WWI Digest 1432 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) RE: "Small Part Detail" Photos on the WW I Modeling Page by Shane Weier 2) RE: "Small Part Detail" Photos on the WW I Modeling Page by Fernando Lamas 3) Re: Albatros D.V fuel tanks by Ernest Thomas 4) Re: if you have some extra cash lying around . . . by Mike Fletcher 5) Re: if you have some extra cash lying around . . . by Mike Fletcher 6) Re: "Small Part Detail" Photos on the WW I Modeling Page by Ernest Thomas 7) Re: Quiet? by Ernest Thomas 8) Re: Fletcher rudder by Mike Fletcher 9) Re: Quiet? by Mike Fletcher 10) RE: "Small Part Detail" Photos on the WW I Modeling Page by Shane Weier 11) RE: Albatros D.V fuel tanks by Shane Weier 12) Re: if you have some extra cash lying around . . . by "Sandy Adam" 13) Re: Fletcher rudder by Suvoroff@aol.com 14) Eduard Hanriot... by "Sandy Adam" 15) Re: Fletcher rudder by "K. Hagerup" 16) Re: Salamander Camouflage by Dennis Ugulano 17) Re: Eduard Hanriot... by "Peter Crow" 18) Off topic; Re: Fletcher rudder by Suvoroff@aol.com 19) Re: Quiet? by Pedro e Francisca Soares 20) RE: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? by "Landon, James D" 21) RE: Quiet? by "Landon, James D" 22) RE: Salamander Camouflage by "Landon, James D" 23) RE: About me... by "Landon, James D" 24) RE: Quiet? by "Landon, James D" 25) Re: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? by "David Vosburgh" 26) Tip for the Day by "David Vosburgh" 27) RE: Quiet? by "Landon, James D" 28) Re: if you have some extra cash lying around . . . by "Tom Werner Hansen" 29) Re: Quiet? by Ernest Thomas 30) RE: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? by "Landon, James D" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 15:26:54 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: "Small Part Detail" Photos on the WW I Modeling Page Message-ID: Fernando, > I know several members of this list are proud of their scratchbuilt, > detailed small parts. So far, I have scratchbuilt much of the cockpit > detail in the Eduard Albatros D.V. However, I am really > curious as to what others have done. > Good idea, though my experience is that when I photograph my beloved superdetail and blow it up to screen size the quality drops to (ahem) crud. Nothing like looking at something 4 to 8 times life size to see the warts. > Would there be any interest in devoting a section of the WW > I Modeling Page to "Small Part Detail"? Instead of photos of an > entire model, it can feature photos of a detailed engine, a control stick, > instruments, etc. If Al is interested I am. In fact, I'll send a pic of el Biffo's radiator to him right now. Maybe it can sit in my section with the Biff for a while and I'll decide if I'm game to show quite that much > It can also feature Matt's 1/72 Nieuports. ;-) TOO small ;-) Shane ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 22:06:15 -0800 From: Fernando Lamas To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: RE: "Small Part Detail" Photos on the WW I Modeling Page Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.19990205220615.008008f0@olympus.net> Shane wrote: > >Good idea, though my experience is that when I photograph my beloved >superdetail and blow it up to screen size the quality drops to (ahem) crud. >Nothing like looking at something 4 to 8 times life size to see the warts. > Nicole Kidman's face, under a microscope, would look like a disgusting landscape of desquamating epithelium. You just have to stand back from the computer screen to achieve scale size to appreciate the beauty. I would love to see photos of your superdetail at 8X life size. Fernando Lamas ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:11:03 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Albatros D.V fuel tanks Message-ID: <36BBDCF7.6D73@bellsouth.net> Shane Weier wrote: > (incidentally, Aussie members - who do you recommend as a source of RTV and > resins? My usual supplier has gone under) Sorry, but i have to ask. Exactly WHERE does one go, when one goes 'under' in the land down under? Do two unders make an over??? Just wondering in the northern hemi. E. Ok Shane, Pop goes the valium, off to dreamland for me. