WWI Digest 1986 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Birthday greetings by KarrArt@aol.com 2) Re: DONE by KarrArt@aol.com 3) Re: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers by KarrArt@aol.com 4) finger flyin' and mouth engines wasRe: Modeler Ages - The Results by KarrArt@aol.com 5) Re: Birthday greetings by KarrArt@aol.com 6) Re: Modeler Ages - The Results by KarrArt@aol.com 7) kits at Squadron by Carlos Valdes 8) Re: DONE by "Matthew Bittner" 9) Re: DONE by smperry@mindspring.com 10) Re: DONE by "Matthew Bittner" 11) Re: DONE by "DAVID BURKE" 12) Re: Modeler Ages - The Results by "Ray Boorman" 13) Re: Birthday greetings by "Bill Bacon" 14) Words could not do it justice! by "Leonard Endy" 15) Re: DONE by KarrArt@aol.com 16) Re: RE: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers by "Ray Boorman" 17) Re: DONE by Ernest Thomas 18) Il'ya compliments by smperry@mindspring.com 19) Re: DONE by smperry@mindspring.com 20) Re: DONE by "richard eaton" 21) RE: DONE by Shane Weier 22) Re: Modeler Ages - The Results by Dennis Ugulano 23) Re: DONE by Zulis@aol.com 24) Re: DONE by "Ray Boorman" 25) Re: Modeler Ages - The Results by KarrArt@aol.com 26) Re: Birthday greetings by KarrArt@aol.com 27) Re: Il'ya compliments by roguerpj@black-hole.com (roguerpj) 28) RE: Modeling duhs by "dfernet0" 29) RE: DONE by "dfernet0" 30) RE: Birthday greetings by "dfernet0" 31) How did you reached the list? was: Modeler Ages by "dfernet0" 32) Modeler Ages - The Results by John Cyganowski 33) Re: How did you reached the list? was: Modeler Ages by smperry@mindspring.com 34) Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers by John Cyganowski 35) Re: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers by smperry@mindspring.com 36) RE: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers by "dfernet0" 37) Re: Il'ya compliments by "Dale Beamish" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:02:00 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Birthday greetings Message-ID: <0.c6e619be.256b4f98@aol.com> In a message dated 11/22/99 1:37:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, sdw@qld.mim.com.au writes: << Tom, > I just hit 54 today, and basically the trouble with the fast flitting > forties apply to the fifties too Cheers! (and the same to all who had a birthday in the last week) If I keep on taking a drink every time one of us has a birthday I predict a case of cirhosis to go with my Oldtimers disease and......now what was I on about? Shane >> I'll just have to binge for all the November people en masse. Strange that there are so many Novemberites into WW I modeling. RK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:02:13 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <0.8ae6c39.256b4fa5@aol.com> In a message dated 11/21/99 8:48:13 PM Pacific Standard Time, smperry@mindspring.com writes: << I have finished the ICM II'ya Muromets. Begun the first week of Maty and finished tonight. >> I'll join the chorus "PHOTOS!"......by Decemberty if possible. RK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:01:59 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers Message-ID: <0.6c938dbc.256b4f97@aol.com> In a message dated 11/22/99 1:39:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, MSHANNON@tnrcc.state.tx.us writes: << Shane's leaving fingerprints in the surface dry paint is one I can sympathize with. My own contributions are: >> perhaps a bit oddd...but- I'm left handed and X-actos tighten in the wrong direction. When righties use them, the natural direction of use goes towards keeping the blades nice and secure in the handle...when I work with 'em- the tightening collar works loose and the blade wobbles. Just when I'm doing something that requires complete steadiness and control, the blade has worked loose and skrrekkkkkellpopskitterskitterskitter- a nice, small gouge where one shoudn't be. My only solution has been to tighten the collars with pliers, which means they crack after a few months. RK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:02:12 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: finger flyin' and mouth engines wasRe: Modeler Ages - The Results Message-ID: <0.4a12d1b4.256b4fa4@aol.com> In a message dated 11/21/99 10:53:40 PM Pacific Standard Time, REwing@aol.com writes: << Isn't this a prerequisite to model building? I figured it was just the natural orfer of things. However, I do make sure that I am alone when this is done. My family already thinks I'm on the "fringe" as it is!!! -Rick- >> I'm starting to think all you guys aren't joking- you