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  1. I've been slowly losing my building mojo the last year, and after screwing up a very well planned build that has ended up as another item on my Shelf Of Doom due to my carelessness, I felt the need to build something relatively simple to get it flowing again. So after carefully spending hours going through my "medium" sized collection of kits to find something to build (one of the most enjoyable parts of this hobby IMO ), I chose the Eduard Morane Saulnier type N ProfiPack: Cool looking little plane, supposedly a good kit with few parts but still detailed, radial engine and not too difficult to rig. Checks all the boxes. Unfortunately there are no Type N survivors and not many pictures left to document it. The closest I've come to see a photo of the cramped cockpit has been one with the pilot inside, which kinda ruins it for research purposes, so even the Windsock File is of little help. So I have to rely on Eduard's research/guesswork here. First job was to mess around trying to recreate the missing rivet line on the enormous casserole spinner with my Rosie the riveter, which went pretty well. It is a bit too high and perhaps too subtle to be seen after paint, but it's a start. I know you should leave your dessert until last, but since I need to get myself going again I just skipped a step in the instructions and started on the engine instead. The Le Rhone 9c is really a beautiful little engine, right up there with the Vincent Rapide/Black Shadow engines: So even if this little engineering masterpiece will be very difficult to see behind that huge spinner, I nevertheless spent a bit of time on it. First I added spark plugs made from stretched sprue to the cylinders, because why not?, before I sprayed the cylinders (and the crankcase) aluminium and gave them a little wash: Mundane stuff so far, but I sprayed the intakes Vallejo copper and picked the bolts on the crankcase out in steel, spark plugs in brown and wires added using Uschi fine rigging thread. Guess the original spark plug wires were pretty thin and tight to survive the motor spinning around, my attempt to replicate them is difficult to see without squinting. Didn't take pictures of these intermediate steps, so this is of a test fitting of the engine with all parts loose: I think I will need to adjust the photo etched valve pushrods manually one by one to get them to line up to the cylinder heads, not totally convinced the octopus' arms of the copper intake tubes will align all that well to the cylinder heads either, but fingers crossed. Overall pleased with the engine. I tried as best as I could to find a way to replicate the prominent Castor oil stains that are all over these engines, but didn't find a way to get that clear, reddish brown, gloss colour, so I have just given up for now. If anyone know how to do that, or know if someone makes a product to achieve this, please let me know!
  2. Modelling time! But first some babbling. A few days after he defended his dissertation «On air resistance on flat surfaces», Dr. Enoch Thulin travelled to France and enrolled at Bleriot’s flying school for more practical aeronautical exploits. He passed his tests in October 1912 and received the tenth license in Sweden. He was one of six children who had lost their father early and performed his studies on stipends. Through his studies he became a member of the Swedish aeronautical society, which housed a number of distinguished members of society bitten by the flying bug. There, he got in contact with several wealthy individuals who became both friends and benefactors, including Tord Ångström, grandson of the physicist, Nobel laurate Gustaf Dalén and Gustav Ericsson, son of the founder of the Ericsson telecom business. With their backing, Thulin would build up one of the first independent aeronautical companies in Sweden. After returning to Sweden, Thulin bought a well-used and worn Bleriot XI. He found a partnership in airplane mechanics/producers Nyrop&Ask, who contributed with the necessary practical knowledge,which became the foundation of his company. They started license-producing Bleriot XI under the name Thulin A and later opened a flight school. This was in 1914. Thulin quickly bought the shares from his partners. Before the war broke Thulin acquired a Morane-Saulnier Type G and license rights to their aircraft: The MS G became the Thulin B and MS L the Thulin D. He reverse-engineered a Le Rhone 80hp engine which went into mass production as the Thulin A (yes, he named the engines the same way as the planes - there was also a car Thulin A). Starting with the Thulin E they started producing their own designs, and found a market in the non-warring nations which otherwise had troubles acquiring both aircraft and engines and the company grew to almost a thousand employees. Both Thulin and his company met an abrupt end. The war ended, filling the market with cheap surplus material, and Thulin himself crashed fatally during a practice flight in May 1919. I have long contemplated builing models of the different Thulin types, and this is a good opportunity. I am intending to build a model of a Thulin D - a license-built Morane Saulnier L, the parasol scout. Thulin tinkered with the design, and it differs somewhat from the original. The dimensions are different, and the engine was a Thulin A, and the front end was rebuilt to a more aerodynamic shape with a smooth fairing flush with the cowling. The wing appears to sit lower as well, giving the Thulin D a more compact look. Very few of this type were built: two were bought and donated to the army by a women’s organisation and three more used by Thulin’s own flying school. The type still made a mark in an unexpected way: one of them ended up as the first aircraft of the Finnish air force, resulting in the Finns adopting the swastika: it was the donor’s personal emblem with which he had emblazoned his plane. Wiki has a free photo: Blabber finished, back to modelling. The centre-piece will be a Smallstuffmodels engine: The rest will be put together from sticks and strings and hopefully the occasional PE left-over.
