WWI Digest 1496 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Access to "Tripehound" by Albatrosdv@aol.com 2) Re: Access to "Tripehound" by Bob Pearson 3) WWW source for Blue Max models? by Jess Stuart 4) Re: New Images on the Web Page by Matthew E Bittner 5) Re: WWW source for Blue Max models? by Bob Pearson 6) Re: WWW source for Blue Max models? by "Sandy Adam" 7) Re: Duckworth's DVII by Mike Dicianna 8) RE: DH-4a? (RE: Most Wanted) by "Hirohisa Ozaki" 9) Hippert's D.VII by "Charles and Linda Duckworth" 10) Re: Maxwell's SE5 or 5a by bucky@ptdprolog.net 11) Re: A-H Albatros colors; was RE: JaPo Oeffag book by Matthew E Bittner 12) Re: Parabellum mg in 1/72 by BStett3770@aol.com 13) Re: 1:72 Airfix kits by bshatzer@orednet.org (Bill Shatzer) 14) Datafiles and a FAQ??? by "roguerpj" 15) Re: Maxwell's SE5 or 5a by Bob Pearson 16) more url's by Mike Fletcher 17) Chandelle, an online journal of aviation history by "Rob." 18) Kruten's Nieuport marking by "Hirohisa Ozaki" 19) Re: Bungee cord (old thread) by KarrArt@aol.com 20) Re: some of me is back vaguely by KarrArt@aol.com 21) Re: Modeling in Unusual Places by KarrArt@aol.com 22) Re: Modeling in Unusual Places by "Costas Condoleon" 23) Fwd:Five most wanted by viksproc@oslo.pgs.com 24) Re: Modeling in Unusual Places by David Kinnear 25) Re: some of me is back vaguely by Suvoroff@aol.com 26) Re: Kruten's Nieuport marking by Mike Fletcher 27) AmGryph by "Sandy Adam" 28) Re: AmGryph by "Costas Condoleon" 29) AmGryph OK thanks! by "Sandy Adam" 30) Research by Suvoroff@aol.com 31) Re: Research by Matthew E Bittner 32) Re: Research by Allan Wright ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 17:44:43 EST From: Albatrosdv@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Access to "Tripehound" Message-ID: <8c9929bd.36ed8d5b@aol.com> In a message dated 99-03-15 17:26:21 EST, you write: << How >>in the world did the pilot get into the cockpit with those drag wires >>running from the wings (OK, lower and intermediate main planes) to behind >>the cockpit on the fuselage? >> >> Having looked at this same problem in the 1/48 Eduard early Tripehound, my belief is that the pilot ducked under and then climbed up, for which their is ample room for such maneuvers. Tom Cleaver ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:27:43 -0800 From: Bob Pearson To: WW1 Mailing list Subject: Re: Access to "Tripehound" Message-ID: <199903152327.PAA31576@spare.rapidnet.net> > << How > >>in the world did the pilot get into the cockpit with those drag wires > >>running from the wings (OK, lower and intermediate main planes) to behind > >>the cockpit on the fuselage? > >> >> > > Having looked at this same problem in the 1/48 Eduard early Tripehound, my > belief is that the pilot ducked under and then climbed up, for which their is > ample room for such maneuvers. > > Tom Cleaver Looking at the Triplane at the Champlin Museum, Tom appears to be correct - there is room to climb up inside of them. However being RAF wires they could give a pilot an awfully close shave if not too careful. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:38:16 -0800 From: Jess Stuart To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: WWW source for Blue Max models? Message-ID: Does anyone know of a web site I can buy Blue Max models from? Jess Stuart Technical Support Specialist jess.stuart@bi-tech.com 530.879.2742 ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:14:03 -0600 From: Matthew E Bittner To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: New Images on the Web Page Message-ID: <19990315.174406.