discussion Welcome to Papa695's Bi plane GB. Chat thread

[Dave Ward]

Looking in my stash there are a few vacforms still lurking, like this

This was later injection moulded by MPM/Special Hobby, so this will remain unmade!
Rareplanes were one of the 'garage' makers, that most of the vac-forms came from. Some of the models were quite sophisticated, like those by Esoteric & some were basic in the extreme - I had a 1/32 ID Models Westland Wyvern - there was a model in there, but would need years of work to refine it!
Good old days - 1/72 models would weeks to make interspersed by days waiting for paint to dry!
Dave

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Dave,Dave,Dave:astonished:.....
.... you're a bad man, tempting me like that !!!!... There's me trying SO hard to be good,(haven't bought a kit for months),and you go and post that up....Noooooo .... I must resist!

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[Tim Marlow]

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If you are going for the Roland Andy Wingnut wings web site is still up and it has loads of info on them……

 

[papa 695]

Ian. Nice idea for a GB. Mind if I join maybe? I’ll have to go to the Vintage Vault and look around for my subject tomorrow let you guys know soon if I’ll be joining

The more the merrier Lee.

 

[Lee Drennen]

The more the merrier Lee.

Thanks Ian. I have so many to choose from it’s hard to make a decision right now but I’ll keep you posted before we start.

 

[adt70hk]

I've got a couple of possibilities..... An Eduard 1/48 ProfiPack C.II or the B-534....a Czech 1930s biplane....same vintage as the Gladiator and NO rigging!!

 

[Lee Drennen]

NO rigging!!

Yes me too Andrew I’m just not up to it anymore

 

[Steve-the-Duck]

No rigging is cheating! No, wait...
There's an interesting subset in itself, un-rigged biplanes

 

[Lee Drennen]

No rigging is cheating! No, wait...

Guess I’m out

 

[papa 695]

Guess I’m out

You don’t have to rig it if you don’t want to, it’s still a Bi-plane.

 

[Lee Drennen]

You don’t have to rig it if you don’t want to, it’s still a Bi-plane.

Ok Ian I appreciate it. Guess I’m back in

 

[Dave Ward]

Get one of these,
build it - then "of course it's rigged! can't you see it?". Joking aside, I bet there's someone out there who can do it!
Dave

 

[stillp]

There was an octogenarian on a club display at the Midland Air Museum show last week who had rigged several 1:144 biplanes, with fishing line. He'd also made a motorbike in the same scale - with spoked wheels, fishing line again!
When I can figure out to to move photos from my new phone to the computer I'll post them.
Pete

 

[colin m]

Right, I'm in. I have permission to sign up as, I believe, Father Christmas will be nice to me. Quite what my subject will be - I have no idea. But I did explain clearly, what a bi-plane is. This could go one way or the other !

 

[stillp]

There was an octogenarian on a club display at the Midland Air Museum show last week who had rigged several 1:144 biplanes, with fishing line. He'd also made a motorbike in the same scale - with spoked wheels, fishing line again!
When I can figure out to to move photos from my new phone to the computer I'll post them.
Pete

He'd also hand painted lozenge camo:

Sorry, I thought I'd photographed the rigging and the motorbike, but apparently not - my new phone had other ideas.
Pete

 

[Tim Marlow]

That’s incredible.

 

[papa 695]

Right, I'm in. I have permission to sign up as, I believe, Father Christmas will be nice to me. Quite what my subject will be - I have no idea. But I did explain clearly, what a bi-plane is. This could go one way or the other !

Nice to have you aboard Colin.

 

[Steve-the-Duck]

Those are 1/144?
Oh
My
God
How did he get the lozenge so regular?

 

[The Smythe Meister]

Those are 1/144?
Oh
My
God
How did he get the lozenge so regular?

If your cold's bad enough then any Lozenge will do :thumb2:

 

[stillp]

Those are 1/144?
Oh
My
God
How did he get the lozenge so regular?

Patience, he told me. There were a few places where his hand had shaken a little, but I had to look really hard to find any blemishes.
Pete