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Build Thread, Page : [ 1 ]  2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   11   >>  (494 posts, 20 posts per page, 25 pages in total) [ Next > ]
John M Oshust, Comment for image # 3101715 Feb 17 16:20
Something resembling a large gorilla 🦍. A theme for a plane of which only one was built that has maybe four photos for reference; yes a fantasy build as to details. It will be an observation craft with aerial camera and rear Lewis gun for defense.
LASTWOODSMAN, Comment for image # 3101715 Feb 17 14:19
John - "nifty" pilot on your Ansoldo A.1 Balilla - actually they all have nifty pilots. Any thoughts as to what kind of pilot you will make for the "Baboon"? Do you have an overall "theme" for the Baboon build?
John M Oshust, Comment for image # 3380205 Apr 15 22:05
The eggs are for Orthodox Easter which falls next Sunday this year. Will post next Sunday....Easter two, this year!
JohnG., Comment for image # 3380205 Apr 15 17:40
Aha....the butter lamb. Did you do the traditional eggs as well??
John M Oshust, Comment for image # 3380205 Apr 15 15:51
JG, My phalanges need to work delicately around everything. I was wise in starting large, to go small, with this airscrew. I made a correctable error that could have sent the whole prop to the recycle bin! Fortunately the fingers still permit me to make lamb sculptures from butter. A skill my Grandmother taught to me many years past.
JohnG., Comment for image # 3380205 Apr 15 14:52
Coming along nicely....suspect your touch needs to be fairly delicate near and around the hub.
John M Oshust, Comment for image # 3349116 Mar 15 17:16
rayl,If I remember correctly they carried only 40 rounds per canister. Extra canisters were stashed in the cockpit. It must have been a real hoot to change them out and fly at the same time. I have a photo in my reference book that shows a BE with three upper foil mounted guns. Three Lewis plus the Vickers on the fuselage, was quite a mass to get airborn.
John M Oshust, Comment for image # 3349116 Mar 15 17:11
They will, like the real guns, be fired by a wire and a ringed handle. Wing mounted guns were always retrofitted with a remote firing mechanism, as was the fuselage mounted Vickers.
rayl, Comment for image # 3349116 Mar 15 17:01
Another question to follow up John's: With a 40 (or so) Kg of guns and a 100 K/Hr (or so)breeze over the wing I wonder how many unlucky pilots "ate" those Lewis guns trying to reload them. OUCH!
Don C, Comment for image # 3349116 Mar 15 16:50
Assuming your pilot's arms are regular length,and far be it from me to make any assumption concerning your artistry, what kind of apparatus does he have to reach the trigger(s)?
julinick, Comment for image # 3348916 Mar 15 15:45
Very sweet John!!! Hate to have those guns on my tail!!
John M Oshust, Comment for image # 3346514 Mar 15 09:03
The rockets, on the wings of planes back then, were just large fireworks like bottle rockets.
Xanadu, Comment for image # 3346514 Mar 15 09:02
So sorry to hear that Gumby needs a root canal. I hate them, but well worth in the end.
BriandKilby, Comment for image # 3346514 Mar 15 08:50
I remember seeing the sterling kits with the option of shooting rockets.
BriandKilby, Comment for image # 3346514 Mar 15 08:49
It would be neat to see them shoot rockets!
meku, Comment for image # 3346514 Mar 15 07:53
Beautiful, lots of great very nicely made all the details on that plane, beautiful work ... Master !!!
John M Oshust, Comment for image # 3346513 Mar 15 20:30
Brian, the BE12a also had bomb racks and wing strut mounted rockets. A flying weapons platform with large wings with targets painted upon them!
BriandKilby, Comment for image # 3346513 Mar 15 20:08
it's that or dropping bombs out of the cockpit.
John M Oshust, Comment for image # 3346513 Mar 15 19:17
Thank you. Great place to locate an auxillery tank over the pilots head. I guess that no one cared if the pilot received a gasoline shower. The tank mounts on the ventral side of the port upper wing, next to the cabane struts.
julinick, Comment for image # 3346513 Mar 15 19:02
Very nice fabrication John.
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