July 1st. Summer is in full swing here in the states, a lot of you are
taking advantage of the good weather by attending air shows and getting
that first flight in. The next big air show on the calendar is the Ohio
Dawn Patrol (ODP) July 18,19th. A lot of us are going to show up a day
or so early, as this event is becoming one not to miss. I know a good
handful of you are planning to be there as well, as I will be there along with the BUSA guys. Some
exciting things are planned which will be quite interesting to say the
least and I will be sure to take a lot of photos. You can get more
info at
http://www.ohiodawnpatrol.com/. Hope to see you there.
Over the years I receive emails containing a lot of nice photos of your WW1 projects. It might not be a GTM or BUSA product but it is
definitely a WW1 subject that I thought a lot of you would enjoy seeing.
The top two photos come from Jorgen Nathorst-Boos of Sweden. This
is his 3rd scale scratch built Tummelisa biplane. A subject that I
never seen modeled before. Jorgen reports it flies and handles as
good as it looks. Congrats, Jorgen on a marvelous project and
sharing your success with us. The next three photos come from the
Aussie, Adrian Hellwig. He just finished his scratch built 1/5
scale BE2 biplane. It has functioning exhaust as well as a scale
bomb drop. This is another unique project that is seldom seen.
Adrian reports it is quite a nice flying plane and enjoys those bomb
drops. As they say in Kiwi land, "Good on ya, Adrian".
Remember Randy Matley from Idaho (next photo). He reports in that
he recently took top static and first place in expert last month at a
Scale Masters Qualifier with his Hanriot. He has been racking up
the trophies with his model and reports he is just thrilled with that
plane. Great job Randy, you might need a bigger trophy shelf if
you keep this up. Talking about the Hanriot (pronounced On-re-oh)
Joel Hanson from Washington emailed in the next several photos of his recently finished Hanriot. He selected a G-26 engine as the plane weighed in around
19-20lbs. The bi-plane successfully completed it's maiden flight
and has a lot more sorties to do. One nice thing about the Hanriot,
there are a lot of great color schemes to choose from as you can see
Joel has picked out a nice one. Our hats
are off to you Joel... great job! If you wonder what the new GTM 3rd
scale Fokker D8 kit looks like (yes, I need to add that to my website) the next two
photos show that. 1100 plus parts takes up all that 8 foot table.
I will have mine up at ODP for all to see, stop by. The last two
photos are some typical Sopwith details you might need for your
project. Here you can see the pulley window and metal frame and if you
really want to go that extra mile and lace up the sides this is how it
should
look; well get it close if your going to give it a try. As always any comments or questions
just email me. - Glenn |
