[WWI] 43 year old model

[Allan Wright]

Fantastic!

Put it in a window - maybe the sun will beach out the decals.

Allan

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 20:28 -0500, Steven Perry wrote:
> In going through my recently passed Stepfather's things we found a box
> of built models. I remember modeling at the kitchen table with Robert
> and these were the ones he had finished. They have been in that box
> for 43 years. There is one OT model. A Revell 1/72 Nie.17.
>  
> I remember Bob telling me that Albert Ball had a blue cowl on his
> Nieuport and that was how he did it, notwithstanding the French decals
> that came in the kit. Those decals yellowed a bit and look more
> Belgian than French.
>  
> So FWIW here's a 43 year old Nieuport model.
>  
> sp