-834451.0.mbittner@juno.com> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 14:18:37 -0500 (EST) Pedro e Francisca Soares writes: >Another excellent example of Charlie's masterly stuff.. Way to go >Charlie. Thanks >for showing it. Hear here! Great job. Matt Bittner ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 15:36:41 -0800 From: Bob Pearson To: WW1 Mailing list Subject: Re: WWW source for Blue Max models? Message-ID: <199903152336.PAA31673@spare.rapidnet.net> Why not go direct to the source http://www.pegasusmodels.com Bob ---------- > From: Jess Stuart > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: WWW source for Blue Max models? > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:38:54 -0500 (EST) > > Does anyone know of a web site I can buy Blue Max models from? > > Jess Stuart > Technical Support Specialist > jess.stuart@bi-tech.com > 530.879.2742 > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 23:49:07 -0000 From: "Sandy Adam" To: Subject: Re: WWW source for Blue Max models? Message-ID: <199903152348.XAA07259@beryl.sol.co.uk> Buy 'em direct http://www.pegasusmodels.com Free postage, no markup, fast. Sandy ---------- > From: Jess Stuart > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: WWW source for Blue Max models? > Date: 15 March 1999 23:38 > > Does anyone know of a web site I can buy Blue Max models from? > > Jess Stuart > Technical Support Specialist > jess.stuart@bi-tech.com > 530.879.2742 > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 16:13:10 +0000 From: Mike Dicianna To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Duckworth's DVII Message-ID: <1.5.4.32.19990315161310.006ead44@dnc.net> At 12:11 PM 3/15/99 -0500, you wrote: >Beautiful model Charlie! All those checkers looked to be a challenge! Love the Mimmi logo on the top of the wing....Drew Carey would be proud. > Mikedc "Der Rote Modellflugzeugbauer" ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:22:02 +0900 From: "Hirohisa Ozaki" To: "WWI ML post" Subject: RE: DH-4a? (RE: Most Wanted) Message-ID: <012101be6f43$03d78320$b11db684@dosv64.miln.mei.co.jp> Sandy, Thank you for prompt reply. >Hi Hiro >Strictly, the DH-4A was a post war version with a 2-seat passenger cabin - >and thus not really on-topic. see, see. >But I actually intended DH-4a as shorthand for the American Liberty engined >version of the aeroplane. >Sandy I'm agree with you. Hiro ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 18:46:14 -0600 From: "Charles and Linda Duckworth" To: Subject: Hippert's D.VII Message-ID: <007c01be6f46$6d1a8140$925cdfd1@cnlduckwor> Thanks for the kind remarks, this is one of those projects that I started 3 years ago, got half finished a year ago and recently I had enough of looking at a half white sided fuselage to finish it. Acouple of questions surfaced, it's a DML kit, the loz in the interior is Aeromaster decal sprayed white to tone it down (I had a sheet and didn't want to use the colors on the exterior). 'Mimmi' is cut from white decal paper and outlined with a .005 black waterproof pen . I found the Mimmi in a black and white top view drawing in a hardbound published in Poland. Merely placed the drawing on a copier and blew it up to 1/48th. The side panels were backdated using overhead clear sheets from the copier, I copied the 1/48th drawing on the acetate and merely cut out the access panels from the acetate, then glued on the DML panel. The side view of Hippet's a/c was in an issue of Over the Front - again scaled to 1/48th, which gave me the correct size for the black squares. Am glad you all enjoyed it, Charlie ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:13:54 -0500 From: bucky@ptdprolog.net To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Maxwell's SE5 or 5a Message-ID: <36EDBE62.35B0BB51@ptdprolog.net> Bob Thanks. I've been meaning to ask you ever since you sent me the profile what is mewant by bulged cockpit. In the photos I can't see any difference. What caused the bulge? Mike Bob Pearson wrote: > MIke, > > The profile I did of this a/c is of B502, marked as you say and with the > shortened exhausts, iit also had the early thin strut u/c and bulged cockpit > sides. > > Only Nos.56 and 60 Sqn used the SE5, and these had been replaced by SE5as > during August 1917, prior to adopting the white band. Therefore it is a safe > bet that any 56 Sqn a/c seen in with the white band around the rear fuselage > would be an SE5a. > > Regards, > Bob Pearson > > Visit my WW1 aviation page at > http://members.xoom.com/Sopwith_5F1 > > Managing Editor / Internet Modeler > http://www.avsim.com/mike/awn/index.html > > ---------- > > From: bucky@ptdprolog.net > > To: Multiple recipients of list > > Subject: Re: Maxwell's SE5 or 5a > > Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 22:44:28 -0500 (EST) > > > > I believe it is a 5a. I