WWI Digest 3149 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Re: Rigging Rant by "Matt Bittner" 2) Re: What got you Started? by "David Calhoun" 3) Announcing the 2001 Wings & Wheels show! by "David Calhoun" 4) Help scanning a vac kit by "Michael Kendix" 5) Re: Help scanning a vac kit by "Steven M.Perry" 6) Re: What got you Started? by roguerpj 7) Re: One more gone by REwing@aol.com 8) Re: What got you started? by Marc Flake 9) Re: What got you started? by KarrArt@aol.com 10) Re: What got you Started? by LEONARDPeterL@aol.com 11) We are not alone by LEONARDPeterL@aol.com 12) Cookup project finished by "Steven M.Perry" 13) RE: Help scanning a vac kit by "Gaston Graf" 14) Re: When Are You Going to Do The Zeppelin-Staaken Eric? by Todd Hayes 15) Re: When Are You Going to Do The Zeppelin-Staaken Eric? by Todd Hayes 16) RE: What got you started by "Nigel Rayner" 17) Re: Union Jack by Todd Hayes 18) Re: We are not alone by Ernest Thomas 19) Re: Rigging Rant by "Sandy Adam" 20) Re: : Any Geordies out there? by "Sandy Adam" 21) RE: What got you Started? by "Dave Watts" 22) Albatros C.XV by Witold Kozakiewicz 23) Re: : Any Geordies out there? by "Michael Kendix" 24) Re: We are not alone by huggins1@swbell.net (John Huggins) 25) Re: Rigging Rant by Witold Kozakiewicz 26) Re: What got you Started? by Witold Kozakiewicz 27) Re: Cookup project finished by "Richard Eaton" 28) Re: Cookup project finished by "TOM PLESHA" 29) Re: We are not alone by "DAVID BURKE" 30) Re: Albatros C.XV by "David Calhoun" 31) Re: One more gone by "Limon3" 32) Fw: World War 1 Scale Sopwith CAMEL model by Matthew E Bitner ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 22:03:19 -0600 From: "Matt Bittner" To: "wwi@wwi-models.org" Subject: Re: Rigging Rant Message-ID: <200103040403.UAA22805@scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net> On Sat, 3 Mar 2001 22:23:30 -0500 (EST), RadspadMike@netscape.net wrote: > 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? :-) ROTFL!! SA! Gads, there's one in every bunch... Matt Bittner ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 23:35:47 -0800 From: "David Calhoun" To: Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <010a01c0a47d$bc3c2760$51093ccc@oemcomputer> >> > > I was sitting here at the old PC and I wondered what got you all into >> World >> > > War One Modelling. >> As a kid in the 70's I built a ton of models, my favorites being 1/48 scale WW2 aircraft and 1/35 tanks. This was too late for the Aurora kits, but I did the 3 large 1/28 scale Revell kits along the way, and had the Monogram Snoopy's Sopwith Camel at an earlier age. My grandfather, who served in the 26th infantry div. in 1918 told me stories about the massive dogfights he witnessed over the front. In 1990 I managed to find a bunch of Aurora & Monogram 1/48 kits, which I began building in earnest. I joined the Wings & Wheels modelers club about 5 years later and learned much about detailing the basic kits available at the time. I was ready by the time the first Eduard kits came out, and have been buying & building them ever since! Dave Calhoun ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 00:07:23 -0800 From: "David Calhoun" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Subject: Announcing the 2001 Wings & Wheels show! Message-ID: <000301c0a482$26648700$51093ccc@oemcomputer> Hello, Only a couple weeks left until the 2001 Valleycon XII show put on by Wings & Wheels modelers. The date is Sunday March 25, at the Knights of Columbus in Chicopee, MA. Once again I will be sponsoring an award for best WW1-air, land or sea - the Albert Calhoun award, in memory of my grandfather who served in the 26th Infantry, France, 1918. Hopefully everyone in the New England area will be there, lots of vendors, etc. For directions & more information look at: http://www.hopgoodgroup.com/ww/spring.html Dave Calhoun ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 05:04:17 From: "Michael Kendix" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Help scanning a vac kit Message-ID: i have a Canon FB 6200 - lightweight thin scanner with a very thin lid. I cannot get decent clarity when I try to scan a vac sheet. Any advice as to settings, or other tricks etc? Michael _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 00:16:47 -0500 From: "Steven M.Perry" To: Subject: Re: Help scanning a vac kit Message-ID: <002401c0a46a$52af9060$41fbaec7@default> Spray a gray primer coat on the vac sheet and it should reproduce on the scanner much better than the shiny white vac sheet. Just a thought