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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => What's New => Topic started by: Des on March 12, 2015, 07:17:27 PM

Title: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: Des on March 12, 2015, 07:17:27 PM: Does anyone know if John Vojtech is still operating Scale Spokes through his UMM-USA website, the reason I ask is that I wrote to him a few days ago with an order for two sets of wheels and he has not replied with postage costs, hope he is still operating.

Des.
Title: Re: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: Ernie on March 12, 2015, 09:06:37 PM: Des, I took a quick look at the UMM-USA website and the wheels seem to be
available there, so I would think he still has supplies of them...except the Gotha. ;)

Cheers,
Ernie :)
Title: Re: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: FokkerFodder on March 12, 2015, 10:23:56 PM: Hi Des

I just received a jig and 1/32 scale Dr 1 wheels from John - I used this email: [email protected] - John contacted me quickly re: postage to Qatar.

cheers

FF
Title: Re: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: uncletony on March 13, 2015, 05:18:24 AM: AEG mystery wheel (cribbed from WNW site -- model images)

(http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh640/UncleTony1917/f0fd173d6766303272148ce5097f57f4_zps820c231b.jpg)
Title: Re: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: Des on March 13, 2015, 06:40:44 AM: Thanks guys, I have written to him the second time so I will give him a day or two to respond. I have purchased wheels from him in the past and always had good service, guess he must be snowed under with work at the moment.

Des.
Title: Re: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: Des on March 13, 2015, 02:51:07 PM: I heard back from John today, apparently they were having issues with their email last week while they performed updates and my order went missing.

Des.
Title: Re: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: Des on March 13, 2015, 03:36:43 PM: I have built two models using Scale Spokes wheels, the scratch built Fokker Spinne and the Mosca MB bis.

Des.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-z3HSQRetoI4/UmJPN6s07HI/AAAAAAAAJkw/M1fCVfOikXQ/s1000/spinne%2520x%2520136.jpg)

(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-RR1CS1F3pgk/Uttgl1Kk61I/AAAAAAAALgg/Ty07MbafyNo/s1000/mosca%2520x%25208.jpg)
Title: Re: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: Steven Robson on March 13, 2015, 03:54:43 PM: Quote from: krow113 on March 13, 2015, 07:47:24 AM
Quote from: Bo on March 13, 2015, 05:18:24 AM
AEG mystery wheel (cribbed from WNW site -- model images)

(http://i1255.photobucket.com/albums/hh640/UncleTony1917/f0fd173d6766303272148ce5097f57f4_zps820c231b.jpg)
I saw that I dont think its a wheel , but I searched the instructions and cant see it either. A mystery.

If it looks like a wheel, turns like a wheel and has a valve stem (like red said)..

It's a wheel! ;D

Maybe Uncle Richard is experimenting and included this part on the tooling to see how it would come out (just speculating)..

or maybe Bo is tricking us? I'm still waiting for my AEG to arrive.

p.s. nice tyres Des, I'm jealous.
Title: Re: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: stevie g on March 13, 2015, 04:01:10 PM: The original boxing of the Hansa Brandenburg W.29 has alternitive dolly wheels instead of the wooden spoke type but the instructions have them just greyed out as unused parts.
Title: Re: Scale Spokes - where are they
Post by: Des on March 18, 2015, 03:20:04 PM: All fixed, John contacted me today and the wheels are on their way, and they were on special for this week only, $20/set instead of the usual $27/set, so it was a win win.

Des.