WWI Digest 2493 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Summer slowdowns by "Matthew Bittner" 2) Re: Summer slowdowns by Albatrosdv@aol.com 3) Re: SV: by Albatrosdv@aol.com 4) RE: Too much paint! WAS: the IPMS style by Shane Weier 5) Re: Salop. was: Re: awards etc. by Albatrosdv@aol.com 6) Re: Too much paint! WAS: the IPMS style by Albatrosdv@aol.com 7) RE: That semi-gloss finish by Shane Weier 8) Re: SV: Lone Star Nie.28 p/e by "Michael S. Alvarado" 9) Olympic OT by Shane Weier 10) Re: That semi-gloss finish by KarrArt@aol.com 11) Re: SV: Too much paint! WAS: the IPMS style by KarrArt@aol.com 12) RE: the IPMS style by Shane Weier 13) RE: That semi-gloss finish by Shane Weier 14) ÄãºÃ by "www.001.com.cn" 15) Re: Weather Report by Al Superczynski 16) Re: That semi-gloss finish by KarrArt@aol.com 17) RE: That semi-gloss finish by Shane Weier 18) Re: Monosoupapes WAS: Lone Star Nie.28 p/e by Lee Mensinger 19) Re: That semi-gloss finish by mdf 20) Re: AWRIGHT! Where are the Mercedes Refs? by Ernest Thomas 21) Re: Olympic OT by Albatrosdv@aol.com 22) Re: the IPMS style by Albatrosdv@aol.com 23) Site Update by "Leonard Endy" 24) Re: Weather Report by smperry@mindspring.com 25) Re: Dayton Fly-in by Lyle Lamboley 26) Re: Summer slowdowns by Ernest Thomas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:41:30 -0500 From: "Matthew Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: Summer slowdowns Message-ID: <200007272241.PAA09742@hawk.prod.itd.earthlink.net> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:37:55 -0400 (EDT), Albatrosdv@aol.com wrote: > Step away from the Dr.Is and get to work on the D.V! The Albatri Cookup will > not be the same without your contribution. :-) Well, thank you! However, these are for review, and we know that they must be completed ASAP... I'll still try, though... Matt Bittner ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:42:54 EDT From: Albatrosdv@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Summer slowdowns Message-ID: In a message dated 7/27/00 5:28:21 PM EST, dora9@sprynet.com writes: << Makes me wonder why there's a wing ripple in any of his kits - these wings are perfect EXCEPT for the monstrously thick injection gates on the leading edges of the wings. Ahh well, it is quite correctable. >> This is so true! I was *amazed* with the wings of the D.H.2 kit. Also, the wings on the Nie 28 are pretty darn good, too. Boy, talk about an airplane that is the exception to the rule "if it looks right it is right" - according to that, the Nie 28 should have been the best fighter of the war. It sure is an aesthetic beauty. TC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:47:17 EDT From: Albatrosdv@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: SV: Message-ID: In a message dated 7/27/00 1:52:23 PM EST, MAnde72343@aol.com writes: << Mike, a hobbyist, is also serious about his art, and has not modified his style, which he feels is right, to suit fashion. >> Well, there's someone who has it right. I'd rather not get a prize, than get one from people who don't know what they're dealing with. Quite frankly, a nice comment from any of you about any of the stuff I have up on my page beats the daylights out of a plastic pot full of dust. TC ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 08:47:25 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Too much paint! WAS: the IPMS style Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7115D43D@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> Peter says > At the moment the trend is to lay it on with a > trowel, but it'll > swing back the other way in time. > FWIW I don't think it's as much a problem overdoing it on AFV's as it is on aircraft. Aircraft tend to be kept as clean as time and environment permit. Meanwhile the soldier is busily trying to make *his* mount look as much like a pile of dirt as he can. Having said that, there's certainly (by the magazines) a trend to overdo the shading on aircraft which in my experience hasn't much been followed here. Shane ************************************************************** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. E-Mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 18:55:45 EDT From: Albatrosdv@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Salop. was: Re: awards etc. Message-ID: <6e.18d40a0.26b217f1@aol.com> In a message dated 7/27/00 1:51:49 PM EST, wolfchen@netpolicy.com writes: << Which is a whole heck of a lot more than you ever wanted to know, I have no doubt.... :-) >> This group!! Ask a question, make a comment, get more response than you know what to do with. The only e-mail list worth being a member of. :-) TC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:00:32 EDT From: Albatrosdv@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Too much paint! WAS: the IPMS style