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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Completed models => Topic started by: GAJouette on April 19, 2012, 01:01:17 AM

Title: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: GAJouette on April 19, 2012, 01:01:17 AM
   Greetings,
Here are some of my older projects currently on display at the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.Where I was quite actively involved until continuing health issues suspended my involvement.

 Blue Max SPAD VII. 1/48 scale
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0152.jpg)

 Lone Star  Nieuport 28  1/48 scale
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0153.jpg)

 Aurora  Sopwith Camel 1/48 scale Highly modified
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0154.jpg)

 Glencoe OEF. Albatros ser.253  Highly modified
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0156.jpg)

  Aurora  Fokker Dr.I  1/48 scale  Highly modified
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0161.jpg)
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: GAJouette on April 19, 2012, 01:15:38 AM
  Part II

 Aurora Fokker D.VII 1/48 scale   Highly modified
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0159.jpg)

 DML Fokker E.V / D.VIII
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0162.jpg)

 Unknown Canadian Manufacturer   Breguet 14 B  1/48 scale Vacuform kit
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0146.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0149.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/Mississippi%20Armed%20Forces%20Museum/IMG_0150.jpg)

  I hope you have enjoyed these models and thank you for looking. As alway any and all comments are welcomed and appreciated.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: Trackpad on April 19, 2012, 04:37:56 AM
Hi, Gregory,

Excellent work as always, mon ami, and well presented in the museum. I must check in to that "Canadian kit" you mention. I think that there was a cottage industry chap out in British Columbia some years ago who might be the producer. This'll give me a chance to play Sherlock Holmes a bit!  8)
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: phs Paddy on April 19, 2012, 05:50:01 AM
Beautiful work and collection Gregory.

Paddy
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: GAJouette on April 19, 2012, 07:20:08 AM
  Thanks Paddy I very much a appreciate your more than kind words.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
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Post by: sobrien on April 19, 2012, 07:23:20 AM
Gregory,
 I will never get tired of seeing your collection. Especially that Breguet.

Sean
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: Whiteknuckles on April 19, 2012, 07:44:33 AM
Nice work Gregory, great to see it on display in a museum for all to see!!

Andrew
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: Epeeman on April 19, 2012, 08:04:30 AM
Gregory,

Lovely work - my favorite is the Glencoe Albatros - the applied colour scheme is brilliant.

Dave
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: Chris Johnson on April 19, 2012, 08:25:50 AM
Some real beauties here Gregory. My favourites are the Aurora D.VII and Dr.I. Your streaking looks awesome.

Cheers,

Chris
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: coyotemagic on April 19, 2012, 12:04:41 PM
Extraordinary, each and every one.  And not a shake and bake in the whole lot. 
Cheers,
Bud
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Post by: Des on April 19, 2012, 12:53:59 PM
A wonderful presentation Gregory, all beautiful models and displayed brilliantly.

Des.
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: Pete Nottingham on April 20, 2012, 01:24:44 AM
Awesome work Gregory and beautifully presented.

Cheers

Pete.
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Post by: petrov27 on April 20, 2012, 02:11:16 AM
Very nice - love the presentation as well!
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Post by: RAGIII on April 20, 2012, 02:12:56 AM
Gregory,
great to see those builds again. You are aMaster!
RAGIII
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: keith_christie on April 20, 2012, 03:05:58 AM
Very nice Gregory,

It must be nice to have them on display like that, so that people visiting the Museum can enjoy them.

Best Regards

Keith
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: ta152c on April 20, 2012, 06:54:48 AM
Seeing the Glencoe Oeffag D.III 253 was an eye-opener, that has to be the benchmark for my build. The finish is beautifully even. How did you do that? *tips hat

Regards :)
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: GAJouette on April 21, 2012, 03:38:16 AM
  David,
Thank you very much my friend. The finish is all airbrushed, somewhere under all the layers of paint there's CDL and wood graining too. My 253 was originally part of a diorama when first completed,sadly only the defeated 253 remains.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: mgunns on April 21, 2012, 05:17:07 AM
Hello Gregory:

Neat stuff.  Of course the Breguet is my favorite followed by all the rest of them.  I was glad to see that you used some Aurora kits as the basis for your work.  Building them in the 50's is what piqued my interest in WWI subjects. 
Thanks again for sharing your work.

Best
Mark
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: ta152c on April 22, 2012, 12:55:03 AM
  David,
Thank you very much my friend. The finish is all airbrushed, somewhere under all the layers of paint there's CDL and wood graining too. My 253 was originally part of a diorama when first completed,sadly only the defeated 253 remains.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

Very nice work, I really like the finish, super stuff.

