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    How Many Model Shows Will be Cancelled this Year?

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    Well, I’m sick with the decision I had to make today ...

    Since the French government enforced strict quarantine and confinement yesterday, a lot of my customers have shut down their factories. I decided to shut mine down, but it is frankly not clear whether this was necessary. The French politicians keep the verbatim vague enough so that you can interpret it both ways. I guess it’s a way not to be accountable in the future :( ...

    In the meantime, 8 employees and a shareholder in major economic uncertainty :wallbash:

    Hubert

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    PZL P11c colors

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    I think I found one ! 
    In 1934, PZL attended the Paris Airshow with the prototype P11/IV, with the Mercury engine, in a show livery of white and red trim.

    Hereafter are two pics, shown applying Fair Use principles. On the first pic, the P11 is in the back, whilst the P24 prototype is in the forefront.
     

    Plus a link to the digital imaging forum Military-meshes.com, where a Polish member did 3D renderings.

    http://www.military-meshes.com/forum/showthread.php?7392-PZL-P-11c/page4

    And, also, for nostalgia’s sake for our friends who lived behind the Iron Curtain, an excerpt of a color profile published in Plany Modelarskie #91, in 1979. The colors are wrong, as the aircraft was white (logical to have a display Polish aircraft in Polish colors), but I am sure someone (Martinn ?) will have fond memories of these publications. The smell and touch of the paper alone are unique.

    One last comment. The #IV prototype was later re-engined with a Gnome-Rhone Mistral engine, being a prototype for Romanian exports, but in Paris it had the Mercury.

    So, now, I am itching to get started. Only a lumbago prevents me from sitting long in front of the bench :X:

    Hubert

     

     

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    Need help with aerial wire.

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    Very fine monofilament (like 3lb fishing line) will work better than stretched sprue. It is easy to glue at both ends. And to make it taught, just pass underneath an incandescent matchstick (or toothpick). It will straighten like magic ! And will be inherently stronger more resilient to the occasional knock or wandering finger than stretched sprue ...

    Hubert

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    PZL P11c colors

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    Anyone know or have pics of a PZL P11c in more colourful markings than the plain boring khaki/light blue-gray ?

    I was considering HN-NBN, a civilianised PZL P11 flown in Hungary between 1940 and 1944, but this is an «a » version, which would require butchering the IBG fuselage to be accurate (engine higher by 4 mm, cockpit moved forward by 9.5 mm, new fin and rudder, and overall length decreased by 6.3 mm, including by moving the engine slightly back. All doable, but a lot of work and possibilities to ruin the nice surface detail of the IBG kit, so a non-starter in the end ...

    But this khaki is oh so boring :( 

    Hubert

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    How Many Model Shows Will be Cancelled this Year?

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    So flights from Continental Europe to the US are suspended because « Europe is the new China » when it comes to Covid-19, but not flights from the UK, whose Prime Minister reckoned today that the number of infected people is likely between 5000 and 10000 ... 

    So I guess a Brexit-Covid-19 is less infectious or lethal than an EU-Covid-19. I love it when true science is driving Public Health decisions :poo: :rofl:

    Hubert

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    How Many Model Shows Will be Cancelled this Year?

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    Just going back to the facts, and a bit of history first. 

    The « Spanish flu » (H1N1 coronavirus)  of 1918-1919 killed between 50 and 100 million people, i.e. between 2.5 and 5.0 % of the world population. Btw, it is called « Spanish flu » because Spain was the first country where its impact was realised and measured statistically. Its origin is alleged - without certainty - from the Boston area, but some suppose that it was brought back there by an American contingent coming back from the Guandong area ... Anyway, the virus had a mutation in the fall of 1918, where its lethality and transmissibility was multiplied by 10 to 30.

    This to say that, even though the Public Health management conditions and coordination of the era were less than nowadays :

    1) coronavirus pandemics (Covid-19 is now called a pandemic by the WHO) are to be taken seriously

    2) it just takes an incompetent government, who does not want to measure really the infection or get the number of tests to detect those, or pretend its an overblown hoax, to have an epidemic get out of hand in a flash (yes, I am thinking of some governments in particular, ;) )

    But yes, the media are overplaying it somewhat - when others are downplaying it - and creating some psychosis in the populations of the world.

    It is however, from the real scientists and people whose job is to follow these epidemics, totally wrong to compare Covid-19 to the seasonal flu epidemics, because it is 3 times more infectious than the flu, and 10 times more lethal - and a mortality rate of > 15% among a class age is a really serious threat.
    The flu kills more people each year because millions are infected, rather than thousands, and we seem to care less and not get the media all hyped-up on it because we have gotten used to these seasonal outbreaks, and health organisations have developed preemptive actions like vaccines, which do not exist yet, nor are likely to exist for another 18 months, for Covid-19.

    And consider also that a developed  country like Italy ( in the world’s top-ten economies ) has reached a point where the health system is already overloaded to the point that they lack the resources to take care of all the ill people, and MAKING A DELIBERATE CHOICE of « letting go » some of the Covid-19-affected people - basically the above-85 ...

    We should be happy that some responsible people have learned the lessons of the Spanish flu and put in place the early-warning measures to avoid any such recurrence. The recommended measures ARE disrupting the world somewhat, and the media hype is multiplying the disruptive factors even more. Airlines cancel flight by the thousands, companies are affected by  supply-lines disruptions, markets are in a panic mode ... But imagine what it would like with an outbreak of Spanish flu magnitude, in a world where travel has been multiplied by probably 1000 in the last Century ...

    I take the media-flow with a pinch of salt, but still take the recommended precautions and will reconsider if my travels are necessary. I will not live in an apocalyptic shelter for that, but will not take it lightly either. And, finally, I feel that in the coming years, we will have more Covid-19 outbreaks, and will in the end get used to it, just like with the seasonal flu ...

    Just my :2c:

    Hubert

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    Soo.... What did you just get???

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    Received yesterday #2 of my 2020 « To-buy » list ...

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    The resin pilot inside, and the Master MG barrels are nice additions. Plus the box has an extra version depicted on the box art, slightly less boring than the ones in the standard box : it has white « gull-wing » stripes on the wing top.

    And the inside is drop-dead gorgeous :wub:

    Hubert

     

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    Soo.... What did you just get???

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    10 minutes ago, Sir Desmond Glazebrook said:

    Hubert, 20% off at Hobbyco Sydney. 

    Were you just in Sydney??? I could have sworn I saw you in the Queen Victoria building. 

    No, home in Portugal. Patricia and I envision going down under for our 10th wedding anniversary, but that’s not before 2023 ;)

    Hubert

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    IBG PZL P.11C

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    On 2/21/2020 at 8:56 AM, HubertB said:

    This, and the Silver Wings DH-82 Tiger Moth, and the Lukgraph DH-89 Dragon Rapide and, hopefully, the Fly Saab J-29, and ...

    Ok, I am weak :D

    Hubert

    ... And the Daco Fouga Magister .... 

    It’s gonna be yet another expensive year ... and to think I could also build all of those :rofl:

    Hubert

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