Hi Lars, Alain and all, I'm not 100% sure that the Lufthansa Roland land planes were white or cream (even though I want them to be), because I simply can't...
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Diego Fernetti
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Jul 1, 2004 11:43 am
May he rest in peace. Sure he will have a lot to do when gathering with Tony Woolett upstairs! D. ... From: "Razonjim" <razonjim@...> To:...
Hi John, I will pass these to you off list. and yes, thanks to Gary for these fine scans, they do look great (size wise and all). cheers, tracy ... ...
Hi Volker and all, Volker, thanks so much for these scans, this one in particular. I love WW1 conversions, but this is the first Austrian one I've seen. Are...
Here here! We can only honor them by carrying on their legacy. At least this group seems to be producing a new breed of scratchbuilders. cheers, tracy ... ...
Hi Jim, Gary and all, yes, those struts look a bit...unconventional to say the least. The logo was reproduced in the Junkers booklet I passed around some...
hi guys, this is all I have time for today....enjoy. a nice "action" Roland shot, since we are talking about them; and a nice shot of the Albatross that I ...
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Alain Bourret
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Jul 1, 2004 12:25 pm
Hi Lars, Tracy, Carlos and all of you, Lars raised an interesting point that nobody mentioned before. May be the Luft Hansa Roland were effectively white! It...
The recent scans of the W34 pics have me curious about plastic kits available for the plane. I see there is a "Special Hobby" and "MPM" available...are there ...
Hi John and all, the new Special Hobby kit is a new tooling so i have high hopes for the corrugation on it, but OOTB it won't make the Canadian version because...
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Alain Bourret
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Jul 1, 2004 12:37 pm
Hi Tracy and everybody, Your Albatros photo is very interesting Tracy since it shows the inscription on the wing undersurface. Thanks a lot. As for the...
Still flying in 1590?! Seriously, MPM has posted the boxart for their float Vega. http://www.mpm.cz/news.asp I wonder if they have merely included the floats...
Hi Alain, And have you considered the possiblity of yellow? Remember this photo postcard? Cheers, Tim (See attached file: Nr.3660.jpg)...
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Alain Bourret
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Jul 1, 2004 3:11 pm
Hi Tim and all of you, I suggest to those who would be tempted to assemble the MPM Vega SOB to consult IPMS-USA Quarterly vol.13, no2 which illustrate NC47M,...
Sad news. I'm attaching one of Bob's great tips: As you can see, each half fuselage block is made of upper and lower parts, painted black and glued together;...
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Diego Ferneti
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Jul 1, 2004 3:28 pm
Whenever I start doing the fuselage of my scratchbuilt model, I'll use this advice, it's one of the best ideas I saw to carve masters. BTW Does anyone knows...
Tracy, ... There are some - one HIGHLY interesting example is actually hiding in the first scan I send (Two days ago - the one in the mail only titled...
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Diego Fernetti
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Jul 1, 2004 4:18 pm
Hi Alain Sorry to return so late to this message. I'm waaay behind my WOP mail. We have been discussing to visit that museum sometime this year. By now, I am...
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Alain Bourret
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Jul 1, 2004 6:08 pm
Hi Carlos, I ignore the type of wood used by Bob Davies but one of the best wood to make wood masters is what we call in French "tilleul" which is translated...
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Alain Bourret
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Jul 1, 2004 6:15 pm
Hi Tim, Wow! Yellow Rohrbach Roland. It's too good to be true. I must admit yellow is another possibility but this new hypothesis does'nt simplify the...
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Grzegorz Mazurowski
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Jul 1, 2004 6:33 pm
Hi! Yes, AMS strikes again. I stopped building of my Heinkel, as Thomas Luedemann promised to send me his resin fuselage and new canopy (he produces two...
Hi Alain, Colors are never simple, are they? Perhaps we should all paint our models in b/w just like the photos?! If only good, inexpensive color film had been...
Diego, This is the Basswood file in the book "World woods in color". I don't think it is a common wood in Portugal either. I save pieces of wood from all ...
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Lars & Angelika Opland
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Jul 1, 2004 7:00 pm
...& if I saw it banking right so low over a hanger I was standing in, I'ld be running out of there as fast as my feet could carry me! I had the same thought...
Hi Carlos, I have only vacuformed small parts and for those I used Basswood. The scratcbuilders I know, including the master builder Bill Bosworth, all use...
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Lars & Angelika Opland
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Jul 1, 2004 7:27 pm
Hi Carlos, They call what I use "basswood", but the Latin name never comes up, & if the market is anything like it is for "mahogany", this name may be applied...
Hi Carlos, Here is my first hit from a Google search for Basswood: http://www.hardwood.org/species_guide/display_species.asp?species=basswood You need to look...
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Lars & Angelika Opland
zdk@...
Jul 1, 2004 7:38 pm
Thanks for the heads-up, Alain I've printed this & put it with my Vega referrances. (That letter on bush plane interiors has also been saved thus...thanks...
