Terri,

My experience with the WNW S.E.5a was pretty good. I have a Brisfit that I'm eagerly eyeing, with some preliminary painting and the seat/gas tank put together. Given that this campaign is already 4 months in, could I enter this one? I'm planning on the home defence nightfighter and am reading Fredette's "The Sky on Fire"

Looking forward to it!

Michael (your sign on buddy )

I don't see why not Michael . Just start you own thread and post what you have done so far . After all , it's all about building and having fun sharing it with great people !

Right, I'm in!

WNW 1/32 Bristol fighter, see the Early Aviation forum. Wooppee!

Michael

Here is a pic of my finish build . The build thread is in the ealy aviation forums .

Terri,

Excellent job! That really looks great!

I have the fuselage and wing sub-assemblies done on the Brisfit, but am a bit stalled. Hopefully your excellent build will inspire me to get back to work!

Michael

That ol stringbag looks great Terri.

I must be nuts. One month left on the campaign and I go get myself a Roland C.II from Eduard. At least rigging and struts are minimal. Never built a 1/48 Biplane before, looking forward to getting started on it. It'll be OOB and basic rigging just to get a feel of what I can do in the larger scale.

Wish me luck with the Walfisch.

Thanks Mikael and Jaypee .

It's great to have on for this campaign . The Roland C.II is a great kit and builds up nicely . The only part of the kit to watch out is the fit of the lower wing to the fuselage , which will need filling . This area is smooth and blends in with the fuselage , just like on the pfalz D.III/IIIa .

Looking forward to seeing your build blog

Thanks for the heads up Terri. It arrived in the post today. Looks nice in the box. With etch and masks in the box. I could get hooked on these Eduard kits if I'm not careful.

Just going to do the overall pale blue with fish scales as per the box art. I'll get cracking on it tonight.

Hi all.

How come there are two threads for this campaign? I posted my pictures in the other one....

But anyway, here they are again..





A few hassles with this kit. First up the floow was warped and resisted my attempts to straighten it with all its ingenuity..

Second, there is no way the engine cowls will close. The exhaust gets in the way and the only way I got them to close was to remove parts of the exhaust..

Kit was brush painted (my first for about 18 years) and I was surprised at how well the Humbrol acrylics and enamels covered. I remember I went off them years ago because they did not cover well.

Anyway, it is finished now and is my first big WWI aircraft. Very little rigging luckily!!

@ Mark: great build as usual.

@ Stephen: Nice choice, I have been unable to locate this kit in my area. Cannot wait to see the finished a/c.

@ Terri: WOW! nice build and what captures my attention is the rigging. I have been reading your posts on that subject to get ready for a build.

@ Warren: did you cut your fingers all of that tin/aluminum nice build and there was no rigging from what I can see on this a/c or are my eyes bad which kit is this?

Bob

oops.. sorry.. it is the WNW 1/32 Junkers J.1. I did not cut my fingers, but burnt one of them with super glue... Picture this, I have filled a small gap with some thin CA (mistake one) and did not realise a bit had drained through the part and onto my finger. I then applied a little accelerator to fix the hole instantly and all of a sudden I got a very big heat sensation in my middle finger. The accelerator had gone through the part and hit the CA on my finger. One of the by-products of this process is lots of heat and I ended up with a deep burn on that finger. Great!!

Only rigging on this aircraft are control cable runs at the tail which cannot be seen in the pictures.

Even with the problems it was an enjoyable build.

OUCH! Warren sorry about that, but think of the stories that can tell.


Bob

Very nice build Warren , even with the few hic-ups you did a wonderful job !

Hi Terri,

I ran into some delays with decals and resin for the Hansa-Brandenburg W.13 to finish for the deadline so I'll be submitting my Halberstadt C.II for the campaign.






Thanks!!

Mark

You sure care Mark !

Hi all!
I always forgot to public here the pics of my entry to the group build, so I'll do it now.
It is an Eduard 1:48 Bristol F2B. I did a WIP blog here on the Early Aviation site, so if you wish, you could see the various steps of the build. hope you will enjoy.
Ciao
Edo

No joy in Mudville folks I am not going to get this one finished before the eng date. I have too much rigging to finish and so many things going on. My apologies. Though I have rec'd a request to extend the date . I had to remind the member that this was Terri's Campaign its upto her.

"Stephen,

I humbly submit a request to extend the deadline for this by one more month. I understand if it is not possible. I've started the Hi Tech Breguet but there is no way that I will make the current deadline. I didn't want to let all of you down.

Dwayne"

No worries Stephen , I understand for I have a very full plate as well . Please share the build when you get her done , would very much like to see it .

Going over the campaign rules I did write that there will be no extention on this one . As much as I would like to say yes , their is just to many campiagns on the go and new ones starting up . Sorry if this dissappoints you guy's , but I will be doing this again in the future .


Two days left to go on this one guy's and I must say I'm very impressed by the builds which have been displayed here

Well guy's one more day and this one is over . Tomorrow ribbons will be handed out to those who have finished their builds .

Thanks to the ones who have taking part in this campaign and there will be another two seater campiagn in the future . With new kits always coming out there should be some interesting subjects .......

And that is it for this one folks . Will like to take the time and thank-you guy's for being a part of the campaign , wouldn't have happened with you guy's .

Ribbons will be handed out , if I have missed anyone please let me know .