[WWI] Stakken progress

[Dennis Ugulano]

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 12:32 +0200, Helen and Chris wrote:
> 
> Thank you for sharing this, Dennis.
> 
> Referring back to my original posting on the list, your comments are a
> great confidence booster for the newbies - experts like you have top
> wings falling off!
> 
> Hell, I can do that!
> 
> And you GAVE UP! (Gasps of disbelief from the audience).
> 
> In the short time I have been a listee, I have realised, with growing
> horror, that I have joined the company of professional artists,
> photographers and others with an ability far superior to mine.
> 
> So, thank you, again, Dennis, for sharing that hic-cough.  If you can
> do that, then I can make a complete pigs ear of whatever I'm doing and
> know that the great and the good can do that too.
>  
> I'm looking forward to seeing the finished article.
> 
> Best Regards,
>  
> Chris

Chris,

	Thank you for you kind words and inspiration.  I will now return to the
Staaken and it will leave my shelf of doom and head for the shelf of
completed kits.  

	Ah, we all have our bumps in the road.  So no matter what the completed
kit looks like, sometimes the journey was not smooth.  Never put down
your skills.  We all started banging our heads against the wall to get
to where we are today:  Banging our heads against the wall.  It never
stops, :-)

	But I have not been idle.  Since putting the Staaken on hold, I have
completed the Eduard Nieuport 23, a 1968 Firebird and two Revell Fokker
D.VIIs.  But now, Watch out Staaken, the little guy is returning to the
modelling table.

Dennis
> 
> 
> 
> > None.
> >
> > The top wing fell off when I was turning it over.  I modified the
> > Aeroclub jig (spread it out as far as I could) and the plane is
> sitting
> > in it.  I have not touched it for two or three weeks.
> >
> > I have completed an Eduard Nieuport 23 and a Revell Fokker D.VII.
> The
> > Nieuport is out of the box and the Revell was mated with parts from
> the
> > Roden kit.  I started the Roden D.VII but gave up.  But its parts
> look
> > good on the Revell kit.
> >
> > I will get back to the Staaken this week, I promise.
> >
> > Dennis
> >
> >
> >
>