Reference material

ollieholmes · January 27, 2010

If anyone has any good links to websites, photos or anything else related to this group build please post them here. I will be soon putting up some links to some walk arounds of various aircraft including a pretty detailed Bristol F2B one including the engine bay.

Also if you are looking for referance material please ask here and we will try and help you, we cant promise anything but we will try.

ollieholmes · January 27, 2010

Heres a few bits from me to get you started.

Museums where WWI aircraft reside

http://www.shuttleworth.org/ - my local airfield so i have lots of photos of the aircraft there

http://www.rafmuseum.org.uk/london/collections/aircraft/ - RAF Museum Hendon has a collection in a historic building although acsess is rather limited to them. They are open 2 hours a day aparenly due to staffing levels.

http://www.airmuseum.be/aircraftondisplay/#ww1 - Brussels Air Museum

http://www.omaka.org.nz/ - Peter Jacksons collection of aircraft in New Zealand

http://www.oldrhinebeck.org/ - Old Rhinebeck in America

http://www.biggles-biplane.com/ - A Tiger Moth converted to look like a BE2 for a film is now being restored

Modelling websites for WWI

http://www.wwi-models.org/ - A nice site

Kit makers

http://www.eduard.cz/ - Eduard

http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/ - Wingnut wings

http://www.freightdogmodels.co.uk/index.ph...mp;filter_id=45 - Blue Max

http://www.rodenplant.com/ - Roden

Inspiring builds

http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/models/3...html#post481409 - Pieres amasing Felixstowe F2A

Books

http://www.windsockdatafilespecials.co.uk/ - Windsock datafiles

Overhaulin · January 27, 2010

Cross and Cockade

http://www.crossandcockade.com/index.asp

ollieholmes · January 28, 2010

Some photos from the Brussels Air Museum:

http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t...ght=bristol+f2b

ollieholmes · January 28, 2010

For those of you who are building a Bristol F2b heres some photos of the Shuttleworth collections one in bits after a heavy landing last year (she is repaired and flying again now):

http://forum.planetalk.net/viewtopic.php?t...ighlight=warden

Royal Flying corps airfield under restoration in the UK:

http://www.stowmaries.com/index.html

A pretty comprehensive list of surviving WWI aeroplanes, it does start off with just SE5As but eventauly covers all types:

http://forum.keypublishing.co.uk/showthrea...t=WWI+survivors

Edited January 28, 2010 by ollieholmes

Fifer54 · January 29, 2010

I'm building a Hansa-Brandenburg W29 seaplane from the Toko/Roden kit.

It has the lozenge camouflage, and decals are provided for that.

I just wanted to ask if anyone has any tips for dealing with such big decals,

the whole wing uppersurface has to be covered. I've never dealt with the lozenge camo,

or with such extensive decals before. Is it straightforward to do, or should

I be aware of any special techniques? I presume it's necessary to prime the surface,

rather than just applying the decals to bare plastic?

blimp · January 29, 2010

mr doug baumann's german lozenge decals - all scales . you can print 'em yourself or give him a tinkle and he'll do them for ya !- http://www.theaerodrome.com/forum/models/4...s-test-all.html

not forgetting this one , loadsa piccies

http://www.earlyaeroplanes.com/archive1.htm Edited January 31, 2010 by blimp