The Wooksta!: Not a Spitfire Blog - comments thread.

[NARSES2]

In any case, it's the wrong shape.  A similar look to ASH pod on the Firefly I is what I'm aiming for.

Lee

I've an ASH pod and rack from a Special Hobby Firefly Mk I you're more than welcome to.

[kitbasher]

I can't keep up, Lee!

So how many FW190s and Ta152s do you currently have on the go?

[NARSES2]

I can't keep up, Lee!

So how many FW190s and Ta152s do you currently have on the go?

Whatever the answer is, the real challenge will be converting that number into Roman numerals 

[The Wooksta!]

I think there's about ten Ta 152s, and about fifteen 190s of various marks.  And these are at a primed or painted stage.

Don't forget, many of the Fw 190s were built a good 25 years back and abandoned when I gave up on Luftwaffe. I'm having to relearn skills I lost around the same time.
Some of the Ta 152s were part started or finished builds that are being salvaged.

As to keeping track...  Experience, gained from mass producing Spitfires. And I have a Plan, albeit in need of updating.

[kitbasher]

So, Chris, approx XXV.

[Rheged]

"Went into the loft to check though the 2 boxes of part started Me P.1101s, only to find I have far too many. I mean, I can come up with ideas for three, but not the rest. "

Some suggestions (most if not all of which have probably occurred to you already)
Swedish  interned
Swiss interned
RAF captured  with an AIRMIN  number
USAAF  equivalent
USSR equivalent
French Armee de l'Aire 1948
Argentinian  prototype c1949

I'm sure that our colleagues can suggest many more.

[The Wooksta!]

Thanks for the help but there's several that are outright bans:

Switzerland was complicit in the Holocaust, allowing trainloads of Italian Jews to transit their territory en route to Auschwitz and then fencing gold ripped from their cold dead mouths. Not to mention their banks making profits by keeping cash, jewels and art deposited by Jews later exterminated by the Nazis.

I never do anything in US or French markings, whilst Argentina was very happy to employ Nazi war criminals. Actually, so was the US - and before any of our US cohort start complaining, look up the records of Ernst Strughold, Artur Rudolf and Kurt Debus, all of whom had the blood of slave workers dripping from their hands and all of whom were employed in high up positions by NASA.

I tend to avoid Soviet stuff for the same 'I never do genocidal psychopath regime' reasons.  All of my Isreali markings are going in the bin for that same reason.

[NARSES2]

So, Chris, approx XXV.

I thought we'd of been in the "M's or the C's" 

[Gondor]

The date might be MMXXIV and you might like to be in the 1200's if you like cricket.

Gondor

[Rheged]

Thanks for the help but there's several that are outright bans:

Switzerland was complicit in the Holocaust, allowing trainloads of Italian Jews to transit their territory en route to Auschwitz and then fencing gold ripped from their cold dead mouths. Not to mention their banks making profits by keeping cash, jewels and art deposited by Jews later exterminated by the Nazis.

I never do anything in US or French markings, whilst Argentina was very happy to employ Nazi war criminals. Actually, so was the US - and before any of our US cohort start complaining, look up the records of Ernst Strughold, Artur Rudolf and Kurt Debus, all of whom had the blood of slave workers dripping from their hands and all of whom were employed in high up positions by NASA.

I tend to avoid Soviet stuff for the same 'I never do genocidal psychopath regime' reasons.  All of my Isreali markings are going in the bin for that same reason.

I appreciate  and  very much admire your statement of what is obviously a strongly held principle.    Should I  make any further suggestions at any time , I will attempt to bear these in mind.

[Nick]

Thanks for the help but there's several that are outright bans:

Switzerland was complicit in the Holocaust, allowing trainloads of Italian Jews to transit their territory en route to Auschwitz and then fencing gold ripped from their cold dead mouths. Not to mention their banks making profits by keeping cash, jewels and art deposited by Jews later exterminated by the Nazis.

I never do anything in US or French markings, whilst Argentina was very happy to employ Nazi war criminals. Actually, so was the US - and before any of our US cohort start complaining, look up the records of Ernst Strughold, Artur Rudolf and Kurt Debus, all of whom had the blood of slave workers dripping from their hands and all of whom were employed in high up positions by NASA.

I tend to avoid Soviet stuff for the same 'I never do genocidal psychopath regime' reasons.  All of my Isreali markings are going in the bin for that same reason.

A good set of reasons there.
Given what you say about Argentina, would the same apply to India's HF-24 Marut, or Egypt's Ha-300?

[kitbasher]

And the Spanish Hispano HA-100 and HA-200?

[The Wooksta!]

Good questions but I was thinking more of the nazi war criminals who escaped there, as opposed to aircraft engineers.  Mind, I rarely do Egyptian stuff anyway.

Incidentally, the coup that installed Nasser was organised by the CIA and used Otto Skorzeny as a cut out.

[NARSES2]

Right Lee has asked me to move these comments from the "Not a Spitfire Blog" to here and I'm afraid it's far easier to simply copy/paste/delete then to actually move comments. The later requires splitting, then merging and can get very messy and time consuming, so I take the shortcut.


So here's Lost Cosmonauts post -

Imminent my dear chap, imminent. I found and fixed the problem with the wings (a software glitch had created an impossible geometry) so that is hopefully that.

Printers are running in Tim's capable hands so depending on post office hours and ferries running (they're already off today scuppering my plans) you might have it Tuesday. Not sure on spare nose wheels in this parcel as we're trying to get the complete kits out but if a print screws up and there is a salvageable wheel in among the wreckage it'll find itself in the same parcel

[NARSES2]

And here's mine

Quote from: Lost Cosmonauts on Yesterday at 05:01:28 AM
Printers are running in Tim's capable hands


Can I ask a rather basic question simply to satisfy my own inquisitiveness ? How long does it take to print a kit like this ?