WWI Digest 3427 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) RE: "New" Old Airfix by Crawford Neil 2) RE: Ripped off by Dale Beamish by "Gaston Graf" 3) Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 scale! by Volker Haeusler 4) RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca by Crawford Neil 5) Re: Hansa-Brandenburg D.I Brumowski Distribution by John_Impenna@hyperion.com 6) RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca by Volker Haeusler 7) RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca by Matt Bittner 8) Modeling block by Mark Vaughan-Jackson 9) RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca by Crawford Neil 10) RE: Modeling block by Crawford Neil 11) RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca by Volker Haeusler 12) Re: Modeling block by Mark Miller 13) Now you can see... by "Marcio Antonio Campos" 14) Re: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 scale! by David Fleming 15) Re: Modeling block by David Fleming 16) RE: a burning man was RE: ot plane on Hyperscale by "Marcio Antonio Campos" 17) Re: Ripped off by Dale Beamish by "DAVID BURKE" 18) Re: Modeling block by LEONARDPeterL@aol.com 19) Re: Modeling block by "Michael Kendix" 20) Re: Ripped off by Dale Beamish by "Lee J. Mensinger" 21) Re: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca by LEONARDPeterL@aol.com 22) Re: Pfalz question - conclusive evidence? by "Hans Trauner" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:51:57 +0200 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@wwi-models.org'" Subject: RE: "New" Old Airfix Message-ID: They have a minimum order of Ģ25 (IIRC) which is a nuisance, but with the expensive pound nowadays, that's accademic. Delivery is slow, but OTOH they have (perhaps) the biggest stock in the world. I tend to avoid them nowadays. /Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: Muth and Zulick [mailto:artzulick@ptd.net] > Sent: den 8 juni 2001 15:49 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Re: "New" Old Airfix > > > > > Has anyone on the East Coast of the US dealt with > > Hannants before, what is their service like? > Cam > I only dealth with them 1 time a few years ago....nothing > sticks out, so > that's probably good news! A lot of the Airfix kits can still > be found in US > without too much difficulty, I think. > Mike Muth > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 15:59:19 +0200 From: "Gaston Graf" To: Subject: RE: Ripped off by Dale Beamish Message-ID: Carlos, altough I was lucky to make no so such bad experiences yet I only can aggree to Toms answer. Even though I can understand that somebody going through a divorce considers anything else to be of a very low importance I see it as a very bad character feature to come up with excuses again and again for not paying. It would be better to honesty say that one actually does not have the money but will pay it as soon as possible and off course to keep ones promises. I often buy old books from antiquaric bookstores in Germany. Those who did not make bad experiences with their customers yet usually send the books right away but those who made bad experiences ask for payement before shipping. Perhaps next time you too should ask for payement before shipping, or for a copy of the ticket that one receives when sending money. I usually email a copy of the ticket to those stores asking for payement before shipping to confirm the payement, and they send the order immediately. best regards Gaston Graf (ggraf@vo.lu) Meet the Royal Prussian Fighter Squadron 2 "Boelcke" at: http://www.jastaboelcke.de > > I empathize with you. I'm dealing with a similar situation. Sent someone a > money order for $148 over three months ago for some RFC stuff (badge and > buttons) and haven't heard from them since. In spite of numerous calls and > emails. > > The frustration is there isn't much one can do without a further > investment > of time and money. They know that. That's what they count on. > > Unfortunate but true. There are many dishonorable people. Be careful out > there. > > Tom > > ---------- > >From: Carlos Valdes > >To: Multiple recipients of list > >Subject: Ripped off by Dale Beamish > >Date: Fri, Jun 8, 2001, 8:56 AM > > > > > --=====================_943529428==_.ALT > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > > > Sadly, I must come out of lurk mode to report to this wonderful > list that > > one of its members is a thief. Some of you may recall that I > offered some > > kits up for sale to the list late last year. Dale Beamish was > the first to > > repond and quickly claimed the best (as in rarest) items: a Junkers