ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 15:15:42 EST From: DavidL1217 To: wwi Subject: Re: Kit of the Year Message-ID: <4b1dfbc9.34afedf0@aol.com> I would like to nominate the Skybirds Halberstadt trio as kit of the year. (Really, these are actually one kit by and large). Runners up would be the SB Frederichshafen. Skybirds made some wonderful kits. It's a shame the Frederichshafen was so severely savaged. I had a conversation with Mike Eacock who is Skybirds. He is simply not making money at this. He may consider doing limited run kits, no advertising basis if he knows he could sell at least 50. I suggested the RE8 in 1/72 even though the wooden struts do not lent themselves to Strutz. He has got alot of up front costs and his production rate is roughly 8 kits a day. But let's face it, these are, perhaps, som of the finest castings and best engineered kits available! ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:18:01 +1100 (EST) From: Mick Fauchon To: wwi Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: l.M.G. 08/15 SPANDAU Message-ID: Dave, > Spandau), contact me. By the way, I have some insights on the guns, (in > addition to the serial numbers), that were mounted on the "Red Baron's" > Dr.I, on that fatefull day in April, 1918. Post the insights........ we're waiting. Cheers, Mick. -- -- Mick Fauchon | Internet: ulmjf@dewey.newcastle.edu.au Reference Section, Auchmuty Library | Ph (intl+61+49) 215861 University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA | Fax (intl+61+49) 215833 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM M M M Tasmanian Devil: "#@%!&^*%%...!#@!&**%^@@#$#-+*+*&##@...!!" M M M M Yosemite Sam : "Cut out that Army talk!..Yer in the Navy now!" M M M MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:12:14 -0600 From: "John Glaser" To: Subject: Re: Kit of the Year Message-ID: <19980104221558.AAA937@johng> Another dumb Newbie question from me: How does one get in touch with Skybirds and does he have a product list available? - John ---------- > From: DavidL1217 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Kit of the Year > Date: Sunday, January 04, 1998 2:40 PM > > I would like to nominate the Skybirds Halberstadt trio as kit of the year. > (Really, these are actually one kit by and large). Runners up would be the SB > Frederichshafen. Skybirds made some wonderful kits. It's a shame the > Frederichshafen was so severely savaged. > > I had a conversation with Mike Eacock who is Skybirds. He is simply not > making money at this. He may consider doing limited run kits, no advertising > basis if he knows he could sell at least 50. I suggested the RE8 in 1/72 even > though the wooden struts do not lent themselves to Strutz. He has got alot > of up front costs and his production rate is roughly 8 kits a day. But let's > face it, these are, perhaps, som of the finest castings and best engineered > kits available! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 14:18:32 -0800 From: Riordan and Michelle Goodwin To: wwi Subject: Re: Finishing kits Message-ID: <34B00AB8.3F8E@ricochet.net> KarrArt wrote: >> After attending various "collector" shows over the years, I'm almost afraid to > throw anything away.Crudely sliced out box tops are being offered for anything > up to $20- and this for kits of semi- recent vintage. And people are buying! Anyone interested in an (Airfix)MPC Hannover Cl.III box? :-^) -- --------------------------------------- This e-mail has been brought to you by - Riordan and Michelle Goodwin - ***************************** Great Gift Ideas at Jewels of the Silk Road http://www.silkroadjewels.com ***************************** ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:27:17 +1100 (EST) From: Mick Fauchon To: wwi Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: mailing weirdness - as well Message-ID: > For the last several days every message I've sent to the list has seemingly > made it but they've also went somewhere else and been returned- I get the > returned mailer demon form a non-existant address with a umaryland.edu > suffix.Anybody else? > > I have also been seeing this come back from umaryland.edu, Charlie > I went to the trouble of composing a Christmas message to you all, and had exactly the same thing happen. Now I'm not sure whether anybody got it. Can anybody tell me if it came through? Mick. -- -- Mick Fauchon | Internet: ulmjf@dewey.newcastle.edu.au Reference Section, Auchmuty Library | Ph (intl+61+49) 215861 University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA | Fax (intl+61+49) 215833 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM M M M Tasmanian Devil: "#@%!&^*%%...!