WWI Digest 3148 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Rigging Rant by "Matt Bittner" 2) What got you Started? by "aa8." 3) Re: Rigging Rant by "Steven M.Perry" 4) Re: Union Jack by Steve Cox 5) Re: What got you Started? by Ernest Thomas 6) Re: What got you Started? by "Bob Pearson" 7) Re: What got you Started? by PolTexCW@aol.com 8) Re: When Are You Going to Do The Zeppelin-Staaken Eric? by GRBroman@aol.com 9) RE: What got you Started? by "Chris Banyai-Riepl" 10) Re: Union Jack by "Steven M.Perry" 11) Re: What got you Started? by "Matt Bittner" 12) Re: Unfavorites by David Fleming 13) Re: : Any Geordies out there? by David Fleming 14) Re: Rigging Rant by David Fleming 15) Re: What got you Started? by David Fleming 16) Re: What got you Started? by "Matt Bittner" 17) Re: What got you Started? by "Steven M.Perry" 18) Strut Fittings by "Steven M.Perry" 19) Re: What got you Started? by "Limon3" 20) Re: What got you Started? by "David C. Fletcher" 21) Re: What got you Started? by "TOM PLESHA" 22) Re: What got you Started? by "Lee J. Mensinger" 23) Re: What got you Started? by Michael and Sharon Alvarado 24) Re: Rigging Rant by "Michael Kendix" 25) Re: What got you Started? by KarrArt@aol.com 26) Re: Rigging Rant by RadspadMike@netscape.net 27) Re: What got you Started? by "DAVID BURKE" 28) Re: When Are You Going to Do The Zeppelin-Staaken Eric? by "DAVID BURKE" 29) Re: Unfavorites by "DAVID BURKE" 30) A good Blackadder line I just heard... by "DAVID BURKE" 31) One more gone by "DAVID BURKE" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 17:38:42 -0600 From: "Matt Bittner" To: "wwi@wwi-models.org" Subject: Rigging Rant Message-ID: <200103032338.PAA07158@avocet.prod.itd.earthlink.net> Argh!!! I truly *hate* installing the rigging between ailerons on both wing surfaces. It has to be exactly the right size, and it never stays on. Arrggghhh!!! Matt Bittner ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 23:37:59 -0000 From: "aa8." To: Subject: What got you Started? Message-ID: <000701c0a43b$17280ba0$57113c3e@tinypc> I was sitting here at the old PC and I wondered what got you all into World War One Modelling. With me it went thus. I liked 'Biggles of 266' as a kid and read a bit then about the real thing and then in my teens I forgot it all. But when I was about 22 I was browsing through a local bookshop and discovered 'Winged Victory' Life as they say was never quite the same again. How we got from there to Gotha's and Staakens bombing London at night (my real passion now) is a long story but it started with that book. All the above has made me many friends and caused me to visit places far and wide since. Andy Jones ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:04:25 -0500 From: "Steven M.Perry" To: Subject: Re: Rigging Rant Message-ID: <001d01c0a43e$b098b7a0$17f0aec7@default> > Argh!!! I truly *hate* installing the rigging between ailerons on both > wing surfaces. It has to be exactly the right size, and it never stays > on. Arrggghhh!!! > Matt Bittner Yes,.... your point being?.... :-) sp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 00:26:24 +0000 From: Steve Cox To: Subject: Re: Union Jack Message-ID: 'Britain's First Warplanes' has one picture of 394, but it doesn't show under the wings. number is on white square on rudder. There is also a picture of it as 167, in German hands at Antwerp, but you cannot see any markings. I can't find any reference that would indicate whether or not it would be marked. Except a note that when Cdr Samson took his aircraft to France in August 1914 he had Union Jacks painted on before they took off. IMHO it's likely it would have been marked at the time of the raid. FWIW the machine was 394 in the Army, before it was sold to the Navy, and renumbered 904, and then 167. That's military logic for you. Another FWIW "Gray" spelled his name Grey. >Does anyone know for sure on this question? Anyone > know of any Union Jack decals between 3/4 and 1/2 inch long (1.25 - 3 cm) There's a Pegasus sheet which has ones 5/8th long. Regards Steve nb =========================================== 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: "Steven M.Perry" > Reply-To: wwi@wwi-models.org > Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 10:57:59 -0500 (EST) > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Union Jack > > I have my Sopwith Cookup entry Tabloid painted now and it's time to think of > decals. > > I'm modeling Cmdr. Gray's