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 22:23:48 -0800 From: Mike Fletcher To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: if you have some extra cash lying around . . . Message-ID: <36BBDFF4.FF408120@mars.ark.com> I don't think the intended audience are afficionados but rather museums who cannot have or don't want a full size replica. -- Mike Fletcher ___ ., mdf@mars.ark.com |-\|^----! ; mikef@sparc.nic.bc.ca |--n--""*" icq=19554083 @ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 22:29:45 -0800 From: Mike Fletcher To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: if you have some extra cash lying around . . . Message-ID: <36BBE159.88692787@mars.ark.com> nope - they were named after an US Navy officer (ww1?) who iirc was decended from someone on the Mayflower - we were poor Manchesterians who came for the climate and to avoid concription. (A fletcher made arrows and the name is from Norse so there are a lot of them that aren't related) -- Mike Fletcher ___ ., mdf@mars.ark.com |-\|^----! ; mikef@sparc.nic.bc.ca |--n--""*" icq=19554083 @ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:29:26 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: "Small Part Detail" Photos on the WW I Modeling Page Message-ID: <36BBE146.7C28@bellsouth.net> Fernando wrote... > > Would there be any interest in devoting a section of the WW > > I Modeling Page to "Small Part Detail"? Instead of photos of an > > entire model, it can feature photos of a detailed engine, a control stick, > > > instruments, etc. > Finally! A thread I can get into... I would be most interested in that. Giving and taking. As for valve springs, I made some for my Pfalz and after wraping all that .004 brass wire, cutting it into little bitty spring sized bits, and sticking em on top of the Merc., it occured to me that chopping up a wound guitar string would have been much easier and quicker. However, I did photograph the work in progress. Iirc, SP has those pics and perhaps he would be willing to run em through the scanner and send you a copy. And now that I'm thinking about it, send me your snail mail address off list again and I'll send you the diagrams for the SVA cockpit parts that I never sent you before. I still haven't written any notes to go along with em,(hence the delay) but the diagrams are pretty self explanatory. And while I'm on the subject of sending things out; Dave V., the copper went out in today's(fri) mail. Thanks for the spaceship hull material. > If Al is interested I am. > I'd also be willing to stick the engine pics on Al's page if he's willing. As for my needs, I sure would like to discuss WWI magnetos with any knowledgeable parties. E. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 00:32:50 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Quiet? Message-ID: <36BBE212.649B@bellsouth.net> Steven M. Perry wrote: > Welcome Jim: > > Glad to see you joined the list. > Me too. E. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 22:53:28 -0800 From: Mike Fletcher To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Fletcher rudder Message-ID: <36BBE6E8.CFC235AB@mars.ark.com> I stand corrected - iirc the old 'Blue Deveil Destroyer had 2 and that threw me off (not that too many pictures actually show that) -- Mike Fletcher ___ ., mdf@mars.ark.com |-\|^----! ; mikef@sparc.nic.bc.ca |--n--""*" icq=19554083 @ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 22:55:42 -0800 From: Mike Fletcher To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Quiet? Message-ID: <36BBE76E.52CA52AA@mars.ark.com> welcome - this list is loads of fun even when it goes (way) off topic are you working on anything (period) now? unfortunatly I am cursed with a balky isp and there are a number of sites I cannot seem to get to, including it seems yours. -- Mike Fletcher ___ ., mdf@mars.ark.com |-\|^----! ; mikef@sparc.nic.bc.ca |--n--""*" icq=19554083 @ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:45:04 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: "Small Part Detail" Photos on the WW I Modeling Page Message-ID: Fernando, > >Nothing like looking at something 4 to 8 times life size to > >see the warts. > > > > Nicole Kidman's face, under a microscope, would look like > a disgusting landscape of desquamating epithelium. You just > have to stand back from the computer screen to achieve scale > size to appreciate the beauty. > > I would love to see photos of your superdetail at 8X life size. I think I'd rather check out Cate Blanchetts superdetail at 8x than Nicole Kidmans, but I get your point. Al already has *one* close up from me, more may follow once I get the really close up facilities of my digital camera working at least 10% as well as the proper camera Shane ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 19:48:44 