sp > i have a Canon FB 6200 - lightweight thin scanner with a very thin lid. I > cannot get decent clarity when I try to scan a vac sheet. Any advice as to > settings, or other tricks etc? > > Michael > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 23:41:20 -0600 From: roguerpj To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: Oddly enugh for me it was flying R/C models. I was fascinated by the fact that there were real planes that where built and flown on essentially the same concept: wood frame with cloth covering. I just could not get a grip on the thought that someone would trust their lives to something so fragile. My working in theater building flats combined with my study of European history lead me to take up WWI modeling. rob ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 00:45:29 EST From: REwing@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: One more gone Message-ID: <22.12b19887.27d33079@aol.com> --part1_22.12b19887.27d33079_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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. I have the obituary from the paper that I'll paraphrase for the list tomorrow. He was a Tennessee farmboy who drove the ammunition wagons to the front. --part1_22.12b19887.27d33079_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
   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?

    I have the obituary from the paper that I'll paraphrase for the list
tomorrow.  He was a Tennessee farmboy who drove the ammunition wagons to the
front.
--part1_22.12b19887.27d33079_boundary-- ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 00:09:08 -0600 From: Marc Flake To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you started? Message-ID: <3AA1DC04.56B3@airmail.net> The first time was waaaay back in the 1960s. It was the game Dogfight, the Harleyford Series and Arch Whitehouse. Lured me into the neighborhood Skillerns Drug store where I bought Revell and Airfix kits. The second time was in the middle 1980s, looking for someting different to do instead of 25mm wargame figures. I picked WW1 because I liked them, they were hard to find and hard to build. (Like JFK said, "We choose to do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.") And because I was a freelance writer who had to make every dollar count. I figured I could get more enjoyment per dollar out of building biplanes. The third time was at the end of the 1990s, when I found this group. And I can't seem to stop building WW1 aircraft -- even when I buy WW1 warships. Marc ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 02:15:26 EST From: KarrArt@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you started? Message-ID: In a message dated 3/3/01 10:13:39 PM Pacific Standard Time, mflake@airmail.net writes: << The first time was waaaay back in the 1960s. It was the game Dogfight, the Harleyford Series and Arch Whitehouse. >> I forgot about Whitehouse...whatever his faults, his book 'Years of the Sky Kings" or whatever it was called was released in paperback right at the time my other triggers were being pulled, and that book was another hook that sunk deep into the flesh...oh- and also the next year, the CBS WW I series started. Every Sunday at 6:30 I was glued to the TV, and when the episode that covered the air war was shown, I practically fainted. RK ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 03:03:48 EST From: LEONARDPeterL@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: Biggles cheers Peter L ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 03:13:56 EST From: LEONARDPeterL@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: We are not alone Message-ID: <9.11cc374c.27d35344@aol.com> My bet is that better than 90% of listees will admit to being hoarders. Lofts, sheds, work rooms, full of kits we bought fully intending to build and still do when we get around to it. Frequent postings including the phrase "near the top of the pile" support the view that there are others near the bottom. My heap includes kits bought over thirty years ago. Speaking to an angler friend it seems that this is not restricted to modelers. Anglers will go into the tackle shop for a pint of maggots and come away with fifty quids worth of exotic lures, floats and tied flies. These will be placed lovingly in the favourite tackle box and never ever go near the water. My question is; Is this a guy thing or are listees of the female persuasion similarly afflicted? cheers Peter L ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 04:51:36 -0500 