all HAVE really flown your models around the house! Whew.....it's good to know one is not alone....for I have also done this as recently as last year...no one else was home at the time.....I'd been to a collectors show/swap meet and gotten my hands on an old (but CHEAP!)built-up Aurora Fokker D. VII.....it was crudely put together probably decades ago, ancient dried tube glue oozes clustered about all the seams....in short it looked just like the things I used to build when I was kid...so- how could I NOT have the complete experience? RK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:02:02 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Birthday greetings Message-ID: <0.c562ee3e.256b4f9a@aol.com> In a message dated 11/22/99 1:18:15 PM Pacific Standard Time, tomwerner.hansen@c2i.net writes: << I just hit 54 today, and basically the trouble with the fast flitting forties apply to the fifties too Tom W >> No way! I just saw you about a year ago and I would've sworn you were younger than I! RK ( seemingly crumbling quicker than he thought) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:02:08 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Modeler Ages - The Results Message-ID: <0.73058ff3.256b4fa0@aol.com> In a message dated 11/22/99 3:44:48 AM Pacific Standard Time, dfernet0@rosario.gov.ar writes: << I sometimes do that noise with no model whatsoever. D. >> are you alone when you do this, or do you do this around other people? RK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:17:51 -0500 From: Carlos Valdes To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: kits at Squadron Message-ID: <3839F94F.5431@conted.gatech.edu> Just found the following two items at the Squadron "Just Arrived" page. Carlos DML from Hong Kong 1/48 Scale Aircraft WW-DR5909 Fokker D.VIII $30.50 $25.96 w/photo-etched detail parts & a 1/12 scale bust of ace Hans Goerth Hasegawa from Japan 1/48 Scale Aircraft WW-HE52606 Fokker D.VII $21.75 $18.96 w/Photo-Etched detail parts, Decals for Ltn. Von Buren Jasta 18-1918. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:35:34 -0600 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <199911230237.SAA24176@raven.a001.sprintmail.com> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:05:44 -0500 (EST), KarrArt@aol.com wrote: > << I have finished the ICM II'ya Muromets. Begun the first week of Maty and > finished tonight. >> > > I'll join the chorus "PHOTOS!"......by Decemberty if possible. ROTFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!! Matt Bittner http://www.geocities.com/~ipmsfortcrook http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/misc/ww1fr.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:40:36 -0500 From: smperry@mindspring.com To: Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <003c01bf355c$2df8b2c0$0a0d56d1@default> >I'll join the chorus "PHOTOS!"......by Decemberty if possible. >RK Why wait. http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/gallery.htm sp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 20:50:26 -0600 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <199911230252.SAA05639@raven.a001.sprintmail.com> On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:41:07 -0500 (EST), smperry@mindspring.com wrote: > Why wait. (That's the sounds of my jaw hitting the floor.) Excellent job!!!!! Man, that is one AWESOME model! Great job! You have become one of the Master's, now! Matt Bittner http://www.geocities.com/~ipmsfortcrook http://pease1.sr.unh.edu/misc/ww1fr.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:09:53 -0600 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <002001bf3560$389b5620$538baec7@dora9sprynet.com> Sweet Jesus! Man, that is sweet! But can you build a bigger one so's I can see some detail? Also, I think that your spark plugs aren't gapped correctly. DB -----Original Message----- From: smperry@mindspring.com To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 8:44 PM Subject: Re: DONE >>I'll join the chorus "PHOTOS!"