#@!&**%^@@#$#-+*+*&##@...!!" M M M M Yosemite Sam : "Cut out that Army talk!..Yer in the Navy now!" M M M MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 09:34:54 +1100 (EST) From: Mick Fauchon To: wwi Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: mailing weirdness - as well Message-ID: On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, KarrArt wrote: > Now I'm starting to wonder about my postings- the Mailer Daemon Return is > getting very uppity with everything I send to the list- anybody out there? > Robert > Robert, Yes, I'm getting exactly the same thing. Mick. -- -- Mick Fauchon | Internet: ulmjf@dewey.newcastle.edu.au Reference Section, Auchmuty Library | Ph (intl+61+49) 215861 University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA | Fax (intl+61+49) 215833 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM M M M Tasmanian Devil: "#@%!&^*%%...!#@!&**%^@@#$#-+*+*&##@...!!" M M M M Yosemite Sam : "Cut out that Army talk!..Yer in the Navy now!" M M M MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 16:29:08 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Re: Kit of the Year Message-ID: <34B00D34.349E@bellsouth.net> John Glaser wrote: > > Another dumb Newbie question from me: How does one get in touch with > Skybirds and does he have a product list available? > > - John > > ---------- >Yes, Please tell us. I'm sure a lot of us would like to know. I for one have never heard of Skybirds. Does he make any 1/48 stuff? ernest thomas ethomas6@bellsouth.net ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:05:21 -0600 (CST) From: huggins@onramp.net (John Huggins) To: wwi Subject: Re: HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION! Message-ID: >>TO: ALL SUBSCRIBER TO THE WWI MAILING LIST >> >>If you could have ANY ARTIFACT from the WHOLE OF RECORDED HISTORY >>but YOU COULD NOT SELL IT, What would it be? >> >>The first person who wants the same thing as me wins ABSOLUTELY NOTHING >>except maybe a modicum of my respect which, in this cold cruel world, is >>worth less than Atari stock. >> >>The phones lines are open! Call now! >> >>Ernest. >>ethomas6@bellsouth.net I think taht all I could want would be the kind of friendship that exists here amoung those of us who have an intrest in a common subject. What could be more valuable than a true friendship? John H Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 15:47:44 -0800 From: Riordan and Michelle Goodwin To: wwi Subject: Smer Nie. 11 construction notes Message-ID: <34B01FA0.53EA@ricochet.net> Ernest, Tom, et al, First thing you'll to do is get the Ian Stair or other 1/48 drawings and enlarge them about 10%. Then prepare for a lot of work. Throw the pastry-like engine away and get Aeroclub/spare Eduard Pup LeRhone or other upgrade. Having done this, you will now have to ream the cowl (at least for Aeroclub) with Dremel or other means so the replacement engine will fit. Be advised that Aeroclub unit needs a 1/16" or so spacer between it and firewall to achieve correct placement of engine (The upside is that the Aeroclub's crankcase may be carefully polished with wire brush bit to replicate steel surface of real thing). Lewis gun is chunky and may be refined, but you may want to save yourself some work and Aeroclub it again-the scale discrepency really isn't noticeable. If you're into interiors, the Tom's French set will probably work-I didn't try it, but shouldn't be a problem. Fuselage: This isn't bad, but lower fuselage has rectangular hole on underside that needs plugging with scrap and profile forward of the wing may be too steep an angle-check plans, add card wedge as needed. Also, fuselage underside is slightly v-shaped when joined so this should probably be sanded flat (before correcting profile)-plastic is fortunately plenty thick. The windscreen is solid and so will have to be replace with acetate or be recontoured and have a square filed out of it. Cockpit padding is absent from many ref. photos, so should probably be sanded off. Also note that the forward strut location 'alcoves' are misplaced (should be farther forward), so you may want to fill 'em and relocate. Drill/file out and enlarge foot port/step on left side of fuselage. Reduce rear deck stringer detail. Wings: May need slight warp removed, but be very careful with boiling water (do not expose for more than a few seconds), as this plastic wrinkles easily) Also, wings are little thick. Possible candidates for orbital sander treatment on underside. Use nothing coarser than 220 grit and be careful of heat buildup. Remove remnants of decal locators on main wing uppersurfaces and be careful not to reduce slightly mushed out rib detail in these areas. Aileron cranks are misplaced blobs and should be at least reshaped if no removed altogether-replacements found on Tom's photo-etched sheet. Slots for aileron cranks may be sawn from trailing edge and egde restored with card when completed. 