From: "Steven M.Perry" To: Subject: Cookup project finished Message-ID: <001701c0a490$b448f520$1df9aec7@default> I finished my Tabloid for the Sopwith cookup. Seems the mainplane struts are a fuzz long and I didn't notice until it was too late. I left off the Union Jacks for now. I'm nt sure that the airframe carried them while numbered as 394. http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/tab.htm sp ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:58:59 +0100 From: "Gaston Graf" To: Subject: RE: Help scanning a vac kit Message-ID: I have a CanoScan600 SCSI scanner. Never tried to scan a vac kit but it may be useful to leave the lit open to to remove it if it is removable. In the case the space between the parts will be reproduced black on the scan. MAy this will give it a better contrast? Just try it out ;o) happy scanning Gaston Graf (ggraf@vo.lu) Meet the Royal Prussian Fighter Squadron 2 "Boelcke" at: http://www.jastaboelcke.de > -----Original Message----- > From: wwi@wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi@wwi-models.org]On Behalf Of Michael > Kendix > Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 6:10 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Help scanning a vac kit > > > i have a Canon FB 6200 - lightweight thin scanner with a very > thin lid. I > cannot get decent clarity when I try to scan a vac sheet. Any > advice as to > settings, or other tricks etc? > > Michael > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 02:41:50 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Hayes To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: When Are You Going to Do The Zeppelin-Staaken Eric? Message-ID: <20010304104150.53763.qmail@web9007.mail.yahoo.com> At least we can feed ourselves! I can't forced anyone to do anything being this is a CONSTITUTIONAL monarchy. Todd Rex --- GRBroman@aol.com wrote: > 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? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 02:47:54 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Hayes To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: When Are You Going to Do The Zeppelin-Staaken Eric? Message-ID: <20010304104754.86602.qmail@web9008.mail.yahoo.com> I'm seceding and taking Iowa with me. Then I'll declare the Pfalz D.IIIa as the national bird! Todd --- DAVID BURKE wrote: > > > > 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 > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:03:32 -0000 From: "Nigel Rayner" To: Subject: RE: What got you started Message-ID: <000001c0a49a$c06f1c80$983bedc1@w1o0t3> Simple - the WWI Modeling Pages. The story is a bit more complicated than that, but it was the WWI pages that really got me interested. Like most of us, I made hundreds of planes as a kid, between the ages of about 7 and 14. This included all the Airfix and Revell WWI kits (all were rigged with sewing thread tied around the stuts!). However, I got interested in wargaming and figure modelling (courtsey of Historex and the "How to go plastic modelling" book), so spent the next 25 years focused on Napoleonic wargaming with the occasional bit of figure modelling. However, a spell of two years living in the US meant I had to give up the wargaming for a while. At the same time, I got on the Internet (thanks US phone operators, you're so cheap!). So I started doing a bit of surfing to keep up with the wargaming world. I also did a bit of figure modelling (made a small Napoleonic diorama with some "Old Glory" figures). This meant I became acquainted with our local hobby store, the goldmine that is Talbot's of San Mateo (see earlier posts). Now, I happened to surf over to the WWI modelling pages for some reason, and I was just dumbstruck by the beautiful models in the gallery. This rekindled the interest of a younger age, and the next time I was in Talbot's I found they had a stock of Eduard, DML and Pegasus. Hands (and wallet) trembling, I made the first purchases of what is now an addiction. I was hooked. I'm now back in the UK but find that wargaming is too time consuming (I have to work a lot of hours and have a young son). WWI modelling is the perfect hobby - I can do it in the two or three hours that I get free a week. And of course, I can keep up with the list when I'm travelling on the road, which gives me a regular "fix." Cheers, Nigel ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 03:01:42 -0800 (PST) From: Todd Hayes To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Union Jack Message-ID: <20010304110142.87206.qmail@web9008.mail.yahoo.com> Steve, A company called Czech Six did an unscaled sheet of Union Jacks. You might be able to get them still from Sopwith Hobbies. Sizes listed include 1/2 and 3/4". Todd --- "Steven M.Perry" wrote: > 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. 