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The Trading Table => Buy - Sell - Swap - Trade => Topic started by: BLOWHARD on March 23, 2013, 03:18:51 AM
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That's me :) Hi guys, Des suggested that I post this here.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/BLOWHARD/Alb_DV_Udet_w1_zps7a2723a6.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/BLOWHARD/Udet_Detail1_zpsd16ac9cc.jpg)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/BLOWHARD/Udet_Detail2_zps317e96db.jpg)
I've got prints available at two different places:
http://www.bravobravoaviation.com (see "The Golden Age" section)
and
http://www.aviationgraphic.com/ (http://www.aviationgraphic.com/cerca?orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=Dave+Douglass)
Both have very reasonable prices and are very reliable.
Currently I only have a few D.V and D.Va profiles available but I'll be putting up more D.V, D.Va, D.III and D.II prints.
I'm working on the Halberstadt CL.II right now but it's not 100% ready yet.
I've also got A6M Zero prints available-
(http://farm5.staticflickr.com/4118/4891669674_095a4f58cb_b.jpg)
http://www.bravobravoaviation.com (see "World War 2" section)
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Excellent stuff, Dave. Any chance of getting that Halberstadt someday?
Cheers,
Bud
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Dave, VERY NICE! Just curious, for the sake of accuracy in modeling, were there a "standard" number of laminations in a prop., and were the numbers different with different makers?
Will :-\
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Thanks guys :)
Bud, sure, the CL.II will be ready sometime soon, I hope this year. I'm still trying to hunt down some details. I guess it mostly depends on when I feel comfortable with it. I'll let you know as soon as it's ready :)
Hey Will, you picked a weak spot in my profiles. From what I can see, Axial used 5 and 7 laminations on Albatros props. At least on the ones you can count. I think 5 is more usual. There is at least one prop on the WnW website that has 7. I've seen Astras with both 7 and 9 laminations on Albatrosen. No idea on Garuda. The weak spot in the profiles is that all mine have 7 laminations despite the kind of propeller. I hope that doesn't mean I'm a bad artist :p :)
I've never really studied them in depth though.
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Dave, wasn't trying to find a weak spot ;D and I would never have caught it anyway. Doing seven or nine laminations (even in 1/32 scale) is a little too fine for me, so I guess MY weak spot will be five lams. in everything. :-X Anything more than that and I'll have to go with real wood! ;D
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Doug Craner makes excellent laminated wood propellers http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=1127.0 and uses 6 - 8 laminations, he uses original propeller data so he must have it correct.
Des.
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Thanks Des, I sent him an e-mail.
Will
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Hey Will, I did think your question was innocent and no problem even if it wasn't :)
I did come across a field report of the Albatros that ended up in the Australian War Museum, it had a nine lamination Garuda prop.
I probably should do more research on these, especially the shapes when viewed from the side.
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I went to the Australian War Museum last year and had a look at the Albatros, she's a bit rough around the edges and very poorly lit making photo taking very difficult, but it is an original aircraft.
Des.
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I may have to do a profile of it Des. I do have several good photos of it plus Bob Waugh's beautiful drawings of it. :)
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New stuff is up at AvaiationGraphics, D.Vs, D.Vas, D.IIIs and D.IIs-
http://www.aviationgraphic.com/cerca?orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=Albatros
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Here is one for you Des :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/BLOWHARD/Alb_DVa_AWM_zps2a0df04a.jpg)
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Dave,
just two small remarks on your profiles:
On the "Blaue Maus", the name of Frommherz is spelled wrong (wrongly? incorrect? whatever - tha name is not right). It should be "Frommherz" instead of "Frommhearz", maybe you cold change that?
And I have seen that all your JaSta Boelcke-related Profiles have a header of "Königlich Preußische Jagdstaffel Nr.2", which is correct, technically speaking, but following Boelcke's death, on December 10th 1916 his JaSta was renamed to honour him. From that date on it was only known as "JaSta B" and always shown as that in records. Maybe you could change that as well?
I know these are minor issues, but I would really like to buy the Boelcke-related profiles. 8)
Please don't take any offence.
Kindest regards,
Stefan
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Thanks Stefan. The "Frommhearz" name is a mistake on my part :( I guess I can't type herz without wanting to make it into another word :p
I had thought the Jasta B was an honorary name and the Jasta still retained it Jasta 2 designation. Please let me look into that I will find out if I can make those changes. I think they should be easy to do.
Would this be more correct? Königlich Preußische Jagdstaffel Nr.2 "Boelcke"
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Dave,
your proposal would be a little bit better, but still not correct, unfortunately. The correct designation after Dec 1916 would be
Königlich Preußische Jagdstaffel "Boelcke", without the number 2.
I have checked with Georg Neumann's "Die gesamten deutschen Luftstreitkräfte im 1. Weltkrieg", and he always refers to Jagdstaffel Boelcke, abbreviated to "JaSta B". As Neumann was KoGenLuft, I really doubt he would write that specific designation down incorrectly, because JaSta B was the only Jagdstaffel to be given a Name. Jagdgeschwader Nr. 1 "Richthofen" was a) a Jagdgeschwader and not a single Staffel, and b) always kept it's number in addition to the name.
(This is why JG2 Richthofen of WW2 was called JG2, as it was the second Jagdgeschwader with the honorary name of MvR.)
Regards,
Stefan
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Here is one for you Des :)
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v404/BLOWHARD/Alb_DVa_AWM_zps2a0df04a.jpg)
Dave,
it was seeing this DVa and the other excellent WW1 birds at the Australian War Memorial's Over The Front display that got me excited about WW1 aviation (again).
Thanks for posting this image :D
Andrew
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Thanks Andrew. You the same Andrew from the Great War forum?
The corrections mentioned earlier are on their way.
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Thanks Dave for the profile image of the AWM Albatros, beautifully done. Unusual that this aircraft does not have markings on the sides of the fuselage. Like Andrew, I was inspired by the aircraft on display at the Australian War Memorial, it is just a shame that the lighting in that place is so bad especially for the aircraft suspended from the rafters.
Des.
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Great prints, BLOWHARD. I especially like the AWM one, which I had a chance to see in real. It brought the pleasant recollections from my previous visit to Australia!
BTW, Des, I have spent the entire day in AWM and despite the poor lighting in the WW1 hall of AWM I daresay, I managed to shot quite nice photos there using tripod and shutter speed in my camera of up to several seconds. I will gladly share them.
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All the corrections (I hope) are up at Bravo Bravo Aviation-
http://www.bravobravoaviation.com/english/Profile%20Prints%20-%20The%20Golden%20Age.htm
Different print layout than Aviation Graphics. I submitted the correction to them and I hope they will be up soon.
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The corrections are up on Aviation Graphic now too.
http://www.aviationgraphic.com/cerca?orderby=position&orderway=desc&search_query=Albatros
Thanks to Stefan for pointing them out to me :)