[WWI] 1/72nd Alb DV Question

[Pedro Soares]

Oh,,,NOOOOOOOO!

 

I've done a few albatri and I had never realized...

 

The thickness of a sheet of paper..

 

I knew those roden kits were bad. and the eduard too. BUT not THAT bad..

 

Maybe the original wheels were mastered from slightly deflated
tires..(hopefully, I mean..)

 

P

 

 

 

De: wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org [mailto:wwi-bounces at wwi-models.org] Em nome
de Patrick Cook
Enviada: segunda-feira, 16 de Novembro de 2009 13:23
Para: World War I Modeling Mailing List
Assunto: Re: [WWI] 1/72nd Alb DV Question

 

I did some measuring last night to see what I could learn.  I compared the
Eduard 1/72nd scale Albatros D.V wheels to the Roden Albatros D.V kit
wheels.  The Roden wheels are larger than the Eduard ones by about the
thickness of a sheet of paper.

 

I checked the size of the wheels against both the Osprey and Windsock
Datafile drawings/profiles.  Again the Eduard wheels appear to be too small
by about the thickness of a single piece of paper.  We are talking about
VERY small differences.  If I didn't have calipers out to measure them with,
I would not have been able to detect a difference of that size.

 

If anyone has these 1/72nd scale Cooper resin wheels, could he/she please
measure the difference in sizes between them and the kit wheels and let us
know how much bigger they are?

 

Patrick C.

Atlanta

 

 

----- Original Message ----- 

From: James and Linda Fahey <mailto:fahey.j.l at clear.net.nz>  

To: World War I Modeling Mailing List <mailto:wwi at wwi-models.org>  

Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 02:14

Subject: Re: [WWI] Alb DV Question

 

Yes thats an interesting point Patrick, I remember when I first got the
Cooper wheels I compared them to the Eduard kit parts and thought the
difference wasn't worth bothering about. In 1/48 it's a different matter
altogether. I should dig them out and take a side by side photo . . . 

James

----- Original Message ----- 

From: Patrick Cook <mailto:festercook at msn.com>  

To: World War I Modeling Mailing List <mailto:wwi at wwi-models.org>  

Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 5:19 PM

Subject: Re: [WWI] Alb DV Question

 

My understanding has always been that the 1/48th scale wheels are the ones
that are incorrectly sized.  I have not heard of that issue about the 1/72nd
scale Albatros kit wheels.

 

Patrick C.

Atlanta

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