Clunkmeister

This is one seriously awesome job, Bill. I have a couple of these in the stash, along with the Big Ed sets for them, and one of these days…. This kit is a true gem, IMHO, a d brings big $$$$ now on the resale market. Funny how it was so trashed when it came out. Ive seen several of these kits built, and every last one of them was a Nats Award winner.

That’s a great letter from Richard. It sums it up succinctly. I have a sneaking suspicion that not one of us on this forum are lacking in projects 🤣 Along with that sad fact, I’d rather wait a bit longer and have a “Wingnut Quality” Spitfire than a revisit of the Revell release. When you look at Meng’s slapdash release of the incomplete Wingnut Dr1, complete with unfinished tooling, you certainly appreciate their willingness to “get it right the first time”.

I didn’t go to Pima and immediately wished I had. But y’all were truly baked at the end of the day!

I love them too, but space is an issue unless the rotor disc folds.

I just can’t ever seem to get my roller in there that well.

I have a couple of the first edition ordered, but now I'm thinking I need the early flat canopy version as well.

We do allow people to express their feelings around here, as long is it isn't a personal attack or openly hateful. Nobody is trying to act sore, instead, for the most part, what you are seeing are personal feelings being expressed, rather than repressed.

Someone sent me this, and I haven’t a clue where it was taken. The guy on my right with the mustache is dead, and the other guy is retired. I think that’s the summer after I took my discharge, and my last deployment was to Bosnia when the Klinton Regime was still in power here in the US. That’s a long, LONG time ago.

Very nice…. The rest of the aircraft hopefully is coming as well, but that will make a cool standalone build

Nice job, Scott. Me, I can’t nail two sticks together without breaking something, so hats off to y’all.

I’m heartsick for Sabine! I’ve had many long talks over the years with Rowan, and yes, although his health was deteriorating, he still remained passionate about his love of WW1 subjects. God Bless Sabine and all the family, and I pray them Peace and understanding through these difficult times.

Another 38 takes to the air! Great news!

We’ll give it a day or 10 to dry, and start prepping the engine, the wings, and floats.

Check for internal clearances. So far, it all looks really nice. Tonight, we’ll use a bit of oil paint to give it all some grain.

So far, very thing fits as it should. Which isn’t surprising as Lukgraph has been doing this for years.

Let’s build, guys! (And gal)

First we start with a basic cage. Pretty normal stuff for those who build WW1 kits.

Chris, Lukgraph is an outgrowth of Silver Wings, a company we’re all familiar with. Silver Wings went into WW2 stuff, and one of their guys wanted to stay with biplanes, so he started Lukgraph. They have a VERY cool website and, like Silver Wings, are a Polish company. Check it out and check out the esoteric aircraft they give us in 1/32 and 1/48. Here is Lukgraph’s website…. https://lukgraph.pl

Me and my big mouth. 🤣😂🤣😂

Matt posted a reply on LSP. There are two sides to every story and it’s good to hear the other side. Sheds some light on it all. OK folks, let’s wrap this up. We’re beating a dead horse here.

Martin, I found out this: if you look on the pictures, you’ll see a white insulated poking through the left fuselage side below the greenhouse, beside the radio stack. That’s the antenna lead to the overhead dipole antenna. The lead comes down from the strung antenna and goes through the insulator into the radios. It took seeing it on a model build to finally get it.

Good to see you, Vince! Feel free to jump right in. We have a GB that just started where we made it so open ended that almost everything shout of a Panzer lV will qualify.

That’s one difference about this place. I encourage respectful criticism, especially from those I know and love, because I’m not too proud to say that I sometimes make decisions not based in fact, or miss something I could or should have handled. Respectful criticism has its place, at least for me. Nothing may come of it, of course, but I won’t blow you up over honest correction. I base my decisions on personal experience and what I see as (un)common sense, but even those almost perfect people like me still screw up once or twice every decade.

Well said. I’ve deleted people here at their request, and I guess it acts different than theirs. In the end, Maru is here and I’m thrilled

Hey guys, one thing I’ll add here, FYI. Regarding the actual forum hosting sites and software. This is something I didn’t realize until I actually became an Admin and had to follow through on a request from a member to delete his account. When a member requests you delete their account, their previous posts will then show him as a “guest”, and, I hate to say, will, at least in the short term, show him as “Banned”. It’s just a fact. Here at least, that’s how the software does it, so it’s not a vindictive or vengeful act on the part of the Admin. There is also a “Ban Member” spot as well, but either way still shows as “banned”. Yep it sux, but that’s the software. If there’s a different way, well, I don’t know about it. I THINK LSP uses similar software to ours, just with different preferences, settings, and such. Plus, if the member has been a member for an extended period, the deleted member’s previous posts will still show up, as they are out there in the ether. Removing multiple thousands of that person’s previous posts is one serious major PITA and all but impossible to do because every single post has to be deleted individually, one at a time. That means some poor schmuk has to go back, page by page through multiple forums and threads, piece by piece, tracking down multiple thousands of posts, much of it in archived areas. Plus, I’m not sure about all software, but they might even reappear later because nothing is ever really “gone” from the web. So no, I don’t think the final action of the Admin was meant to be hurtful whatsoever. If you request your account be deleted, it’ll show, (at least in the short term) “banned”. I don’t however understand the IP block. As far as I know, that is a separate action all on it’s own. Unless they have it built in to their “actions” somehow. That leaves me scratching my head.