Message-ID: <9.895d758.26b21910@aol.com> In a message dated 7/27/00 5:50:29 PM EST, sdw@qld.mim.com.au writes: << FWIW I don't think it's as much a problem overdoing it on AFV's as it is on aircraft. Aircraft tend to be kept as clean as time and environment permit. Meanwhile the soldier is busily trying to make *his* mount look as much like a pile of dirt as he can. >> I remember a very good, award-winning armor modeler once telling me he would *never* build an airplane model because finishing it was too hard, since you did so much less to it. FWIW, the "Verlinden/IPMS style" does look good on Armor, but the over-stylization of airplane models just makes something that is just, well.... the first time I saw it I started talking to the builder about how to get better control of his airbrush. TC ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:06:26 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: That semi-gloss finish Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7115D43E@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> Merrill quotes: > If you read the Mikesh book on the Albatros, a FLAT clear > dope was supposed > to be the topcoat for the fabric covered parts; something similar was > specified for the Pfalz- even the silbergrau ones were > sprayed overall flat; While this may be so, the evidence of hundreds of photographs suggests that either the flat overcoat wasn't very flat, or wasn't used at all. None of which means that you shouldn't... > I vary my finishes > from dead flat to Polly Scale Semigloss, with fabric covered > parts generally > 'flatter' than the wood and metal parts. > Additionally, early paints did not > have UV protection as modern formulations do, and so would > tend to go flat, > or flatter, as soon as they were exposed to sunlight Of course the reason that the French and Germans used alumium powder in the pigment was to provide UV protection for fabric, likewise the lamp black/ochre pigments in PC.10 and PC.1 It's demonstrably true that the the dope has little capacity to defeat UV however (excepting for example the Palestine Front) aircraft were rarely left outside in the weather long enough to seriously fade or dull in their relatively (by even WW2 standards) brief period in use. Again, study of hundreds of photos normally reveals finishes between semi gloss and very high gloss even of fairly war weary (by the oil stains) machines. This is not to say that models should be highly glossy (or even that they shouldn't be dead flat!), because capturing the look of an aircraft in miniature is a lot more complex than meets the eye, but in general and strictly IMHO, a fully flat model looks as lifeless as a fully gloss one looks toylike. Somewhere in between - and it varies from modeller to modeller and from subject to subject - is a happy medium where taste, style and accuracy intersect Shane ************************************************************** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. E-Mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:13:21 -0400 From: "Michael S. Alvarado" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: SV: Lone Star Nie.28 p/e Message-ID: <3980C211.7AF113BA@bellatlantic.net> The intake valves were in the top of the pistons. They opened and allowed fuel in at the bottom of the down stroke, so all fuel induction and mixture occured within the engine hence no external induction pipes. Still needed a cam, pushrod, rocker arm spring and exhaust valve to get rid of the combustion by products though therefore a single pushrod and valve assembly atop each cylinder. HTH Alvie Neil Crawford wrote: > Pity I've just finished the cockpit of my Ni28 without this, incidentally > I've > just been looking at the 160hp Monosoupape, it doesn't seem to have any > exhaust pipes!? How does that work? > /Neil > ---------- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:23:56 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi'" Subject: Olympic OT Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7115D440@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> Hi all, Sort of off topic, and yet not... Yesterday Sergeant Jack Lockett carried the Olympic torch for 100metres through the main street of the mining town of Bendigo. It was the 50th day of the torch relay, and marked 50 days to go. Jack was surrounded by an estimated 16,000 people (in a city of just 20k) and moved very slowly, in part (he said) to allow people at the back and overlooking the street from well back to get a view. So why is this OT at all? Jack Lockett carried the torch as a representative of Australias WW1 soldiers. He's 109 years old, almost 110, and had been a bomb thrower on the Somme. Of all the uncontroversial runners his run has been the most intensely reported - we still haven't forgotten them. (His age makes him the only