John Damn! you are really, really, good at making this sh-,uh this stuff. many Cudos for your time spent on the Thousands and Thousands of rigging details. A truly masterful result! Wildman
On Oct 5, 1:28 pm, "John Freeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The Sopwith Gunbus, in its original configuration, was a floatplane. Ordered > by the Greek government in 1914, the six planes on order never made it to > Greece--they were commandeered by the British Admiralty when war was > declared five months later. This model is of the later landplane version. > Originally designed with a 100hp Gnome rotary engine, it was later > reconfigured with a 150hp water cooled eight cylinder Sunbeam engine, and > lengthened a little bit. This model is the later version. Even with this > more powerful engine it took 15 minutes to climb to 3,500 feet. > > Even though it was not a very successful flying machine, it was Sopwith's > first "fighter." 29 were built, but only 12 of them by Sopwith. The other 17 > were built by Robey and Co. It is the delivery of one of these that is > depicted in this model. The planes were delivered with the wings detached > and crated separately, then assembled at the airfield. > > This model is by Jim Fainges, a very talented Australian designer who, > unfortunately, has not published many of his large collection of models. His > model of the Bristol Bulldog was made available through this list several > years ago. You can also get a CD of his models of Those Magnificent Men and > their Flying Machines from Fiddlers Green http://www.fiddlersgreen.net/ > Fiddlers Green is struggling to get back online, so try them later. > > The main problem building this model was the boredom of installing the eight > or ten thousand bits of rigging. OK, maybe that's a slight exaggeration--it > just seemed like eight or ten thousand. > > I am attaching in the next letter some pictures of the real thing, as well > as the old newspaper photos that inspired Jim to design this model. > > -- > John Freeman > Check us out at--http://2oldkiters.smugmug.com/ > > 1 sm.jpg > 73KViewDownload > > 4 sm.jpg > 79KViewDownload > > 5 sm.jpg > 72KViewDownload > > 8 sm.jpg > 52KViewDownload > > 11 sm.jpg > 66KViewDownload --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Papermodels II" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Papermodels?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