RNAS # 394, (formerly the Army's #167). I want to > do it ias it appeared (or would likely have appeared) when he raided the Zep > sheds. > > The time frame is about right and a painting (I know) I saw showed Union > Jacks on the lower wings. > > There were Tabloids fitted with bomb racks, but the one photo I have of 394 > doesn't show one. Does anyone know if Gray used bomb racks on his raid? > TIA > sp > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:29:21 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <3AA18C61.9E064015@bellsouth.net> More than anything, or anyone else, I would have to credit Charles Shultz and Ronald Reagan for making me a WWI Modeler. Charles Shultz for initially infecting me with the WWI bug, through Snoopy, when I was a wee lad. And Ronald Reagan for reckless defense spending which contributed to the final collapse of the Soviet Union and created an economic situation where Eduard could be a viable business enterprise. Long Live Eduard! I guess I should also mention Al Gore for creating the Internet(HAHA!) which put me in touch with you wonderful folks and giving me access to all the great OT stuff in the world that isn't available through SMO. E. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 16:29:06 -0800 From: "Bob Pearson" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <200103040031.QAA14000@mail.rapidnet.net> Way back in the dark recesses of the early 1970s I was over at a friend's house and we were comparing our bo9xes of broken model parts .. he had the Aurora Pfalz D.III in his. ... later I found the Pfalz, Fokker E.III, Ni28, Fokker E.V and Albatros C.III (somewhere I have a photo of this on my ceiling). these were built, flown, broken, fixed, broken many times. IN its final guise the Pfalz was overall black in preparation of my discovering Degelo. . sadly the model departed a decade or so before I had the decals made. In the period 1978 to 1986 I was involved in scratchbuilding ships in scales from 1/2400 (entire fleets) to 1/144 (HMS Exeter, Belfast, USS San Francisco). I then had a three year modelling hiatus in favour of iluustration and painting ... However back in 1978 I had purchased the Guillows SE5a and never built it and then on a whim over Christmas 1988 I built this and was back. ... in the next month I built the Fokker D.VII using the plans and left over parts, designed and built a Sopwith Triplane (still have it, albeit in frame form) and an Albatros D.V (Sill in one piece in glorious red and lavender tissue) .... at the same time Airfix re-released the long wanted RE8 and Albatros D.V ... I bought these, and then the others ...built them ..and I was then back for sure. As for expanding my work .... I picked up a copy of some English aviaiton mag with an ad for C&C .. subscribed to them ... saw an ad for WW1 in C&C .. subscribed to that. ..... OTF was next. ..... In one issue of WW1 Aero Dan-San Abbott had a feature on his markings. .. I was inspired to do my own using a blank hard cover book. . Only problem was I wanted to see them in colour .. so I did another book of watercolours. These were so neat, but they still had a problem - You can't change the sequence. I then found a special 6x9 binder for 5x8 file cards ... on a whim I bought one of these. I then tried painting Willy Gabriel's Foker D.VII on this. . IT WORKED ... this was May 1989. .. I spent the rest of the month doing German aircraft, June was devoted to British, July was Austrian ... July I was working far too much and did none. By the end of 1989 I had 299 completed. The following year I had cancer and friends brought all my supplies to Vancouver for me, therefore while staying at my aunt's for treatment I would work on them day and night as relaxation. Once a week I woudl go to Vancouver for treatment and stop off on Pender street and hit the second-hand bookstores on my way to St.Paul's hospital or visit the library for research - If it wasn't for being sick two days a week it was ideal for building a body of work Next step was Jack Herris writing to WW1 Aero in 1992 about an idea he had for doing books on markings, I contacted him and he asked if I would consider doing two-seaters or British aircraft. ... I wasn't ready for such an undertaking and went back to my profiles (and models - 100 or so 1/72 WW1 built in this spurt). In 1996 I switched to 1/24 profiles and sent FMP, OTF and WS samples .. from this I did my two articles for OTF and was offered the FMP VC book. . shortly after I was offered the British book as well. . and then two years later the Pfalz book.. .. back to where it all started 25 years previously. However since joining the list in 1997 I have not finished a single aircraft model. ..go figure. Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:35:11 EST From: PolTexCW@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: In a message dated 3/3/1 7:30:46 PM, ethomas6@bellsouth.net writes: << reckless defense spending which contributed to the final collapse of the Soviet Union >> Not very logical is it? Spending which achieves its purpose is hardly "reckless". John ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:43:24 EST From: GRBroman@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: When Are You Going to Do The Zeppelin-Staaken Eric? Message-ID: <91.7a96a55.27d2e9ac@aol.com> In a message dated 3/3/2001 4:55:27 AM EST, thayes_52601@yahoo.com writes: > Todd the 1st, King of Iowa ROTFLMAO. But I have a question, why would you want to be the King of a third world country? :) Glen Citizen of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Illinois By the way, if you're the King of Iowa, can't you make a decree or something that will force AMT/ERTL up in Dyersville to do a Zeppellin-Staaken or something? ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 16:47:44 -0800 From: "Chris Banyai-Riepl" To: Subject: RE: What got you Started? Message-ID: Pretty simple, really. It can all be summed up into one man: Herbert Bellerby. From my search on that one man I was steered onto the WWI list by Bob Pearson, and a combination of Bob's profiles, the list's fountain of knowledge, and Toko kits, I was hooked. After finishing Udet's SSW D.III my building slowed greatly, but the recent WWI armored cars have got me back into building, and hopefully in the next couple of months I'll have a pair of Roland D.VIs done and possibly even a Pfalz D.IIIa, if I can ever decide on which one to do. Sincerely, Chris Banyai-Riepl Publisher/Illustrator Internet Modeler http://www.internetmodeler.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 19:56:38 -0500 From: "Steven M.Perry" To: Subject: Re: Union Jack Message-ID: <002901c0a445$f8bcdf00$17f0aec7@default> Well fiddle. I read it bass ackwards. It was 167 when flown by Gray. Oh well, I already performed major surgery on decals from the Baby kit and applied 394 to the rudder. Well it is the same plane before the navy got hold of it. I'll put the Union Jacks on the wings and say they were painted before the number was changed. Dicta Ira and all that... sp > 'Britain's First Warplanes' has one picture of 394, but it doesn't show > under the wings. number is on white square on rudder. > There is also a picture of it as 167, in German hands at Antwerp, but you > cannot see any markings. I can't find any reference that would indicate > whether or not it would be marked. Except a note that when Cdr Samson took > his aircraft to France in August 1914 he had Union Jacks painted on before > they took off. IMHO it's likely it would have been marked at the time of the > raid. > > FWIW the machine was 394 in the Army, before it was sold to the Navy, and > renumbered 904, and then 167. That's military logic for you. > > Another FWIW "Gray" spelled his name Grey. > > >Does anyone know for sure on this question? Anyone > > know of any Union Jack decals between 3/4 and 1/2 inch long (1.25 - 3 cm) > There's a Pegasus sheet which has ones 5/8th long. > > Regards > Steve > > nb > =========================================== > 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: "Steven M.Perry" > > Reply-To: wwi@wwi-models.org > > Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 10:57:59 -0500 (EST) > > To: Multiple recipients of list > > Subject: Union Jack > > > > I have my Sopwith Cookup entry Tabloid painted now and it's time to think of > > decals. > > > > I'm modeling Cmdr. Gray's RNAS # 394, (formerly the Army's #167). I want to > > do it ias it appeared (or would likely have appeared) when he raided the Zep > > sheds. > > > > The time frame is about right and a painting (I know) I saw showed Union > > Jacks on the lower wings. > > > > There were Tabloids fitted with bomb racks, but the one photo I have of 394 > > doesn't show one. Does anyone know if Gray used bomb racks on his raid? > > TIA > > sp > > > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:18:25 -0600 From: "Matt Bittner" To: "wwi@wwi-models.org" Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <200103040118.RAA09773@gull.prod.itd.earthlink.net> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:51:59 -0500 (EST), aa8. wrote: > I was sitting here at the old PC and I wondered what got you all into World > War One Modelling. Although I built one WW1 as a youngster - a "Peanut" Scale Sterling Fokker D.VIII/E.V, I was never truly drawn into it until I became bored with Balloon Scale jets and happened upon a Harleyford Fighters book in a local hobby shop. My first plastic WW1 build was an Airfix Albatros D.V - detailed, but not corrected. At that time I discovered Windsock, noticed how excellent Alberto's models were, and kept going. Met Steve Hustad at a local model contest, and now I'm an AAMS sufferer. :-) In other words, "Hi, my name is Matt, and I'm addicted to WW1 model building..." Matt Bittner nb: In the final steps on the HD.3. I think I have a new favorite as far as best looking aircraft goes...okay, it comes in second behind the Nieuports... :-) ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 01:01:43 +0000 From: David Fleming To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Unfavorites Message-ID: <3AA193F7.598188FC@dial.pipex.com> Anything that the British didn't fly !! Seriously, I can't think of one. Until recently, the ubiquity of the Fokker DR1 would have put me off, but the debates surrounding Voss' F1 fascinated me, so I've got a Roden one in the 'todo' pile. Dave ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 01:10:39 +0000 From: David Fleming To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: : Any Geordies out there? Message-ID: <3AA1960F.6FBC178E@dial.pipex.com> Michael Kendix wrote: > >From: "Sandy Adam" > > >Hi out there (I don't know the correct for north of Engl.) > > > >Wye eye, Pet - would be about the nearest I could type. Don't try to > > >imitate Geordie - you can only do it if you are born there - to anybody > > >else its totally incomprehensible. Geordies are a nation unto >themselves > >- usually described as Scotsmen with their brains bashed in! > > Sandy: > > No, actually, the Geordies have served England faithfully for years, keeping > the Scots from coming south. At least, that's what this bloke from > Hartlepool once told me. > Yeah, well you know what they do to monkeys, so can you beleive him !?! dave ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 01:14:38 +0000 From: David Fleming To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Rigging Rant Message-ID: <3AA196FD.8D837200@dial.pipex.com> Matt Bittner wrote: > Argh!!! I truly *hate* installing the rigging between ailerons on both > wing surfaces. It has to be exactly the right size, and it never stays > on. Arrggghhh!!! > > Matt Bittner Two words - Lycra thread. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 01:19:29 +0000 From: David Fleming To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <3AA19820.C4D44358@dial.pipex.com> Never really thought about it - Probably Ray Rimell's articles in Scale Models and Airfix Mag in the early 80s. I was really into it then, but drifted away - still bought the lits, but they never got made. My current level of madness can be blamed on Matt Bittner, who answered a post on RMS about the ICM Pfalz, and gently persuaded me to subscribe (I'd resisted Shane W a few years ago following a similar post on the Voisin). I guess the borg were right, resistance is (eventually) futile, at least if the seed is there !! D ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 19:28:43 -0600 From: "Matt Bittner" To: "wwi@wwi-models.org" Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <200103040128.RAA25053@albatross.prod.itd.earthlink.net> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:26:46 -0500 (EST), David Fleming wrote: > My current level of madness can be blamed on Matt Bittner, who answered a post > on RMS about the ICM Pfalz, and gently persuaded me to subscribe (I'd resisted > Shane W a few years ago following a similar post on the Voisin). I guess the > borg were right, resistance is (eventually) futile, at least if the seed is > there !! Nah, I like it better in Star Wars: "He will be turned, or die..." My score is pretty high... ;-) Matt Bittner ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:36:21 -0500 From: "Steven M.Perry" To: Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <003b01c0a44b$84fc3ec0$17f0aec7@default> > On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:51:59 -0500 (EST), aa8. wrote: > > > I was sitting here at the old PC and I wondered what got you all into World > > War One Modelling. As a kid I had a book of stories about Medal of Honor winners which included a story about Frank Luke. While all aspects of aviation interest me, I just find WWI to be the most interesting phase. sp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 20:43:07 -0500 From: "Steven M.Perry" To: Subject: Strut Fittings Message-ID: <004f01c0a44c$7697bf20$17f0aec7@default> On the Eduard 1/72 Schnider and Baby kits there are a load of PE fittings that go at the base of each strut and have attach points for rigging wires, (single for landing wires and double for flying wires.) . Has anyone had successful experience using these? I'd like to hear from you if you have. TIA sp ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:05:08 -0800 From: "Limon3" To: Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <004001c0a44f$8aba2300$dff7303f@f4w2s5> Building all the old Aurora kits I could afford as a kid, then getting the "Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War." (Harleyford) Haven't looked back since, course, can't see much up close and forward either. Gabe -----Original Message----- From: aa8. To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Saturday, March 03, 2001 3:49 PM Subject: What got you Started? >I was sitting here at the old PC and I wondered what got you all into World >War One Modelling. >With me it went thus. >I liked 'Biggles of 266' as a kid and read a bit then about the real thing >and then in my teens I forgot it all. >But when I was about 22 I was browsing through a local bookshop and >discovered 'Winged Victory' Life as they say was never quite the same again. >How we got from there to Gotha's and Staakens bombing London at night (my >real passion now) is a long story but it started with that book. >All the above has made me many friends and caused me to visit places far and >wide since. >Andy Jones > > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 18:10:54 -0800 From: "David C. Fletcher" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <3AA1A42E.7070902@mars.ark.com> "I was sitting here at the old PC and I wondered what got you all into World War One Modelling." I built the Guillow S.E.5 and D.VIII when I was still in school. When I lived in barracks in the mid-60's, I got ahead of the 1/48th scale manufacturers (and 1/50th too, come to think of it...) and the only kits I could find remotely interesting in, horror of horrors, 1:72nd scale were the Revell and Airfix WWI kits, so I built a bunch. They were dirt-cheap and readily available. I hand-painted the lozenge on the D-VII in the age before after-market decals. When the Air Force Base had it's 25th anniversary, a cake was made in the shape of Prince Edward Island, I contributed my Sopwith Camel to mark the location of the base. Alas, some yahoo placed candles on the cake and lit them for the benefit of the photographers... MvR got his revenge on Capt Brown after all! I came to this list courtesy of No.1 son already being subscribed and sharing an e-mail address for a while. Dave Fletcher -- Visit us at our Home Page: ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:23:27 -0500 From: "TOM PLESHA" To: Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <002201c0a452$196cad00$13424c0c@tom> As a kid I watched all the WWI and post-WWI aviation films I could see. I went to the Detroit City airport and watched. Then started building. Still have some old balsa and tissue kits and plans I scaled up from the early years (ha ha), I'll only say I'm a much greyed beard. TP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven M.Perry" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 8:39 PM Subject: Re: What got you Started? > > > On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 18:51:59 -0500 (EST), aa8. wrote: > > > > > I was sitting here at the old PC and I wondered what got you all into > World > > > War One Modelling. > > As a kid I had a book of stories about Medal of Honor winners which included > a story about Frank Luke. While all aspects of aviation interest me, I just > find WWI to be the most interesting phase. > sp > > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 20:45:10 -0600 From: "Lee J. Mensinger" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <3AA1AC36.11729C04@x25.net> Since I started modeling, about 7 years of age, in 1932, it was the only War I had with Airplanes till the Spaniards got going good. Read the von Richtofen book, by Gibbons, about the time I was 8 or 9. Also kept track of G-8 and his Battle Aces, for a long time. Also an uncle flew in that time period, but, he was a bit to late for combat. Originally he was a Sgt. and a Signal Corps General's chauffer. General found out he wanted to fly and fixed it so he could. But he was still a Sgt. My second thing was Airplane racing. Lee M. ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 21:54:18 -0500 From: Michael and Sharon Alvarado To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <3AA1AE5A.A9B42DFA@verizon.net> Bob, So what if you haven't finished a model in almost five years. Your profiles will still be around and remembered long after any plastic you complete has gone to the big sprue yard in the sky. Alvie Bob Pearson wrote: > Way back in the dark recesses of the early 1970s I was over at a friend's > house and we were comparing our bo9xes of broken model parts .. he had the > Aurora Pfalz D.III in his. ... later I found the Pfalz, Fokker E.III, Ni28, > Fokker E.V and Albatros C.III (somewhere I have a photo of this on my > ceiling). these were built, flown, broken, fixed, broken many times. IN its > final guise the Pfalz was overall black in preparation of my discovering > Degelo. . sadly the model departed a decade or so before I had the decals > made. In the period 1978 to 1986 I was involved in scratchbuilding ships in > scales from 1/2400 (entire fleets) to 1/144 (HMS Exeter, Belfast, USS San > Francisco). I then had a three year modelling hiatus in favour of > iluustration and painting ... > > However back in 1978 I had purchased the Guillows SE5a and never built it > and then on a whim over Christmas 1988 I built this and was back. ... in the > next month I built the Fokker D.VII using the plans and left over parts, > designed and built a Sopwith Triplane (still have it, albeit in frame form) > and an Albatros D.V (Sill in one piece in glorious red and lavender tissue) > ... at the same time Airfix re-released the long wanted RE8 and Albatros > D.V ... I bought these, and then the others ...built them ..and I was then > back for sure. > > As for expanding my work .... I picked up a copy of some English aviaiton > mag with an ad for C&C .. subscribed to them ... saw an ad for WW1 in C&C .. > subscribed to that. ..... OTF was next. ..... In one issue of WW1 Aero > Dan-San Abbott had a feature on his markings. .. I was inspired to do my own > using a blank hard cover book. . Only problem was I wanted to see them in > colour .. so I did another book of watercolours. These were so neat, but > they still had a problem - You can't change the sequence. I then found a > special 6x9 binder for 5x8 file cards ... on a whim I bought one of these. I > then tried painting Willy Gabriel's Foker D.VII on this. . IT WORKED ... > this was May 1989. .. I spent the rest of the month doing German aircraft, > June was devoted to British, July was Austrian ... July I was working far > too much and did none. By the end of 1989 I had 299 completed. > > The following year I had cancer and friends brought all my supplies to > Vancouver for me, therefore while staying at my aunt's for treatment I would > work on them day and night as relaxation. Once a week I woudl go to > Vancouver for treatment and stop off on Pender street and hit the > second-hand bookstores on my way to St.Paul's hospital or visit the library > for research - If it wasn't for being sick two days a week it was ideal for > building a body of work > > Next step was Jack Herris writing to WW1 Aero in 1992 about an idea he had > for doing books on markings, I contacted him and he asked if I would > consider doing two-seaters or British aircraft. ... I wasn't ready for such > an undertaking and went back to my profiles (and models - 100 or so 1/72 WW1 > built in this spurt). In 1996 I switched to 1/24 profiles and sent FMP, OTF > and WS samples .. from this I did my two articles for OTF and was offered > the FMP VC book. . shortly after I was offered the British book as well. . > and then two years later the Pfalz book.. .. back to where it all started 25 > years previously. > > However since joining the list in 1997 I have not finished a single aircraft > model. ..go figure. > > Bob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 03:01:09 From: "Michael Kendix" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Rigging Rant Message-ID: >From: "Matt Bittner" > >Argh!!! I truly *hate* installing the rigging between ailerons on both >wing surfaces. It has to be exactly the right size, and it never stays >on. Arrggghhh!!! If it's any comfort, I have the same problem. You just have to reckon a couple of lengths of wire are going to be wasted. Michael _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 22:16:23 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <23.836b23c.27d30d87@aol.com> In a message dated 3/3/01 3:49:46 PM Pacific Standard Time, aa8.