Flambeaux

Fantastic work! 

Hi,

Working on a Shipyard 1/72 Santa Maria, the one with the laser cut parts and paint. It's pretty much idiot-proof, so it's ideal for me.  I was going to do a diorama of the wreck based on a painted in National Geographic from the 80s. I think the artist was Richard Schlecht, who illustrated all of the Time-Live volumes on ships. 

Love the card ships! Huge variety.

Lyle

Lovely work--it's great to see a Billings Boats kit underway. I had the Santa Maria kit but barely started the display base before selling it. Those instructions were interesting in translation, to say the least. I preferred the Galleon to the Santa Maria but just couldn't come up with the money back in 1989. I think in Willem zu Pferde's book it's called the Sant' Yago. And your model of the Roter Lowe is fantastic, too!
Lyle

5 hours ago, Jack12477 said:

I live 14 miles from the Aerodrome,  just across the Hudson River. Been there many many times. Very worthwhile visiting, especially the airshow on weekends. It was founded by Cole Palen, who hand-built the first Fokker replica for their airshow. It's in their museum. Cole used to fly it and created/portrayed the character Black Baron for the show. Met him on a number of occasions, great guy. 

 

Olde Rhinebeck Aerodrome

I met Cole as well, in 1986 at the RC model Jamboree held in September. First class guy for sure. I rode Amtrak from Tampa to the Rhinecliff rail station and then took a cab (no Uber then) to my motel, then walked 6 miles the next morning to the Aerodrome! 

Hi Chris,

Love the Fokker E.V and your project. They certainly make a nice model in paper. The nice thing about lozenge camouflage is that it's not on the wing! Have you seen the one in Rhinebeck NY? Flies with a 160 Gnome. Probably more in keeping with what Fokker had in mind for that aeroplane, rather than the UR.II.

Cheers

Thank you everyone for the welcome! I anticipate a new level of quality in my modelbuilding experience with the knowledge available here.

Best, Lyle

Hello everyone!
I am glad to be a member here! I am sixty years old, I am a musician and I live in West Central Florida. My interests in modeling have been between ships, railroads and WWI aircraft. I've also dabbled in R/C modeling, but I got tired of it never being a relaxing pastime. So, I've decided to get back into ship modeling. It all started with a Pyro Roman Merchantman and Santa Maria in 1967. Since then I've built quite a few models, mostly plastic but some wood and even paper. My best models were the 1/350 Titanic and 1/350 Yamato, built more than 40 years ago. Also the Soleil Royal from Heller. My latest model is the 1/72 Santa Maria from Shipyard, laser cut paper. Still slogging along on this one. I'd like to build a model of the Mary Rose someday, maybe a huge model in 1/20. Right now that's the stuff of fantasies. Seeing that model of De Zeven Provincien in the Batavia museum in Holland certainly whets the appetite for such a thing. But where do you find the room? 
The resources here are fantastic. I'm grateful to find out about this site from a colleague on a social media site. He himself contributes a lot here, so I'm grateful to be a part of this as well. Best wishes to everyone--

Lyle