[WWI] Telford - any casualties?

[Andy Bannister]

Neil,
I made custom boxes for my models when I moved from Canada to the UK. I cut and glued pieces of styrofoam to fit each model, supporting them under the wings and fuselage with the wheels off the floor of the box and with additional pieces of foam pinned on top of each support to hold them in place. 90% of them survived intact or with only minor damage despite the box being delivered upside down and somewhat battered and mangled! Even the rigged biplanes fared well.

Andy

> 
> From: "Crawford Neil" <Neil.Crawford at volvo.com>
> Date: 2007/11/16 Fri AM 08:04:36 GMT
> To: "World War I Modeling Mailing List" <wwi at wwi-models.org>
> Subject: Re: [WWI] Telford  - any casualties?
> 
> 
> 
> Mine did well going home, no damage. The reason I did some damage on the
> 
> way there was that I was planning to have the models in my backpack
> which
> would have meant that they would be hanging in the tape, so I taped them
> 
> in their boxes really tight, which cracked a wheel on the Spad A2, then
> I changed my mind and put them in an ordinary bag. Nigel thinks my tape
> method sucks, and I have to agree, but I can't think of a better way. 
> /Neil
> PS. Thanks to whoever repaired that Spad, it was lovely that I didn't
> have to!
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On
> Behalf Of Paul Thompson
> Sent: den 15 november 2007 10:07
> To: wwi at wwi-models.org
> Subject: [WWI] Telford - any casualties?
> 
> Most people except Shane have had time to get home by now. I was
> wondering 
> what the survival rate is for the models we brought to the show? Nico's
> DH5 
> made it unscathed, and my only casualty was the Gunbus, who's
> undercarriage 
> has become skewed so that one skid is now 1 cm in front of the other
> (but 
> still level, and with the rigging intact, so should be fixable).
> 
> 
> 
> Paul T. 
> 

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