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| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 31017 | 15 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 # 31017 | 15 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 # 33802 | 05 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 # 33802 | 05 Apr 15 17:40 |
| Aha....the butter lamb. Did you do the traditional eggs as well?? |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 33802 | 05 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.
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| JohnG., Comment for image # 33802 | 05 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 # 33491 | 16 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 # 33491 | 16 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 # 33491 | 16 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 # 33491 | 16 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 # 33489 | 16 Mar 15 15:45 |
| Very sweet John!!! Hate to have those guns on my tail!! |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 33465 | 14 Mar 15 09:03 |
| The rockets, on the wings of planes back then, were just large fireworks like bottle rockets. |
| Xanadu, Comment for image # 33465 | 14 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 # 33465 | 14 Mar 15 08:50 |
| I remember seeing the sterling kits with the option of shooting rockets. |
| BriandKilby, Comment for image # 33465 | 14 Mar 15 08:49 |
| It would be neat to see them shoot rockets! |
| meku, Comment for image # 33465 | 14 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 # 33465 | 13 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 # 33465 | 13 Mar 15 20:08 |
| it's that or dropping bombs out of the cockpit. |
| John M Oshust, Comment for image # 33465 | 13 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 # 33465 | 13 Mar 15 19:02 |
| Very nice fabrication John. |
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