  3. This is another placeholder. I figure I need to build at least one really old kit of a French aircraft, and this will do for starters. This is one of the Smer reboxes that were issued c. 2000, to my great delight, as the original Heller kit eluded me. The original catalogue number was L093 (?), the "black box" reissue was 213: These SMER box scans are my own:
  4. Morane-Saulnier type 'N' Bullet. 1/32 Special Hobby The Morane Saulnier Type N first flew in May 1914, well before the outbreak of the Great war and was designed as a racer rather than a combat aircraft. Although a fairly modern looking machine, it lacked ailerons and used wing warping instead. The tailplane was all moving and only the rudder was hinged on the fin. It was fitted with a Hotchkiss machine gun which was not synchronized to fire through the spinning propeller, rather it used two large steel wedges to deflect the bullets off it. Thus equipped, a small number of them entered service in 1915 and although not popular to fly, they did help end the 'Fokker Scourge' of the German Eindekkers. The RFC bought a small number and also used them to effect. The kit is from Special Hobby, and even at 1/32 scale is quite small. I really like Special Hobby kits, they are very well moulded and fit together very well. This one comes with a resin engine, propeller, ammo belts and minor accessories. Also included is a nice etched brass sheet with engine details, seatbelts and turnbuckles for the brave to use! But the inexplicable thing is that nowhere in the kit are the large & prominent 'MS' circular logos that go on the cowling. Nada, Nothing, Zilch, not even anything on the decal sheet. This is a serious omission and I'm baffled why Special Hobby didn't provide them on the etch sheet. All is nit lost though, as Tom's Modelworks in the USA do a neat photo etched pair that you simply must get if building this kit. I have no connection with Tom's Modelworks, but must praise them for excellent service. I ordered the etched logos in the UK on a Saturday, and they arrived from the US the following Thursday. Amazing and much appreciated. The kit Instructions (and the Eduard 1/48 kit) show this particular aircraft as having red painted cow;ing/spinner areas on the fuselage. Reading the Windsock datafile, this seems very unlikely. All Morane-Saulnier aircraft of this period were finished with black enameled metalwork, and this is how they were supplied to the French Air Force and Royal Fling Corps. It was the RFC that initially repainted the black areas in red, to distinguish their machines from the Pfalz and Fokker Eindekkers. Later deliveries to the RC were painted red at the factory, but I am convinced that French machines remained with the black finish, so that is how I have done my model. The wing ribs were covered with thin bamboo strips of a lighter colour, I used Wingnut Wings German 'linen' rib tape decal strips. I spotted the Blackdog 'Escadrille Lafayette pilot' on the big H website and though he might go rather well with this and my SPAD V.II (when I get around to building it !). There were no painting instructions so I had to google a lot of it. Anyway, I hope you like it, it was a very enjoyable build. Thanks for looking, John
  5. Not quite an oob Oddly, HobbyBoss only supply RAF and Finish decals with this kit. I used Carpena decals, which needed some Liquid Decal Film coated on them. I added a paper instrument panel as well
  6. Hi- There must be a word for that time space between dropping your prized creation knowing its going to end up in bits and it hitting the ground and....er... ending up in bits. In this case I had a bit of a disaster in placing the final decals. This Morane either hit a microburst or (more likely) my left hand hit it and it went into an inverted spin before hitting the floor. It all happened in slow motion. The wing struts and cabane struts partially detached - still working on it. 🙁 Pretty sure this is the old Heller kit- cheap and cheerful - with a few of the parts needing a tidy up. Brush painted. Rigging is invisible thread.
  7. Dora Wings is asking/collecting informations about the Morane Saulnier MS.230. For 1/72nd and 1/48th kits? Time wil tell. Source: https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=2161911817372717&id=1929101897320378 V.P.
  8. Constanza Kit has just released a 1/72nd Morane Saulnier MS880 Rallye resin kit - ref.CON807203. Source: http://www.aviationmegastore.com/morane-saulnier-ms880-rallye-french-navy-con807203-constanza-kits-con807203-general-aviation-model/product/?shopid=LM5337758e408ee64cfce349d40c&action=prodinfo&parent_id=212&art=120217 Constanza has also edited two dedicated decals sheets: - ref. CON9072005 - Morane Saulnier MS885 Super & MS885 Club (Madagascar AF, D-EMMP) Source: http://www.aviationmegastore.com/morane-saulnier-ms885-super--ms885-club-madagascar-af-d-emmp-con9072005-constanza-kits-con9072005-decals/product/?shopid=LM5337758e408ee64cfce349d40c&action=prodinfo&parent_id=212&art=120218 - ref. CON9072006 - Socata Rallye 100S (French Navy) Source: http://www.aviationmegastore.com/socata-rallye-100s-frenche-navy-con9072006-constanza-kits-con9072006-decals/product/?shopid=LM5337758e408ee64cfce349d40c&action=prodinfo&parent_id=212&art=120219 V.P.
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