[WWI] Added:Sopwith Folder Seaplane (Admiralty Type 807)

[Ross & Wendy Moorhouse]

This build is also featured in WWI Aero. Last issue.

I can't find my issue. It's here somewhere.


Cheers

Ross

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pajofi2k2 at hotmail.com>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 2:37 PM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Added:Sopwith Folder Seaplane (Admiralty Type 807)


> Many thanks Iban.  I actually did the build a while ago, but the photos 
> are new.  Wow, didn't think anyone would pick up on the cowling!  I 
> applied aluminum foil over a brass frame for that effect.  The prop 
> appears to extend from the fuselage, because Sopwith's original 
> streamlined metal cowling was removed in service to keep the rotary from 
> overheating.
>
> Regards, Paul
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "iban" <ibancorp at tds.net>
> To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
> Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 9:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [WWI] Added:Sopwith Folder Seaplane (Admiralty Type 807)
>
>
>> gm-admin at wwi-models.org wrote:
>>>    Paul Fisher sent in update to his
>>> Sopwith Folder Seaplane (Admiralty Type 807),
>>> See 
>>> http://www.wwi-models.org/Images/Fisher/Sopwith/index.html#Sopwith807
>>> or see news.
>>> Sincerely,
>>> WWI Web Admin
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> hey paul, what a truly lovely job!  i particularly like your little 
>> touches, e.g. the slight wrinkle in the aluminum cowl in the left side 
>> view, that captures the way sheet aluminum was often a bit bent and 
>> dented on the real planes, rather than pristine and polished show-room 
>> shiny.  i don't see many modelers work that into a build, no matter how 
>> much other weathering is done.
>>
>> a question:  what was the point of extending the shaft that far forward 
>> to the prop?  any idea wot tom was thinking when he designed it that way? 
>> i've never noticed that striking feature on a plane before.
>>
>> iban (raising a glass in your direction)
>>
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