'Rake' angle is incorrect, so wing will need to be sawed in half longitudinally, have thin wedges of material removed and rejoined as per drawings. This, of course, will make the rib angles a bit off and put interplane strut locator holes off, but wing should be farther forward than kit locates it anyhow. All strut locator holes will need to be relocated. Expect lots of dry-fitting. Lower wing is too short, so will need to have card lengths added either at the wing tips or roots. Tailplane/elevators have troughs in them, but (along with rudder) need to be thinned. Thinning will probably take care of this. Slots must be drilled/filed in tailplane for upper elevator control cables; have not figured out a fool-proof way of aligning them with ports in fuselage, but may wait until empennage is assembled to drill fuselage ports. Replacement elevator and rudder control horns on Tom's brass sheet. Struts: Too thick, 'V' struts have bizarre raised locators on them for the 1/28(?) scale LePrieur rockets which will have to go. Might be easier to scratch new struts from card. Undercarriage struts & axle need to be reshaped. Tail-skid mount needs to be reduced and reshaped. Assuming you get everthing else shaped up and lined up, don't forget to add tailplane struts from sprue or material of your choice and cable from Lewis to control stick. Good luck with Lewis mounting on upper wing; post on Aeroclub unit is a bit short. Nie.16 conversion: LeRhone 9J 110hp and headrest from thick Sprue. Contemplate alternate schemes to CDL. If you don't quite achieve a masterpiece, don't sweat it; after all, its a Smer- not a Blue Max. These kits are perfect for learning on, and they can't all be gems. Riordan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 15:49:52 -0800 From: Riordan and Michelle Goodwin To: wwi Subject: Re: mailing weirdness - as well Message-ID: <34B02020.30A2@ricochet.net> Mick Fauchon wrote: > > Yes, I'm getting exactly the same thing. Me, too. Riordan ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:50:31 EST From: DavidL1217 To: wwi Subject: Re: Kit of the Year Message-ID: <7dde73f2.34b0204a@aol.com> Skybirds are not cheap but they are complete and among the best moldings out there (My opinion). You have to order direct: Skybirds '86 Orchard House Chetnole Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6PE Great Britain The kits are: Halberstadt Cl II $33 (Plastic, not as crisp as the resin) Lloyd CV $ 37 DFW CV $ 37 Rumpler CIV $40 Frederichshafen GII $57 Albatros CX $37 Aviatik CIII $37 Halberstadt DII, DIII, & DV (3 individual kits) $33 each. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 18:04:55 -0600 From: "Scott M. Head" To: wwi Subject: Re: HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION! Message-ID: <9801041805.aa17045@mail.iapc.net> >>>TO: ALL SUBSCRIBER TO THE WWI MAILING LIST >>> >>>If you could have ANY ARTIFACT from the WHOLE OF RECORDED HISTORY >>>but YOU COULD NOT SELL IT, What would it be? And John replied: >I think taht all I could want would be the kind of friendship that exists >here amoung those of us who have an intrest in a common subject. What >could be more valuable than a true friendship? Hi John, I think a full collection, 1 each, of each of the original Aurora WWI kits in perfect boxes would be more valuable than true friendship. I'd sell each and every one of you all for that! ;-) (For those of us with no sense of humor I suppose I'll have to say "just kidding") Cheers to this fine group of friends! Scott M. Head IPMS/Houston IPMS/USA 32841 smh@iapc.net IPMS/Houston Scale Model Forum: http://web-hou.iapc.net/~smh ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 11:31:09 +1100 (EST) From: Mick Fauchon To: wwi Cc: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: mailing weirdness - as well Message-ID: Riordan, > Mick Fauchon wrote: > > > > Yes, I'm getting exactly the same thing. > > Me, too. OK, so if you got me, that means that my messages are getting through to the list. I got yours via the list, so that means that yours are getting through as well; which means we can both send and reply. Probably the best thing to do is ignore it and wipe the mailer's messages. But it's bloody annoying! Thanks for the tip-off 80) Cheers, Mick. -- -- Mick Fauchon | Internet: ulmjf@dewey.newcastle.edu.au Reference Section, Auchmuty Library | Ph (intl+61+49) 215861 University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA | Fax (intl+61+49) 215833 MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM M M M Tasmanian Devil: "#@%!