WWI Digest 2337 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Happy weekend by Zulis@aol.com 2) Re: Happy weekend by "Ray Boorman" 3) Re: Worst kit by Zulis@aol.com 4) Re: WW1 Battleships by geoff-smith@cwcom.net 5) Re: Happy weekend by "DAVID BURKE" 6) Note: Non-Albatros Question:Roland Instrument Panel by skarver@banet.net 7) Re: Worst kit by "Michael Kendix" 8) Re: Worst kit by Zulis@aol.com 9) Re: Worst kit by smperry@mindspring.com 10) Re: WWI battleships by Marc Flake 11) Battleship Sites by "Dale Beamish" 12) Re: Battleship Sites by Sixmilfigs@cs.com 13) Re: Rescued? Was: Worst kit by "David Calhoun" 14) RE: Albatros Triplane by Dennis Ugulano 15) Re: Great Albatros cook-up Web site and email address by Scottfking@aol.com 16) Two more references for the Albatros cook-up by "Charles and Linda Duckworth" 17) Re: Battleship Sites by "Bob Pearson" 18) Re: Battleship Sites by "Dale Beamish" 19) Re: Battleship Sites by "Ray Boorman" 20) To Cool Not to Share by "John Glaser" 21) Scapa Flow - the wrecks by "Dale Beamish" 22) Re: Albatros project request by "Ray Boorman" 23) Re: Albatros Dr.I References? by Steve Cox 24) Re: Berthold's Pfalz D.IIIa was: German Ace's plane Question by Witold Kozakiewicz 25) Re: To Cool Not to Share by "Matthew Bittner" 26) Re: Gannon's e-mail address by Albatrosdv@aol.com 27) Takes a Shellacking, Keeps on Whacking, was, Re: Alb D.III color by skarver@banet.net 28) Cooking Up D.III's--Interior Refs.? by skarver@banet.net 29) Re: Gannon's e-mail address by "DAVID BURKE" 30) Albatros D.1 by "David Calhoun" 31) Re: Albatros D.1 by "Bob Pearson" 32) Re: Albatros D.1 by smperry@mindspring.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:02:50 EDT From: Zulis@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Happy weekend Message-ID: In a message dated 00-05-12 17:49:08 EDT, you write: << David, There are benefits to rigging after a glass of wine or 3, or a few beers. Just think you can do double flying wires in one try. Yes you too can get one wire to look like two!!. Only flaw is you must keep a stready flow of alchohol to the brain. Ray >> Any approach which requires your guests to be three-quarters frosted before you show them your models also requires reconsideration. Could get very expensive to show this one.... Then again, if you are the only one looking at it... well .... ok DZ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 15:16:54 -0700 From: "Ray Boorman" To: Subject: Re: Happy weekend Message-ID: <000e01bfbc5f$c7997060$5f1335d1@bconnected.net> Planning is mandatory. It must be "byob" Bring your own bottle. And they can't be cheapskates. Since you want them to bring wine with the lead foil over the cork. That way you get seat belt material for the year. Sorry getting way of topic....... btw I heard that ICM shipped the Konigs mid April, so they wont be here till June or so. (Got it back OT) Ray > Any approach which requires your guests to be three-quarters frosted before > you show them your models also requires reconsideration. Could get very > expensive to show this one.... > > Then again, if you are the only one looking at it... well .... ok > > DZ > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:20:05 EDT From: Zulis@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Worst kit Message-ID: <96.4b720f3.264ddd95@aol.com> Greetings! Someone mentioned the HitKit Albatros. If it is the same kit that I purchased, I think this is simply a case of not understanding what was purchased. My kit arrived as roughly an ounce of plastic and three pounds of decal sheets. :-) This was not a kit purchase, it was a decal purchase and I could live with that. My worst kit was the 1/72 Merlin Breguet 14. It was basically a bag full of blobs.... I could recognize the two fuselage halves which, for the degree of fit displayed, may have come from different kits, and the wings - the rest, just sprue with bumps on it. I spent an hour trimming and shaping the blob which I surmised was to be the deck with the cockpit openings until I realized this was waaaaaay too close to whittling an airplane out of plastic for me. Even if I got the large parts roughly right - the rest of the parts were well past useless and pretty close to unrecognizable. We discussed this kit once before on the list. Apparently the first few were not bad, and then it got progressively worse as the molds deteriorated. If that is true, then I surely got the last kit made before the molds totally gave up the ghost.... Dave Z ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:03:35 +0100 From: geoff-smith@cwcom.net To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: WW1 Battleships Message-ID: <391C9BD7.19330.1BE1A86@localhost> Dale, White Ensign Models should have the Konig from ICM next week. Not sure about Grosser Kurfurst. WEM also do HMS Mary Rose, I think at 1/350. What about Revell's Dresden & Emden both in 1/350 and also USS Olympia (?). I'm working from memory for all this since all my data got sent to the bit bucket by Packard-Bell. Geoff (who's thoroughly pissed off with Packard-Bell's illogical software) > > In a message dated 5/12/00 8:22:43 AM EST, lozenge1@telusplanet.net > writes: > > << Does anyone know of sources for large scale ( perhaps 1/350 ) WW1 > Ships? > Dale >> > > Sometime this summer, ICM is releasing "Grosser Kurfurst" (I think, sorry, > not a boat boy), but anyway a WW1 German dreadnought in 1/350. Supposed > to > be more where that comes from if it sells. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:35:17 -0500 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: Re: Happy weekend Message-ID: <000f01bfbc6a$bbf64f20$a481aec7@dora9sprynet.com> >David, > There are benefits to rigging after a glass of wine or 3, or a few >beers. >Just think you can do double flying wires in one try. Yes you too can get >one wire to look like two!!. > >Only flaw is you must keep a stready flow of alchohol to the brain. > >Ray LMAO!! DB ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 19:52:22 -0400 From: skarver@banet.net To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Note: Non-Albatros Question:Roland Instrument Panel Message-ID: <391C9935.44A998CF@banet.net> Has anyone ever seen one of these? (I mean anyone alive, of course). I have both the DF and access to WW1Aero no. 140. Great coverage of the wireless generator, but... Sulkily, Stef ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 17:31:32 PDT From: "Michael Kendix" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Worst kit Message-ID: <20000513003132.77360.qmail@hotmail.com> >From: Zulis@aol.com >Reply-To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: Re: Worst kit >Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 18:25:08 -0400 (EDT) > >Greetings! > >Someone mentioned the HitKit Albatros. If it is the same kit that I >purchased, I think this is simply a case of not understanding what was >purchased. My kit arrived as roughly an ounce of plastic and three > >pounds of decal sheets. :-) This was not a kit purchase, it was a > >decal purchase and I could live with that. > Dave: Yes, well, wait till you actually try and use those decals, mate! The lochen & tochen (curly-wurly yello coloured stuff) decals had the consistency of aluminum foil and about as thick; no way could they adhere to a surface. I "tested" one of the 6-point star decals and it disintegrated in the water. They require a layer of liquid decal film. As for the kit; the engines, struts, wheels, landing gear struts are not really usuable. Michael ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:39:57 EDT From: Zulis@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Worst kit Message-ID: <38.5dbfa83.264dfe5d@aol.com> Michael warns: << Yes, well, wait till you actually try and use those decals, mate! >> Thank you for the warning, I am sure you're right. I just found that it was amusing to imagine what happened - the company made a real dog of a kit, so they stuffed the box with decals hoping nobody would notice. DZ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:01:56 -0400 From: smperry@mindspring.com To: Subject: Re: Worst kit Message-ID: <000e01bfbc76$d68d23c0$e90956d1@default> > My worst kit was the 1/72 Merlin Breguet 14. It was basically a bag full > of blobs.... Even if I got the large > parts roughly right - the rest of the parts were well past useless and pretty > close to unrecognizable....surely got the last kit made before the molds > totally gave up the ghost.... > > Dave Z Well Dave, I must have gotten one of the first. My copy is crisp and has nice surface detail and the flash is not bad. While Brother Bacon would no doubt rumble something about the shade of blue in the decals, this kit is about as good as the average Pegasus (down Tom ;-) and quite buildable. I am looking forward to the pleasure. sp ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:03:17 -0500 From: Marc Flake To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: WWI battleships Message-ID: <391CA9D5.4FBF@airmail.net> Shane or Lorna probably have already beten me to it (I'm in digest mode), but here's the latest news on the Konig and Grosser Kurfurst from ICM. This was posted on SMML today by Caroline Carter of White Ensign Models. (white.ensign.models@dial.pipex.com) > Hi Guys, > > I have the following good news: > > BOTH the ICM 1/350 Konig and 1/350 Grosser Kurfurst kits arrive in the > U.K. next week.. this means that we should receive our orders inside 2 > weeks.. and we finally have a price: I gather that the U.S. shipment is > going by surface so you may be waiting around some months.. if you want > yours sooner rather than later then I would be delighted to oblige of > course (!) ... and of course, at last, we can get the rest of the > photoetched brass finished up for the kits! > > 42.54 Pounds ($63.81) overseas plus shipping at cost. U.K. and E.U. please > add VAT to give a total cost of £49.99.>> ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 19:22:45 -0600 From: "Dale Beamish" To: "List" Subject: Battleship Sites Message-ID: <00c001bfbc79$c01612c0$cc2bb8a1@darcy> Any good sites to view WW1 German ships? Dale ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:54:29 EDT From: Sixmilfigs@cs.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Battleship Sites Message-ID: Just a few places to take a look at http://www.ukans.edu/~kansite/ww_one/naval/n0000000.htm#contents http://www.german-navy.de/marine.htm http://navsource.org/Archives/home.html http://warship.simplenet.com/ Shawn Kennedy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:05:15 -0700 From: "David Calhoun" To: Subject: Re: Rescued? Was: Worst kit Message-ID: <004201bfbc98$d4bd7460$ce3b3ccc@oemcomputer> My best rescued/ worst to best must be the SMER SVA 5, which I completed using 2 kits to get 1 decent 1/48 scale one, with about 50% of the parts scratchbuilt, done long before the new resin one came out. Was able to win a "Best WW1 Aircraft" award at Patcon show several years ago. Since I just got my digital camera tonight, I think this will be a good test subject tomorrow. I'll send Alan a few photos of it. Dave Calhoun -----Original Message----- From: Sharon Henderson To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Friday, May 12, 2000 10:28 AM Subject: Rescued? Was: Worst kit >>OK, fair enough but I think this "Award" should be restricted to kits >>you've built or "attempted" to build. > >What about the worst kit you've ever attempted to build, that you >managed to rescue and make into something fairly decent? Anyone >wanna share those tales too? > >My brother David rescued a truly ugly Dr.1 when we were teenagers, >and made it into a thing a beauty. I think it was an Airfix 1:48, >but I'm not sure. > >I still have to finish something recent, to even SLIGHTLY say I rescued >something.... ;-) > >Sharon > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:23:50 -0400 From: Dennis Ugulano To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: RE: Albatros Triplane Message-ID: <200005122224_MC2-A4C6-8409@compuserve.com> D, Thanks for the information. Beautiful picture. Dennis Ugulano email: Uggies@compuserve.com http://members.xoom.com/Uggies/DJU.HTM Page Revised 8/16/99 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:58:10 EDT From: Scottfking@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Great Albatros cook-up Web site and email address Message-ID: <48.556026b.264e1ec2@aol.com> In a message dated 5/12/00 12:21:19 PM EST, Albatrosdv@aol.com writes: << << http://members.xoom.com/OTprojects/index.html >> This address definitely works! Thanks, Scott!! Tom >> Well that makes me happy, for once I am sure that a computer problem wasn't due to my own ineptitude. Skippy ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:27:13 -0500 From: "Charles and Linda Duckworth" To: "ww1FAQ" Subject: Two more references for the Albatros cook-up Message-ID: <00d301bfbc8b$33a6aae0$c62c57d8@cnlduckwor> Here's two more references to add to the Albatros fighter reference www site list: Profile No. 127 covers the DI - DIII Famous Aircraft of the National Air and Space Museum Volume 4 'Albatros D.Va German Fighter of World War I' by Robert C. Mikesh 1980 ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 20:38:20 -0700 From: "Bob Pearson" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Battleship Sites Message-ID: <200005130342.UAA24779@mail.rapidnet.net> Scapa Flow? Bob ---------- >From: "Dale Beamish" >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: Battleship Sites >Date: Fri, 12 May, 2000, 6:28 PM > > Any good sites to view WW1 German ships? > Dale ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:54:43 -0600 From: "Dale Beamish" To: Subject: Re: Battleship Sites Message-ID: <013001bfbc8f$7a2a4900$cc2bb8a1@darcy> Funny you should mention that! I did run across a site describing where all the WW1 ships were sunk. It was a diving site! Now that would be interesting ... diving through the old wrecks! Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Pearson To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: 12 May, 2000 9:44 PM Subject: Re: Battleship Sites > Scapa Flow? > > Bob > > ---------- > >From: "Dale Beamish" > >To: Multiple recipients of list > >Subject: Battleship Sites > >Date: Fri, 12 May, 2000, 6:28 PM > > > > > Any good sites to view WW1 German ships? > > Dale > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 21:02:16 -0700 From: "Ray Boorman" To: Subject: Re: Battleship Sites Message-ID: <000d01bfbc90$0a2877c0$5f1335d1@bconnected.net> ROTFL better take your bathing suit. Nope better yet a wet suit it gets darned cold up there!!! Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: Bob Pearson > Scapa Flow? > > Bob > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:05:00 -0500 From: "John Glaser" To: "WW1 Mail List \(E-mail\)" Subject: To Cool Not to Share Message-ID: <000001bfbc90$6ba41090$8d00000a@johnghome> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BFBC66.83B02B30 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To the List: Try out the attached link to translate web pages into/from various languages. I tried it on the German version of Herr Genth's Gotha page and doggone if it didn't work!!!!! The English is very broken but you sure get the idea of what the page is about. Matt B: Do you have any French language pages to try it on? - JG <> http://www.onlinetrans.com/systran.cgi ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BFBC66.83B02B30 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="SYSTRAN Homepage.url" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="SYSTRAN Homepage.url" [DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://www.onlinetrans.com/systran.cgi [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.onlinetrans.com/systran.cgi Modified=505DF1B546BCBF0115 ------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BFBC66.83B02B30-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:13:49 -0600 From: "Dale Beamish" To: "List" Subject: Scapa Flow - the wrecks Message-ID: <014001bfbc91$e0ebe8e0$cc2bb8a1@darcy> This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFBC5F.5963F020 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Check out the wrecks at Scapa Flow. And you're right Ray, you would need a wet suit! Dale http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/jralston/rk/scapa/index.html ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFBC5F.5963F020 Content-Type: application/octet-stream; name="Scapa Flow - the wrecks.url" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="Scapa Flow - the wrecks.url" [DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/jralston/rk/scapa/index.html [InternetShortcut] URL=http://atschool.eduweb.co.uk/jralston/rk/scapa/index.html Modified=4091CD6A91BCBF0115 ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01BFBC5F.5963F020-- ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 00:27:05 -0700 From: "Ray Boorman" To: Subject: Re: Albatros project request Message-ID: <00be01bfbcac$a39dfc60$5f1335d1@bconnected.net> Wasn't this information from Shane the elder, Wizard of the watercolor pencil ;) Shane can you help with this or can you remember who posted it? Thanks Ray ----- Original Message ----- From: To: Multiple recipients of list Sent: Friday, May 12, 2000 2:41 PM Subject: Albatros project request > Guys, > > Back in the mists of time 3 weeks ago, when I had digests going > back about 4 years stored on disk, the Albatros project hadn't been > born. > > Since then a major PC death coupled with Packard-Bell's death > sentence on my backup disk has left me with no way of accessing > the various posts on plywood finishes (as in watercolor pencils > etc). If anyone has a copy of this most interesting and vital > information or can point to the digests concerned, can they please > copy it to me or post it to the project page. > > Many thanks, > > Geoff > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 10:06:59 +0100 From: Steve Cox To: Subject: Re: Albatros Dr.I References? Message-ID: There is one picture of the Dr.I and also two of the Dr.II in : Triplanes by Bowers & McDowell, Motorbooks International The Dr.I pic doesn't show the position of the radiators though. There's a different view in : German Aircraft of the First World War by Gray & Thetford, Putnam These two views were all I based my model on. Otis Goodin sent me some info from the 1/48th kit on the lower wing fixing, which is the stage I'm at with my model. He also had a one page article Regards Steve =========================================== steve@oldglebe.freeserve.co.uk http://www.oldglebe.freeserve.co.uk/steveshome.html If I didn't spend so much time on line ‹‹ I'd get some models finished ================ > From: "Matt Bailey" > Reply-To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu > Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 09:38:17 -0400 (EDT) > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Albatros Dr.I References? > > Hello everyone! > > Can anyone direct me to where I can find references, pictures, drawings, etc. > for the Albatros Dr.I? I'm sure that Allan would appreciate the tips as well > - if he doesn't already have them. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 22:29:37 +0200 From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Berthold's Pfalz D.IIIa was: German Ace's plane Question Message-ID: <391C69B1.DE0A8754@bgamld.bg.am.lodz.pl> Albatrosdv@aol.com napisa³(a): > > He flew both the early *and* the late D.IIIa - pointed tips and rounded tips. > Since they were painted the same way, and had the s/n painted out, a shot of > the airplane's wing is the only way to tell which is what. Both are right, > if you put the early D.IIIa as the one he had his final crash in, the late > D.IIIa as the one he flew a short while before being given a D.VII. And that dispels all my doubts. I have D.III so to little diversify my collection I'll go with late D.IIIa. Thanks. -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 09:08:56 -0500 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: To Cool Not to Share Message-ID: <200005131411.HAA28612@crow.a001.sprintmail.com> > Matt B: Do you have any French language pages to try it on? None that I know of. There are some IPMS French sites out there you might want to try, but I don't know the URL. You may be able to get there from the IPMS/USA site (http://www.ipmsusa.org). MEB ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 12:55:19 EDT From: Albatrosdv@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Gannon's e-mail address Message-ID: <7a.532ee02.264ee2f7@aol.com> In a message dated 5/12/00 2:37:14 PM EST, dora9@sprynet.com writes: << I have 2 BM kits (Brisfit and Halberstadt) that suffer from the dreaded ripple, what is Mr. Gannon's e-mail address? I would love to add the Brisfit to my collection one day >> Given that both of these have gone through their production runs, I doubt you will get much "satisfaction." I think the news about Mr. Gannon supplying replacement parts is for kits that are out recently (for which he still has the molds, etc.). Since both of these kits have wings that don't have the "hills and valleys" now it your chance to learn the "RK way" of doing wing rib detail: Sand it down, tape off the ribs to either side, give them a good coat of brushed paint, take off the masking tape, paint - nice delicate rib tape detail appears. FWIW, I couldn't keep my mitts off it, and have gotten into doing the BM D.H.2 - with a SMER kit here for comparison, I can say that the BM kit is so easy to do. However, believe it or not, using the engine in the SMER kit as the basis of the engine beats the daylights out of the little lumps ofr white metal that are supposed to pass for engine cylinders in the BM kit - looking at photos in the "In Action" book, the SMER engine provides a very suitable alternative. Also, the SMER decals (in the newer kits) beat the daylights out of the BM decals, which do not seem to be up to the same standards as those before and after this kit. That said, with about 1/100 the effort Steve Perry put into his SMER masterpiece, I will have a D.H.2 that will be more than acceptable-looking, and could even be great, depending. Tom Cleaver ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:03:36 -0400 From: skarver@banet.net To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Takes a Shellacking, Keeps on Whacking, was, Re: Alb D.III color Message-ID: <391DA708.4F22F696@banet.net> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, KarrArt@aol.com wrote, in part: > A few general comments gleaned (once again!) from DanSan Abbott writing in > WW I Aero. The article is mainly on the D.II, but goes up to the first > production batches of the D.III. [snip] And- the stained fuselage issue he > simply says" > they were not stained: they were shellacked...." As my Cook-Up entree is intended to be Udet's early D.III, I assume the shellacked color can be taken to be a brown-orange (as distinct from the 'garnet' DSA once tagged it with)? Are there any *known* examples of green mottling? (And as long as I'm at it, would flying surfaces be 2- or 3-color camo?) Kind regards, Stef ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:34:53 -0400 From: skarver@banet.net To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Cooking Up D.III's--Interior Refs.? Message-ID: <391DAE5D.73A42A29@banet.net> That's about it. The .V and Va variants appear to be well covered on this score. What about office details for the sire? TIA to all, Stef ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 14:31:04 -0500 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: Re: Gannon's e-mail address Message-ID: <001001bfbd11$f9d45880$f681aec7@dora9sprynet.com> >In a message dated 5/12/00 2:37:14 PM EST, dora9@sprynet.com writes: > ><< I have 2 BM kits (Brisfit and Halberstadt) that suffer > from the dreaded ripple, what is Mr. Gannon's e-mail address? I would love > to add the Brisfit to my collection one day >> > >Given that both of these have gone through their production runs, I doubt you >will get much "satisfaction." I think the news about Mr. Gannon supplying >replacement parts is for kits that are out recently (for which he still has >the molds, etc.). Rats. I figured that though. Since both of these kits have wings that don't have the >"hills and valleys" now it your chance to learn the "RK way" of doing wing >rib detail: Sand it down, tape off the ribs to either side, give them a good >coat of brushed paint, take off the masking tape, paint - nice delicate rib >tape detail appears. Yeah, that's an idea, but I wish I didn't have to. > >FWIW, I couldn't keep my mitts off it, and have gotten into doing the BM >D.H.2 - with a SMER kit here for comparison, I can say that the BM kit is so >easy to do. However, believe it or not, using the engine in the SMER kit as >the basis of the engine beats the daylights out of the little lumps ofr white >metal that are supposed to pass for engine cylinders in the BM kit - looking >at photos in the "In Action" book, the SMER engine provides a very suitable >alternative. Also, the SMER decals (in the newer kits) beat the daylights >out of the BM decals, which do not seem to be up to the same standards as >those before and after this kit. That said, with about 1/100 the effort >Steve Perry put into his SMER masterpiece, I will have a D.H.2 that will be >more than acceptable-looking, and could even be great, depending. > >Tom Cleaver You go boy! DB ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 15:51:15 -0700 From: "David Calhoun" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Subject: Albatros D.1 Message-ID: <006b01bfbd2d$c0b48fe0$de093ccc@oemcomputer> Here's a question about the Albatros D.1 flown by Rittmeister Prince Friedrich Carl of Prussia, brought down on March 21, 1917 and shown on page 6 of the Datafile Albatros Fighters special. Does anyone have info on the Jasta that Carl flew in? Also, the photo shows the captured aircraft without wings and says it was reported to be doped light green overall. Would this include the wings? Top & bottom? Fuselage bottom? (looks very dark in photo, but could just be a shadow.) This looks like another great one for the Albatros cookoff, if I can find any color info on it. I saw a couple of D.II's that will be done, but anyone doing a D.I? Thanks, Dave Calhoun ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 13:14:06 -0700 From: "Bob Pearson" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Albatros D.1 Message-ID: <200005132018.NAA11179@mail.rapidnet.net> He actually commanded Fl.Abt(A)258, but would slip away to fly with Jasta Boelcke whenever possible. Haven't looked at the photo in some time now, so won't comment on colours. Bob ---------- >From: "David Calhoun" >To: Multiple recipients of list >Subject: Albatros D.1 >Date: Sat, 13 May, 2000, 12:52 PM > > Here's a question about the Albatros D.1 flown by Rittmeister Prince > Friedrich Carl of Prussia, brought down on March 21, 1917 and shown on page > 6 of the Datafile Albatros Fighters special. > Does anyone have info on the Jasta that Carl flew in? Also, the photo shows > the captured aircraft without wings and says it was reported to be doped > light green overall. Would this include the wings? Top & bottom? Fuselage > bottom? (looks very dark in photo, but could just be a shadow.) > This looks like another great one for the Albatros cookoff, if I can find > any color info on it. I saw a couple of D.II's that will be done, but > anyone doing a D.I? > Thanks, > Dave Calhoun > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 16:04:03 -0400 From: smperry@mindspring.com To: Subject: Re: Albatros D.1 Message-ID: <000001bfbd19$e35b3260$ee0156d1@default> David: My Toms kit has metal D.I cabaines. LMK if you will need them. sp ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Calhoun" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Saturday, May 13, 2000 3:52 PM Subject: Albatros D.1 > Here's a question about the Albatros D.1 flown by Rittmeister Prince > Friedrich Carl of Prussia, brought down on March 21, 1917 and shown on page > 6 of the Datafile Albatros Fighters special. > Does anyone have info on the Jasta that Carl flew in? Also, the photo shows > the captured aircraft without wings and says it was reported to be doped > light green overall. Would this include the wings? Top & bottom? Fuselage > bottom? (looks very dark in photo, but could just be a shadow.) > This looks like another great one for the Albatros cookoff, if I can find > any color info on it. I saw a couple of D.II's that will be done, but > anyone doing a D.I? > Thanks, > Dave Calhoun > > ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 2337 **********************