D.I, > > Nieuport 11, and Spad VII from Blue Max, and a nice resin > Junkers D.I from > > CMK; the total price came to $125, not including shipping. > > Not wanting to delay the transaction and fully trusting Dale, I > > sent him the kits without waiting for payment so as to be able > to provide > > him with the exact cost of shipping them Atlanta to Canada. > When I had done > > this, Dale e-mailed me that the check "was in the mail." As you can > > surmise, I have yet to see it. > > Dale has come up with several reasons for my not > having received > > his payment. First it was that his wife had incorrectly written > my address > > on the envelope; then it turned out that the letter had not > been mailed at > > all as part of the trouble that he and his wife were having > (Dale claims to > > be going through a divorce, which may be the case); next it was > that he was > > short of funds and was waiting to receive payment from some > members of this > > list who had bought some kits from him, including some of the > ones he had > > gotten from me; after that, it was that he had been out of town on > > business; but finally, after double-checking that he had my correct > > address, he promised to send a check by overnight delivery, except that > > when the service would have been too costly he wrote that he > had sent it by > > first-class mail and that the post office had told him that the letter > > should reach me in four or five days. If that had been the > case, then the > > letter should have arrived two weeks ago at least, but there is > no sign of > > it, nor of a response from Dale to my latest inquiry. > > I have saved the e-correspondence documenting this whole sad > > affair, which has been going on for six months, should anyone > be interested > > in perusing it. I guess there's often a bad one in every crowd--live and > > learn, as the saying goes. One lesson to be learned might be > never to trust > > anyone, especially when it comes to money, but while I will be > more careful > > in the future I still will think that the members of this > list--except for > > one--are worthy of anyone's trust. I ask you to deal with Dale Beamish > > (payingthebills@home.com) at your own risk. And if any of you > wish to write > > him directly to tell him what you think of his thievery and deception, I > > would appreciate it; perhaps some spark of provoked guilt might get my > > payment to me one day. I'm sorry to have to air this in public, but it's > > all I can do as recompense for my loss at this time. Happy OT (and ot) > > modeling. > > Carlos > > > > --=====================_943529428==_.ALT > > Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > > > > Sadly, I must come out of lurk mode to > > report to this wonderful list that one of its members is a > thief. Some of > > you may recall that I offered some kits up for sale to the list > late last > > year. Dale Beamish was the first to repond and quickly claimed the best > > (as in rarest) items: a Junkers D.I, Nieuport 11, and Spad VII from Blue > > Max, and a nice resin Junkers D.I from CMK; the total price > came to $125, > > not including shipping.
> >         Not > > wanting to delay the transaction and fully trusting Dale, I sent him the > > kits without waiting for payment so as to be able to provide > him with the > > exact cost of shipping them Atlanta to Canada. When I had done > this, Dale > > e-mailed me that the check "was in the mail." As you can > > surmise, I have yet to see it.
> >         Dale has > > come up with several reasons for my not having received his payment. > > First it was that his wife had incorrectly written my address on the > > envelope; then it turned out that the letter had not been mailed at all > > as part of the trouble that he and his wife were having (Dale claims to > > be going through a divorce, which may be the case); next it was that he > > was short of funds and was waiting to receive payment from some members > > of this list who had bought some kits from him, including some of the > > ones he had gotten from me; after that, it was that he had been out of > > town on business; but finally, after double-checking that he had my > > correct address, he promised to send a check by overnight delivery, > > except that when the service would have been too costly he wrote that he > > had sent it by first-class mail and that the post office had told him > > that the letter should reach me in four or five days. If that had been > > the case, then the letter should have arrived two weeks ago at > least, but > > there is no sign of it, nor of a response from Dale to my latest > > inquiry.