don't have the # with me, but I think it was > > B508. It carried a capital letter "A" on the fuselage and top wing. He > > scored quite a few victories in it and there is a good photo or two of > > it in High In the Empty Blue. Also, the decal from Americal also is for > > this aircraft. It looks like a SE5a but has cropped exhausts...something > > a little different! > > Mike Muth > > > > John & Allison Cyganowski wrote: > > > > > Mike, > > > > > > Are you planning to build a 5 or 5a? What serial? > > > > > > Cyg. > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:29:30 -0600 From: Matthew E Bittner To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: A-H Albatros colors; was RE: JaPo Oeffag book Message-ID: <19990315.202932.-822749.4.mbittner@juno.com> On Mon, 15 Mar 1999 10:14:13 -0500 (EST) "Dr. Phillip Anz-Meador" writes: >[panz-meador] could you elaborate on the ample proof? Dr. O'Connor in his wonderful book shows Navratil's "pierced heart" very dark. The "scrumble" of colors is very tight, resulting in almost an overall black green color, with hints of the other colors showing through. The JaPo book shows Navratil's as only have three colors, and not very tight, so a lot of the underneath color shows through. The proof is in one of the photo's that I haven't seen before of Navratil's machine. You can plainly read the black weights and other info on the front of the forward fuselage. If the colors were as dark as O'Conner portrays, then the weights info would be very difficult to read. Matt Bittner ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:09:37 EST From: BStett3770@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Parabellum mg in 1/72 Message-ID: In a message dated 3/15/99 3:24:34 PM EST, frank@lo.itline.it writes: << And what about a set of German p.u.w. bombs? >> Got any good drawings ? Keep Modeling Barry Rosemont Hobby ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 19:55:05 -0800 (PST) From: bshatzer@orednet.org (Bill Shatzer) To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: 1:72 Airfix kits Message-ID: <199903160355.TAA29528@compass.OregonVOS.net> >I am trying make myself a list of Airfix 1:72 WWI kits. >Is the following complete? >DH-4 >Pup >RE.8 >Roland C.II >Dr.1 >Camel >Albatros D.V >Bristol F.2b >Hannover Cl.IIIa >HP 0/400 Add the Avro 504K. Cheers and all, -- Bill Shatzer - bshatzer@orednet.org "You don't need a weather man to know which way the wind blows." -Bob Dylan- ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:08:07 -0600 From: "roguerpj" To: Subject: Datafiles and a FAQ??? Message-ID: <006b01be6f62$99828ae0$05f99ed0@robjohn.swdata.com> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0068_01BE6F30.4E510B00 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable I answering my questions about the DML Fokker D VII Shane Weier said = that he had checked a datafile. What is this, and is there a place that = has a FAQ to answer some basic questions like that so I don't waist band = with with questions that have been asked 1000 times. rob johnson ------=_NextPart_000_0068_01BE6F30.4E510B00 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
I answering my questions about the = DML Fokker D=20 VII Shane Weier said that he had checked a datafile. What is this, and = is there=20 a place that has a FAQ to answer some basic questions like that so I = don't waist=20 band with with questions that have been asked 1000 times.
 
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Regards, Bob Pearson Visit my WW1 aviation page at http://members.xoom.com/Sopwith_5F1 Managing Editor / Internet Modeler http://www.avsim.com/mike/awn/index.html ---------- > From: bucky@ptdprolog.net > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: Maxwell's SE5 or 5a > Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 21:13:52 -0500 (EST) > > Bob > Thanks. I've been meaning to ask you ever since you sent me the profile what > is meant by bulged cockpit. In the photos I can't see any difference. What > caused the bulge? > Mike ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 20:36:06 -0800 From: Mike Fletcher To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: more url's Message-ID: <36EDDFB6.7C88865B@mars.ark.com> some url's I found while trying out a new search engine that may be of interest: http://www.arizonamodels.com/ http://www.blauermax.de/inhalt.htm -- Mike Fletcher ___ ., mdf@mars.ark.com |-\|^----! ; mikef@sparc.nic.bc.ca |--n--""*" icq=19554083 @ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Mar 1999 22:57:26 +0000 From: "Rob." To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Chandelle, an online journal of aviation history Message-ID: <199903160550.AAA22370@newman.concentric.net> Chandelle, Volume 3 Number 3 is now online at Articles: Planting the Dragon's Teeth: The German Air Combat School at Lipetsk, 1925-1930 Picchiatelli over Malta: Italian Stukas in the Mediterranean Theater Tigers and Lions in Paradise: Sri Lanka's Civil War Combat Crop Dusters: the Ayres Turbo-Thrush NEDS and V-1-A Vigilante Plus reviews and many links: Americal/Gryphon, K.ü.K Seeflieger (Austro-Hungarian Naval Aircraft) Toko Sopwith 7F1 Snipe and TF.2 Salamander Toko Nieuport 11 Toko Palz D.XII Flashback Sopwith 1½-Strutter Pegasus Macchi M.5 Encore Polikarpov I-15bis German Aircraft Industry and Production, 1933-1945, by Ferenc-Antal Vajda and Peter Darcy Stalin's Eagles, an Illustrated Study of the Soviet Aces of World War II and Korea, by Hans Seidl Rob To reply, replace the l with the numeral 1. Visit Chandelle, the Web Journal of Aviation History ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 15:29:35 +0900 From: "Hirohisa Ozaki" To: "WWI ML post" Subject: Kruten's Nieuport marking Message-ID: <01fd01be6f76$5c24eb20$b11db684@dosv64.miln.mei.co.jp> Hi All, Yevgraph Nikolaevich Kruten, one of Russian aces marking decals is included both 1/48 Eduard Ni. 17 profi-pack and 1/72 Toko Ni.11. Did Kruten use both airplane and Ni.21 on same marking? Or, Eduard and Toko mistaked? anyone? Hiro ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 02:56:44 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Bungee cord (old thread) Message-ID: In a message dated 3/15/99 12:57:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, tomwerner.hansen@c2i.net writes: << Ladies and Gentlemen What is a reasonable colour for the bungee cord used for shock absorption? I used a medium dark cotton thread covered with white glue. (I used glue instead of acrylic paint, otherwise I copied RK's method). The effect was quite pleasing, but I'm unsure about the colour. Tom >> I use white glue sometimes also- if the bottle is sitting closer to me than the acrylic paint! Within the last two or three nights while going throuigh the stacks I ran across a reference that said the stuff is light gray. Don't know where or what magazine it was in. I've usually made my bungees "light crud" . I'll start with white or gray cords and then wash over them with an indefinable dirt mess after I've wrapped them inplace. Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 02:56:51 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: some of me is back vaguely Message-ID: <843df6ab.36ee0ec3@aol.com> In a message dated 3/15/99 6:04:11 AM Pacific Standard Time, dave@vga- graphics.com writes: << >Well, I've been semi-lurking for awhile <> > Oh yeah- a bit of advice- stay away from scratchbuilding Fokker Spiders! Mine >turned out ok, but I aged 23 years! >Robert K. > Congrats, RK! So that'll make you what... about 162 now? >> At least! The thing is so fragile that I've put it on a base with a little green grass ground work. I drilled up through the spoked wheels so I could fit them over a couple of pegs set into the base- they're made from a couple of short pieces of .010" guitar string. This way, the lil' Fokker can be removed easily from the base if it needs to be. For little extra security, I may devise a clip to hold the tail down a little more solidly- the clip would be in the form of a little figure of A.H.G.F hissown self. Robert K. