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WWI Air Corps Gunnery Trainer

Started by marc_reusser, August 21, 2012, 10:45:02 PM

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marc_reusser

This is the kit I will be using....or at least 4cm of it.  It is a beautiful kit; doing what I am to it is tantamount to heresy.....but I just cant get rid of this monkey on my back.




....and so it begins.






Marc

(No worries Gordon...the roller is still on the bench.  I am simply multi-tasking. ;D )
I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

Gordon Ferguson

I really don't know what is worse, the fact that you are resurrecting old projects ...... that I remember this the first time around probably means I have been here too long ....... it creates a very bad example to those of us who like starting but never finishing

Or

the concept of you "multi-tasking" ........... next you will want to start getting in touch with your feminine side, posting sweet little comments , etc etc.


p.s. you might find this useful www.ww1aircraftmodels.com/page25.html, and this for ideas on interior finishing www.ww1aircraftmodels.com/page36.html ......... bracing wires, turnbuckles ...............


Gordon

shropshire lad

Don't let Bernard see you butcher one of Wingnut Wings fine creations , it is sagrilege of the highest order . Why couldn't you use a model from a lesser manufacturer ?

  Looking forward , as usual , to seeing this one finished ,

  Nick

marc_reusser

#3
Quote from: shropshire lad on August 22, 2012, 12:25:59 AM
Don't let Bernard see you butcher one of Wingnut Wings fine creations , it is sagrilege of the highest order . Why couldn't you use a model from a lesser manufacturer ?

I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately no other mfr. (that I could find) makes this particular fuselage part, nor the proper MG. The guilt is ovewhelming.  But I am working on drowning it in Scotch, and the smell of liquid cement.


Quote from: shropshire lad on August 22, 2012, 12:25:59 AM
Looking forward , as usual , to seeing this one finished ,

How long can it possibly take, to build a 4cm long model!?



I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

marc_reusser

Quote from: gfadvance on August 21, 2012, 11:30:01 PM
I really don't know what is worse, the fact that you are resurrecting old projects ...... that I remember this the first time around probably means I have been here too long ....... it creates a very bad example to those of us who like starting but never finishing

Or

the concept of you "multi-tasking" ........... next you will want to start getting in touch with your feminine side, posting sweet little comments , etc etc.

p.s. you might find this useful www.ww1aircraftmodels.com/page25.html, and this for ideas on interior finishing www.ww1aircraftmodels.com/page36.html ......... bracing wires, turnbuckles ...............


HA!...thanks for the laugh. I truly needed that.

I thought that I had posted/started a thread on this here, somewhere, before, but for the world of me I couldn't find it. I thought I was losing my marbles. (so I gave up searching, and dealt with trying to pick what few marbles I had left off the floor).

Thanks for those links. Splendid

I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

Gordon Ferguson

Gordon

marc_reusser

#6
Thanks Gordon...much appreciated.

Might as well let the cat out of the bag.....here is what it will eventually become:

I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works

Malachi Constant

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Chuck Doan

#8
I think they shipped that to Coney Island after the war. Cyclone shooter, something like that. Or maybe the Kaiser Roll
"They're most important to me. Most important. All the little details." -Joseph Cotten, Shadow of a Doubt





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shropshire lad

Quote from: marc_reusser on August 22, 2012, 03:19:31 AM
Thanks Gordon...much appreciated.

Might as well let the cat out of the bag.....here is what it will eventually become:



Battery/electric powered ? I look forward to seeing it whizzing around your layout that you are going to build especially for it . Is the machine gun going to work ?

TRAINS1941


Quote from: shropshire lad on August 22, 2012, 12:25:59 AM
Looking forward , as usual , to seeing this one finished ,

How long can it possibly take, to build a 4cm long model!?




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Okay how long does it take?????

Jerry
Why isn't there mouse-flavored cat food?
George Carlin

BKLN

#11
This is by far one of the most amazing ways to combine all different disciples of modeling into one project:
Railroad, aircraft and military. Now if the target would show a naval vessel you'd kill em' all in one strike.

Very nice!

Mr Potato Head

You cut up a wingnuts kit :o :o :o ??? ??? ??? ???
really ??? ??? ??? ??? ???
those kits are works of art,..................................
the horrorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
MPH
Gil Flores
In exile in Boise Idaho

narrowgauger

Marc ............................................... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

it has taken me days to dry my tear stained keyboard.  This is truly sacrilege warranting a full year banishment to the corner (rather surprised that uncle Russ hasn't imposed some form of fine).

all this is made even worse by the fact that you would have found the same components in a kit less deserving a full build from Rhoden or Eduard (check out the Eduard "weekenders" at $12 a pop.

however having said all that you have partially redeemed yourself by treating us to such a wonderful prototype.  let me know if you need a running chassis for it.

above all have fun & stay cool
Bernard

marc_reusser

So sorry for the anguish Bernard,.............unfortunately modelbuilding requires us all to suffer and sacrafice a bit. ;)

You are correct, a Roden kit would have been the better route for this especially given the cost of the WN kit....BUT.....at the time WN, was the onhly company on the market, that I was aware of (as well as others that helped me with finding the kit), that manufactured a Lewis gun of any decent quality. Now WN seems to ffer the Lewis gun sprue as a seperate purchase/item....so this sprue and the Roden would likely have been a great combo...however, at the time I was shopping for, and ordered the kit, that seperate sprue did not seem to be available.

The upper curvature/lines of the RE8 fuselage shape is not exactly the same as the ones in the piece in the image, but I am OK with that. I am fine building a model that is "plasuibly" close to the image (as I lack any other hard information on the unit)....and would actually like to get it completed in a reasonable time-frame.  ;D

Running chassis!??...you very funy man!.....(though if I did suddenly lose my senses, I think I have a Black Beetle mech somewhere that would likely fit in the box.)

Marc
I am an unreliable witness to my own existence.

In the corners of my mind there is a circus....

M-Works