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[BarleyBop]

Small LHS haul:
Seen this trailer in British and US service...
With a tip of my hat to Revell, will have to research Ju 87 North African livery.

...and this princess (all the way from China) needs no introduction, though I may need "a belly full of wine"!

... She'll take her place beside 'Tilly' in the motor pool; I can say I've built an Austin!

 

[Edbert]

It is just me or does the driver in that truck look HUGE?

Maybe the truck is just that small?

 

[BarleyBop]

just that small

Yup, here it is in NA caunter scheme.

 

[Pantherman]

I know I'm literally the slowest in the world, which is a bummer to say the least. Believe me I'm not boasting. I see posting here as attending an AA meeting, trying to control my habit!

We are all way way past "control my habbit". Pantherman

 

[Bob T]

I see posting here as attending an AA meeting, trying to control my habit!

Not gonna work. Posting here only feeds the habit. Like an AA meeting at the local pub during happy hour.

 

[Pantherman]

Not gonna work. Posting here only feeds the habit. Like an AA meeting at the local pub during happy hour.

With a blind bar tender..... Pantherman

 

[Jakko]

Maybe the truck is just that small?

You're used to American cars, is what causes that Tilly on the left:

(BTW, "Tilly" is short for "utility". They were basically pick-up versions of common civilian small vans, built for military use. The Austin is probably the best known, but they were made by several British car manufacturers, all based on similar-sized and -looking vehicles.)

 

[Edbert]

You're used to American cars

True. I am told my "daily driver" would not fit down most British streets due to width, nor in their parking garages due to height.

• Length: 232.6 inches
• Width (without mirrors): 86.6 inches
• Height: 79.8 inches
• Wheelbase: 145.4 inches
• Turning Circle: Approximately 48.0 feet

 

[blacbul67]

We are all way way past "control my habbit". Pantherman

uh oh..abandon hope all ye that enter (gulp)

 

[Jakko]

I am told my "daily driver" would not fit down most British streets due to width, nor in their parking garages due to height.

Let me convert those measurements to those used in the real world 5.91 m long, 2.20 m wide and 2.03 m high. OK … The best-selling car in Europe last year was (Google tells me) the Dacia Sandero, which is about 4.10 m long, 1.76 m wide and around 1.50 m high …

 

[Edbert]

I was expecting to post my 1/35 He-111 today.

Unfortunately the USPS, and more specifically everything Austin (lived here since leaving home in 1982) FUGGIN' SUCK!

 

[Jantk14]

I'm finding usps has been awful lately. I had a package ship from New Hampshire to me in New Jersey. Well they decided to send it to Kansas City first. I got it but it took over two weeks. I now have a package that was supposed to be delivered today missing in action.

 

[Edbert]

I'm finding usps has been awful lately.

One should expect only failure from a government employee.

 

[Jakko]

Just delivered:

A few weeks ago I bought a 1:72 scale kit of the Fokker G-1, the day before yesterday I decided to see if there are any good books on it and found this, part one in a series of three. I might just buy the other two as well if this proves as good a book as it looks to be at first sight. (The text is all in Dutch, but photo captions are in both Dutch and English.)

 

[Pantherman]

Just delivered:

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A few weeks ago I bought a 1:72 scale kit of the Fokker G-1, the day before yesterday I decided to see if there are any good books on it and found this, part one in a series of three. I might just buy the other two as well if this proves as good a book as it looks to be at first sight. (The text is all in Dutch, but photo captions are in both Dutch and English.)

Nice. Pantherman

 

[BarleyBop]

I better get cracking with my Skua, running out of room on deck!

 

[Glenn S]

I better get cracking with my Skua, running out of room on deck!

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I love that old plane! An under appreciated work horse that served everywhere during WW II.
They have one, disassembled, in the Reserve Hanger of the Canada Aviation and Space Museum. Maybe they would be kind and let a modeler have a peek?

 

[BarleyBop]

Ha! And to think that in the late 80s/early 90s I worked in the museum Canada design studios!
I have always been taken with this plane as well... No flash, just a solid bit of air power to get the dirty jobs done.
I really should get over there, as it is, I live just up the street from the Canadian war museum

 

[Glenn S]

Ha! And to think that in the late 80s/early 90s I worked in the museum Canada design studios!
I have always been taken with this plane as well... No flash, just a solid bit of air power to get the dirty jobs done.
I really should get over there, as it is, I live just up the street from the Canadian war museum

You lucky dog! Do you ever get over to the used book sales at the War Museum? I've picked up some great reference books there.

 

[BarleyBop]

Yes, the used book store is all too tempting!
Last fall I went to my first IPMS CAPCON show there, and it was also fun to check out the vendors.

 

[BarleyBop]

Some Spit bling for use down the road...

 

[Jakko]

After reading the book about the Fokker G.1 I bought last week, I felt I needed the other two parts in the series as well:

This was originally a two-volume work: the first (see my earlier post) covers the design, development, testing, sales, etc. of the aircraft, the second (on the left in the photo above) is about its use, both by the Dutch and the Germans, who captured a number in 1940. Then, from the foreword in the third book, once they had published those, someone said, "Here, do you also want to publish a huge load of drawings of the G.1?" Drawings such as these:

Which, amazingly, the guy made based on photos and the few surviving factory drawings — there are no G.1s left, and most of the drawings have been lost as well. He did all of that research because, as it shows on the back cover:—

In 1985 he scratchbuilt a 1:10 scale model of a G.1 …

 

[TimM63]

This flew in today.

 

[Bob T]

This guy arrived yesterday.


Doesn't seem like a great kit, and 1/72 is pretty small for me, but I've been wanting to build one since I got to ride in one a couple years ago.
Ford Tri-motor Ride by R John Thieda, on Flickr

Ford Tri-motor Ride by R John Thieda, on Flickr

Ford Tri-motor Ride by R John Thieda, on Flickr

Also found decals here for the plane I was on.
https://www.drawdecal.com/product/e...ford-trimotor/?attribute_pa__scale=172-scale#
The EAA plane is a 4-AT-E, and kit says it a 5-AT, but it seems to be my best option.

Don't know when I'll get to this one. (It is almost motorbike season here)

 

[BarleyBop]

I got to ride in one

How great is that? Hope the build is enjoyable.

 

[GCB]

There are engine gauges outside close to the engine on the wing?

 

[Bob T]

There are engine gauges outside close to the engine on the wing?

Yes there are. And that's what the pilot uses for the two outboard engines.

Other side...
Ford Tri-motor Ride by R John Thieda, on Flickr

 

[GCB]

Amazing!!

 

[Bob T]

How great is that?

It was very cool. My wife watched from the ground. She was unsure about a plane built in 1929.
More photos here, if you care: https://flic.kr/s/aHBqjBMQfk

 

[BarleyBop]

It was very cool.

Nice! Must have been interesting... And loud?!