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 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 > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get email at your own domain with Yahoo! Mail. http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 05:07:00 -0600 From: Ernest Thomas To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: We are not alone Message-ID: <3AA221D4.EC0D36AB@bellsouth.net> LEONARDPeterL@aol.com wrote: > My question is; Is this a guy thing or are listees of the female persuasion > similarly afflicted? How many women do you know that can get by with only 3 pairs of shoes? E. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:00:52 -0000 From: "Sandy Adam" To: "AAA - WWI Modelling List" Subject: Re: Rigging Rant Message-ID: <001c01c0a49b$78d9ce00$12e8b094@sandyada> >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. Michael Even if you use sprue or wire for the rest, you should try mono or lycra thread for this. It takes a few seconds to part drill the exit point in the upper wing, the two holes through the ailerons and the entry hole part way through the under-lower-wing. Then cut two short lengths of thread. One is CA'd into top hole, stretched over control horn and down through both aileron holes with a drop of CA applied to upper aileron hole only. Then CA other thread into lower hole, over control horn and up through lower aileron hole. Attach weight to downward thread and pull upward thread tight while applying drop of CA to aileron hole. Carefully cut two loose ends flush with hole. Voila! Takes much longer to write than to do - and it looks great. Mind you, once you start with mono thread you'll probably never go back to anything else! Please ignore if you already know this and it doesn't work for you, but I happen to find rigging with thread one of the most satisfying bit of the whole project. I've just finished a Dr1 and it doesn't feel right cos I've only had a coupla wires to pop in! Sandy ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:07:49 -0000 From: "Sandy Adam" To: "AAA - WWI Modelling List" Subject: Re: : Any Geordies out there? Message-ID: <001d01c0a49b$79aad9a0$12e8b094@sandyada> Actually Michael, "Scotsmen with their brains bashed in" is a Geordie term - it's what they call themselves! I used to do a lot of work in Newcastle area and the saying is that Scots and Geordies always get on well together - (think Scottish and Newcastle Breweries) - probably cos we both traditionally detest the English! 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. >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! ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 04:34:07 -0500 From: "Dave Watts" To: Subject: RE: What got you Started? Message-ID: My father planted the seed with his stories as a WW2 Naval air mechanic, and his days with his small aircraft repair shop, than it germinated with Snoopy at age 5, grew with many games of Dogfight, and I think it all culminated with The Blue Max. Ursula, the triplanes, and Stachel the "Cobra". I was a junky after that with a biplane on my back. From Revell models, I graduated to stringline control Testors planes, homebuilt RC's, and have totally immersed since then. Best, Dave W. ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 14:15:46 +0100 From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: "wwi@wwi-models.org" Subject: Albatros C.XV Message-ID: <3AA24001.4BC11CA7@bg.am.lodz.pl> Hi One of the Polish firm has just made resin Albatros C.V/16. Sorry but I forgot its name. PART has prepared PE set for this model. I'm not sure if this kit is available but first it should appear on Jadar website. Next one will be Albatros C.XV. Resin wings and fuselage are ready but we need drawings and/or pictures of interior structure. Thanks for any information, url, or even text description. Any help will be appreciate. TIA -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 13:22:15 From: "Michael Kendix" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: : Any Geordies out there? Message-ID: >From: "Sandy Adam" >Actually Michael, "Scotsmen with their brains bashed in" is a Geordie >term >- it's what they call themselves! >I used to do a lot of work in Newcastle area and the saying is that >Scots >and Geordies