runner to have lived through *all* the modern Olympics, and the oldest Aussie runner. I'm bloody glad that a WW1 vet had this opportunity. Afterwards he did the proper soldierly thing and hied off to the Returned Services League club for a beer!) Shane ************************************************************** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. E-Mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:33:03 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: That semi-gloss finish Message-ID: <10.1cdc72.26b220af@aol.com> In a message dated 7/27/00 4:07:53 PM Pacific Daylight Time, sdw@qld.mim.com.au writes: << While this may be so, the evidence of hundreds of photographs suggests that either the flat overcoat wasn't very flat, or wasn't used at all. >> Gotta disagree here- a lot of photos show no sheen whatsoever on the fabric areas of German machines- but as always- if you have a photo of actual airplane to be modeled, check IT'S look. Part of the fun of WW I modeling is trying to capture all the various textures of glossy and dull dope, varnish, paint, metal, wood and fabric. Beats the heck out of more modern "one sheen fits all" ! RK ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:33:04 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: SV: Too much paint! WAS: the IPMS style Message-ID: <7e.8214de2.26b220b0@aol.com> In a message dated 7/27/00 2:40:13 PM Pacific Daylight Time, neil.crawford@swipnet.se writes: << I think it all started with that fantastic book by Shep Paine about dioramas, then along came Verlinden and copied his work, made money on it, and unfortunately exagerated the staining thing. But IIRC Shep Paine was very subtle and warned against overdoing things. Its a trend and will probably pass , I hope./Neil >> Interesting theory.....that Shep Paine book changed my life-my first copy wore out.......he is the king of subtle- and so much of the Verlinden style looks like Paine with the color intensity turned up to 11. The Verlinden thing was interesting and refreshing at first, but it's now become the "academic" rule, and as you say, it will pass- although I think it may leave behind a few good ideas. RK ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:36:52 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: the IPMS style Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7115D441@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> Paul comments: > You have just hit upon the only thing that really does > matter. A chance to > meet, and talk, and ask "How did you do that ?", and look at beautiful > models; my definition of a successful IPMS show. That's a pretty good definition. One thing though. IIRC at most shows in the USA, if it wasn't for the contest there'd be very few models to look at and admire. Meanwhile at the UK Nationals club displays include more models than the contest tables - all of them just there for other modellers and the general public to admire and discuss. I'd love to know why most US shows follow one style and most everywhere else follows another. It isn't because the US shows are already too big to allow club stands as well - the UK Nats is larger than the US one anyway. A mystery, which may just come back to tradition. Shane ************************************************************** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. E-Mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 09:45:40 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: That semi-gloss finish Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7115D442@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> > > << > While this may be so, the evidence of hundreds of > photographs suggests that > either the flat overcoat wasn't very flat, or wasn't used at all. >> > > Gotta disagree here- a lot of photos show no sheen whatsoever > on the fabric > areas of German machines- but as always- if you have a photo > of actual > airplane to be modeled, check IT'S look. I *meant* that the flat coat wasn't used (or didn't work) on the aircraft in pics showing glossy aircraft but I'll modify my statement to "While this may be so, the evidence of hundreds of photographs of glossy aircraft suggests that either the flat overcoat wasn't very flat, or wasn't used on them at all." OTOH I absolutely endorse your comment re "check ITS look" Shane ************************************************************** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. 