[WWI] Telford - any casualties?

[Andy Bannister]

Yep, I was there. I got so absorbed in bargain hunting I completely lost
track of time; it was nearly one o'clock by the time I noticed I had missed
the meeting! I went looking for this mysterious "GWICC" table anyway and
couldn't find it - where the hell was it?? And what exactly is GWICC by the
way?! I'm guessing Great War, something, something, something....?
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 Crawford Neil
> Sent: 16 November 2007 12:08
> To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [WWI] Telford - any casualties?
> 
> 
> Hugh had a really nice system similar to that, only using 
> cardboard instead. 
> My problem was that I wanted to get seven models and a large 
> camera into
> 
> a legal handbaggage (46x56x30 IIRC). Also as usual I didn't 
> start packing till the last second, so the only thing I had 
> time for was the sellotape method. I think if you also take 
> into consideration time/cost efficiency and space requirement 
> it makes more sense. When I travel by car, I just use an old
> 
> styrofoam container from a computer, and fasten the models in 
> place with cockpit sticks. 
> Where you at Telford? We missed you.
> /Neil
> 
> 
>  
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org 
> [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] On Behalf Of Andy Bannister
> Sent: den 16 november 2007 12:38
> To: World War I Modeling Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [WWI] Telford - any casualties?
> 
> 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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