Regards,

David.
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: uncletony on May 03, 2012, 02:11:34 PM
I approve!!! Have to get down there someday soon to see them in person.
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: GAJouette on May 04, 2012, 03:10:19 AM
  Thanks fellas very much appreciated my friends. Sadly nothing really new though but I'm working on it.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: NinetythirdLiberator on May 04, 2012, 09:20:02 AM
Hi Gregory,

Can't get tired of looking at those.  Was the Breguet difficult to build? I ask since I'm just starting my first 48th scale vac and am wondering about sagging flying surfaces etc. 

If mine turn out half as nice as yours, I'll be very pleased indeed.

Nice museum too!  :o

Dan
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: GAJouette on May 04, 2012, 11:22:33 PM
  Dan,
Many thanks my friend. The Breguet was not difficult to build at all. The sagging becomes a big problem the larger the wings are.That's why I reinforce the inside of the wing  with plastic strips or brass square stock filed to fit. I have at times used brass rod as well in the upper wing . For the lower wing I use brass rod and  hollow square stock running through the fuselage and wings. Although I've never used balsa wood as a reinforcement myself I've know several vac modelers who have and it works just as well. I'm looking forward to following your project and wish you the best of luck in the OKGB.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: Maxfinn on May 04, 2012, 11:33:51 PM
That's some really nice stuff there Greg.  Especially given the kits many of them started from!  I'm really fond of that Glencoe 253.  I've got a couple of the Eduard kits and a couple of those "I gotta do this one" schemes in the pile.  Hopefully when I get to them, they'll be as nice as yours.

Mike
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: GAJouette on May 10, 2012, 12:58:51 AM
   Here's a few more of my older projects for you.
 SPAD XII Conversion using the Hawk kit.
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0817.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0810.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0816.jpg)
  SE-5 Conversion / Kit Bash with Lindberg wings and a modified Monogram fuselage.
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0649.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0634.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0646.jpg)
  Koster 1/48 vacuform kit Sopwith Triplane.
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0652.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0657.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0664.jpg)
 DH-2 1/48 scale Scratch built.
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0774.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0780.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0776.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0778.jpg)
 Sierra's 1/48 scale SPAD A-2
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0009.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0010.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0013.jpg)
 Revell's 1/28 scale Fokker Dr.I
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0627.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0605.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0607.jpg)

  More to come
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: GAJouette on May 10, 2012, 01:14:50 AM
  Aurora Gotha 1/48 scale Conversion back dating to a Gotha G.IV.
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0796.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0790.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0789.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0042.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0052.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0795.jpg)
  Aurora Gotha G.v
(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0063.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0770.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0772.jpg)

(http://i514.photobucket.com/albums/t342/GJouette/WW%20I%20Models/IMG_0771.jpg)

  That's all for now fellas. As always any and all comments are welcomed and appreciated.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: Chris Johnson on May 10, 2012, 08:20:17 AM
Awesome work Gregory! I particularly like your rigging on the Gotha. Did the lozenge come with the kit? With this under your belt, I'd like to see you tackle the WNW kit.

And then I saw your scratchbuilt DH-2. Incredible.

And then I noticed the coin alongside the DH-2 for comparison purposes. Tell me that's a quarter and not a dime! Just incredible.

Cheers,

Chris
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: sobrien on May 10, 2012, 08:41:06 AM
Great job with the Gothas. It's great what you do with the old kits.

Sean
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Post by: GAJouette on May 10, 2012, 01:15:01 PM
  Chris and Sean,
Thanks guys I appreciate you more than kind comments.

@Chris,
No lozenge came with the kit . Just and old dust pile of god awful red plastic and useless decals. This Gotha G.V was an 1958 edition . As for the WNW Gotha I have one I'm dying to convert into a G.Vb and will at some point.Glad you liked the DH-2, I felt the same way when she was first finished. Now I look at her as a poor old soul who's seen better days.

Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
Title: Re: Some of my completed projects for your approval.
Post by: Dal Gavan on May 10, 2012, 08:31:18 PM
G'day, Gregory.

Your builds are an inspiration.  I like the Breguet and the Gotha is impressive, but your scratch-built DH-2 is a real work of art, mate.  Thanks for sharing these.

Dal.
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Post by: pepperman42 on May 11, 2012, 12:19:04 PM
Those are all beauts!!! As simple as it is Im always drawn to Lothar's Fokker

Steve