wnw Felixstowe

[Ssasho0]

Jamo,
this diorama is fantastic but why oh why the thick rigging line Otherwise absolute stunner

[PrzemoL]

Yes, SsashoO, you hit the point. I was watching that build thread at The Aerodrome, too, as I was building my Felixstowe almost in parallel. I have used the Scalephantomphixer's build as a reference on many ocassions - he put many scratch details. Unfortunately, some were not documented, some were not to scale, like the rigging you mention. But it was his vision, a remarkable vision and the final effect is spectacular, to say the least.

[Whiteknuckles]

That's pretty damn awesome!!

Andrew

[Des]

Thanks James for finding and posting the images of this incredible build.

Des.

[mike in calif]

Yes, thank you. A great bunch of activities going on all over, and the plane is good to look at as well.

[coyotemagic]

Man, I remember this one well.  What an extraordinary dio.  And in 1/72 scale to boot.  Thanks for gathering the info and photos, Jamo.
Cheers,
Bud

[andyw]

Scalephanthompixer! How could I forget about him!

[Fokker boy]

This announcement is grand news indeed. I anticipate they'll sell like hotcakes.

[Fokker boy]

I find this interesting; the cover of the Aeronaut book published in 2012. (Available on Amazon.)

[Kai]

Same artist as the WNW kit boxes.

[Fokker boy]

Yep. I still find it interesting. Until today I didn't know that book even existed. (I'm kind of a book hound.)

[WarrenD]

I remember that Felixstowe and build thread now once you posted the pics of the dio. A superb piece, and yes, it would be nice to have him here.

Warren

[petero]

I find this interesting; the cover of the Aeronaut book published in 2012. (Available on Amazon.)

This is an excellent book, and, of course, it covers both the W.12 and W.29.  In addition to the print version on Amazon, Herris also sells the ebook version on his own website.

http://www.aeronautbooks.com/product/978-1-935881-51-3

It's a great alternative for those who prefer ebooks, or who are on a budget.  I wish he had ebooks of all his titles!

Peter

[Jamo]

I find this interesting; the cover of the Aeronaut book published in 2012. (Available on Amazon.)

What I find more interesting is how the Wingnut Wings box art differs from the book cover. Same scene but the WNW version shows an earlier W.13 with the 150hp Benz engine and frontal radiator, vs the 160hp Mercedes engine with radiator on the top wing leading edge. I reckon this W.12 marking and some other colourful ones, will come out in the 'Late' boxing of the W.12, and personally I will wait for that version as I only plan to build one (if I build it at all)

[rowan broadbent]

1012 shown in Steve Anderson's painting on the cover of the Jack Herris book is actually one of the pre-production W.12s with a Merc D.III and leading edge radiator. To build this, one would need to make a fair amount of modification to the nose, source/build a new radiator and a new engine, of course. Nevertheless, the markings are sufficiently colourful and different that I'm thinking about adding them to a set coming up for the short fuselage W.12, should anyone be tempted.....

Rowan