> >         I have > > saved the e-correspondence documenting this whole sad affair, which has > > been going on for six months, should anyone be interested in > > perusing it. I guess there's often a bad one in every crowd--live and > > learn, as the saying goes. One lesson to be learned might be never to > > trust anyone, especially when it comes to money, but while I > will be more > > careful in the future I still will think that the members of this > > list--except for one--are worthy of anyone's trust. I ask you to deal > > with Dale Beamish (payingthebills@home.com) at your own risk. And if any > > of you wish to write him directly to tell him what you think of his > > thievery and deception, I would appreciate it; perhaps some spark of > > provoked guilt might get my payment to me one day. I'm sorry to have to > > air this in public, but it's all I can do as recompense for my loss at > > this time. Happy OT (and ot) modeling.
> > >          tab> = > > >         &nb > sp; &= > > > nbsp;       &nbs > p; &n= > > > bsp;         > ; &nb= > > sp;Carlos
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> > > > --=====================_943529428==_.ALT-- > > > > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 20:08:01 +0700 From: Volker Haeusler To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 scale! Message-ID: A few years ago there was a highly interesting article (by Heinz Mankau) in the publication "Flugzeug" dealing with the reproduction of Junkers corrugations. The issue at that time was correcting the corrugated skin of a (ex VEB Plasticard) Revell Junkers F 13 (which has part of the fuselage skin in the wrong orientation for most of the production series). The method: Take a piece of household aluminum foil and a part from the model that has similar corrugations to the ones you need. Put the foil over the part and scribe the corrugations with a rounded needle. Then white glue it to a carrier part of pre-shaped plastic. Thatīs it. If you need longer corrugations, you may need to move the foil in the scribing direction. I tried that method myself, and it works GREAT. I modified it by filling the back side with some white glue. This method is well suited for replacing smaller corrugated structures, however, be aware that the part will NOT withstand any pressure. No additional handling allowed... Volker ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:18:27 +0200 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@wwi-models.org'" Subject: RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca Message-ID: A funny thing about the (only slightly ot) Revell F13 is that the floatplane kit has correct corrugations, but the landplane is wrong. Do I understand correctly Volker, that they even corrected the land-version eventualy? That is quite amazing, I've never heard of a kit manufacturer doing that, pity Airfix won't have a chat with them about the Spad VII wings. /Neil Ps. Thanks for the tip, I will try to remember it. > -----Original Message----- > From: Volker Haeusler [mailto:haeusler@tm.net.my] > Sent: den 8 juni 2001 16:13 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 > scale! > > > A few years ago there was a highly interesting article (by > Heinz Mankau) in > the publication "Flugzeug" dealing with the reproduction of Junkers > corrugations. The issue at that time was correcting the > corrugated skin of a > (ex VEB Plasticard) Revell Junkers F 13 (which has part of > the fuselage skin > in the wrong orientation for most of the production series). > > The method: Take a piece of household aluminum foil and a > part from the > model that has similar corrugations to the ones you need. Put > the foil over > the part and scribe the corrugations with a rounded needle. > Then white glue > it to a carrier part of pre-shaped plastic. Thatīs it. If you > need longer > corrugations, you may need to move the foil in the scribing direction. > > I tried that method myself, and it works GREAT. I modified it > by filling the > back side with some white glue. > > This method is well suited for replacing smaller corrugated > structures, > however, be aware that the part will NOT withstand any pressure. No > additional handling allowed... > > Volker > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:27:15 -0400 From: John_Impenna@hyperion.com To: mkendix@hotmail.com, wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Hansa-Brandenburg D.I Brumowski Distribution Message-ID: Hi Michael, I have the Americal sheet and pamphlet as well as the FMP books on the D.I and A-H Aces. I'll check them to be sure when I get home, but IIRC, it was on the upper tail surface as well. There is also some questions as to whether his D.I had the "Brumowski" type sworls which were essentially very small blobs or the "sworl" type fabric ala the Blue Rider sheet. If you look at the picture in the A-H