always get on well together - (think Scottish and >Newcastle >Breweries) - Certainly, a commonality there but favouring beer is common to almost all England, except the south west where they like their cider:) >probably cos we both traditionally detest the English! You obviously weren't at the England versus Belgium match played at Sunderland a couple of years back! Michael _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 07:54:34 -0600 From: huggins1@swbell.net (John Huggins) To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: We are not alone Message-ID: >My bet is that better than 90% of listees will admit to being hoarders. >Lofts, sheds, work rooms, full of kits we bought fully intending to build and still do when we get around to it. snip > >My question is; Is this a guy thing or are listees of the female persuasion >similarly afflicted? > I think not, Look at the gals who sew, knit or do other handy craft things. how many have reams of thread they will never use, but have on hand incase they need it. The list could go on for ever. My better half once asked me about a new tool I was purchasing. I asked her why she needed the new needles she had just purchased. She already had a box full of needles she didn't use. She thought about the tool for a moment, and hasn't questioned a purchase since. My hobby is parallel to hers, I just use different materials. John ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 14:46:04 +0100 From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Rigging Rant Message-ID: <3AA2471C.7A538EAB@bg.am.lodz.pl> Sandy Adam napisał(a): > Even if you use sprue or wire for the rest, you should try mono or lycra > thread for this. It takes a few seconds.... I must say that is the only way I use. Lycra rules :-)). I have just rigged cook-up Strutter - It took about two hours to drill all holes, glue controlhorns and stretch lycra thread. -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 04 Mar 2001 15:06:50 +0100 From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: What got you Started? Message-ID: <3AA24BFA.8A273CE1@bg.am.lodz.pl> One day in late 80s' I went to one of the first model shops in Lodz. I was in high school, that was one of that days when you need to buy something new. No matter what it would be but you know that this will be surprise. I had very little money, and I was looking for something small and cheap. Suddenly on lowest shelf I saw ESCI Fokker D.VII. Why not, I said to my self. I spent my last money for this kit. When I opened a box at home I was very impressed, so cute, so small comparing to almost finished F-14. Very colorful Berthold's plane but - oh no, lozenge. I took the book about WWI fighters, found chapter about camouflage and I hanpainted lozenge on the wings. I was so proud... Few years later I decided to build one seat fighters only on 1/48 scale and that little OT collection disappeared somehow. I had ESCI Camel, Airfix Spad VII, Albatros D.V Fokker Dr.I. But that day I decided to build WWI models. I still build some other planes (including Spi***re, and Bf-***) but WWI are my favorite. -- Witold Kozakiewicz ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 09:27:02 -0600 From: "Richard Eaton" To: Subject: Re: Cookup project finished Message-ID: <001301c0a4bf$91312600$87091b18@austin.rr.com> Hey Steve, That Tabloid looks great! Nice conversion.... I vote for the jacks. They would look sharp on that bird. I'm still off on my armor tangent since discovering that 1/35 sells like hot cakes on ebay. I'm clearing of the shelves and collecting a few funds for future projects. I did prep and enter a few stringbags in the Region 6 last weekend. I got a second in "origins to 39" (Fokker EIV) and "vacs" (Felixstowe). Regards, Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven M.Perry" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:56 AM Subject: Cookup project finished > I finished my Tabloid for the Sopwith cookup. Seems the mainplane struts are > a fuzz long and I didn't notice until it was too late. I left off the Union > Jacks for now. I'm nt sure that the airframe carried them while numbered as > 394. > > http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/tab.htm > > sp > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:47:43 -0500 From: "TOM PLESHA" To: Subject: Re: Cookup project finished Message-ID: <000d01c0a4c2$745f7ec0$a6414c0c@tom> Really looks great. TP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steven M.Perry" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 5:00 AM