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It is an Albatros D Va reproduction, quite well done from what I saw. I have not been able to get any pictures of it on the museum website (San Diego Aerospace Museum) but could take some next time I am there. The link below on Proctor's website shows a model which I think is the same color scheme. http://www.proctor-enterprises.com/photo_gallery/albatros/images/albatros6a-w.jpg
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While I am waiting for my kit to arrive from Europe, I have started working on my garage/studio space by adding some ceiling mounted eyebolts to hang models from. I had six of these plus two shelf mounted thingies for smaller (electric) models. Now I have EIGHT on the ceiling, including the two new ones put up today. This will take my VK Camel off the building table, making room for the PUP!. The other eyebolt is reserved for a future project (maybe a 1/6th scale Aerodrome Albatros or AZ Modelcrafters Siemens Shuckert?). In the meantime, Jeff is getting way ahead of me with his Balsa USA Pup build, featured in another thread here.
ORIGINAL: allanflowers In the meantime, Jeff is getting way ahead of me with his Balsa USA Pup build, featured in another thread here.
The clock only starts ticking the day the kit arrives!
Which hopefully won't be too long now. The kit was mailed mid last week, so expect it to arrive late this or early next week (if it doesn't get stuck in the Christmas mail). Let us know when it arrives
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!! The box arrived from Germany this afternoon. It is complete except for the acid etched parts which are being sent separately as they were on back order when the main kit was being boxed. With an international shipment, a little damage is not surprising and there was a little. The 1/16" sheet horizontal stab is broken on one side. No problem to fix it and I should be into the build by the end of next week, if I survive Christmas holiday. The pix of the box is after I removed the misc. packing material and looks kinda empty. In reality, there is a LOT of stuff in there so I will be busy.
< Message edited by allanflowers -- 12/23/2007 1:25:27 AM >
Allan, I'm glad it finally arrived. I would be interested in finding out where it was in the last weeks. Are there any customs or FBI clearance stickers etc on the box? It was mailed from here in Germany Nov 29 and arrived in San Diego three weeks and two days later using regular (that is non first class) Airmail. Apparently the box arrived in the US on Dec 1st, so it took three weeks to the day to get from point a to point b in the US, which really confused Allan and me. We were both expecting it to arrive much earlier. The big question to all modellers is; is three weeks and two days delivery time too long? Using regular airmail helps keeping the costs down because first class airmail can easily add 50$ to your shipping costs, and then you'll only have it about a week or ten days sooner. Allan, thanks for the heads up on that stab core. It also looks as if it broke free from the backing sheet so I'm going to have to stick it to a piece of cardboard in future to brevent it from breaking. Enjoy your holidays, and let us all know what you think once you've had time to thoroughly inspect the package. CT
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I found no indication on the box to explain where it has been. On the stab core piece, it wasn't out of the sheet until I took it out but the one end got a little bent. Taping it to a piece of cardboard, or one of the other sheet stacks, might be a good idea for shipping but you can never totally compensate for the Neanderthals who might be handling it along the way. Tomorrow I will open up the drawings and start to make working copies where necessary. That cowl is very nicely detailed, by the way.
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Okay... I just did an inventory of the kit contents. Took over an hour. LOTS of sheets/parts in that box. My legs are sore. I notice all the wood is cut with a router rather than laser, which is fine. A few times I thought there were parts missing but found the parts on that sheet loose in a bag. Of course the acid etch parts are coming in a separate shipment, hopefully within the week. This kit has a zillion wood parts but makes no attempt to provide all the metal hardware. Even the axle and some of the LG parts will have to be provided by me. I think there will be some other "builder provided" parts as well, once I get into it. The cowl, as mentioned before is nicely done, complete with little bumps to indicate rivets. I will probably aluminum foil this part for a bright look. My photo of it looks funny because the static electricity on it picked up a lot of sawdust in my shop. Maybe it is time to vacuum? On Weds. I will make copies of a few of the drawings to build over. The drawings, by the way, are really nicely done, not like your usual fuzzy thick-lined hand-drawn plan drawings with the wood grain shown on every shaggy part. The details are obviously very well thought out and carefully delineated. These drawings are masterpieces and I don't want to cut them up anymore than necessary. I may draw over them with some roll vellum if commercial prints are not accurate to size. There are lots of decisions to make before I get going, like how to do the aileron servos. On the drawing they are powered by a single standard size servo mounted in the fuselage driving pushrods and bell cranks. The upper wing ailerons are connected by a thin pushrod in a tube (from side to side) and connected to the lower ones with 1mm wire rod. This is a very scale way to do it but I might consider twin mini servos in the lower wing instead. Frank Sopwith did that on the CD Scaledesigns prototype and that's how I did my VK Camel too.
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Jeff, you're getting way ahead of me with your Pup. Slow down! Actually I am watching it daily and, by leading the way, your build will be a big help. Unfortunately I have to get some components like fuel tank, brass tubing, music wire, etc. before I can really get going.
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ORIGINAL: allanflowers
Jeff, you're getting way ahead of me with your Pup. Slow down! Actually I am watching it daily and, by leading the way, your build will be a big help. Unfortunately I have to get some components like fuel tank, brass tubing, music wire, etc. before I can really get going.
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