......by Decemberty if possible. >>RK > >Why wait. > >http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/gallery.htm > >sp > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:16:48 -0800 From: "Ray Boorman" To: Subject: Re: Modeler Ages - The Results Message-ID: <002e01bf3561$2e1214e0$ab1235d1@ismbc.com> I'm guilty of all of those plus wincing when masking tape pulls paint off. Getting maskol on and not being able to get it off, without resorting to scrubbing it off and ruining the pain. On this one it gets worse, I have enough sense to know maskol and I dont get on (or off to be more accurate), but every so often trying this horrible guey concoction again because well someday it and I must have some success ;(. Lets see other infamous ones oh yes thinning the paint getting it right then trying to thin it just that little bit more. I always do this after I have test sprayed and just before I start to spray on the model. Getting distracted in the middle of spraying a wing (I do mean the middle I call this the drip dry effect). Trying to brush acrylics that even the manufacturers say are for airbrush use.. Thats just my paint goofs do we have an hour and I can cover construction, decals, cats getting to close to models just rigged etc etc Ray Boorman (The modeling goofball) ----- Original Message ----- From: cameron rile > They are questions more indiciative of the skill level which haunts > this list. In my (newbie) case the questions would be more like : > > Do you wince when glue burn strips away the painted detail you did > last night? > Do you sand a part, blow away the residue and then spend > the next 15 minutes on your knees in the carpet looking for the > small parts that got blown off the table? > Do you put the aircraft on it's undercarriage too early and look at > it the next morning to find your wheels are knock kneed? > Do your additions like petrol tanks fall down a week after the > fuselage halves are closed? > Do you bang the table with your fist when the New York Rangers > lose again (and again and again ) and spend the next 15 minutes > on your knees, nose in the carpet looking for all those little > bits that bounced off the table? > > > Lotta Doh's there :) and all incidents which have happened in the > last fortnight too. > > > > > cam > > ______________________________________________________________ > Get Your Free E-mail and Homepage at http://www.prontomail.com > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:24:17 -0600 From: "Bill Bacon" To: Subject: Re: Birthday greetings Message-ID: <001301bf3562$3acace60$2f3532cf@tcac.net> ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 8:04 PM Subject: Re: Birthday greetings > In a message dated 11/22/99 1:37:06 PM Pacific Standard Time, > sdw@qld.mim.com.au writes: > > << Tom, > > > I just hit 54 today, and basically the trouble with the fast flitting > > forties apply to the fifties too > As well aas the sixties and seventies and each seems faster. May each of you have celebrated birthdays have many more. Hopefuly each will live at least as long as I have and each enjoys life as much as I have. Cheers, Bill B. Chief List Geezer ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:27:24 -0500 From: "Leonard Endy" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Words could not do it justice! Message-ID: Hi Steve, I don't think I could find enough adjectives to describe the IM. Fantastic work....now get thyself to the rubber room for a break. Len ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:29:45 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <0.e81e26aa.256b6429@aol.com> In a message dated 11/22/99 6:42:31 PM Pacific Standard Time, smperry@mindspring.com writes: << Why wait. http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/gallery.htm sp >> A herd of sheep, a pod of whales, a pack of wolves, a murder of crows, and now an insanity of struts. Nice stuff- I especially like the differentiation of various woods........ I'm so glad you're putting this energy to work in modeling rather than crime. Otherwise life would be too terrifying. RK ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 19:33:40 -0800 From: "Ray Boorman" To: Subject: Re: RE: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers Message-ID: <00a901bf3563$893bdf20$ab1235d1@ismbc.com> I swear there is a photo-etch monster rather like the odd sock monster. With me it always happens with the fronts of Spandaus. One day I'm gonna track down the monster and recapture his stockpiled etch collection. Ray Boorman ----- Original Message ----- From: DAVID BURKE To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 4:47 PM Subject: Re: RE: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers > NO. It's NOT gone forever. It has landed on the back of your favorite book > or something, and since you had already but a dab of glue on it, it stuck. > You'll find it in a year or two. > > > DB > > Who has been there, BELIEVE ME! > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lance Krieg > To: Multiple recipients of list > Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 4:32 PM > Subject: Re: RE: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers > > > >I'll bet everyone on the list has had a piece launched from between the > jaws of the tweezers.... > >and tried to gauge where it ended up by the tiny "click" as it landed > across the room. > > > >I STILL can't stop myself from looking for it, tho I know it is lost and > gone forever. > > > >Lance > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 21:37:43 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <383A0C07.5FCEEFAE@bellsouth.net> smperry@mindspring.com wrote: > http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/gallery.htm Impressive...... Most impressive. But you are not a Jedi yet. E. ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:41:28 -0500 From: smperry@mindspring.com To: "Multiple recipients of list" Subject: Il'ya compliments Message-ID: <008101bf3564$a6498120$0a0d56d1@default> Thanks to Matt, Dave, E, Len & Ken for all the kind words. I could rattle on modistly about how digital cameras are flattering etc, but after 7 months building, I believe I'll just sit back and enjoy the compliments. Thanks guys! Regards sp E-mail smperry@mindspring.com Web Site http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/PWWIP.htm ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:44:22 -0500 From: smperry@mindspring.com To: Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <008c01bf3565$0e7e7200$0a0d56d1@default> >Impressive...... Most impressive. >But you are not a Jedi yet. >E. I know... I must first snatch the tube of CA from your hand Oh Master E. sp ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:29:27 -0600 From: "richard eaton" To: Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <199911230429.WAA04958@sierra.onr.com> Brilliant Steve, Incredible model and photos! Why don't you try something with a few wires next time! :-) Great job Jedi! Regards, Richard ---------- > From: smperry@mindspring.com > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: DONE > Date: Monday, November 22, 1999 8:41 PM > > >I'll join the chorus "PHOTOS!"......by Decemberty if possible. > >RK > > Why wait. > > http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/gallery.htm > > sp > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 14:29:24 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: DONE Message-ID: <65C968E11318D311B0BD0060B06865CDBD1A1E@mimhexch.mim.com.au> SP > Why wait. > http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/gallery.htm Good grief! We'll make a modeller out of you yet. Just as soon as you escape from the rubber room. *Nice* - Very, very! Shane (pity the whole thing is upside down, but I suppose it's easier for you northerners to look at that way) ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:43:29 -0500 From: Dennis Ugulano To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: Modeler Ages - The Results Message-ID: <199911222343_MC2-8E31-E798@compuserve.com> RK, >> Hah! I like that you've named your pilot. I'll have to do that. << And Harry is multi-national and multi-talented. He flies for all nations, drives all cars, captains all ships, etc. He very capable and has never crashed or wrecked any thing yet. When Tech Supports says she can't see Harry, I tell her he is in the bathroom. But she catching on to that one. She figured out WW1 fighters don't have bathrooms. Oh, well, it worked for a while. Dennis Ugulano email: Uggies@compuserve.com http://members.xoom.com/Uggies/dju.htm Page Revised 9/12/99 "Every modeller will rise to his own level of masochism" ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 23:59:39 EST From: Zulis@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <0.5fce7467.256b793b@aol.com> Congratulations, Steve! That IM is spectacular. When I opened up that first image, I gazed at it for ten minutes - just so much to take in. Very impressive. DZ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:09:34 -0800 From: "Ray Boorman" To: Subject: Re: DONE Message-ID: <014201bf3579$512a39e0$ab1235d1@ismbc.com> Wow, in my dreams I'll build a model like that. Definite Jedi level !!! Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: Monday, November 22, 1999 6:41 PM Subject: Re: DONE > >I'll join the chorus "PHOTOS!"