&^*%%...!#@!&**%^@@#$#-+*+*&##@...!!" M M M M Yosemite Sam : "Cut out that Army talk!..Yer in the Navy now!" M M M MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 19:31:45 -0500 From: John & Allison Cyganowski To: wwi Subject: Re: Kit of the Year Message-ID: <34B029F1.264E@worldnet.att.net> DavidL1217 wrote: > > Skybirds are not cheap but they are complete and among the best moldings out > there (My opinion). You have to order direct: > > Skybirds '86 > Orchard House > Chetnole > Sherborne, Dorset DT9 6PE > Great Britain > > The kits are: > Halberstadt Cl II $33 (Plastic, not as crisp as the resin) > Lloyd CV $ 37 > DFW CV $ 37 > Rumpler CIV $40 > Frederichshafen GII $57 > Albatros CX $37 > Aviatik CIII $37 > Halberstadt DII, DIII, & DV (3 individual kits) $33 each. Are these 1/48? John Cyg. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Jan 1998 18:37:49 -0600 From: Lee Mensinger To: wwi, ulmjf@dewey.newcastle.edu.au Subject: Re: mailing weirdness - as well Message-ID: <34B02B5D.669FE73A@sat.net> Mick Fauchon wrote: > On Sun, 28 Dec 1997, KarrArt wrote: > > > Now I'm starting to wonder about my postings- the Mailer Daemon > Return is > > getting very uppity with everything I send to the list- anybody out > there? > > Robert > > > > Robert, > > Yes, I'm getting exactly the same thing. > > > > Mick. > > -- > > -- > Mick Fauchon | Internet: > ulmjf@dewey.newcastle.edu.au > Reference Section, Auchmuty Library | Ph (intl+61+49) 215861 > University of Newcastle, AUSTRALIA | Fax (intl+61+49) 215833 > > > MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM > > M M > M Tasmanian Devil: > "#@%!&^*%%...!#@!&**%^@@#$#-+*+*&##@...!!" M > > M M > M Yosemite Sam : "Cut out that Army talk!..Yer in the Navy > now!" M > > M M > > MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM Mike, welcome to the wierdness club. I have experienced the same nonsense. I also contacted the list Archives and made a shortline message to Allan Wright so he now knows about this stuff..If he didn't before. It looks as if it came up after the last up-date on 22 Dec 97. Lee J. Mensinger, New Braunfels, Tx ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 19:21:05 EST From: DavidL1217 To: wwi Subject: Re: Fokker D.VII Message-ID: Speaking of DVII's, has anyone received the new Albatros DVII book? If so, advise if you are in the US. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 20:51:41 -0500 From: kevinkim@interlog.com (Kevin & Kimberley Barrett) To: wwi Subject: Re: Kit of the Year Message-ID: >Are these 1/48? > >John Cyg. John, All 1/72, thank goodness! Kevin Barrett. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 08:54:42 +0800 From: Joey Valenciano To: wwi Subject: Re: Smer Nie. 11 construction notes Message-ID: <3.0.1.32.19980105085442.006c8ad8@philonline.com.ph> Thanks for the notes, Riordan. ********************************************************************* 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, 04 Jan 1998 19:31:23 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi Subject: Re: HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION! Message-ID: <34B037EB.463C@bellsouth.net> Scott M. Head wrote: > > >>>TO: ALL SUBSCRIBER TO THE WWI MAILING LIST > >>> > >>>If you could have ANY ARTIFACT from the WHOLE OF RECORDED HISTORY > >>>but YOU COULD NOT SELL IT, What would it be? > > And John replied: > > >I think taht all I could want would be the kind of friendship that exists > >here amoung those of us who have an intrest in a common subject. What > >could be more valuable than a true friendship? > > Hi John, > > I think a full collection, 1 each, of each of the original Aurora WWI kits > in perfect boxes would be more valuable than true friendship. I'd sell each > and every one of you all for that! ;-) > > (For those of us with no sense of humor I suppose I'll have to say "just > kidding") > > Cheers to this fine group of friends! > > Scott M. Head > IPMS/Houston > IPMS/USA 32841 > smh@iapc.net > > IPMS/Houston Scale Model Forum: http://web-hou.iapc.net/~smh Hey Scott M. Head, Ernest T. here. I'm in possession of the Aroura Sopwith Camel 1/48 in the 1956 box. Still in the shrink wrap. I belive the shring wrap is original because the box is not crushed or sagging in the middle and shows no wear and tear on the corners. What's your best offer? I'd be willing to swap it for something I'm more interested in building. But it has to be something GOOD! Let me know. E. ethomas6@bellsouth.net ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 830 *********************