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It would be but there are noted historians of the battle that clearly believe that he was shot dead in the initial advance on the NW side of the farmhouse in an attempt to clear out the 13e Legere skirmishers who occupied the Kitchen Garden and were trying to force the farmhouse door... In their advance down the slope, they were hit by Col, Crabbe's cuirassiers descending down the slope and through the Battalion... The Battalion broke and ran, von Klencke was killed in the first overrun assault, and about half the battalion fell, the remainder either surrendered, made it back to the ridgeline or retreated into La Haye Sainte... That's the base story, oh, and Colonel von Klenke was dismounted.... (according to the standard story) But there are some historians that take a different view and facts are sparse in this area, they were more about saving their own tails at the time than recording it... so take it with whatever grains of whatever you need to, {chuckle} At this time I don't think what actually happened will ever be known...

Light Field Battalion Luneburg was raised in 1813. By June, it was commanded by Lieutenant Colonel August von Klencke. At Waterloo, it was in the 1st Hanoverian Brigade. they were assigned to the 3rd Division, 1st Brigade under Major-General Count von Kielmansegge - to the north-west of La Haye Sainte. Lüneburg Light Infantry Battalion. Green jackets with black facings and green pantaloons. All of the leather equipment was black. The battalion wore shakos of a Portuguese design. Other sources suggest blue trousers, not green for this battalion, while others suggest that only the officers wore the blue trousers. I believe von Klenke survived, there is a report that he took over command of the brigade for a period when Major General Kielsmanegge was unable to command.... this was after the battle at the farm... Records are spotty at best of this period... and there are some differing reports of troop outcomes.... A good book on the subject is The 400 Men Who Decided the Battle of Waterloo The Longest Afternoon It goes into first person individual detail on the battle of La Haye Sainte... and is an excellent read to boot...

Congratulations on gaining your freedom from wage slavery... {chuckle} Well paid for I'm sure.... But, don't forget to find something to do outside the house, otherwise you will start hearing about being underfoot all the time.... {chuckle} Retired since '93.... My admiral kinda chuckles now when we remember those days.... But it was a significant lifestyle change, all at once.... (will take some getting used to) Your zipper is looking great, Need to get back to mine... {chuckle}

You can get waterslide decals for this pattern brother... (and several other patterns, 3 color, 4 color and 5 colors, light and dark, upper wing, lower wing etc. etc. come to mind) in 1/48th scale.... Sprue Brothers... Aeromaster, Print Scale & Superscale, all the major decal manufacturers do them in 1/48.... You would need a good thin white primer coat to go under them.....

Just playing around....

I know I've been deficient in attendance here, but life is taking my time... Any way the current state of the design.... And underneath...

Within reason you can, commercial printers now have a 25 micron resolution limit, ie, they can print to .0025" Half the thickness of a piece of thin paper.... Anything is printable now, all that is left is adjusting resins to give the best results in most environments and making bigger build spaces, a complete technical engineering issue alone... And as we know, given time, those will be resolved... 3D resin printing is here to stay.....

Thank you for the detailed description of the process...

Bronco makes two versions of the Bailey Bridge, A single/triple three bay, (kit # CB-35012) British style and a double/double three bay, (Kit # CB-35055) American style... The British style was a bit different in the details, and although the parts were built according to the same plans, they could not be intermixed... Something about manufacturing standards... The British built theirs to very exacting standards and the American's built theirs to a bit looser mass production standards... the two couldn't mix parts... The Canadian Army used British issue baily bridges.... (although most wouldn't know the differences) Both kits build a fairly decent Baily Bridge, The Kits are for small versions of two distinct types of baily bridge and can be combined to produce larger types if one would want to... But one thing is true, they are expansive to say the least... Each bay is the equivalent of 10 feet, 3 bays 30' for the bridge proper with two on/off ramps for the approaches, which in real life were 20' (the kit represents this configuration) So, each kit represents 70' of bridge, ie. 24" in 1/35th scale... Like I said, expansive... There are a number of Bailey Bridge dioramas out there, usually partial bridges... Since the standard Bailey Bridge was a class 40 bridge, the largest (read heaviest) object you can place on a standard bridge is a Sherman tank or equivalent, (35tons) and only one at that... Bailey Bridges were usually usage limited to one vehicle at a time as well.... There were several instances of Bailey Bridges in Europe collapsing during WWII, this was invariably caused by drivers ignoring the usage and speed restrictions... sometimes they had to place MP's at the bridge approaches to prevent any more collapses.... The average length of a Bailey Bridge erected in the European theater? 150 foot span Triple-Double, (without the approaches) The two main features of the Bailey Bridge? the above 150' bridge could be erected in 12 hours, and from one side only, you didn't need to possess the opposite bank to install it... (although it made it a lot easier) I have three of the kits from the days of planning an expansive bridge diorama until my research revealed that the bridge would dominate anything else I added to the scene... A Bailey Bridge Diorama is an interesting idea, until one starts to examine what the actually were and how they were used... Personally, I would pass, the bridge would overwhelm your Archer.... I think the only thing that could be put on a Baily Bridge and still be authentic would be a 155mm gun pulled by it's M-4 HST, the gun and tractor would share the attention and the bridge wouldn't overwhelm it...

Is there a particular pilot you are doing? or just an exemplar of the type? Whichever, I'm down for this...

