I've just had a look...great specialist site...obviously quality and detail come at a price.

They manage to have great pictures of the most minute details. That's the only reason I knew about the ropes holding the gear mountings on the Bleriot.

With nothing else to do I went ahead and prepped the upper wing. This one only took about two hours total. It won't be mounted until the fuselage is painted, but it's ready now.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps16aa1fee.jpg

Looks kinda big.

What scale is this? :hmmm:

ROFLMAO....follow the thread or at least read before you post :o

:):03:

Leave 'im alone, Jim. He can't help himself.


Umm...

LOL :)

Well, the book didn't come Friday, and it didn't come Saturday, so today I decided to work on some more ships. This is the Scout class of 1885. Called 'Torpedo Cruisers', they were the first attempt to make a seagoing torpedo boat. Later they were reclassified as '3rd Class Cruisers'.

The ships were about the size of a WW2 destroyer. While this makes them small compared to a battleship, alongside a locomotive they were huge. It's hard to look at a tiny model and remember that these ships were 225 feet long and displaced 1,600 tons.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps543d1a63.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps847a76e1.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a3...ps80374c55.jpg

Ah...foot in mouth once again. :har:

I've been following the thread but I forget some of the details.

That must be a close up picture because 1:72 looks smaller than that. :hmmm:

Take another look at post #143. The Voisin had a body barely big enough to fit the two crewmen, but it had a 48' wingspan, ten feet more than a P-38 and almost half that of a B-17.

I'm a bit out of proportion on my thinking then. :doh:

I know how scale works and a 1:72 B-29 is going to be a lot bigger than a 1:72 WW1 bomber (or fighter? I don't know. Not too familiar with WW1 aircraft). :hmmm:

This thing just looked huge when I saw the wing...but now that I see a little bit more of it I can understand it now.

It'll be more clear when the pilots are in.

On the other hand they had some huge bombers - the Zeppelin Staaken was nearly as big as a B-29.

:o That's a big bomber for a WW1 era... I didn't think they got that big.

I've just googled it and saw a picture.

I wonder what kind of bomb load these things carried. I wouldn't think a whole lot since WW1 aircraft were like wood and cloth mostly ( IIRC ).

:hmmm:

The R.VI carried 2000 kilos of bombs (about 4400 pounds). The problem wasn't the construction (the Junkers J.I attack plane was not only made of metal but was armored) so much as the available power. The R.VI's top speed was only 84 mph.

I believe the wingspan was greater to compensate for the lack of thrust the early engines had...or how else could they fly? :)