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  1. Roger Holden
    Well spotted. I've never noticed that before (even though I've had the kit since it was bought for me as a Christmas present when a teenager in 1981).
  2. Roger Holden
    I think Tamiya TS-41 Coral Blue looks like a very good starting point, but being an aerosol requires decanting for airbrush use or modification. https://www.tamiya.com/english/products/85041/index.htm
  3. Roger Holden
    Because Batten's aircraft was a Gull Six, not a Vega Gull. The former has 3 seats and was given a wider fuselage seating 4 (along with an extended wing centre-section) to produce the Vega Gull.
  4. Roger Holden
    The Pantone chart is better for matching civil aircraft colours to imo, as it contains more suitable shades than FS and BS, which are primarily aimed at military/government uses. I am quite happy with the match I supplied and even more so after seeing how Eugen's model here on BM turned out. Silvester's book cover and the Titanine colour are absolutely in the same ballpark, if not identical.
  5. Roger Holden
    I supplied Dora Wings with a Pantone reference for the Turquoise colour (PMS 3258), which they used to produce the wing registration decals. This is a good match for the original Titanine colour. It will have to be mixed as there is no model colour suitable AFAIK. I told them about the fuselage fuel tank also, but the moulds had already been designed. You can see it in the crash-landing photo. The model already built by Dora Wings a few weeks ago in the 'Ready for Inspection' section here is a very good guide to the colour.
  6. Roger Holden
    Roosevelt Field on Long Island was named for him, one of America's greatest airports of the 'Golden Age', from where Lindbergh and many others took off on their adventures. Now sadly a shopping mall/retail park.
  7. Roger Holden
    There are good drawings by our own (late) Harry Robinson in his Docavia opus Les Avions Caudron-Renault.
  8. Roger Holden
    It's a shame they chose to produce a kit of the prototype, rather than the production plane. The biggest change (in addition to your list of changes) is that on the prototype the tailplane is on the thrustline of the engine, whereas the production plane had the tailplane raised higher than the thrustline, so the whole rear fuselage shape got changed and became more 'bent up'.
  9. Roger Holden
    Another one I'd like to get around to (actually several). A true 'Golden Age' classic which set the standard for the high wing, side by side seating configuration which dominated US lightplane design in the following decades.
  10. Roger Holden
    True, but strictly-speaking it's the 5th branch of the US Armed Forces (4th back then).
  11. Roger Holden
    Mine does have the gold decals (just not the star national insignia....not exactly difficult to source) and they are indeed the best part of the kit. I believe VLE are long gone, since the proprietor's passing.
  12. Roger Holden
    A great subject and probably my favourite type of all the many hundreds you have built (unusual to see you build a military aircraft....). The whole plane was a Fokker design, clearly an extrapolation of the F-11 ,completed after Tony decided to cut and run, selling out to General Motors. Obtaining the necessary info to build it to the required standard is on-going and has taken years, but I will surely build a blue one if it ever happens.
  13. Roger Holden
    I must have an earlier (?) version of this kit as mine has none of the white metal or resin parts. Or the national insignia decals.
  14. Roger Holden
    Indeed; that was Fuller's version of interior green which must have had more black in it.
  15. Roger Holden
    Just providing a little perspective. Most of those flivver planes have terrible stalling characteristics, exacerbated by minimal horsepower. Just look at our own DH Hummingbird which claimed its most recent victim a few years ago: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-22844088 It's not just those naughty military aircraft which kill people...all aeroplanes are dangerous, but some are a lot more dangerous than others.
  16. Roger Holden
    That thing was a death trap. At least 2 people have been killed flying modern replicas, in 1994 and 2008. Dennis Trone (2008 crash) was a noted restorer of vintage U.S. biplanes https://www.nbc15.com/home/headlines/18670484.html http://www.aopa.org/asf/ntsb/narrative.cfm?ackey=1&evid=20080513X00661
  17. Roger Holden
    Great........which decals are those ?
  18. Roger Holden
    'My gratitude to the person that made that drawing too.' Interesting piece of trivia: That drawing was probably the one made by Walt Jefferies (or one of the several later copies of his original). Jefferies was a very interesting character as he was the Art Director for the original Star Trek TV series and responsible for the 'design' of the original Starship Enterprise and much of the hardware used in that show. He was a fellow ex-WW2 bomber pilot pal of Gene Roddenberry's (doubtless how he got the job), but also a serious aviation historian, an early member of the AAHS and a Waco owner/pilot. I think the Romulan 'Bird of Prey' was probably inspired by Mattern's Vega !
  19. Roger Holden
    Good luck with that.......not quite the 'Merlin Models' of resin, but close ! Thanks for educating me on (yet) another resin marque to avoid........
  20. Roger Holden
    It was a co-production with Ardpol in Poland, who provided the patterns, which are a cut above the usual AZ/KP fare.....
  21. Roger Holden
    Airco painted several of its aircraft in a 'house' colour scheme in 1919, like the DH-4R and 9R racing planes (which had 'AIRCO' in large white letters on the fuselage.) There were others, including some DH6s I think. It's possible that some of AT&Ts ex-military aircraft retained their military colours, but the DH16s were black and silver according to John Stroud's Aeroplane Monthly article and he was usually a reliable witness on colours. That DH51 you mention on the WoP forum was painted up for a British Airways (?) TV advert a few years ago, which featured several vintage aircraft in pseudo-vintage liveries. I guess it was the closest they could get to anything appropriate in airworthy condition.
  22. Roger Holden
    AT & T should indeed be black, as it was a subsidiary of the manufacturer (AIRCO) and used their 'house' colours. The Instone plane was the blue one and decals are available from Arctic Decals : https://www.arcticdecals.com/products.html?id=21442/386816
  23. Roger Holden
    Yep.....Avro was a licensee of Fokker's all-plywood wing building techniques and the Anson was the ultimate result of this. Wing should be smooth, without the faux-fabric ribbing. Sometime in the mid-60s, Airfix saw fit to add an exaggerated fabric effect to some of it's earlier kits (the Hawker Hart was another), but in the case of the Anson, this was totally inappropriate. This was in the era when it was also plastering its metal aircraft with over scale rivets.
  24. Roger Holden
    Good to see a top-quality WW1 model that isn't a Wingnut Wings kit....
  25. Roger Holden
    Colour looks exactly correct to a Pantone match I sent Dora Wings based on the original Titanine shade.
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