Jump to content

tomcervo

Members
  • Posts

    45
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Everything posted by tomcervo

  1. Denis Winter's The First of the Few is a study of RFC/RAF fighter pilots of the Great War. Heavily sourced from memoirs; the bibliography is full of good reading. Ian Sumner's Kings of the Air does a similar study of French airmen, the only one of its kind I've found readily available in English. Samuel Hynes' The Unsubstantial Air covers American airmen, in US, French and British service. A distinguished professor of Edwardian literature at Princeton, he was also a Midwestern farmboy turned Marine TBF pilot, and he brings all that insight into looking at young men losing their innocence in warflying. Then there's Oliver Stewart. His book The Clouds Remember is a memoir of the types of planes he flew as a scout pilot and a test pilot. He wrote The Strategy & Tactics of Air Fighting in 1925, to try and summarize the successful fighting tactics from the war. Reportedly one of the books looked up by RAF pilots in 1940 when they found that the prescribed tactics weren't working. https://www.scribd.com/document/125476120/The-Strategy-Tactics-of-Air-Fighting-by-Maj-Oliver-Stewart And then there's his novel--a thinly disguised autobiographical account of his war service. Published under a pseudonym, so he could tell the truth. More on that here: https://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/2016/07/07/portrait-of-an-airman-byphilip-arnall/
  2. The Smer Bulldog decals are for 17 & 19 squadrons; worth picking up at a sale or a show.
  3. Coming soon from Starling in 1/350.
  4. Have two Starling kits, and they're absolute gems.
  5. Yes they did. https://modelshipworld.com/topic/18286-hmas-vendetta-1925-by-cog-popeye-the-sailor-and-rgl-showcase-models-1350-plastic/ WW1 paint scheme and config:
  6. Showing up on Facebook and elsewhere. The links so far: https://twitter.com/SWS_FeiPengrui/status/1395323866587668484 https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=1062600750932554&id=200031687189469 Scheduled for June release. No price mentioned.
  7. https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=12115.0 Out in April.
  8. Really matter which von Richthofen?
  9. That upper wing has zero dihedral. One way suggested to to fix it is to lay in a flat bottomed washbasin with a weight in the middle and pour in hot water. The lower wings do bend up. Not sure if they need more bending than they already have. The inner struts are also said to be 6mm too long. I've read builds which suggest simply cutting that much out. If you decide to use the 28 Sqn kit decals, the nose color is wrong as instructed. All other references show the fuselage as PC10 overall, including the cowling.
  10. Compare and contrast: https://modelingmadness.com/review/w1/tc/tmcpd3.htm https://modelingmadness.com/review/w1/tc/tmcpfalz.htm Same reviewer, same plane, different kits. He lays out the differences well.
  11. Apparently the bonus in the Aoshima 1/700 HMS Cornwall kit is a old S-class DD--HMS Tenedos. http://https://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10633864
  12. A little background on a squandered airplane. http://www.dingeraviation.net/henley/hawker_henley.htm
  13. Charles Pears' painting--probably from life--of QE in 1918. Only one platform.
  14. And a little farther back, Mervyn Johns (R.E.8's) Bob Cratchett was Biggles:
  15. One option, but not for the faint of heart: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234982308-1350-hms-storm/
  16. Not all that surprising, really. More news here: http://www.modellmarine.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5463:spielwarenmesse-nuernberg2019-bericht&catid=185
  17. Clear your workbench . . . https://www.scalemates.com/kits/icm-32040-gloster-gladiator-mk-1--1191383
  18. Mine arrived two days ago. The one piece hull is one of the most complex sets of shapes ever, and the molding is beautiful. The finish as well. I'd be afraid to try modding it to make a Group II. Maybe Pit Road will think of reissuing theirs--or someone else will copy it in injection. I'm so far planning on a Far East boat. Every pic I've found of them out there shows a dark overall color--any clue if it's blue or grey?
  19. And now it's in stock. https://starling-models.co.uk/gb/2_starling-models?orderby=price&orderway=desc
  20. No, it's not WNW level of detail, but as originally marketed, it was a long way below the WNW price. Even today I think a new issue would sell for less than half the WNW lowest price. It's a kit that can be built right out of the box as a fine representation. And as we see here, in the hands of a master, a masterpiece.
  21. The Hobbycraft molds for this kit seem to be in the same warehouse as the Lost Ark.
  22. That picture of Rhys Davids: Rhys Davids himself wrote, "Isn't it comic? He did me wearing my flying kit, a flying cap and burberry, sitting down in a chair and looking nowhere. I didn't think it was like me, but I'm no judge." Upon viewing it after her brother's death, Rhys Davids' sister Vivian wrote: "It certainly grows on you.Painting him like that with his cap on has made his face look so absurdly long, but I was more reconciled when I discovered that quarter smile; an expression in which he seems to be just sucking in his cheeks, so as not to laugh, and saying, 'Lord , what futile rot this all is.'"
  23. http:// https://airfixmodelworld.keypublishing.com/2018/05/21/royal-navy-delights-from-starling-models/ Royal Navy submarine fans are in for a treat, as the second release is the T-class Group III vessel HMS Tabard, which will be available in 1/350 as a single kit, and 1/700, the latter supplying sufficient parts for one full-hull and one waterline model. These will also be accompanied by PE and turned brass accessories and are planned for the third quarter of 2018.
×
×
  • Create New...