@tinyworld.co.uk writes: << what got you all into World War One Modelling. >> Me all got started round December '63, 6th grade....simultaneous exposure to 'Dogfight" board game and double Aurora kit containting Nieuport 11 and Fokker tripe. Both had little booklets explaing the main stuff. Within 6 months was building all the Auroras I could get my hands on...plus 1/72 Revell stuff (every mom and pop grocery and liquor store had 'em on the toy rack by the cash register)....Gulliows stick and tissue next....the local library could get just about any book through inter-library loan and in this way I absorbed all the Harleyfords....trips to the old Tallman/Mantz museum in summer 64 where I layed eyes on several of the real airplanes sealed my fate. RK ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 22:18:08 -0500 From: RadspadMike@netscape.net To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Rigging Rant Message-ID: <35BF5006.2BA9E078.3E0364A1@netscape.net> Have you tried keeping outside pressure on the uppermost and lowermost (?) surfaces of the ailerons with your scanner lid and scanning surface so that the ailerons won't move until the glue dries? :-) Mike K. Matt Bittner wrote: > > Argh!!!  I truly *hate* installing the rigging between ailerons on both > wing surfaces.  It has to be exactly the right size, and it never stays > on.  Arrggghhh!!! __________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape Webmail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:13:32 -0600 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <005d01c0a45a$3cb23de0$ae121a3f@oemcomputer> I'd have to credit all of the twisted folks who screwed me up and got me into hanging around in bars at a young age - which is how I ran into Ernie, and later he got me in touch with you lot. DB ...about to finish the Mercedes 260's! ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:15:37 -0600 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: Re: When Are You Going to Do The Zeppelin-Staaken Eric? Message-ID: <006c01c0a45a$5fd23f00$ae121a3f@oemcomputer> > In a message dated 3/3/2001 4:55:27 AM EST, thayes_52601@yahoo.com writes: > > > Todd the 1st, King of Iowa > > ROTFLMAO. But I have a question, why would you want to be the King of a > third world country? > :) > Glen > Citizen of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Illinois > > By the way, if you're the King of Iowa, can't you make a decree or something > that will force AMT/ERTL up in Dyersville to do a Zeppellin-Staaken or > something? All this talk sounds very seditious! DB Chief Executive in Chief U.S. Department of Redundancy Dept. United Snakes of Armenia ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:16:30 -0600 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: Re: Unfavorites Message-ID: <006d01c0a45a$65636ac0$ae121a3f@oemcomputer> The Gotha G.Vb is becoming a rapid unfavorite at the moment. I will feel different later. DB ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:21:27 -0600 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: A good Blackadder line I just heard... Message-ID: <006f01c0a45a$738ff500$ae121a3f@oemcomputer> Hi Y'all, I just saw 'Blackadder Back and Forth'. Funny. One line that sticks (and is kind of OT) Blackadder: Baldrick, you can't read. Baldrick: True, but I have built alot of Airfix kits! I thought it was funny... DB About to drown here in Auburn..... ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 21:18:42 -0600 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: One more gone Message-ID: <006e01c0a45a$718000c0$ae121a3f@oemcomputer> Hi Guys, I heard this in passing today so I didn't catch much detail. But America's oldest Veteran died today aged 112. He enlisted in 1917 and served in France. Anybody have more details? DB ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 3148 **********************