Aces book, you'll see that the sworls much more closely match the Blue Rider sheet. This was a mustard colored sworl on a red-brown background with some green. The only wrinkle is that this was a printed fabric and the sworls on his plane do appear from the photo to be PAINTED. I don't think it has been established if the wings were painted overall dark green as the base coat, either. It seems that they are either a dark green base with the larger type "sworls" or the sworl printed fabric. It may be time for Dicta Ira. I will also check the Martin O'Connor articles from Cross&Cockade for you. Regards, John ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 20:35:24 +0700 From: Volker Haeusler To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca Message-ID: Neil, you said: "A funny thing about the (only slightly ot) Revell F13 is that the floatplane kit has correct corrugations, but the landplane is wrong. Do I understand correctly Volker, that they even corrected the land-version eventualy?" Oops - I think my mail was really confusing. The article was about correcting the landplane version of the F 13 by changing the wrong rear fuselage corrugations to the correct one by using that foil/card method. AFAIR, Revell did not correct the original kit. The seaplane had the "correct" corrugations (actually those of the landplane version were not totally incorrect, as a few examples also had this orientation). But the method really is nice, if somewhat fragile in the resulting parts. Volker nl: Compay Segundo - "Las flores de la vida"; great stuff, and that guy is 94 years old (and might have met some OT aviators in his early years!) ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 07:40:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Bittner To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca Message-ID: <20010608144042.85091.qmail@web11705.mail.yahoo.com> One thing I wanted to add about corrugations and "aluminum sheet". While discussing the off topic ICM TB-3 with another modeler, a good idea came across about using one of the "aluminum sheets" (like BareMetal Foil, etc.) on the corrugations to hide any gaps one might encounter (a very high probability on the TB-3)...FWIW... Matt Bittner __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail - only $35 a year! http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:19:15 +0100 From: Mark Vaughan-Jackson To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Modeling block Message-ID: Someone help me! I haven't laid hand to a model in two months :-( I have eight kits in various stages of construction lying like discarded corpses over the workroom and I just can't work up the energy to pick them up again. Anyone have any brilliant suggestions at how to beat modeling funk? Getting carried away with AMS is the main reason for the blockage. Each kit I started hit a snag somewhere down the line when I decided 'oh I'll just change that bit, or add that detail or scratchbuild this.' MVJ ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:47:22 +0200 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@wwi-models.org'" Subject: RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca Message-ID: And I must add (even though it's a couple of years ot) that the F13w (floatplane) is one of the nicest kits I've ever had the pleasure to build. /Neil > Oops - I think my mail was really confusing. The article was about > correcting the landplane version of the F 13 by changing the > wrong rear > fuselage corrugations to the correct one by using that > foil/card method. > AFAIR, Revell did not correct the original kit. The seaplane had the > "correct" corrugations (actually those of the landplane > version were not > totally incorrect, as a few examples also had this > orientation). But the > method really is nice, if somewhat fragile in the resulting parts. > > Volker > > nl: Compay Segundo - "Las flores de la vida"; great stuff, > and that guy is > 94 years old (and might have met some OT aviators in his early years!) > > ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 16:50:30 +0200 From: Crawford Neil To: "'wwi@wwi-models.org'" Subject: RE: Modeling block Message-ID: Don't worry, don't do anything, just relax, it's summer, perfectly natural thing. I haven't touched a model for a month, it happens every year. All you need is a rainy day during the summer vacation and you will find yourself starting again, and then it will last till next spring. /Neil > -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Vaughan-Jackson [mailto:mvj@thetelegram.com] > Sent: den 8 juni 2001 16:48 > To: Multiple recipients of list > Subject: Modeling block > > > Someone help me! > I haven't laid hand to a model in two months :-( > I have eight kits in various stages of construction lying > like discarded > corpses over the workroom and I just can't