Group Build: Biplane - barnstormer to fighter

[Pantherman]

Then again @Pantherman ,
I doubt you could fit your bench and ship build into the doghouse!

Woof........ PM

 

[Bob T]

Ordered today:

 

[BarleyBop]

Ordered

Wow! An air racer! So many options! From luxury executive plane to air racer to military plane... Nice!

 

[Rockin' Rob]

I think I'm going to head to Andy's tomorrow and see what he has for a biplane. All this talk has got me fired up. Although I don't think I'm going to be looking at that Wing nuts gotha. I have both my nuts and my wife isn't getting either one

 

[Bob T]

And this is also on order...


I'll decide which one, when they both get here.

 

[kevin]

I think I'm going to head to Andy's tomorrow

I browsed Andy's website yesterday and found something that caught my eye, a Fokker D.VII OAW 1/48 scale by Eduard. I'm not tech savvy enough to post a pic of it here...... but, its ordered so count me in for the GB.

I'm already thinking about how I'm going to try and paint that crazy German hexagon shaped camo pattern.

 

[Edbert]

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$950USD is a bit over "normal" if you ask me. I see anything from 700-800 to be the typical price.

I also seldom buy a kit without intent to build it, two exeptions I have made before are a 1970s Monogram version of the F-8 Crusader, and the Testors version of the super-secret "Stealth Fighter" that was completely wrong about what it really looked like. I just wanted to have those for emotional reasons, but each one cost $20-30 USD.

I bought the Gotha because it was $300 cash in a parking-lot (FB Marketplace) transaction.

 

[Pantherman]

I'm thinking I will probably go with this. Pantherman

 

[Edbert]

Fokker D.VII OAW 1/48 scale by Eduard

Beware, or be aware, that any 1/48 scale WWI plane (okay maybe not the Gotha) is going to be tee-niney. Super hard to do rigging on. Even these 1/32 fighters are about the size of a WWII fighter in 1/48, give or take a few mm.

 

[Tommergun]

Beware, or be aware, that any 1/48 scale WWI plane (okay maybe not the Gotha) is going to be tee-niney. Super hard to do rigging on. Even these 1/32 fighters are about the size of a WWII fighter in 1/48, give or take a few mm.

And here I am begging for a struggle doing 1/72!

 

[BarleyBop]

this

Tiger Moth. Classic!

tee-niney. Super hard to do rigging on

Oh, I'm building mine in a bottle!

 

[Edbert]

$300 cash in a parking-lot (FB Marketplace) transaction.

Replying to yourself is one (of many signs) you're "losing it"...

I would suggest you all put a watcher into FB-marketplace for any sales that contain the word "wingnut wings". Mine also says "within 100 miles". The seller said I contacted him within an hour of him posting the ad, and I bought it later that same day.

Easrly bird gets the worm, and avoides shipping costs.

But my "watcher" was idle for months, I'd forgotten I even had it

 

[Edbert]

I ordered a few of these...

 

[wjbrandel]

Got mine coming. Spad XIIIc 1/32 scale by Roden. First time working with a Roden model. I hear that they are good kits.

 

[BarleyBop]

Roden model. I hear that they are good kits.

Let's hope so, so is mine, in 1:48 !

 

[Rockin' Rob]

Something screwed up on my reply. Oh well. Well I did visit Andy's in Tolleson. Got back a bit ago. Wow. You could spend hours in there. Something getting scarce is clear gloss. I walked out the door with a B-17 and this unusually named aircraft. Do y'all think I can join in on your build?

 

[Pantherman]

Something screwed up on my reply. Oh well. Well I did visit Andy's in Tolleson. Got back a bit ago. Wow. You could spend hours in there. Something getting scarce is clear gloss. I walked out the door with a B-17 and this unusually named aircraft. Do y'all think I can join in on your build?

Jump on in, great choice. Pantherman

 

[BarleyBop]

Nice catch, how many pounds test did you use?!

 

[Rockin' Rob]

Nice catch, how many pounds test did you use?!

Ha! Although I did look at the guy and I said I'll take these and some divorce papers, please.

 

[Rockin' Rob]

Hey? Have we set a date yet for start?

 

[Pantherman]

Hey? Have we set a date yet for start?

Thought it was 1st July but you know the rules..... which means whenever you like but around 1st would be nice. Pantherman

 

[Rockin' Rob]

Wait a minute. Is this Panther man saying he rather it be next month? Usually his is half built already. I think the first would be great! It also gives me time to finish this M40. What say you BB?

 

[Pantherman]

Wait a minute. Is this Panther man saying he rather it be next month? Usually his is half built already. I think the first would be great! It also gives me time to finish this M40. What say you BB?

I haven't started the tiger moth yet..... but the other 3 are done PM

 

[BarleyBop]

What say you BB?

I had proposed July 1st, giving some time to prepare.

Summertime and the building is easy..
One of these mornings you're gonna rise up singing
Yes you'll glue your wings and you'll take to the sky .... in your biplane!

...but no one will complain if you are the first one in the pool!

 

[Rockin' Rob]

Reminds me of one of the best movies I've ever seen. Secondhand Lions with Michael Caine and Robert Duvall. These two Rich old geezers way out in the middle of nowhere. Here comes a big semi truck to deliver a biplane in pieces. Michael Caine looks at Robert Duval and goes are you crazy? Robert says how hard can it be? This says here to pull back on the stick to go up and push forward to go down that's all you need

 

[Edbert]

Nice catch, how many pounds test did you use?!

People in Arizona are not known for fishing.

(snicker)

 

[Edbert]

Got mine coming. Spad XIIIc 1/32 scale by Roden. First time working with a Roden model. I hear that they are good kits.

I'm intruiged! We'll see how this Wingnut kit goes. As I've been researching it the SE5a is one of their early releases, so I might need to build a second one to know.

 

[Rockin' Rob]

People in Arizona are not known for fishing.

(snicker)

I like between 8 lb to 15 lb test. And I can talk fishing all day but wrong forum

 

[BarleyBop]

8 lb to 15 lb test

I knew you'd know, a pretty good hunch!
I don't fish, other than a few times for barbotte (brown bullhead) when I was a kid along a lazy country river with my pépère (grandad).
I swear that every time I cross that river on the highway by the little town he used to live, I can see him down there in his chaloupe (little boat). He lived to 99, so yes, that catfish was good eating!

 

[Rockin' Rob]

I knew you'd know, a pretty good hunch!
I don't fish, other than a few times for barbotte (brown bullhead) when I was a kid along a lazy country river with my pépère (grandad).
I swear that every time I cross that river on the highway by the little town he used to live, I can see him down there in his chaloupe (little boat). He lived to 99, so yes, that catfish was good eating!

One of my secrets of living here in Phoenix is having a friend who has a business in Pest Control. He knows lots of people. Believe it or not a lot of people live on the water here in Phoenix and Sun City and upscale neighborhoods here and there that have lakes and rivers all man-made. But it isn't open to the public because it's someone's backyard. But if you know that person? Yeah buddy. There's some darn good fishing in these lakes and these communities around here.