WWI Digest 2888 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) RE: CSM Sale by Shane Weier 2) Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) by Todd Hayes 3) Re: CSM Sale by Shane & Lorna Jenkins 4) Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) by "Matt Bittner" 5) Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) by Todd Hayes 6) Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) by "Lyle Lamboley" 7) Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) by "Bob Pearson" 8) Re: wooden OT models by PBArnold54@aol.com 9) RE: CSM Sale by Todd Hayes 10) Foot in mouth!!! by JVT7532@aol.com 11) Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) by "Brad & Merville" 12) Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) by Ernest Thomas 13) Re: wooden OT models by Todd Hayes 14) Re: wooden OT models by "Bob Pearson" 15) Re: Eduard Perfidity by Witold Kozakiewicz 16) Re: Eduard Perfidity by TomTheAeronut@aol.com 17) Re: Eduard Perfidity by Jan Vihonen 18) Re: Aircraft Archive by Mike Fletcher 19) Cox 0.49 stuff (was Re: Aircraft Archive) by "Bob Pearson" 20) Re: Eduard Perfidity by "Matt Bittner" 21) RE: CA glue - a cautionary tale by Crawford Neil 22) Closeup camera tip by "Bob Pearson" 23) Re: CA glue - a cautionary tale by "Brian Nicklas" 24) Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) by Mark Miller 25) RE: Closeup camera tip by Crawford Neil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:50:20 +1000 From: Shane Weier To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: CSM Sale Message-ID: <7186131CB805D411A60E0090272F7C710174893E@mimhexch1.mim.com.au> Todd (about Chris Gannon) > No right of reply? How does that work? Isn't he a > list member with the right to respond to e-mail? No. He is *rumoured* to read the archive, as are some other manufacturers of kits and accessories, but has never been on list. I wonder whether being here would make a difference. 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 phone: Australia 1800500646 ********************************************************************** ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 18:54:25 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Hayes To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) Message-ID: <20001211025425.47307.qmail@web9008.mail.yahoo.com> Thanks Matt, Sterling was the company I couldn't recall. The same place that had the Guillows kits also had some of the Sterling models like the S.E.5a, and some of the peanut scale ones as well. Todd --- Matt Bittner wrote: > FWIW I have a Camel complete and still in the box, > untouched. It's > underneath a bunch of vac pieces, cobblestone dio > material, and - more > importantly - a Sterling Peanut box of the Fokker > D.VIII and SE5a. To > be truthful my first WW1 build was the Sterling > Peanut D.VIII and if > memory serves it flew for a short time. Believe I > won some award with > it as well (since I was one of two at that time that > had a Peanut > anything). > > In a way I miss indoor flying models... > > > Matt Bittner > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:00:24 +1100 From: Shane & Lorna Jenkins To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: CSM Sale Message-ID: <3A344348.A74C38@tac.com.au> The real problem here is perceived affordability. Speaking for myself, while I have purchased CSM's aftermarket parts, it is an unpleasant financial reality that with two modellers in the house the modelling dollar must stretch that much further (and we don't even have those dollar-devourers known as kids :-) This means that CSM kits are out of my price range and BM is a more affordable option while Eduard/Flashback are the kits of choice. Nothing against any of these manufacturers - just financial realities all modellers have to deal with Lorna ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:01:58 -0600 From: "Matt Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) Message-ID: <200012110301.TAA16066@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:58:48 -0500 (EST), Todd Hayes wrote: > Thanks Matt, My pleasure. I can't recall off the top of my head, and the free-flight kits are buried too deep, but I think Sterling put out more Peanut-scale WW1 models than just the SE5a and D.VIII. Matt Bittner ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 19:08:24 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Hayes To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) Message-ID: <20001211030824.48665.qmail@web9008.mail.yahoo.com> I'll have to check sometime (the