work up the energy > to pick them > up again. > > Anyone have any brilliant suggestions at how to beat modeling funk? > Getting carried away with AMS is the main reason for the > blockage. Each kit > I started hit a snag somewhere down the line when I decided > 'oh I'll just > change that bit, or add that detail or scratchbuild this.' > > MVJ > > ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 21:04:03 +0700 From: Volker Haeusler To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: RE: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca Message-ID: Neil said: "And I must add (even though it's a couple of years ot) that the F13w (floatplane) is one of the nicest kits I've ever had the pleasure to build. /Neil" Same over here (though I did the landplane version). They should have done a Cl I as well... Volker ------------------------------ Date: 8 Jun 2001 08:12:43 -0700 From: Mark Miller To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Modeling block Message-ID: <20010608151243.9403.cpmta@c012.sfo.cp.net> how about a self-imposed deadline this sometimes works for me - My proffesional work is very deadline oriented, and I think it has corrupted my soul I can't do ANYTHING unless it has a deadline :-) also- focus on a small task and ignoring the big picture in other words - set your goal on the subassembly (engine, machine gun etc..) and not the final model. I may not be the best modeler around - but I'm good at mind games :-) Mark Miller On Fri, 08 June 2001, Mark Vaughan-Jackson wrote: > > Someone help me! > I haven't laid hand to a model in two months :-( > I have eight kits in various stages of construction lying like discarded > corpses over the workroom and I just can't work up the energy to pick them > up again. > > Anyone have any brilliant suggestions at how to beat modeling funk? > Getting carried away with AMS is the main reason for the blockage. Each kit > I started hit a snag somewhere down the line when I decided 'oh I'll just > change that bit, or add that detail or scratchbuild this.' > > MVJ Find the best deals on the web at AltaVista Shopping! http://www.shopping.altavista.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:22:49 -0300 From: "Marcio Antonio Campos" To: Subject: Now you can see... Message-ID: <000d01c0f02e$e190d0e0$401ba8c0@office.br.starmedia.com> Well, friends, my Roland is on the Web now. Those who don't have anything better to do :-)))))) can go to http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Campos/index.html and remember your own early days of modeling :-))))) Thanks to Allan Wright! Of course, please pretend pilots aren't there. Now that I have something to show, I want to release my web site in a few weeks. I will have a links page and would like to have links to personal pages of list members. I've already seen some, but all of you who want to have a link in my web site can contact me at marcio.campos@starmedia.net and send me the URL. With best regards from Brazil Marcio Antonio Campos Redator do GuiaSP StarMedia do Brasil marcio.campos@starmedia.net http://www.guiasp.com.br http://www.guiarj.com.br http://www.nacidade.com.br ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 16:15:48 +0100 From: David Fleming To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 scale! Message-ID: <3B20EC24.E87BA673@dial.pipex.com> Volker Haeusler wrote: > A few years ago there was a highly interesting article (by Heinz Mankau) in > the publication "Flugzeug" dealing with the reproduction of Junkers > corrugations. The issue at that time was correcting the corrugated skin of a > (ex VEB Plasticard) Revell Junkers F 13 (which has part of the fuselage skin > in the wrong orientation for most of the production series). > Was the F13 a VEB Plasticart mould ? I thought it was a Revell original based on the one in the Deutches (sp) Museum. And what's wrong with the corrugations ? > > The method: Take a piece of household aluminum foil and a part from the > model that has similar corrugations to the ones you need. Put the foil over > the part and scribe the corrugations with a rounded needle. Then white glue > it to a carrier part of pre-shaped plastic. Thatīs it. If you need longer > corrugations, you may need to move the foil in the scribing direction. > > I tried that method myself, and it works GREAT. I modified it by filling the > back side with some white glue. > Or some resin maybe. Mmmm - may try this on my F13 (For the curious, the Revell wings have the long span/ thin ailerons, whereas the RAF one had shortspan/wide wings) Dave ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 16:17:06 +0100 From: David Fleming To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Modeling block Message-ID: <3B20EC72.5A2E17CD@dial.pipex.com> Mark Vaughan-Jackson wrote: > Someone help me! > I haven't laid hand to a model in two months :-( > I have eight kits in various stages of construction lying like discarded > corpses over the workroom and I just can't work up the energy to pick them > up again. > > Anyone have any brilliant suggestions at how to beat modeling funk? Build something you don't have references for straight out the box. ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 12:33:22 -0300 From: "Marcio Antonio Campos" To: Subject: RE: a burning man was RE: ot plane on Hyperscale Message-ID: <000e01c0f030$5b19fc60$401ba8c0@office.br.starmedia.com> David Burke: > I could deal with a movie about Nungesser or Guynemer. Maybe > Fonck or Luke. > Especially Mannock. I'd love to see a good, accurate bio-pic > about Mick > Mannock with good effects to show the right kinds of planes that were > involved. And DEFINITELY without Ben Affleck, ANY of the > Baldwin brothers, > or Gerard Depardeu playing a loveable Frenchman. Phillipe > Noiret on the > other hand.... --------------- Gaston Graf: One thing is quite clear to me: If there would be a movie about a German squadron or the life of a single German pilot it only can accurately be done by Germans like only Frenchmen can portrait a Frenchman and off course the same counts for the other countries involved into that war. The Hollywood ehmmm..... "entertainement" industry tends to kitschfy things to much. Bet they would show a Boelcke having his last sourkraut before his last start while in fact his aide-de-camp Fischer brought him his last chocolate as he was called for help... I suggest Micheal Schumacher playing the role Of Manfred von Richthofen. But somebody must chop off his chin a bit before the casting can start :o). ------------- Me, Marcio: One of the basic movie rules says: "any actor playing a German officer doesn't have to speak German. Accent is enough". We could have the great Max von Sydow and some of the cast of Das Boot playing the Germans. I know, Von Sydow is Swedish, but I don't think we'd have a problem. It'd be interesting to have Michael Schumacher playing the Red Baron and Ralf playing Lothar von Richthofen :-) If both collided during the shooting, Rubens Barrichello would have a chance in the Formula 1 championship. With best regards from Brazil Marcio Antonio Campos ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 10:28:08 -0500 From: "DAVID BURKE" To: Subject: Re: Ripped off by Dale Beamish Message-ID: <005f01c0f02f$ae65a500$70131a3f@oemcomputer> Although this is probably a serious mistake to put my nose in here, I'm gonna weigh in. I agree with all of the points put forward about how it sucks to be ripped off by mail. It has happened to me and spanned my having to deal with a company owner, his death, his wife, and his girlfriend. In the end, I was left with nothing except bad feelings. I don't know Dale except thru the List, and then I have known him as long as I have been here. He has sent me stuff before, and for no other reason than to be nice. I admit that I am not privy to all of the stuff that has gone on between Carlos and Dale, but I must say that I find this behavior to be most uncharacteristic of Dale. Having never been married (HAH!!) and never having been divorced (although I've been thru some nasty break-ups), I can see where one's life might get turned upside-down. I would say that the least that Dale should do is to send the kits back to Carlos. AT WHICH TIME I CALL FIRST DIBS!!!!!! I'll buy them suckers! DB ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:46:32 EDT From: LEONARDPeterL@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Modeling block Message-ID: You're right, AMS is the likely problem. Rather than go for something ot and completely different, try something OT and just a little away from your usual rut. A while ago I pulled myself out of it with an OT Model T Ford pickup. No references, no pressure, no AMS. cheers Peter L ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 15:47:04 From: "Michael Kendix" To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Modeling block Message-ID: >From: Mark Vaughan-Jackson > >Someone help me! >I haven't laid hand to a model in two months :-( >I have eight kits in various stages of construction lying like discarded >corpses over the workroom and I just can't work up the energy to pick >them >up again. Mark: I'm not surprised. Didn't I warn you about trying to build 4 kits including a Vickers Vimy, for that museum in a month! One theory is that a person only has it in them to build so many models per year. So, if they decide to build their year's quota in 6 weeks, there going to sit in a burned-out funk for 48 weeks. Just wait for the first snow (should be less than 3 weeks away for you up in the Arctic) and you'll feel more like it. The same theory may hold for types of kits; e.g. you only have 2 vacs in you for a given year. This explains my lack of progress on the RE5 front. Michael _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2001 10:53:28 -0500 From: "Lee J. Mensinger" To: wwi@wwi-models.org, payingthebills@home.com Subject: Re: Ripped off by Dale Beamish Message-ID: <3B20F4F8.AD6A7019@x25.net> I have known Dale Beamish for several years and I am not about to believe, right off the top, that he is a rip off artist. On the dirty end of the stick I can understand. But not dishonest. I personally know that the has suffered considerable hardships over the past several months and I also would believe he will right this wrong when he can. His life has been like a plane in a tailspin with a wing tip missing. I have considerable concern for him. In additon to all the other things I believe it is possible that his father passed away. I know he was in failing health. He lost his home life and a number of other things so I would like to be patient and see if things work out over a bit of time. His return e-mail address is far more reality and far less of a joke. In his former life he was a very honorable person. I really think he still is. Lee M. New Braunfels, TX Carlos Valdes wrote: > --=====================_943529428==_.ALT > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed > > Sadly, I must come out of lurk mode to report to this wonderful list that > one of its members is a thief. Some of you may recall that I offered some > kits up for sale to the list late last year. Dale Beamish was the first to > repond and quickly claimed the best (as in rarest) items: a Junkers D.I, > Nieuport 11, and Spad VII from Blue Max, and a nice resin Junkers D.I from > CMK; the total price came to $125, not including shipping. > Not wanting to delay the transaction and fully trusting Dale, I > sent him the kits without waiting for payment so as to be able to provide > him with the exact cost of shipping them Atlanta to Canada. When I had done > this, Dale e-mailed me that the check "was in the mail." As you can > surmise, I have yet to see it. > Dale has come up with several reasons for my not having received > his payment. First it was that his wife had incorrectly written my address > on the envelope; then it turned out that the letter had not been mailed at > all as part of the trouble that he and his wife were having (Dale claims to > be going through a divorce, which may be the case); next it was that he was > short of funds and was waiting to receive payment from some members of this > list who had bought some kits from him, including some of the ones he had > gotten from me; after that, it was that he had been out of town on > business; but finally, after double-checking that he had my correct > address, he promised to send a check by overnight delivery, except that > when the service would have been too costly he wrote that he had sent it by > first-class mail and that the post office had told him that the letter > should reach me in four or five days. If that had been the case, then the > letter should have arrived two weeks ago at least, but there is no sign of > it, nor of a response from Dale to my latest inquiry. > I have saved the e-correspondence documenting this whole sad > affair, which has been going on for six months, should anyone be interested > in perusing it. I guess there's often a bad one in every crowd--live and > learn, as the saying goes. One lesson to be learned might be never to trust > anyone, especially when it comes to money, but while I will be more careful > in the future I still will think that the members of this list--except for > one--are worthy of anyone's trust. I ask you to deal with Dale Beamish > (payingthebills@home.com) at your own risk. And if any of you wish to write > him directly to tell him what you think of his thievery and deception, I > would appreciate it; perhaps some spark of provoked guilt might get my > payment to me one day. I'm sorry to have to air this in public, but it's > all I can do as recompense for my loss at this time. Happy OT (and ot) > modeling. > Carlos > > --=====================_943529428==_.ALT > Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > Sadly, I must come out of lurk mode to > report to this wonderful list that one of its members is a thief. Some of > you may recall that I offered some kits up for sale to the list late last > year. Dale Beamish was the first to repond and quickly claimed the best > (as in rarest) items: a Junkers D.I, Nieuport 11, and Spad VII from Blue > Max, and a nice resin Junkers D.I from CMK; the total price came to $125, > not including shipping.
>         Not > wanting to delay the transaction and fully trusting Dale, I sent him the > kits without waiting for payment so as to be able to provide him with the > exact cost of shipping them Atlanta to Canada. When I had done this, Dale > e-mailed me that the check "was in the mail." As you can > surmise, I have yet to see it.
