Latest acquisition in your collection

[Pgtaylorart]

1/144 Airco DH.2 stripdown

Thanks to Jamo (James Fahey) for mentioning it, and inspired by Ondra and his amazing 1/144 models, I purchased the Stripdown DH.2 by Brenguin. I don't know how Ondra builds this small! The fuselage fits on the tip of my finger! It's really cool to look at the intricacy of this kit, but I don't know if, or how I'll ever build it.






George

[Des]

Very nice George, don't forget to add the sparkplugs 

Des.

[ondra]

Hi George,

great to see you have started discovering the beauty of the 1/144 scale. Looks cute, doesn't it?

Please feel free to contact me in case of any support needed, I will be happy to provide any know-how available.

I wish you a lot of fun with this little jewel.

Cheers

Ondra

P.S.: I do not know what CA glue you use, but the superthin Alteco D proved highly efficient to me for tiny parts.

[Pgtaylorart]

Thanks for the advice, Ondra! I'll take you up on your offer for help when I build it.

George

[lcarroll]

   I get it George, it's Bo's "Giant Match" ploy; it's really a larger Scale but you are illustrating it with your giant fingers! This one could and probably would drive me to drink! These frame models are neat though........
Cheers,
Lance

[Pgtaylorart]

   I get it George, it's Bo's "Giant Match" ploy; it's really a larger Scale but you are illustrating it with your giant fingers! This one could and probably would drive me to drink! These frame models are neat though........
Cheers,
Lance

You caught me, Lance! It's actually a WNWs kit.

Actually, the more I look at it the more intimidated I am. I have a feeling this will sit in the box for a while until I muster up the nerve! But when I do build it, it will have spark plugs, Des!

George

[ermeio]

well, at the end of July I had a one-day tour to one of the most well-stocked shops in this hemisphere, at least for what regards WWI (one of my treasure caves, of course...)



this is a long-forgotten Brifaut Bleriot that I digged from the stashes:





alas, when I bought it, it was already in this battered state, but I suspect that there are not many around like this...



I hope that this photos will amaze you...

[GAJouette]

 Ermeio,
Looks like a great kit my old friend.I have heard of Britfaut kits but yours in the first I have seen where I can get a look at the parts included. Very impressive little kit. What scale is it? Great to see your stash includes so many rare gems. The most impressive is the ancient Aurora Giant Scale B-25 . If this is unstarted it may worth a lot of money,I would hang on it rather than build it. Mine was started (and badly) when my wife found it in a Flea Market years ago. I had intended to build it but never did. Kudos for the two Fiat G.50 kit I see. Love those Italian aircraft in any scale.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

[ermeio]

The Brifaut Bleriot is 1/72, like the other Brifaut.
The Eole is a dream, like the Arc-en-ciel. I have two copies of a vacuformed Eole, but I am not sure if I have a Brifaut buried somewhere. I had one  in my hands some years ago, but I cannot remember if at the end of a long negotiation I got through.
Yes, the B 25 is in almost a pristine condition - I bought it on e-bay from a south-african chap some twelve years ago. I had to post a Christmas Card that looked like a sandwich to pay for that deal... I will never touch it, it is part of my aurora collection...
This picture covers only a little part and anyway there are two ikea shelves behind, meaning 1 mt of shelves, which is 4 stacks of models plus the piles 
Next time I will take some pictures of the Renwal Aeroskin subjects - this time I was in a hurry and I did not have enough time to move the piles around.

[GAJouette]

 Ermeio,
Glad to hear you are an avid Aurora collector too.I'have been collecting them since I was a teenager ,first just the WWI kits then later on included all the rest of their line. Have you found any of their Giant scale WWI kits yet? They are not bad considering their age.I believe that the scale is 1/16th or so. Looking forward to drooling over the photographs of your Renwal Aeroskin collection my old friend.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

[GAJouette]

 Bo,
That's one of the kits I wrote of.There was also a SE-5 (SE-5a). There may have been another in the same line as well.I'm unable to remember if there was or not though. I wish my examples weren't backed away so that I could check there scale,but I believe 1/16 scale is correct.They sure are very large scale kits. Like Ermeio I won't build my two either that is unless I find another D.VII or SE-5. Aways looking for them or any other missing Aurora kit. Did luck into a CF-100 and CF-105 Arrow a couple of years ago on E-Bay. I'm not much of a jet fan at all but wanted them because they were Canadian subject. LOL always makes things easier to justify the expence to my lovely Canadian Wife .

[AROTH]

I had the Aurora Giant Scale Fokker D.VII when I was a kid. It went together with screws. No recollection of what scale it was, but it was big. Molded in dark red and black plastic iirc...

I recall blowing mine up a few years later.....put a few of those 35mm metal film canisters filled with gasoline into the fuselage and setting it on fire in a crashed position. When the fire eventually heated up those film canisters enough...wham!

Oh, the good old days of youth.......

[Verbeek]

Still not much modelling for me.
To much back pain.
I just can sit a little, but I have to sit with my back right up.
So, great for reading some great books who I just have buy.
Here the reading corner and the new books

[ermeio]

Great ArmChair and great books...
all the best and have a speedy recovery from your back pain...
 

[ermeio]

Ermeio,
Glad to hear you are an avid Aurora collector too.I'have been collecting them since I was a teenager ,first just the WWI kits then later on included all the rest of their line. Have you found any of their Giant scale WWI kits yet? They are not bad considering their age.I believe that the scale is 1/16th or so. Looking forward to drooling over the photographs of your Renwal Aeroskin collection my old friend.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

They were 1/18, someone quotes that it was 1/19...
I spotted twice the SE 5 at the top of a stash of three Aurora B 29 in the eighties in a model shop around Rome, but i did not have enough money and anyway the box was too big to pass un-spotted by my parents.
Some years ago I spotted the same SE 5 built (low-quality build...) in the showcase of a shop in the very same town and I did not dare to ask if the owner had it for sale.
Today I checked and the shop has gone out of business, back in 2011.

I also saw the Fokker D VIIin a fair, but again I did not buy it. I suspect that the same models were motorized by COX, but I can be wrong.
If they were motorized by cox, there was also a Camel in 1/18.
I am not sure, but I may have a Cox DVII in my collection. A local hobby shop imported a crate of out-of-commerce kits in the 80s. For sure I bought a racer by cox and I'm sure that I saw the Fokker. Again, i do not remember if I grabbed it.

Incidentally, Cox also produced an 1/8 Curtiss Flyer in plastic.
I have had at least two of them at hand on evil bay, but my bid was not the highest one :-) I thought it was a stratospheric Bid.
I remember the orange plastic of the wings and the  model was impressive.