......by Decemberty if possible. > >RK > > Why wait. > > http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/gallery.htm > > sp > ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 01:41:41 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Modeler Ages - The Results Message-ID: <0.cdb390bf.256b9125@aol.com> In a message dated 11/22/99 8:47:18 PM Pacific Standard Time, Uggies@compuserve.com writes: << She figured out WW1 fighters don't have bathrooms. >> Don't let her see sp's new IM (a bomber, but still....)model- from the looks of it, it HAS to have one somewhere! RK ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 01:41:46 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Birthday greetings Message-ID: <0.f513383e.256b912a@aol.com> In a message dated 11/22/99 7:26:59 PM Pacific Standard Time, wbacon@tcac.net writes: << Hopefuly each will live at least as long as I have and each enjoys life as much as I have. Cheers, Bill B. >> I'd call that a pretty fine benediction! RK ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 06:57:06 GMT From: roguerpj@black-hole.com (roguerpj) To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Il'ya compliments Message-ID: <383d8b4a.96929094@mail.black-hole.com> Steve, I can't believe I missed the finish. I have been busy at work and have not had time to sleep let alone model it seems. The Il'ya is truly an excellent model, and with all the others kits on your page it sits in good company roguerpj On Mon, 22 Nov 1999 22:43:53 -0500 (EST), you wrote: >Thanks to Matt, Dave, E, Len & Ken for all the kind words. I could rattle on >modistly about how digital cameras are flattering etc, but after 7 months >building, I believe I'll just sit back and enjoy the compliments. Thanks >guys! >Regards >sp >E-mail smperry@mindspring.com >Web Site http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/PWWIP.htm > roguerpj "...the saddest thing about ephemerals was their little lives rarely held time enough for love." robert heinlein ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 07:24:55 -0300 From: "dfernet0" To: Subject: RE: Modeling duhs Message-ID: <009101bf359c$fc98b5e0$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> Guilty of all previous charges. two more: - The "sand to shape" stage is coming to its end, coarse, medium and fine sanding sticks has done its job. Your lungs are full of plastic powder, you'll breath Pegasus all your life, but you feel proud of your work. Just a faint scratch remains over the pristine surface of the model, easily removable. Then you grab a sanding stick to wipe it clean and after a distintcly harsh noise you realize that you grabbed the coarse stick instead of the extra fine.... - You lovingly cut equal parts of milliput, blend them patiently, cut the right amount to make, for instance, a sleeve, and then, when you're spreading the paste over the figure, discover that a unsuspected dry lump of the stuff is inside the paste you're modelling. Of course one is too proud, and too fool to admit that the process must begin again from zero, and try to extrude the lump from the paste with a needle, ruining the previous work. The the putty has hardened a bit more, and when you try to fix the hole left by the lump, you ruin more and more what you have previously done. The damage could be worsened ad aeternum... ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 07:34:34 -0300 From: "dfernet0" To: Subject: RE: DONE Message-ID: <009f01bf359e$55a8e460$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> > Why wait. > http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/gallery.htm > sp Ahhhhhhhhh! Lord Darth Perry, that's impressive! Congratulations for an excellent work. D. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 07:54:28 -0300 From: "dfernet0" To: Subject: RE: Birthday greetings Message-ID: <00b701bf35a1$1d4919c0$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> > Bill Bacon wrote: > Hopefuly each will live at > least as long as I have and each enjoys life as much as I have. > Cheers, > Bill B. >> As Robert Karr said, there's no better wish. Happy birthday and many scale models to Robert and Tom! Cheers! D. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 08:04:22 -0300 From: "dfernet0" To: Subject: How did you reached the list? was: Modeler Ages Message-ID: <00cd01bf35a2$80ca9f40$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> ----- Original Message ----- From: > Hello all, > I will admit to being the youngin in the group -snip- > Perhaps we can focus on getting > more converts from the existing modeling community by increasing publicity in > the hobby magazines. > -Chris Friedenbach > Well said, Chris. Since there are more and better WW1 models avialable I think that the publicity of these product will be increased in the future. This lead to another question, that is how did you knew about this list or Allan's site? I read back in 1996 a FSM article called "Modelling in the internet" that had the WW1 site URL. Since then, I visited the site from time to time, but I suscribed just a year ago, after reading a myriad of ancient posts from the archives. I'm very glad that I joined, I learned a lot of things and found a wonderful bunch of crazy people, just the kind that is very rare here in the deep south. Regards D. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 06:19:44 -0500 From: John Cyganowski To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Modeler Ages - The Results Message-ID: <383A7850.3D8B@worldnet.att.net> Oh hey, I'm only 474 months old. ;-) I admit to flying my Albatros with out the top wing. On the other hand its my fantasy, so there! Cyg. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 06:24:35 -0500 From: smperry@mindspring.com To: Subject: Re: How did you reached the list? was: Modeler Ages Message-ID: <009801bf35a5$5314a0c0$e20156d1@default> >This lead to another question, that is how did you knew about this list or >Allan's site? I stumbled onto the site while searching the web for Sop Tripe references. I read some archived posts and was totally confused by this bunch of people who seemed to know everything about WWI models but kept repeating portions of what they'd just posted and talking about all kinds of stuff not remotely related to whatever the subject line of the thread was. I eventually figgured it out and got subscribed. My enjoyment of the hobby and knowledge of the subject has increased imensely since joining this group. I feel like the UNH has given me a free degree in WWI aviation history and modeling. Thanks Allan! Tell your boss that we said you deserve more money. sp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 06:39:29 -0500 From: John Cyganowski To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers Message-ID: <383A7CF1.3BD@worldnet.att.net> Even worse: You have given up on ever finding that essential, but micrscopic piece of phototech. You resign yourself to scratching it out of plastic. You finish making your part after stabbed fingers, the occasional curse and much muttering. You pick up the part with tweezers to admire your handi-work and "Plink"! It too flies off to join its metal cousin in model part limbo. Cyg. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 06:52:46 -0500 From: smperry@mindspring.com To: Subject: Re: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers Message-ID: <000c01bf35a9$42ec70c0$f70156d1@default> >You have given up on ever finding that essential, but micrscopic piece >of phototech. You resign yourself to scratching it out of plastic. You >finish making your part after stabbed fingers, the occasional curse and >much muttering. You pick up the part with tweezers to admire your >handi-work and "Plink"! It too flies off to join its metal cousin in >model part limbo. >Cyg. I used to live in fear of loosing a critical part. Now that I can scratch most of them it's relaxing to know that loosing a scratched part is inconvienient, it isn't a show stopper. If I loose, break or just mess up a scratched part, I can always make another and probably better part. sp ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 08:55:42 -0300 From: "dfernet0" To: Subject: RE: Modeling duhs, was Age of Modelers Message-ID: <010b01bf35a9$ab7ffc60$4640a8c0@ssp.salud.rosario.gov.ar> > I used to live in fear of loosing a critical part. Now that I can scratch > most of them it's relaxing to know that loosing a scratched part is > inconvienient, it isn't a show stopper. If I loose, break or just mess up a > scratched part, I can always make another and probably better part. > sp Ha! that's because you are a Jedi. But what about us? :-0 D. ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 05:02:15 -0700 From: "Dale Beamish" To: Subject: Re: Il'ya compliments Message-ID: <006301bf35aa$979e2720$a82eb8a1@darcy> You Sir have raised the bar again! Fantastic! This is the sort of stuff that makes me glad I spent all the money for a new IP. Now as far as storage .... I do have a great shelf in the corner ..... Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: 22 November, 1999 8:45 PM Subject: Il'ya compliments > Thanks to Matt, Dave, E, Len & Ken for all the kind words. I could rattle on > modistly about how digital cameras are flattering etc, but after 7 months > building, I believe I'll just sit back and enjoy the compliments. Thanks > guys! > Regards > sp > E-mail smperry@mindspring.com > Web Site http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/PWWIP.htm > ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 1986 **********************