[WWI] Comics

[Tom Mason]

MessageStephen,

>From the history I read of the Grumman XF5F-1 Skyrocket  the plane flown in the Blackhawk comic wasn't a XF5F-1. The design was secret at the time and Grumman went to DC comics and asked them how they got this airplane design for there comic. There answer the artist came up with it on his own.

T.O.M.
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Stephen Auslender 
  To: World War I Modeling Mailing List 
  Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 8:28 AM
  Subject: Re: [WWI] Comics


  Thanks to you guys I have purchased a copy of the old comic Aces High on ebay.
  Now I'll see what these WW1 comic characters are all about. 

  While I was at it I got the new book anthology of the early Blackhawk comics. This is ot (sorry) but it was set in WW2 and Blackhawk and his crew flew the Grumman F5F twin engine fighters. 
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1563897008/104-9841325-2283127
  I got my copy from Amazon. It brought back so many memories! I was building models in WW2 and reading comic books then. Come to think of it, I still do both. But the comics today are limited to Mad. Amazon also has the 1970's anthologies of Blackhawk but I had stopped reading comics like Blackhawk by the late 1950's. I was in college and I had discovered that girls were not just soft boys, and....
  Here is a good site for Blackhawk and the models made from it.
  http://ourworlds.topcities.com/blackhawk/history/blk_hist.html#goldenage
  Any of you guys remember Smilin' Jack?
  http://www.toonopedia.com/smilin_j.htm
  I know you guys are familiar with Porco Rosso.
  I picked up three of the planes from this animated movie in 1/72 a year or two ago. 
  Yes, I know its the wrong scale for me but I couldn't resist. Like I have the F5F in both radial and inline versions in 1/48 (by MDC I think).
  OK enuf digression from this ot but you started it with getting me interested in comics again with Aces High.
  So its all your fault!
  So there!
  Nyah nyah nyah!
  Adultfully yours,
  Stephen

  ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Andy Bannister 
    To: 'World War I Modeling Mailing List' 
    Sent: Saturday, June 02, 2007 7:00 AM
    Subject: Re: [WWI] DML Wings Fokker Dr.1 and Spad XIII


    They don't look that difficult to me. Skin them over with scribed .005" sheet ala Mssr. Woodman. Or give 'em a few coats of Mr. Surfacer. Better yet - ignore them! It's really not that big an issue.
    Andy 

    CEO, Editor in Chief, Choreographer, Teaboy
    www.warpedplastic.co.uk 
      -----Original Message-----
      From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On Behalf Of Nan Krull
      Sent: 02 June 2007 04:36
      To: wwi at wwi-models.org
      Subject: [WWI] DML Wings Fokker Dr.1 and Spad XIII


      All,

      The other day I picked up the DML 1/48th Fokker Dr.1 kit I've had languishing on my shelf  for years, opened the box, looked inside and put it back on the shelf. Those wings!  The saggy undersides seem impossible to fix. Are there any replacements for them? Same for the DML Spad XIII? 

      Thanks,

      Art
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