>         Dale has > come up with several reasons for my not having received his payment. > First it was that his wife had incorrectly written my address on the > envelope; then it turned out that the letter had not been mailed at all > as part of the trouble that he and his wife were having (Dale claims to > be going through a divorce, which may be the case); next it was that he > was short of funds and was waiting to receive payment from some members > of this list who had bought some kits from him, including some of the > ones he had gotten from me; after that, it was that he had been out of > town on business; but finally, after double-checking that he had my > correct address, he promised to send a check by overnight delivery, > except that when the service would have been too costly he wrote that he > had sent it by first-class mail and that the post office had told him > that the letter should reach me in four or five days. If that had been > the case, then the letter should have arrived two weeks ago at least, but > there is no sign of it, nor of a response from Dale to my latest > inquiry.
>         I have > saved the e-correspondence documenting this whole sad affair, which has > been going on for six months, should anyone be interested in > perusing it. I guess there's often a bad one in every crowd--live and > learn, as the saying goes. One lesson to be learned might be never to > trust anyone, especially when it comes to money, but while I will be more > careful in the future I still will think that the members of this > list--except for one--are worthy of anyone's trust. I ask you to deal > with Dale Beamish (payingthebills@home.com) at your own risk. And if any > of you wish to write him directly to tell him what you think of his > thievery and deception, I would appreciate it; perhaps some spark of > provoked guilt might get my payment to me one day. I'm sorry to have to > air this in public, but it's all I can do as recompense for my loss at > this time. Happy OT (and ot) modeling.
>          = >           &= > nbsp;         &n= > bsp;         &nb= > sp;Carlos
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> > --=====================_943529428==_.ALT-- ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 11:54:30 EDT From: LEONARDPeterL@aol.com To: wwi@wwi-models.org Subject: Re: Modelling corrugations - was: Need Junker D.1 rudder 1/48 sca Message-ID: <23.cc615ff.28524f36@aol.com> I discussed modelling corrugations with a chap at the nationals a couple of years ago. He showed me what he called a "Coventry tool". It was a piece of steel about one inch wide with a saw tooth effect along the cutting edge at the correct pitch for the corrugations being modelled. He had made it himself and reckoned it was easy for anyone with the facility to do basic metalwork (ie: not me) He demonstrated it on a thick piece of plastic card and I was very impressed. The tool is dragged along a straight edge for the first pass, then each subsequent pass is keyed into the previous one for correct alignment. hth Peter L ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 18:02:46 +0200 From: "Hans Trauner" To: Subject: Re: Pfalz question - conclusive evidence? Message-ID: <000901c0f034$759d90c0$25a072d4@FRITZweb> Bingo! That's it! Always the same story: You look at pictures, but you don't understand them. I know both pics, but never compared them. Bravo, Nigel! Hans ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nigel Rayner" To: "Multiple recipients of list" Sent: Friday, June 08, 2001 12:39 AM Subject: Pfalz question - conclusive evidence? > Hi gang, > > Just reading my new FMP Pfalz book, I stunmbled across what to me (IMHO) is > fairly clear evidence that the inisdes of Pfalz DIIIs were painted, not left > natural wood. On p 30 there is a photo of the two halves of an unpainted > fuselage shell for a DIII. These clearly show the wickelrumpf structure as > obvious diagonal lines, with variations in tone as you would expect with > natural wood. On p 32 there is a photo pf 4184/17 stripped for inspection. > The rear half of the fuselage is open and well lit so that you can see the > inside of the fuselage. There is absolutely no evidence of the diagonal > lines of the wickelrumpf on the inside of the fuselage (which is so clearly > seen in the previous photo). Also, the finish is completely even, no > variations of tone that would be evident if the natural wood had been > finished with varnish. Coupled with the crash photo of DIIIa 8023/17 > mentioned in my earlier post, I'm pretty convinced the interiors were > painted. As to grey or silbergrau, I'd favour grey but only based on the > reasonable explanation others have given. > > Cheers, > > Nigel > > (Also a member of the biscalar putsch) ------------------------------ End of WWI Digest 3427 **********************