[WWI] Added:RAF Se5a

[Andy Bannister]

D.:

> Very good start of a great kit. I see that you've opened up 
> the triangular 
> inspection panels on the wings and stabilizer... wonder how 
> they may look in 
> the finished model, certainly those decals proposed by Roden 
> look quite 
> silly. 

Cheers Diego! Being the anal retentive bastard I am I just couldn't live
with those inspection panel decals, they look cartoon-ish. I make no
apologies for stealing the method Alberto Casirati used on his amazing
Revell Sopwith Triplane. If I can pull it off even half as well as he did
I'll be a happy guy...  

The interior details are wonderful too, I love the 
> small drum rack on 
> the instrument panel... was that included with the original 
> molding? It 
> looks great anyway, those small detail are what I like the 
> most on any 
> model.

There is one in the Roden kit with an ammo drum moulded in-situ but I used
the etched one from the Eduard set.

> Perhaps Iván confused the ridge left by the hobby knife blade 
> after the 
> aileron cutting with the small "lip" over the ailerons on 
> SE5as.. something 
> rarely pointed out on the SE5a airframes. Of course, iván is 
> on those things 
> because he's deranged.

Yes, but that's what we like about him.

> Not me.
> Not me.
> Not me.
> D.
> Show me the blueprints. 

Been watching The Aviator recently by any chance??

A.