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 02:56:52 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Modeling in Unusual Places Message-ID: <71d34a7b.36ee0ec4@aol.com> In a message dated 3/15/99 4:37:44 AM Pacific Standard Time, smperry@mindspring.com writes: << > >Hold on! I once lived in a '69 Impala, that must count for something. >E. Not until you produce photos of the 1:32 Stakken you built in it. sp >> I want VIDEO of him working on it! RK ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 08:25:20 -0000 From: "Costas Condoleon" To: Subject: Re: Modeling in Unusual Places Message-ID: <000f01be6f86$87e22c40$6d52cd89@bsqea.rapier.wbs.warwick.ac.uk> >In a message dated 3/15/99 4:37:44 AM Pacific Standard Time, >smperry@mindspring.com writes: > >Hold on! I once lived in a '69 Impala, that must count for something. > >E. > > > Not until you produce photos of the 1:32 Stakken you built in it. > sp >> > > I want VIDEO of him working on it! >RK I wonder... do they allow videos like these in your country or are they banned as pornography (s/m)? ========================================= || || Constantine Condoleon || IPMS Greece || fm98ccon@rapier.wbs.warwick.ac.uk || ========================================= - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 15 Mar 1999 21:36:00 +0100 From: viksproc@oslo.pgs.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Fwd:Five most wanted Message-ID: <199903160831.JAA23212@oslo-gw3.oslo.pgs.com> Here is my list: Wanted 1/72 Bristol Fighter - Toko or another high quality producer - the Airfix offering should be retired. 1/72 1/48 Nieuport Nie 29 - only a very expensive resin kit from Esoteric, a nice little fighter 1/72 1/48 Farman Longhorn & Shorthorn - plenty of rigging whatever method you prefer. 1/72 FE2b - a jack of all trades 1/72 1/48 Hannover CLV - improved CLIII, produced in Norway after the war, a fuselage exhibited in NTM The following ones may have made it to the list if they had not been promised already: Etrich Taube by Flashback and Pegasus Short 184 by Aeroclub in 1/72 has been on the "to be released list" for a long time - one day Writing this while working onboard the R/V Ramform Viking off western South Africa, will go home via Johannesburg, but don`t think I can get to the museum with the WW1 aircraft there. Someone who have been there and will let me know what I am missing? (And yes, I have done some aircraft modelling while onboard, nothing list related this time) Eders Knut Erik Email at home: knut.erik.hagen@eunet.no ---------------------------- Forwarded with Changes --------------------------- From: VIKSproc at PGS_Viking Date: 3/15/99 2:06 To: ww1@pease1.sr.unh.edu at Internet_Oslo To: knut.erik.hagen@eunet.no at Internet_Oslo Subject: Five most wanted ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 00:40:03 -0800 From: David Kinnear To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Modeling in Unusual Places Message-ID: <199903160836.AAA12504@danube.cisco.com> >I wonder... do they allow videos like these in your country or are they >banned as pornography (s/m)? S/M? Small Motors? Actually, the Impala was quite big. David >========================================= >|| >|| Constantine Condoleon >|| IPMS Greece >|| fm98ccon@rapier.wbs.warwick.ac.uk >|| >========================================= >- > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 04:09:11 EST From: Suvoroff@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: some of me is back vaguely Message-ID: <4f19c670.36ee1fb7@aol.com> "At least! The thing is so fragile that I've put it on a base with a little green grass ground work. I drilled up through the spoked wheels so I could fit them over a couple of pegs set into the base- they're made from a couple of short pieces of .010" guitar string. This way, the lil' Fokker can be removed easily from the base if it needs to be. For little extra security, I may devise a clip to hold the tail down a little more solidly- the clip would be in the form of a little figure of A.H.G.F hissown self. Robert K." Come OOOONNNN!!!!! Where are the PICTURES!?!?!?!?! Yours, James D. Gray ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 01:25:15 -0800 From: Mike Fletcher To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Kruten's Nieuport marking Message-ID: <36EE237B.F94553B4@mars.ark.com> the toko kit is wrong - they provided markings for a 21, not an 11. -- Mike Fletcher ___ ., mdf@mars.ark.com |-\|^----! ; mikef@sparc.nic.bc.ca |--n--""*" icq=19554083 @ ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:03:45 -0000 From: "Sandy Adam" To: "AAA - WW1 Group" Subject: AmGryph Message-ID: <199903161002.KAA18107@beryl.sol.co.uk> I think somebody did an up-to-date list of Americal sheets/costs/postage recently. I stupidly did not keep a copy though. Can I ask that somebody might send me such a thing off-list? Many thanks Sandy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:28:38 -0000 From: "Costas Condoleon" To: Subject: Re: AmGryph Message-ID: <003501be6f97$c1727080$6d52cd89@bsqea.rapier.wbs.warwick.ac.uk> >I think somebody did an up-to-date list of Americal sheets/costs/postage >recently. I stupidly did not keep a copy though. >Can I ask that somebody might send me such a thing off-list? >Many thanks >Sandy Can I have the list too? I'm new here Thanks ========================================= || || Constantine Condoleon || IPMS Greece || fm98ccon@rapier.wbs.warwick.ac.uk || ========================================= ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 10:38:52 -0000 From: "Sandy Adam" To: "AAA - WW1 Group" Subject: AmGryph OK thanks! Message-ID: <199903161038.KAA19299@beryl.sol.co.uk> Got an Americal list from Steven Perry - thanks again sp. (in case I get another 20 in the next five minutes!!) Sandy ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 06:11:46 EST From: Suvoroff@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Research Message-ID: <809b2060.36ee3c72@aol.com> I am beginning to get that nasty itch that Robert Karr and Shane suffer from so much, and I fear must "scratch" it. However, I could use some help in two areas; 1) I am looking at making the wings, and I am wondering just what is the advantage of the involved wing-making methods in common use (sheet styrene over a wooden form, or variations on that theme) over just carving the wing out of sheet plastic. 2) Instead of just whining about lack of sources, I would like to see if I could actually do some of my own research; so could somebody give me a little guidance on how exactly to write to organizations about getting some of this material? And also some addresses for US museums, etc., which could help me? I am looking for plans, photographs, copies of manuals, etc., relating to two aircraft; the on-topic Caudron R.11 (this was in service with the USAC, so presumably they have some stuff on it) and the heinously off topic A-3 Falcon. I have some plans already for both but I would like detail information, cockpit photos, etc., but I really don't know how to express myself to Museum staffs. In advance appreciation of any support; Yours, James D. Gray P.S. Didn't your mothers ever teach you not to scratch that? nl; The Hampster Dance ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 05:22:14 -0600 From: Matthew E Bittner To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Research Message-ID: <19990316.052541.-823535.5.mbittner@juno.com> On Tue, 16 Mar 1999 06:12:41 -0500 (EST) Suvoroff@aol.com writes: >1) I am looking at making the wings, and I am wondering just what is >the >advantage of the involved wing-making methods in common use (sheet >styrene >over a wooden form, or variations on that theme) over just carving the >wing >out of sheet plastic. There is a third option most people overlook. I'm assuming you're working in the "correct scale", so why not use Rosemont's "Wing Blanks"? That's all Hustad uses when he scratchbuilds, and I just delivered another pack to him. Matt Bittner ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Mar 1999 09:10:01 -0500 (EST) From: Allan Wright To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Research Message-ID: <199903161410.JAA06154@pease1.sr.unh.edu> > There is a third option most people overlook. I'm assuming you're > working in the "correct scale", so why not use Rosemont's "Wing Blanks"? > That's all Hustad uses when he scratchbuilds, and I just delivered > another pack to him. I haven't had to scratch build any wings lately, but I know I plan to try Barry's wing blanks next time I have to make some..... -Al =============================================================================== Allan Wright Jr. | You fell victim to one of the 'classic' blunders! 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