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------=_NextPart_000_007F_01BDF6C7.FABAC1B0-- ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 19:44:00 -0500 From: Al Superczynski To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Weather Report Message-ID: <2gl1oschbu1sdapcrqdjlp1qljpa0a6eha@4ax.com> I'm just now catching up after my trip to Dallas so am a little late responding to this. On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 23:51:53 smperry@mindspring.com wrote: >I'm putting the 250+ white stars on my Showbird Spad. After many frustrating >attempts to match the blue of the kit decals, (blue decals w/stars for >tailfeathers, you paint the nose blue and apply white stars.), I gave up and >painted the nose & tail the same blue and thanks to Al Superczynski I have a >sheet full of little white stars with which to spangle my Spad. How did it all come out? I'll bet it was a lot easier for me to create the graphics and print all those tiny stars than it was for you to apply them! ;-p >Thanks again Al You're welcome - I got them done just in time, too. My Alps printer is now OS & may need to be replaced..... :( Al http://www.up-link.net/~modeleral ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:16:31 EDT From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: That semi-gloss finish Message-ID: <61.5c4dafb.26b238ef@aol.com> In a message dated 7/27/00 4:48:39 PM Pacific Daylight Time, sdw@qld.mim.com.au writes: << OTOH I absolutely endorse your comment re "check ITS look" Shane >> That's another thing I like about modeling in general- in any given line up of airplanes, you're apt to see all kinds of different finishes. (my favorite "skuzzy" effect may be the wrinkles common to many British airplanes resulting from less than perfect lacing) RK ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2000 11:26:20 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: That semi-gloss finish Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C7115D444@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> RK says: > (my favorite "skuzzy" effect may be the wrinkles common to > many British > airplanes resulting from less than perfect lacing) It's also one of the hardest to model without the dreaded judges thinking you just f****d up the finish :-) Mind you, when I try to model it I usually prove the judges right :-( Shane ************************************************************** The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. E-Mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:38:03 -0500 From: Lee Mensinger To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu, lemen@x25.net Subject: Re: Monosoupapes WAS: Lone Star Nie.28 p/e Message-ID: <3980E3FB.C10771D1@x25.net> If any one wants to see what the exhaust "stystem" on a rotary looks like I have two pictures on hand and all I need is to be asked along with your e-mail address. Lee M. Shane Weier wrote: > Neil asks: > > > I've just been looking at the 160hp Monosoupape, it doesn't seem > > to have any exhaust pipes!? How does that work? > > Actually, rotary engines *don't* have exhaust pipes at all. None of them as > far as I know. > > The pipes usually seen on rotaries are the *intake* manifold, feeding fuel > into the top of the cylinder from the cavity of the crankshaft casing. The > only exceptions that I can think of are the monosoupape types which feed the > fuel air mixture from below the cylinder by having valve cavities cut into > the side of the cylinder interior below the level of the bottom of the > stroke. Fuel/air enters from below the piston around its edge - the port > being closed as the piston rises relative to the cylinder. > > Hard to explain, easy with a drawing though ! > > ___________________________ > | | > | __________________ | > | | | | > | | | | > | | | | > | | | | > | | | | > | | | | > | | | | > | | |_ | > | | | | | > | |________________| | | > | | | | |<=cavity in sidewall of cylinder > | | | | | > | | piston | | | > | | | | | > | | | | | > | | | | | > | |________O_______| | | > | | // | | | > | | // | | | > _____ | |_____________ > <==fuel goes in here > > The exhaust valve is left out of the picture for clarity, but is up near the > cylinder head. The absence of an intake valve means just one valve per > cylinder, hence "monosoupape" > > Shane > > ************************************************************** > The information contained in this E-Mail is confidential > and is intended only for the use of the addressee(s). > If you receive this E-Mail in error, any use, distribution > or copying of this E-Mail is not permitted. You are > requested to forward unwanted E-Mail and address any problems > to the MIM Holdings Limited Support Centre. > E-Mail: supportcentre@mim.com.au or phone: Australia 07 3833 8042. > ************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:43:20 -0400 From: mdf To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: That semi-gloss finish Message-ID: <3980E538.31C185DB@mars.ark.com> There is one very good reason why aircraft in ww1 were glossy - a matt visish adds drag. During WW2 the brits took a Mosquito and glossed it up and clocked it, then they painted it with that nasty matt black