Subject: Cookup project finished > I finished my Tabloid for the Sopwith cookup. Seems the mainplane struts are > a fuzz long and I didn't notice until it was too late. I left off the Union > Jacks for now. I'm nt sure that the airframe carried them while numbered as > 394. > > http://smperry.home.mindspring.com/tab.htm > > sp > > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:17:46 -0600 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: Re: We are not alone Message-ID: <003301c0a4c6$c32c15a0$f5101a3f@oemcomputer> > Speaking to an angler friend it seems that this is not restricted to > modelers. Anglers will go into the tackle shop for a pint of maggots and come > away with fifty quids worth of exotic lures, floats and tied flies. These > will be placed lovingly in the favourite tackle box and never ever go near > the water. I dunno, but I just hope that these folks don't go storing away extra pints of maggots, otherwise their house might be a bit uninhabitable! DB ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:27:19 -0800 From: "David Calhoun" To: Subject: Re: Albatros C.XV Message-ID: <005c01c0a4e1$22ae0280$81f13ccc@oemcomputer> Hi Witold, Are these in 1/48 scale or 1/72? Hopefully 1/48! Dave Calhoun -----Original Message----- From: Witold Kozakiewicz To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Sunday, March 04, 2001 5:32 AM Subject: Albatros C.XV >Hi >One of the Polish firm has just made resin Albatros C.V/16. Sorry but I >forgot its name. PART has prepared PE set for this model. I'm not sure >if this kit is available but first it should appear on Jadar website. >Next one will be Albatros C.XV. Resin wings and fuselage are ready but >we need drawings and/or pictures of interior structure. >Thanks for any information, url, or even text description. Any help will >be appreciate. >TIA >-- >Witold Kozakiewicz > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 08:38:35 -0800 From: "Limon3" To: Subject: Re: One more gone Message-ID: <002001c0a4c9$8fd42280$ab3b1c3f@f4w2s5> Yes, he was a vet from Tennessee (don't have the paper in front of me for the name) who served in France transporting equipment and supplies to the front. There is still a WWI vet living near here (Stockton, CA). Gabe -----Original Message----- From: DAVID BURKE To: Multiple recipients of list Date: Saturday, March 03, 2001 7:30 PM Subject: One more gone >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 > ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 10:31:32 -0600 From: Matthew E Bitner To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Fw: World War 1 Scale Sopwith CAMEL model Message-ID: <20010304.103133.-460967.0.mbittner@juno.com> Received this on my hardly-used Juno account. Can anybody help? Please email direct. Matt Bittner --------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dbrewer55@aol.com To: mbittner@juno.com Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:26:26 EST Subject: World War 1 Scale Sopwith CAMEL model Message-ID: <8a.320bde1.27d29f62@aol.com> Received: from mx1.boston.juno.com (mx1.boston.juno.com [64.136.24.33]) by m6.boston.juno.com with SMTP id AAA7LCTNAAFSXHLJ for (sender ); Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:26:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from imo-r12.mx.aol.com (imo-r12.mx.aol.com [152.163.225.66]) by mx1.boston.juno.com with SMTP id AAA7LCTNAACLYFMJ for (sender ); Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:26:56 -0500 (EST) Received: from Dbrewer55@aol.com by imo-r12.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v29.5.) id o.8a.320bde1 (7401) for ; Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:26:26 -0500 (EST) X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 129 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-Path: Message-ID: <8a.320bde1.27d29f62@aol.com> I have an "Out of the past World War 1 Scale Sopwith CAMEL" model. It says scale 2":1', has a 56" span made by V K Model Aircraft. The box is in very bad shape, but I believe all the parts are there. I only have 1 page of instructions (rest are missing). I do have a 3 page list of parts and instructions such as radio location, fuselage, covering, wing construction notes, etc. Do you have any idea where I could get the instructions for this plane or what it's value is. I am thinking about selling it on E-bay. Thank you for any assistance you can give me. Jo Ann Brewer ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj. ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 3149 **********************