Re: Squiffy's Kites: RAF F.E2b night bomber,58 Squadron. 1/72 scale

[Chris Johnson]

Impressive to say the least! Very nicely done indeed.

Cheers,

Chris

[Alexis]

Beautiful job on the Vimy 





Terri

[Epeeman]

Your Vimy looks great and I love the diorama and figures.

Regards

Dave

[Des]

Extremely well done Squiffy, the Vimy turned out excellent and to have it set in in diorama is a real treat, congratulations.

Des.

[RAGIII]

Squiffy,
I have enjoyed watching your great build thread! I am always amazed at the speed and quality of your builds! WELL DONE

[lcarroll]

    Very impressive, large even in the "tiny scale"! Well done, I can't believe how quickly you were able to complete this, and at no impact at all to the quality! The setting is very well done.
Cheers,
Lance

[IanB]

You make it sound as though a month is a long time for this - if I finish 4 1:72 builds a year I'm doing well!
 Very nice work!

Ian

[lone modeller]

Very well done - and in such a short time too. It looks very realistic and the diorama setting is a wonderful background. I know that this is not the easiest model to build from experience and I think you have turned a pretty basic and old kit into a really good and impressive piece. Many congratulations.

[Nigel Jackson]

Well done Squiffy! It's been really interesting following your build on the Vimy. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Best wishes
Nigel

[IFF1418]

Hi Squiffy,

What a nice collection of a/c you have made. You are a turbo builder. Your setup is well thought of and does enhance your models tremendously. Well done, congratulations!

Kind regards
Patrick

[andonio64]

Beautiful kites, in particular the Vimy diorama is great. I didn't know there was any of those machines that reached the operation zone before te war was over. Where can I find more info about that?

Thanks and congratulations again for the beautiful work.

Antonio

[Squiffy]

Antonio - I don't know about any more info about it but here's the Wiki entry for the Vickers Vimy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Vimy It doesn't mention the number of the one that was in France before the war's end but I've read it in one of my books somewhere.

[lone modeller]

Further to the Vimy in France in November 1918, J. M. Bruce in the Datafile Special states that possibly two Vimy's were in France in November 1918 but that these would have been Fiat powered pre-production machines. The cowlings and exhausts on the Fiat powered models were slightly different to the Eagles (as represented in the kit) and there are no records that I can find at the moment of serials or other markings. I too had read many years ago in another book that two machines were on stand-by from 9.11.18 but for the life of me I cannot now find the source. I regard J. M. Bruce as a highly reliable source as he had access to most if not all official records and many unofficial ones too. He was a much respected historian.

I think that it is probable that there was at least one Vimy in France in early November 1918, and very likely that there were two, but as with many of these events so long ago the details are lacking.

[Squiffy]

As a break from building the WNW Pup I reached into the stash and brought out, at random, another Revell kit. This one cost me £5 at Sywell airshow a couple of weeks ago and was in the really old style box. Somewhere on the instructions was the year 1964! The kit is still current but is provided with RAF 23 Sqn. decals. I bought this one because it's different, being provided with decals for USAS 94th Aero Squadron.

The Yanks are coming!



The decals took some time to soak before they came away from the backing but they all came off intact and settled down nicely, which is pretty good for 50-year old decals and more than I can say for some new stuff!

[Squiffy]

As seen in the background of my last photo, a pair of S.E.5a that I built earlier this year but have just brought up to an improved standard by adding rigging. The red one (which will be Capt. Duncan Grinnell-Milne's kite when I make some lettering for it) is a Revell kit and the plain one is, I believe, Maj. Edward 'Mick' Mannock's and is a Roden kit.

The new one is a Home Defence nightfighter of 61 Squadron and is the same Revell kit. I masked and painted the diamonds and made my own decals to overlay the kit decals.