Well, another day... I haven't left this behind.... just been a bit occupied... Finished up the driveline package today.... Consists of the Differential/Axle assembly, The Transmission, The Driveshaft Tube/Thrust collar assembly and the Truss Rods and Diagonal Braces.... Here is a look at her current state... I will be starting a part by part re-tracing of the design, and throwing a bit of history into the mix as well.... The car is the Marmon Wasp, she won the first major race ran at the brickyard, The Wheeler & Schebler Trophy race May 28th 1910, this was after winning a great many trophies and awards at lesser events in both '09 & early part of 1910... I have thje record of her 18 major wins in her short career. She was taken out of retirement to run the International Sweepstakes Race, (the inaugural Indy 500, which was her last race) at the Speedway May 30th 1911..... It was the only race she ran in 1911... For a year and a half, October 1909 until May of 1911, she was the car to beat.... The first supercar.... She didn't win every race, but 95% of the time she finished the race in one of the first three positions... (the second winningest car? a trimmed up Marmon 32 Speedster) There is a ton of interesting background I'll be getting into as I go through this log...

Yes, he was first assigned to Feldflieger Abteilung 69 at Lemberg over the Galicia front July/August 1915 where he flew in Gotha G.I's.... Then he was reassigned in late August to the BAO (Brieftauben-Abteilun Ostende) at Ostend on the Belgian coast where he flew in both the Gotha G.I and AEG G.II's and early G.III's the only differences between the G.II and G.III were the more powerful mercedes engines and the barrel shaped forward tub was armored in the G.III... WnW produced the early AEG G.IV, (which I have) it was the last of the barrel nosed versions... I will have to back date it to a G.III to produce the Richtoften aircraft.... After that he went through pilot training October/December at Dobernitz and ceased being a gunner/observer... (but he still flew bomber aircraft, the Albatross C.III, the Roland and the Rumpler) In May of 1916 he joined Jasta 2 at the request of Boelke and became a fighter pilot....

The AEG III/IV was the first aircraft that Von Richtoften went into combat in.... He started out as a gunner/observer in that forward seat.... (claimed two enemy aircraft as well, but they weren't confirmed so they didn't count as was the custom of the day) He was eventually transferred to the Romanian front where he flew in two seaters as a gunner and pilot and then transferred to fighters after a chance meeting with Bolke.... I'm in for this one.... That late war scheme is going to be something special....

There was also the early part of the war while the RAF was expanding where Medium Bombers could be stationed anywhere they had space, occasionally, for short periods, at Fighter command bases as well... Post '43, most if not all bombers had their own bases.... Looking good brother, gives a feel for the spaces on an airfield you so seldom get...

Brother, Kits are just that, kits... It takes the input, "muse" so to speak, of the builder to make something out of them.... There comes a point in a modelers life where they recognize what they have... Take something completely unrealistic and make it appear as such... That is the essence of what we do.... Brother, you got it down.... At this point I think you realize that there is nothing you cannot build in miniature... Congratulations, it's beautiful... And was an absolute pleasure in watching you create it... Thank you... EG

Hi all.... Just dropping by to say hi, and show you my current project..... A race car of some repute.... Progress is slow, I'm working from images snagged from the net as there are no detailed drawings available.... A semi bottom view.... The car only ran one race season and one race and it's driver, (who was also it's designer & lead engineer) won, placed or showed in almost every major race it ran in, (over 100 races) it won the first major race it was entered in and the last... The Driver was named the first International Driving Champion..... Just something to keep my head in modeling while I try to get over some serious real life issues.... I've been told I should probably do a log... Easy to do with this one as it is all one part at a time... What do you all think?

As I said brother it's an eye of the beholder term.... to some they are all seaplanes, to others flying boats.... but there is an engineering genesis to both terms... (there usually is) The JRS I would categorize as a flying boat, the Kingfisher I would categorize as a seaplane.... (and yes there are many documented occasions where a kingfisher landed in a sea state 4 condition, pretty typical on the open ocean) The Catalina I would classify as a seaplane when actually it was amphibious, could land on either, (and has a sea state 6 landing to it's credit) the Martin Mariner was a seaplane, The Consolidated Coronado, a B-24 redesigned to land on water.... The JRS was the last of a long line of flying boats whos design history stems from putting wings and a tail on a boat hull.... By the '30's the differences became moot... The Kingfisher was an airplane first with water landing floats added to it... Normally, the Kingfisher would land in the lee of the ship it was stationed on to give it the smoothest water possible, but there were several open ocean landings documented.... Today in engineering terms they are all seaplanes like you say, very few flying boats left in the world....

Now that is a tedious masking job!!!!

No matter how hard they try, they just can't turn a potato into a race car...

These were built well into the Seaplane era, but were considered flying boats by most... The difference was in the eye of the beholder type thing... The closest technical delineation I can find is a Flying Boat was one that was not designed to land on the open ocean, where a Seaplane was.... The Navy had a lot of both types.... Especially in the yellow wing era... The JRS-1 was one of the last Flying Boats.... They were mainly used as station craft, (base to base transports where they had a relatively smooth place to land like a bay) and as early warning patrol craft, no active combat role... Seaplanes could land on the open ocean.... You know I'm down for this one brother, I love a well done yellow wing....

A lot of the mid 70's GM products were brushed or polished sheet aluminum alloys.... Sometimes they shined like chrome off the assembly line, but they didn't stay that way for long....

Never got that far with mine....

It was, but once I explained the lyrics, (to an 11 year veteran of two wars) where he could understand them, he agreed with them....

Oh, I distinctly remember words of very similar intent when I was young.... Along with words to the effect that he was going to have to get the speakers repaired now....

For me, it Black Sabbath, Paranoid or Pink Floyd, The Wall... Right now RFM is the go to for armor models....