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Albatros D.V fuel tanks Message-ID: Ernest, > Shane Weier wrote: > > (incidentally, Aussie members - who do you recommend as a > > source of RTV and resins? My usual supplier has gone under) > > Sorry, but i have to ask. Exactly WHERE does one go, when one goes > 'under' in the land down under? He went under in Wooloongabba. > Do two unders make an over??? No, especially in Wooloongabba six balls make an over. > Just wondering in the northern hemi. Just messing about in the southern one between magneto cables on a 180hp Merc D.III Going under == going bust > Ok Shane, Pop goes the valium, off to dreamland for me. Man, the night is *young* !! I bet RK is *still* up spinne'ing a web of rigging Shane ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:32:30 -0800 From: "Sandy Adam" To: Subject: Re: if you have some extra cash lying around . . . Message-ID: <199902061031.KAA14205@beryl.sol.co.uk> > From: Mike Fletcher > nope - they were named after an US Navy officer (ww1?) who iirc was > decended from someone on the Mayflower - we were poor Manchesterians People from Manchester are called Mancunians. (FWIW) Sandy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 05:48:23 EST From: Suvoroff@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Fletcher rudder Message-ID: Actually, I think there were some with a single rudder and some with two rudders. I don't remember which, but one of these variations predominated over the other. Yours, James D. Gray ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 10:50:40 -0800 From: "Sandy Adam" To: Subject: Eduard Hanriot... Message-ID: <199902061050.KAA14421@beryl.sol.co.uk> ..arived this morning. First comment has to be the exceptional value of this kit. At 9GBP it is one fifth the price of the JMGT alternative! If you have seen the Nie17 and Albatros D.III, you will know what to expect. Two sprues of grey plastic. Nice crisp mouldings with well detailed innards and finely reproduced plastic for things like the Vickers guns. Also, what was missing in the Nie - a nice thin clear curved windscreen. No metal, no PE (to follow in the Profi - why bother?) and transfers for Coppens 24 and a Macchi-built silver Italian machine of 78 Sqda with a red lobster on the side (Jayne Mansfield beware!). I haven't put it against plans, but it looks right, on the sprue. I have compared it side by side with the JMGT though and, while it maybe lacks the breathtaking razor-sharpness of detail of that kit, you could have 5 Eduards for 1 JMGT! I'd suggest rushing out and buying several - if it weren't for the fact that we have seen (for a long time now) the fabulous box art for the next one in Italian markings with all those colourful stars and I'll have to get that as well. And an HD-2 on floats! Lovely kit. What a price! Sandy ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 07:22:45 -0600 From: "K. Hagerup" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Fletcher rudder Message-ID: <36BC4225.F4B@prodigy.net> Someone wrote: > Actually, I think there were some with a single rudder and some with two > rudders. I don't remember which, but one of these variations predominated > over the other. I still beg to differ. >From US Destroyers, an Illustrated Design History: "There were also steering problems. In common with previous destroyers, the Fletchers had only a single rudder. Due to their great length, they had a very large turning radius, so much so that only the introduction of twin rudders in the subsequent Sumner class appeared to offer a solution. Thus, in wartime, Fletchers were notorious for turning outside Iowa-class battleships. After the war, an enlarged single rudder was developed to cure this problem, and all Fletchers reactivated for Korea were fitted with it." Ken nb: Toko Salamander V-108 paper WWI Torpedo Boat ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 08:36:02 -0500 From: Dennis Ugulano To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: Salamander Camouflage Message-ID: <199902060836_MC2-6977-46FD@compuserve.com> Ken, >> Thanks for the inspiration to finish mine. << Glad to help. Let us see it when you're finished. Dennis Ugulano email: Uggies@compuserve.com http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/uggies Page Revised 2/3/99 ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 06:05:10 PST From: "Peter Crow" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Eduard Hanriot... Message-ID: <19990206140511.8374.qmail@hotmail.com> Sandy wrote... >I'd suggest rushing out and buying several - if it weren't for the fact >that we have seen (for a long time now) the fabulous box art for the next >one in Italian markings with all those colourful stars and I'll have to get >that as well. And an HD-2 on floats! >Lovely kit. What a price! >Sandy > Thanks for the review.. does make one want to get a couple of these.. Looking to maybe pick up this and a Nieuport at the show in Pasadena.. P. Crow ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 09:19:47 EST From: Suvoroff@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Off topic; Re: Fletcher rudder Message-ID: <20888c1a.36bc4f83@aol.com> According to "Trial by Ordeal: The Lindburg 1/125 Fletcher" by Jeff Herne (on The Ship Modeling Site, www.warship.simplenet.com) the last four ships in the class, DD's 801 through 804 (Calhoun, Gregory, Little, and Rooks) had twin propellers. Of course it may be that Mr. Herne has it wrong, he did not list his sources for this. Conversely I have read Mr. Freidman's book on cruisers in reference to my old ship and I have found him to be rather careless about details. Yours, James D. Gray ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 14:27:51 +0000 From: Pedro e Francisca Soares To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Quiet? Message-ID: <36BC5167.B5E03940@mail.telepac.pt> "Landon, James D" wrote: > I just joined today. > > Jim Landon, Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin Astronautics Div. > Launch Systems Dept., Electrical Systems Design Group > Phone: (303) 971-1038, Fax: (303) 977-9738 or 977-8323 > E-mail: James.D.Landon@lmco.com > WWW: http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/landoni/index.html .Welcome aboard James. Pedro in sunny Portugal nb. Eduard Schneider (wings in place, beginning rigging tomorrow and then on with the floats that are already painted) ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 09:30:05 -0700 From: "Landon, James D" To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? Message-ID: <98B98E951BA0D1119A590000F8045A47025166B0@emss02m05.ems.lmco.com> Good morning all, I just got into the office and started reading your posts. Robert Karr (right?) said: <> Hi Robert. Ah, at least there's somebody on this list that at least *REMEMBERS* balsa and tissue models. It appears that this is exclusively a plastic modelers list. Right? Yesterday, James D. Gray asked me to tell about myself. The reason I became involved with this group of people was, as Robert Karr mentioned, I am building a balsa and tissue, rubber band powered, flying scale model of the 1917 era "Thomas Morse S4C Scout". I decided to add moveable control surfaces to the model, even though the kit did not provide for it. As I worked on the model I found myself becoming more and more fascinated with WWI biplanes and airplanes in general. I've decided to try to also make a working *SIMULATION* (not exactly to scale) of the control surfaces control linkage. Maybe even try to link everything to a "stick" and rudder pedals in the cockpit. I wrote to a dozen or so folks whose e-mail addresses appear somewhere on your WWI model web site. I asked where I could go to find photos or diagrams for the control linkage on WWI biplanes. I had purchased a book on WWI biplanes, and I had downloaded numerous photos of WWI biplanes from the www, but none of them showed the guts ... just the exterior. Before I ran into you folks I couldn't even find anybody who could tell me how many degrees of travel the ailerons should have. I received numerous helpful replies to my e-mail, and was invited to join this list. Ernest Thomas send me the "guts" diagrams I needed, Lee Mensinger has written to me extensively and sent another photo he took of Roger Freeman's T-H S4C. Other folks provided additional help. Everybody was real nice. I am now in the process of designing the joystick and the torque tube to drive the aileron push-pull rods. I need help with this area if anybody can help. My web page addressing this is at: http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/landoni/page24.html If you haven't been there yet, please visit my web site at: http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/landoni/index.html In particular the T-H S4C section starting on page: (watch out for the change from "landoni" to "titanman" in the http) http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/titanman/page6.html Jim Landon > ---------- > From: KarrArt@aol.com > Reply To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu > Sent: Friday, February 5, 1999 6:14 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? > > In a message dated 2/5/99 2:40:43 PM Pacific Standard Time, > james.d.landon@lmco.com writes: > > << <> > > It's a lot easier to have you visit my personal web site at: > > http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/landoni/index.html > > I assume everybody has www access. If not, ... ah ... well ... > > Jim Landon, Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin Astronautics Div. >> > > I just did a quick run through on your site showing your Guillow Thomas > Morse. > Ah memories! Big plans, single edged razor blades- real model building! > All > you need is to show us a few sliced fingers. > In my young (read "no money") days we hinged our wood-and- tissue control > surfaces with a little rectangle of TV dinner tray aluminum- a little slit > in > a rudder, and a little slit in the fin, insert the "hinge" with a dab of > Ambroid and boom! A movable control- at least for a few tries until the > metal > fatigued and broke! > Robert K. > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 09:44:28 -0700 From: "Landon, James D" To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Quiet? Message-ID: <98B98E951BA0D1119A590000F8045A47025166B2@emss02m05.ems.lmco.com> > Mike Dicianna said < Lozenge?>> > They both stink. (Just kidding) (Actually I have no clue what either of them is except I see the word lozenge a lot in photo descriptions ... some kind of paint scheme I think. I assume PC stands for Panic Control.) Jim Landon > ---------- > From: Mike Dicianna > Reply To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu > Sent: Friday, February 5, 1999 6:34 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: RE: Quiet? > > At 05:23 PM 2/5/99 -0500, you wrote: > >Thanks for the welcome messages ... not real sure I belong on this list, > but > >I was exchanging e-mail with individuals whose e-mail addresses I got > from > >the WWI model web site, and a couple of them suggested I join this list, > so > >I did. > > > Welcome! You must come well recommended then. Greetings from the Great > Northwest USA. What are your main subject interests? PC-10 or Lozenge? > We are choosing up sides ya know! > Mikedc > "Der Rote Modellflugzeugbauer" > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 09:55:28 -0700 From: "Landon, James D" To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Salamander Camouflage Message-ID: <98B98E951BA0D1119A590000F8045A47025166B3@emss02m05.ems.lmco.com> Dennis, I just visited your web site. You plastic modelers are so ... so ... well, anyway I honestly thought that you really had somehow built models that tiny ... until I read the caption about getting proportions wrong on your first web page. Jim Landon > ---------- > From: Dennis Ugulano > Reply To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu > Sent: Friday, February 5, 1999 8:35 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Salamander Camouflage > > Ken, > > >> think I'll use Toko's pattern, since it matches the only > photograph I have of the top of the airplane and pick whichever colors > seem to match the range possible given the CIM 733 mixes. << > > Good choice. If you want to see my completed model, it's on my web page. > > Dennis Ugulano > email: Uggies@compuserve.com > http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/uggies > Page Revised 2/3/99 > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 09:57:56 -0700 From: "Landon, James D" To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: About me... Message-ID: <98B98E951BA0D1119A590000F8045A47025166B4@emss02m05.ems.lmco.com> Hi Bill, I just joined too. I haven't even been here long enough to be qualified to say "welcome". Oh what the heck. Welcome. Jim Landon > ---------- > From: Bill Neill > Reply To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu > Sent: Friday, February 5, 1999 9:17 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: About me... > > A couple of weeks ago I discovered the WW1 server, and promptly dived in > without introducing myself, so here goes.... > I have been building handicraft stuff of all kinds for many years, and for > several years recently I was a keen 72 scale modeller, focussed on post > WW2 > RAF stuff. > Then I started to get 'modellers block', I had built most of what > interested me, and a lot of stuff just