store is 80 miles north of my home). I'm pretty sure I saw a peanut-scale Fok. D.VII, and Nie.11. Todd --- Matt Bittner wrote: > On Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:58:48 -0500 (EST), Todd Hayes > wrote: > > > Thanks Matt, > > My pleasure. I can't recall off the top of my head, > and the > free-flight kits are buried too deep, but I think > Sterling put out more > Peanut-scale WW1 models than just the SE5a and > D.VIII. > > > Matt Bittner > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:13:49 -0500 From: "Lyle Lamboley" To: Subject: Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) Message-ID: <00c901c06328$c60c2420$0bcbd03f@lylelamb> Matt Bittner wrote: > > My pleasure. I can't recall off the top of my head, and the > free-flight kits are buried too deep, but I think Sterling put out more > Peanut-scale WW1 models than just the SE5a and D.VIII. I know they had a Jenny and the Sprit of St. Louis....sort of a Lindburgh package deal, I guess. Lyle ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:01:45 -0800 From: "Bob Pearson" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) Message-ID: <200012110528.VAA27864@mail.rapidnet.net> The last one I bought was the 28" Camel. I always liked those catalogs. The one kit I have tried to find was the Mosquito I wanted to skin it in balsa and put two .049s in it for C/L flight. that was at about the same time it was discontinued. .. no luck on ebay finding it yet. While Brad and I were visiting Collector's Lane a few years ago the owner took us down to his basement and he had a 28" Comet Albatros D.Va that he gave me to get it out of the store . ... Hey Brad .. you should ask him if he still ah all those old vacs we found ... John just left us to our devices to go through all his old stuff down there for an hour or two . . . I have had dreams of places like that .. but to be there in real life . . . Bob ---------- > I'm pretty sure I have at least the N.28, Fok. Dr.I, > probably most of the others including, I think, a > Nieuport 27. My father was plan saver. I bought him > a new copy of the Dr.I, and Sopwith Camel a couple of > years ago. Approx. $22.00 ea. They're still > available new. The kits contained the old fashion > catalogs that they did many years ago. > > Todd ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:24:17 EST From: PBArnold54@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: wooden OT models Message-ID: <50.e89229b.2765b0f1@aol.com> --part1_50.e89229b.2765b0f1_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Gentlemen.... reading your posts reminded me that I have a trunk filled with old Cleveland kits. Mostly OT. Perhaps I should halt the onslaught of Roden/Toko/Pegasus/Merlin/Revell stuff, and hunker down with a few of these this winter. If my memory serves me right... there are probably close to sixty sets of plans for different a/c. In the old days, some plans would include patterns for formers, and wing ribs. So when you finished the kit, and wanted to build another, you could just trace the outlines (via carbon paper.... remember that????) onto plain balsa sheets. Presto... you had another kit to build. Cowlings and wheels were readily available separately from their catalogue. My dad always carved his own props. Sometimes there was two sets of plans on the same sheet. A different plane on each side. I have one set that has a plane on one side, with a glider and a sailing schooner on the other. Sure got your money's worth back then. BA --part1_50.e89229b.2765b0f1_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit    Gentlemen.... reading your posts reminded me that I have a trunk filled
with old Cleveland kits.  Mostly OT.  Perhaps I should halt the onslaught of
Roden/Toko/Pegasus/Merlin/Revell stuff, and hunker down with a few of these
this winter. If my memory serves me right... there are probably close to
sixty sets of plans for different a/c.
     In the old days, some plans would include patterns for formers, and
wing ribs.    So when you finished the kit, and wanted to build another, you
could just trace the outlines (via carbon paper.... remember that????)   onto
plain balsa sheets.  Presto... you had another kit to build.  Cowlings and
wheels were readily available   separately  from their catalogue. My dad
always carved his own props.
    Sometimes there was two sets of plans on the same sheet. A different
plane on each side.  I have one set  that has a plane on one side, with a
glider and a sailing schooner on the other.  Sure got your money's worth back
then.


