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Guys, I’m just 1/3 through the first planking, and it’s finally “clicked” for me. Pics coming.
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Chris, if there will be any more Master Shipwrights Speedys available, I’d like one. I’m on the list for the Master Shipwrights Flirt already, and I’m hoping to also build a second Speedy for my office at work.
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Taint ‘appenin’
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I’m enjoying her enough that I decided to get enough to, at my glacial build pace, to last me another 500 years of evenings and weekends
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F-5F by ErnieL - Kitty Hawk Models - 1/32 - PLASTIC
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There’s McInnes, MacLellan, Stuckey just off the top of my head. But mostly German and a Russian streak going way back.
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You fine blokes are working very hard to make me spend my money....
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Numpty unite! Good to see that I have company. Last weekend, the War Department called me ‘numpty of the year’ for reducing a hamburger roll to charcoal powder. She’s looking first rate, and lime always, it’s the little details like this that take a model from ‘nice’ to brilliant.
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Has anyone any experience with this kit? I have the 1905 edition and am looking for the full Pontos set now. The pre dreadnought years fascinate me.
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Roight then..... Here we are, as of last Thursday, the first attempt at first planking. The first plank is glued and cured, the next two were wet and pinned. The middle plank on the prow will be made right of course I know all you wood ship guys out there sneeze at my slow crawl, but this is earth shattering for me. I’m literally learning a new skill as I go.
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I'm loving it! I'm still slogging through the first planking. It looks beautiful so far. I'm playing with the idea of backdating mine to the age of crows feet, because I see many a 28, 36, and 44 in my future.... Carry on, Sir!! It's looking bloody marvelous. Sir Glenmorangie says so hisself, he does.
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Inventing (and cataloguing) a complete new addendum to the Oxford English Dictionary while learning the planking. Some French, Spanish, German, and Chickasaw is also supported. My wife, being a proud full blood Chickasaw Indian helps me with the latter. There are talks with the War Department on the feasibility of a limited thermonuclear strike on my bench...
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Looking stunning, man! I’m slogging through the first plank layer on my Speedy. No updates yet, but soon enough, I hope
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Question. Can, should, or is it advisable to twist a plank to follow the curve under of the rear under the quarterdeck?
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Now I’m taking wood off of a few bulkheads, and adding little wedges in others. Oh the joy of it all.
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Gotha G.lV by ErnieL - Wingnut Wings - 1/32 - PLASTIC
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Shall do, Sir Hof! Certain Rumpler two seaters easily topped 20,000 ft as well, and would cruise with impunity at those altitudes, absolutely untouched by enemy fire. Sopwith developed the Dolphin, which was conceived with two upward firing Lewis guns in an attempt to bring down the high altitude runners. But until AAA was able to reach the altitudes needed, not much worked. As AAA became more adept and better developed, the losses mounted, and the Gothas switched to night bombing at lower altitudes. The biggest drawback was a lack of a proper bombsight. A telescopic sight through the floor was used, but it was mostly by gosh and by golly when it came to high altitude bombing. Intentional hits were few and far between. -
Ooooh Bob. It’s got one of those ugly black stacks...
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Gotha G.lV by ErnieL - Wingnut Wings - 1/32 - PLASTIC
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The aircraft commander better get dressed because he’ll freeze going on a mission in his Class A’s. It’s amazing when reading history on WW1 and before, how many people went into battle half snapped on whiskey. Especially so for aircrew. 90 mph for 7 hours at 20,000 ft in an open cockpit is not my idea of fun. -
Gotha G.lV by ErnieL - Wingnut Wings - 1/32 - PLASTIC
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I still think when I painted the pilot, he ended up looking stoned out of his mind. He’s just kind of leeeaning back, taking it easy, thinking that in 50 years, he’ll be played by Donald Sutherland, but this time, he’s a gunner on a Sherman paying off a Tiger Commander with stolen Nazi gold. “What’s with the negative waves, man.”- 15 replies
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Gotha G.lV by ErnieL - Wingnut Wings - 1/32 - PLASTIC
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I’m quite ashamed of that one, actually, as it’s a very early build of mine and lacks a lot of finesse. But she’s still pretty in a warlike way. Just look at it. They flew over 20,000 ft high, no gun could catch them, no fighter could, either. As long as the thing held together, they were untouchable. Oxygen was generated by portable generators, and the guys breathed it through a pipe clamped between their teeth. Later in the war, high altitude masks were developed. Never mind going to was in a sailing ship, how’d you like to go to war in this crate? Two inline six cylinder Mercedes-Benz engines are all that stood between you and a lower altitude, where the guns and fighters COULD and did, get you. Plus, to make matters worse, check out the bombs mounted on the extreme nose. It did interesting things to aircraft handling when they were released. Landing a now dangerously tailheavy and now almost unflyable bomber, in a farmers field, full of rugs and cattle hoof divot marks, after 8 hours of freezing your backside off, on four bicycle tires? What could POSSIBLY go wrong? More Gothas were lost in landing accidents than all other sources, combined.- 15 replies
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This was nowhere near my best effort, and truthfully, was one of the earliest attempts at WW1 modeling I ever attempted. It is by no means perfect, but from three ft away it looks great. It doesn’t stand up well to penlight and magnifier inspection. It’s also my first attempt at painting figures, one or two of whom appear to have imbibed in too much schnapps before the mission. I’m not surprised, because the prototype of this build finished its last mission impaled in a Belgian farmhouse. Botched the landing, it would seem. Scheiße! The G.lV is an important aircraft. It can be easily looked at at being the world’s fist successful heavier than air strategic bomber. Much better aircraft followed in short order, such as the improved G.V, and the RFC’s Bloody Paralyzer, But the G.lV, for good or for bad, brought reliable and effective strategic bombing into vogue.
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Thanks, Chris! I’m a new convert to wood ships, but a very, very long time modeler. I, for one, seriously appreciate you sticking to one scale. It adds to the continuity and realism of a display area as it slowly gets filled out. For me, 1/64 it is. I can’t see it changing for me at all. Continuity or scale is everything to me.
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Felixstowe are available, often for less than retail. Honestly, many get intimidated by it, and decide to sell. Watch for guys who bought the Duelist set for the W.29. They often dump the Felix for cheap. Of course, with Wingnuts going under, who knows now. The G.lV is going to be tough. It’s been sold out for several years now.
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Yep. All them and more now. That pic is a few years old. It’s the closet in my build room. I built one of the G.lVs and traded away the late Felix. Given present circumstances, I’m glad I bought WNW. I got caught short when some went OOP, so I bought a few of each for different schemes. All I’d be likely to build. They were a real bargain back in the day. Not so much anymore I have pretty much everything HPH did in 1/32 including the C-47 and PBY. Plus L-29, L-39, F7F, Sea Hornet, Me-410, MiG-15, 3x P-63 and others. In 1/72, have most of the Russian passenger jets as well. I’m in the middle of doing the 1/48 B-36 now.
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