they coated the bottom of everthing with and clocked it again, and it had lost 30 knots. Most aircraft were camouflaged for when they had to be parked outside - not so they wouldn't be seen when flying, so it makes little sense to lose 5-10% of their top speed to be only slightly less visible. In addition the dopes were very delicate and had to be regularly polished with linseed oil so they wouldn't crack, and any exhaust/dirt that built up would have been cleared away fairly quickly. Mike Fletcher ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 20:53:55 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: AWRIGHT! Where are the Mercedes Refs? Message-ID: <3980E7B3.529AB1A8@bellsouth.net> cameron rile wrote: Ernie is it ok with you if I mirror those pics on > the page under Museums? Okie dokie by me. E. ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:06:50 EDT From: Albatrosdv@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Olympic OT Message-ID: <38.93a3685.26b244ba@aol.com> In a message dated 7/27/00 6:26:51 PM EST, sdw@qld.mim.com.au writes: << Of all the uncontroversial runners his run has been the most intensely reported - we still haven't forgotten them. (His age makes him the only runner to have lived through *all* the modern Olympics, and the oldest Aussie runner. I'm bloody glad that a WW1 vet had this opportunity. Afterwards he did the proper soldierly thing and hied off to the Returned Services League club for a beer!) >> This is nice news. And good at the end to see that Aussies *always* keep their priorities straight! :-) TC ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:10:07 EDT From: Albatrosdv@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: the IPMS style Message-ID: In a message dated 7/27/00 6:39:57 PM EST, sdw@qld.mim.com.au writes: << 'd love to know why most US shows follow one style and most everywhere else follows another. >> Because that is "the American way," and I don't mean that in a complimentary sense. Whether it's beating out the other moron by slipping into the open space he left between himself and the car ahead so as to have stopping room, to being the one who walks away with the plastic pot, the culture has become "I win - you lose, turkey" to too much an extent. Tom Cleaver ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:12:39 -0400 From: "Leonard Endy" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Site Update Message-ID: Well, I didn't get any modeling done this evening but I did add some more pictures of my Albatros in progress to my site - http://www2.firstsaga.com/lfendy/fof_site.htm I also added some new pics of my grandson who just turned two. He's a blast to have around. Tried teaching him how to say "Fokker" but grandmom and mom weren't to happy.... Len ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:20:25 -0400 From: smperry@mindspring.com To: Subject: Re: Weather Report Message-ID: <001101bff83a$648e4420$920556d1@default> Al: The spangling is about 2/3 done. The little stars work great. They were a fuzz delicate, so I sprayed them with clear decal film and they work great. Way more opaque than the big kit stars that go on the wheel covers.. Sorry to hear about the printer, hope you can get it back in service. sp ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 22:17:23 -0400 From: Lyle Lamboley To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Dayton Fly-in Message-ID: <20000727.221844.-140191.0.lyle.lamboley@juno.com> Hi Graham, I'll be there with my E.V and Dr.I and maybe the new D.VII. It's a haul and a half from Tampa, but I've been to the past two events there and it's been a lot of fun. If there's going to be eighty planes and a hundred models then it promises to be even bigger than Aerodrome 92 or 94. Bring lots of film and don't forget the camcorder for the rotaries-- Lyle ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 21:23:17 -0500 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Summer slowdowns Message-ID: <3980EE94.5E1411F@bellsouth.net> Actually, I've been a bit busy this summer. I built the Showbird Spad, 90% of my bake-off entry(what's the deadline again?), the fantasy D-VII(which is enroute to SP as we speak, so be on the lookout S.) and I'm now doing the prelim painting in the cockpit of a Eduard N.17 commission, which is supposed to result in a ride in a ot T-6, and/or some kind of homebuilt parasol painted up like a D-VIII in formation with a bunch of homebuilt N.17's. Stay tuned for more on that deal. After that, a DH5 and a Roland, I should think. And please, please PLEASE??? Could we drop the IPMS judging thread? It's getting old. If you've still got more to say on the matter, just wait, this thread comes around at least once a year. And usually more civil too. E. ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 2493 **********************