BA
--part1_50.e89229b.2765b0f1_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 20:29:32 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Hayes To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: RE: CSM Sale Message-ID: <20001211042932.29054.qmail@web9006.mail.yahoo.com> It would certainly help in his customer relations if he did. At least he'd know what is being said about his kits when there is criticism. If a person has an opportunity to speak out and doesn't take advantage of it, it's their loss. I like BM kits for the most part. The DH2, Camel, and SE5a in particular are very impressive kits, even with wing ripple. As a matter of fact, the DH2 is one of my favorites of all my kits. Todd --- Shane Weier wrote: > Todd (about Chris Gannon) > > > No right of reply? How does that work? Isn't he a > > list member with the right to respond to e-mail? > > No. He is *rumoured* to read the archive, as are > some other manufacturers of > kits and accessories, but has never been on list. I > wonder whether being > here would make a difference. > > > 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 > phone: Australia 1800500646 > ********************************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:55:30 EST From: JVT7532@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Foot in mouth!!! Message-ID: In a message dated 12/9/2000 5:52:25 AM Eastern Standard Time, wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu writes: << Sorta like the fun I get from sticking a pin in the ass of the current variety of brain-dead neo-nazis here, the Kooky Konfederate Kids, aka the Republican Party. >>My founding Republican Party ancestors and my eight ancestors who fought *for* the country as opposed to the traitors would spin in their graves that The Traitor Enemy has taken over The Party of The Union and turned it into the cesspool it is.) Tom, this is the most brain dead rubbish I have heard from you in a while, You know Tom you may make nice models but maybe you should shut your mouth and think sometimes before you swallow you whole Damn leg. This is the WWl modeling list to be used to talk about WWl modeling, but for some reason you always find a way to plop some of your abstract political BS into the list. How can people be civil if you talk politics or religion, it's not possible, so lets agree unless it's WWl politics or religion it has no place here. And yes I am Republican, and if you need to know why I am one after many years of being a democrat I will explain it to you off list. Back OT, I have installed the studs to hold the bungees on my LG. struts, I really won't know if it works OK until I finish painting the Albatros as I want the bungees nice and white when I put them on, I did leave them a bit long so that I can cut them down after installing the bungees. I'm going to use some really fine white elastic thread which should replicate the bungees as close as possible, I raided the wife's sewing table for this stuff, it's used for sewing elastic bands and cuffs in clothing. Best regards, Jon Jon V. Theisen 7532 Lawndale Ave. Phila., PA 19111-2706 ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:58:40 -0500 From: "Brad & Merville" To: Subject: Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) Message-ID: <002501c0632f$08060980$d7885ad1@The_Grenade.Workgroup> Bob Collector's Lane Hobbies has moved to new premises. He now occupies a former furniture store near Hwy 401 in the east end. Picture the old store. Now multiply by X10! Makes Aviation World look like a potting shed. Not strictly aviation of course. Pleasant dreams! Brad Dunno about the vacs......honest. I'll ask next time I'm in. -----Original Message----- From: Bob Pearson To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Sunday, December 10, 2000 11:19 PM Subject: Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) >The last one I bought was the 28" Camel. I always liked those catalogs. The >one kit I have tried to find was the Mosquito I >wanted to skin it in balsa and put two .049s in it for C/L flight. that was >at about the same time it was discontinued. .. no luck on ebay finding it >yet. > >While Brad and I were visiting Collector's Lane a few years ago the owner >took us down to his basement and he had a 28" Comet Albatros D.Va that he >gave me to get it out of the store . ... > >Hey Brad .. you should ask him if he still ah all those old vacs we found >. John just left us to our devices to go through all his old stuff down >there for an hour or two . . . I have had dreams of places like that .. but >to be there in real life . . . > >Bob >---------- > >> I'm pretty sure I have at least the N.28, Fok. Dr.I, >> probably most of the others including, I think, a >> Nieuport 27. My father was plan saver. I bought him >> a new copy of the Dr.I, and Sopwith Camel a couple of >> years ago. Approx. $22.00 ea. They're still >> available new. The kits contained the old fashion >> catalogs that they did many years ago. >> >> Todd > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 23:32:54 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) Message-ID: <3A346704.6E694A41@bellsouth.net> Matt Bittner wrote: > but I think Sterling put out more > Peanut-scale WW1 models than just the SE5a and D.VIII. I have the Jenny/Ryan NYP set un-built in the closet. Also by Sterling(I think) was a 1/2A profile model of an Eindecker, which I had tons of fun flying(.049Black Widow powered) until it could be repaired no more. I also have the D-VII from the same series un-built, sitting next to the peanut Jenny. and I too built a few of the Guillows WWI kits. None ever flew. I knew they wouldn't survive the landing. I did have quite a bit of sucess flying the guillows 10thingie. Not so much with the Spit. E. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 21:36:53 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Hayes To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: wooden OT models Message-ID: <20001211053653.35171.qmail@web9006.mail.yahoo.com> PB, The ones I have have the former and rib plans too. Any suggestions on how I could copy these plans since they're far too large for standard copiers? I'd be willing to make any of them available to any interested parties. Free of course, except for postage if it comes out to anything signifigant. I also have partial aprox. 1/12 plans that I drew up for a Pfalz D.XII. Todd --- PBArnold54@aol.com wrote: > > --part1_50.e89229b.2765b0f1_boundary > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Gentlemen.... reading your posts reminded me > that I have a trunk filled > with old Cleveland kits. Mostly OT. Perhaps I > should halt the onslaught of > Roden/Toko/Pegasus/Merlin/Revell stuff, and hunker > down with a few of these > this winter. If my memory serves me right... there > are probably close to > sixty sets of plans for different a/c. > In the old days, some plans would include > patterns for formers, and > wing ribs. So when you finished the kit, and > wanted to build another, you > could just trace the outlines (via carbon paper.... > remember that????) onto > plain balsa sheets. Presto... you had another kit > to build. Cowlings and > wheels were readily available separately from > their catalogue. My dad > always carved his own props. > Sometimes there was two sets of plans on the > same sheet. A different > plane on each side. I have one set that has a > plane on one side, with a > glider and a sailing schooner on the other. Sure > got your money's worth back > then. > > > BA > > --part1_50.e89229b.2765b0f1_boundary > Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > >    Gentlemen.... reading your posts > reminded me that I have a trunk filled
with old > Cleveland kits.  Mostly OT.  Perhaps I > should halt the onslaught of >
Roden/Toko/Pegasus/Merlin/Revell stuff, and > hunker down with a few of these
this winter. If > my memory serves me right... there are probably > close to
sixty sets of plans for different a/c. >
     In the old days, > some plans would include patterns for formers, and >
wing ribs.    So when you > finished the kit, and wanted to build another, you >
could just trace the outlines (via carbon > paper.... remember that????)   onto >
plain balsa sheets.  Presto... you had > another kit to build.  Cowlings and
wheels > were readily available   separately >  from their catalogue. My dad
always carved > his own props. >
    Sometimes there was two > sets of plans on the same sheet. A different >
plane on each side.  I have one set >  that has a plane on one side, with a >
glider and a sailing schooner on the other. >  Sure got your money's worth back
then. >
>
>
BA
> > --part1_50.e89229b.2765b0f1_boundary-- __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2000 22:31:29 -0800 From: "Bob Pearson" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: wooden OT models Message-ID: <200012110751.XAA32371@mail.rapidnet.net> I just xeroxed them onto mutliple sheets and then joined them together. I traced the patternss unto balsa using carbon paper. Bob ---------- >From: Todd Hayes > > PB, > > The ones I have have the former and rib plans too. > Any suggestions on how I could copy these plans since > they're far too large for standard copiers? I'd be > willing to make any of them available to any > interested parties. Free of course, except for > postage if it comes out to anything signifigant. I > also have partial aprox. 1/12 plans that I drew up for > a Pfalz D.XII. > > Todd ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:41:49 +0100 From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Eduard Perfidity Message-ID: <3A34934D.ED73E438@bg.am.lodz.pl> John & Allison Cyganowski napisał(a): > > Eduard releases to its own schedule. We waited for years for the Albatros > D.III. I have not yet been disappointed. And what about Handriots? I saw it in their catalogue about the same time as Pup or Tripe. It was released over two years later. Be patient. If they plan to release model they surely do that sooner or later. -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:11:47 EST From: TomTheAeronut@aol.com To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Eduard Perfidity Message-ID: <31.dcc6120.2765f453@aol.com> In a message dated 12/11/00 3:44:09 AM EST, witk@bg.am.lodz.pl writes: << > > Eduard releases to its own schedule. We waited for years for the Albatros > D.III. I have not yet been disappointed. And what about Handriots? I saw it in their catalogue about the same time as Pup or Tripe. It was released over two years later. Be patient. If they plan to release model they surely do that sooner or later. -- >> I have the good fortune to work with Eduard in my capacity as a kit reviewer and to have become friends. Relax. They plan the Nieuport 11, the Camel, the S.E.5a in the next year (or so). Understand that