for the sake of completeness. > Anyhow, I got convinced that my modelling was getting worse rather than > better, so I just quit for a while. > What got me restarted was discovering 48 scale (you can get a lot more > into > a model) and WW1 (as a result of talking to folks at Old Warden in the > UK). > That and discovering modelling groups on the Internet. > I have been an IPMS member of various clubs for a few years, but with one > or two exceptions I never really got on with them. Some are very cliquey, > if you are 'in' great, if not don't bother. > I got a lot of 72 Brit kits, more than are ever going to get built, and a > lot of Brit RAF reference stuff, but not much WW1, if anyone wants to > trade? > > Bill Neill > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 10:15:24 -0700 From: "Landon, James D" To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Quiet? Message-ID: <98B98E951BA0D1119A590000F8045A47025166B5@emss02m05.ems.lmco.com> Ernest Thomas wrote: <> (re: "Glad to see you joined the list.") Hi E. Thanks for the "me too". You probably noticed I already mentioned your name in an earlier post this morning, and yesterday. Jim Landon > ---------- > From: Ernest Thomas > Reply To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu > Sent: Friday, February 5, 1999 11:34 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Quiet? > > Steven M. Perry wrote: > > Welcome Jim: > > > > Glad to see you joined the list. > > > > Me too. > E. > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:15:42 -0500 From: "David Vosburgh" To: Subject: Re: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? Message-ID: <001301be51f4$557120e0$177433cf@Pvosburg> -----Original Message----- From: Landon, James D To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 1:19 PM Subject: RE: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? <> >Good morning all, Ah, at least there's somebody on this list that at least >*REMEMBERS* balsa and tissue models. It appears that this is exclusively a >plastic modelers list. Right? <> A belated welcome to the list, James. You'd think that it's strictly a plastic a/c group from the volume of traffic devoted to the subject, but there are a number of people who are into WWI ships, armor, etc., and others like youself who are into... ahem, "alternate media". While I haven't dabbled in balsa for about 20 years, the way I figure it, the more (and more diverse) the merrier! Dave V. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 12:22:29 -0500 From: "David Vosburgh" To: "WWI Mailing List" Subject: Tip for the Day Message-ID: <001401be51f5$46f43740$177433cf@Pvosburg> O.K., list, here's my latest brainstorm... worthy, if I do say so myself, of the great Homer Simpson. Since I seldom use any color straight from the bottle, I've been in a never-ending search for convenient disposable palettes for mixing small amounts of paint. I suddenly realized today that the twist-off caps to bottles of Bud Light (ducking & running from the Micro-Brew contingent) make excellent one-shot mixing receptacles. To paraphrase the commercial, "Use 'em and fling 'em... we'll make more." Regards, DV ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 10:29:14 -0700 From: "Landon, James D" To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Quiet? Message-ID: <98B98E951BA0D1119A590000F8045A47025166B7@emss02m05.ems.lmco.com> Pedro said <> Hi Pedro. Thanks for the welcome. Wow, talking to Portugal as if it was across town. What will they think of next? Jim Landon, in sunny Denver Colorado > ---------- > From: Pedro e Francisca Soares > Reply To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu > Sent: Saturday, February 6, 1999 7:36 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Quiet? > > > > "Landon, James D" wrote: > > > I just joined today. > > > > Jim Landon, Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin Astronautics Div. > > Launch Systems Dept., Electrical Systems Design Group > > Phone: (303) 971-1038, Fax: (303) 977-9738 or 977-8323 > > E-mail: James.D.Landon@lmco.com > > WWW: http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/landoni/index.html > > .Welcome aboard James. > > Pedro in sunny Portugal > > nb. Eduard Schneider (wings in place, beginning rigging tomorrow and > then on with the floats that are already painted) > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 6 Feb 1999 17:18:59 +0100 From: "Tom Werner Hansen" To: Subject: Re: if you have some extra cash lying around . . . Message-ID: <199902061758.SAA16197@d1o211.telia.com> Mike Sorry to correct you there. If your last name wqas derived from the Norse your name would be something like "Pilmaker", more likely from French "fleche" (sorry about the missing accent). Our French-speaking members may correct me on this. Tom ---------- > From: Mike Fletcher > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: if you have some extra cash lying around . . . > Date: 06. februar 1999 07:28 > > nope - they were named after an US Navy officer (ww1?) who iirc was > decended from someone on the Mayflower - we were poor Manchesterians who > came for the climate and to avoid concription. (A fletcher made arrows > and the name is from Norse so there are a lot of them that aren't > related) > -- > Mike Fletcher ___ ., > mdf@mars.ark.com |-\|^----! ; > mikef@sparc.nic.bc.ca |--n--""*" > icq=19554083 @ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 12:04:17 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Quiet? Message-ID: <36BC8421.6A9D@bellsouth.net> Landon, James D wrote: > Hi E. Thanks for the "me too". You probably noticed I already mentioned > your name in an earlier post this morning, and yesterday. I'm just glad to see you're alive. /%) E. > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 06 Feb 1999 11:18:16 -0700 From: "Landon, James D" To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? Message-ID: <98B98E951BA0D1119A590000F8045A47025166B9@emss02m05.ems.lmco.com> > David Vosburgh said: < that it's strictly a plastic a/c group from the volume of traffic devoted > to the subject, but there are a number of people who are into WWI ships, > armor, etc., and others like youself who are into... ahem, "alternate > media". While I haven't dabbled in balsa for about 20 years, the way I > figure it, the more (and more diverse) the merrier! - Dave V. >> > Hi Dave. Thanks for the welcome. "Belated" doesn't matter because I can't keep up with all this e-mail in a timely manner anyway. I probably will have to unsubscribe because I shouldn't allow this volume of personal e-mail to come in through the company's servers and comm lines. I could switch over to my other e-mail address on hotmail, but I'd still have the problem of keeping up. I may have to go back to just person-to-person e-mail with individuals I've "met" on your WWI Modelers web site and here. What do you mean "alternate media"??!!! I beg your pardon !!! What were the real WWI bipes made out of? Plastic? No way. Wood? Yes. I hadn't "dabbled" in balsa for about 40 years myself. Or any other kind of model making. Wait, I take it back. Around 1968 I built a plastic model of the Huey Cobra AH-1 attack helicopter because that's what I worked on then. And sometime in the 70's I built a plastic model of the Cutty Sark (that's a sailing ship for you airplane nuts). Oh, I just remembered I did build plastic models of R2D2 and CP3O, and the Battlestar Galactica spaceships. All these were just "open the box and glue the parts together" projects. None of this anal-retentive detailing stuff you guys do. I did work real hard on the Cutty Sark, with all the thread and little plastic pulley blocks etc., but nothing like you guys. Jim Landon, Staff Engineer, Lockheed Martin Astronautics Div. Launch Systems Dept., Electrical Systems Design Group Phone: (303) 971-1038, Fax: (303) 977-9738 or 977-8323 E-mail: James.D.Landon@lmco.com WWW: http://www.freeyellow.com/members6/landoni/index.html > ---------- > From: David Vosburgh > Reply To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu > Sent: Saturday, February 6, 1999 10:15 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Landon, James D > To: Multiple recipients of list > Date: Saturday, February 06, 1999 1:19 PM > Subject: RE: Guillow! wasRe: Quiet? > > > > <> > >Good morning all, > Ah, at least there's somebody on this list that at least > >*REMEMBERS* balsa and tissue models. It appears that this is exclusively > a > >plastic modelers list. Right? > > <> > > A belated welcome to the list, James. You'd think that it's strictly a > plastic a/c group from the volume of traffic devoted to the subject, but > there are a number of people who are into WWI ships, armor, etc., and > others > like youself who are into... ahem, "alternate media". While I haven't > dabbled in balsa for about 20 years, the way I figure it, the more (and > more > diverse) the merrier! > > Dave V. > ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 1432 **********************