they don't have access to credit like western companies. The preceding releases do have to pay for the succeeding releases. For that reason, all of you should be buying the Airacobra (definitely the best Airacobra, a kit that bounds them into competition with the Big Boys - and a kit that is generating more profit than all the OT releases of the past 2 years combined.) It gives them operating capital. I have spoken with the head of Eduard, a dedicated WW1 modeler, and they are not going to stop WW1 releases. But if you listened to the ideas they have for ot releases, you would understand which is going to finance what. I think I have them halfway convinced to start in on allied 2-seaters, ,and if they do what I hope, Eric will be ticked off at me,but those of us who want an unbroken chain of the best Allied fighters will be happy. (Not saying and you can't make me; I learned long ago not to "queer the deal.") It's all in the category of "if I told you I'd have to kill you." TC ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 12:57:59 +0200 From: Jan Vihonen To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Eduard Perfidity Message-ID: <3A34B337.CAE953C5@helsinki.fi> Hi, Tom. I wonder if you happen to have any information on wether Eduard is going to continue their series of 1/72 OT kits? Jan ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 07:58:04 -0500 From: Mike Fletcher To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Aircraft Archive Message-ID: <3A34CF5C.90133E1A@mars.ark.com> Flak towers LOL My brother got the D.VIII and I was supposed to build the SE5 - I might even still have it (unfinished still). On the other hand I scatch built a Fokker E.III without benefit of any references (or even a photograph) - I thought I was building a taube but it gradually evolved into an eindekker by accident. It flew well without the prop but it wasn't strong enough to handle my hand carved prop fully wound... Mike "David C. Fletcher" wrote: > > Lyle Lamboley wrote: > > "The only one that I got to really fly was the Fokker D.VIII..." > > I forgot about that one! I built it too and it flew into the same 'flak > towers' as the S.E.5... I didn't paint mine - if I recall it came with > red Silkspan. All this talk of the old Guillows kits is almost getting > me inspired to do one of the balsa kits I have stashed away. Mind you, > they are all "ot". > > Please excuse any funny characters that may appear in my messages, or a > failure to 'wrap' - I am just getting started with Netscape 6.0. Do my > messages look normal? Or is there HTML code mixed in? > > Dave Fletcher > -- > Visit us at our Home Page: > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:16:00 -0800 From: "Bob Pearson" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Cox 0.49 stuff (was Re: Aircraft Archive) Message-ID: <200012111430.GAA06576@mail.rapidnet.net> About 6-7 years ago a drummer I was in a band with and I bought the C/L Cox WW1 dogfighters Sopwith Camel and Fokker Dr.I (with a plastic Wile E Coyote as pilot)... . we never did fly them and they are still sitting in their boxes in the closet here. ... soooooo if anyone ever manages to make the trip up here (we are the southern terminus for the Alaska state ferry), we'll have to give them a try. Did anyone ever have these and get them to fly? I also have the PT19 trainer with its oft-repaired tail surfaces. Never quite managed a loop with it, and gravel is a hard surface. Bob ---------- >From: Mike Fletcher > Flak towers LOL > > My brother got the D.VIII and I was supposed to build the SE5 - I might > even still have it (unfinished still). On the other hand I scatch built > a Fokker E.III without benefit of any references (or even a photograph) > - I thought I was building a taube but it gradually evolved into an > eindekker by accident. It flew well without the prop but it wasn't > strong enough to handle my hand carved prop fully wound... > > Mike > > > "David C. Fletcher" wrote: >> >> Lyle Lamboley wrote: >> >> "The only one that I got to really fly was the Fokker D.VIII..." >> >> I forgot about that one! I built it too and it flew into the same 'flak >> towers' as the S.E.5... I didn't paint mine - if I recall it came with >> red Silkspan. All this talk of the old Guillows kits is almost getting >> me inspired to do one of the balsa kits I have stashed away. Mind you, >> they are all "ot". >> >> Please excuse any funny characters that may appear in my messages, or a >> failure to 'wrap' - I am just getting started with Netscape 6.0. Do my >> messages look normal? Or is there HTML code mixed in? >> >> Dave Fletcher >> -- >> Visit us at our Home Page: >> ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 07:18:42 -0600 From: "Matt Bittner" To: "wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu" Subject: Re: Eduard Perfidity Message-ID: <200012111317.FAA02683@swan.prod.itd.earthlink.net> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000 04:15:13 -0500 (EST), TomTheAeronut@aol.com wrote: > I have the good fortune to work with Eduard in my capacity as a kit reviewer > and to have become friends. I realise your "dislike" for 1/72nd, but I truly hope they continue down that road as well. Whenever I finish the side-by-side review of the three Dr.I's they'll realise just how much. ;-) Matt Bittner ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 14:35:13 +0100 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: CA glue - a cautionary tale Message-ID: Dave, I sympathise, I've had the same problem, though never that bad. I use a half face-mask with a gas-filter (I've also heard them refered to as carbon-filters). I was told, that as long as you can't smell anything it works. This is expensive but well worth it, I use it for painting too, which is something I always meant to previously, but never got around to. IIRC it cost about 60$ ten years ago. I also try to plan my modelling a bit, so that the last thing I do in the evening is to close the door, don my mask and get stuck in with the CA, then I leave the room and don't go in again till the next day. With these precautions I've never had any more touble. /Neil ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 05:42:19 -0800 From: "Bob Pearson" To: ww1 mailing list Subject: Closeup camera tip Message-ID: <200012111456.GAA07191@mail.rapidnet.net> Greetings all, I stumbled on a real easy setup that seems to work for me. I just purchased a 2x adaptor ring and when I use that with my 1967 Pentax with a Vivitar flash along with the 55mm lense I can take shots from 1' away with detail that is ridiculously large when scanned - I have reduced them to 1/3 the size and they are still double the size of the real item. Camera settings are all set to manual as per the instructions on the flash .. with NO compensation for the 2x taken into account. I have also used the 200mm (400 with 2x) lense from across the room and that worked as well. No more waiting for a sunny day for me. Now all I have to do is build an OT aircraft instead of all these ships Bob nb: 1/400 HMCS Snowberry (just have some PE fiddly bits to go) nu: another 1/400 or 1/700 Flower nl: CBC radio ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:39:36 -0500 From: "Brian Nicklas" To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: CA glue - a cautionary tale Message-ID: Dave (and other interested parties) In the US, the Sears department stores have a well stocked tool section. Try the masks they have. I have a carbon filter, three strap model. Actually it has two replaceable filters that open when you inhale, and a central exhaust port. If you trighten the three straps enough, it seals against a beard okay - it did for me when I transititioned from mustache to beard (now back) - I wouldn't go into mustard gas with it, but for painting and bonding it seemed to hold the vapors at bay. Other sources would be auto body paint suppliers, usually associated with a major paint brand like Dupont. They sometime have fitters come in and custom fit your mask - of course you pay more for those. Brian ------------------------------ Date: 11 Dec 2000 06:35:35 -0800 From: Mark Miller To: wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu Subject: Re: Guillows (was Re: Aircraft Archive) Message-ID: <20001211143535.2473.cpmta@c012.sfo.cp.net> On Sun, 10 December 2000, Ernest Thomas wrote: > and I too built a few of the Guillows WWI kits. None ever flew. I knew they > wouldn't survive the landing. I did have quite a bit of sucess flying the > guillows 10thingie. Not so much with the Spit. > E. After failing to create a flight worthy OT airplane. I final decided to make a high wing monoplane. I think it was guillows - an aeronca or a piper cub can't remember which. As I recall it flew quite well - Until of course the inevitable disaster Had a great field for it though - tall uncut grass - and lots of it. I also built the Guillows nieuport 11 (I think it was the 11 and not the 17- but not sure) did a lot of work on the finish and by this time was smart enough not to throw it into the air. I think it's time to go into the attick and see what's up there. haven't thought about these old balsa models in years - I think I have a couple of stacks of them - with about an inch of dust covering them. Mark Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2000 15:40:00 +0100 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@pease1.sr.unh.edu'" Subject: RE: Closeup camera tip Message-ID: I think you have to be careful about getting too close with the flash. You can get problems with "vinjetting", I'm not sure if thats english, but it means that part of the frame is black. I used the flash on our old Pentax, and it worked great on my (only one) 1/48 model. But not so well on smaller models. /Neil -----Original Message----- From: Bob Pearson [mailto:bpearson@rapidnet.net] Sent: den 11 december 2000 14:48 To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Closeup camera tip Greetings all, I stumbled on a real easy setup that seems to work for me. I just purchased a 2x adaptor ring and when I use that with my 1967 Pentax with a Vivitar flash along with the 55mm lense I can take shots from 1' away with detail that is ridiculously large when scanned - I have reduced them to 1/3 the size and they are still double the size of the real item. Camera settings are all set to manual as per the instructions on the flash .. with NO compensation for the 2x taken into account. I have also used the 200mm (400 with 2x) lense from across the room and that worked as well. No more waiting for a sunny day for me. Now all I have to do is build an OT aircraft instead of all these ships Bob nb: 1/400 HMCS Snowberry (just have some PE fiddly bits to go) nu: another 1/400 or 1/700 Flower nl: CBC radio ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 2888 **********************