Both, if they have it! eg - Ace: Duane Beeson, AC: P-51B Mustang, Name: Boise Bee.
What ever you think will suffice eg- Ace: Duane Beeson, AC: P-51B Mustang, Name: Boise Bee.
Well Jay you know i’m in on this one and you know i was planning on doing the Sopwith Triplane flown by R A Little but i’ve changed my mind since the last SQD order and decided to do the Triplane for the next Aussie GB, for this one and i think you will like my choice i’m going to build the Roden 1/48 SE5A flown by the Great Canadian Ace Billy Bishop[tup]
Nieuport scout (later switched to SE5)
P-51D mustang “Glamorous Glennis III”
La-7
F6F Hellcat “Minsi”
Hawker Hurricane (also flew spitfires occasionally)
P-51D Mustang “Big Beautiful Doll”
Spitfire MK IXc
P-38 Lightning (“Marge” and picture of his wife on the side)
Nieuport 17
I think that about covers it. [:D] Oh BTW, if I do do my La-7 for this build it might be for soviet ace Alexei Sergeivich Kumanichkin -35 victories.
Someone really should do Eddie Rickenbacker for this build.
BTW (again) is anyone planning an “Axis Ace” GB? I mean someone needs to build Richthofen, Hartmann, Galland, Bar, Marseilles, Wick, Hahn, Immelman, Udet, Lowenhardt, and of course Boelcke.
Hey there Jay, found the site. I think I’ll do Adriano Visconti from Italy. TheCraftworks Macchi 202/05 was the first kit I got on my quest to aquire all the aces aircraft. I just love the lines of the Greyhound especially in that mottled grey camo. Plus I got that book on how to build resin models which features the Craftworks kit. I figure its a perfect time to tackle the resin beast figurin since three other of my kits are resin also. The buffalo, P-51B, La-5 are all resin as is the conversion kits for my three different Spitfires. All I’m waitin on is a 1/32 Tempest so I can do Closteterman. I could do another Spit but I’ve got three different ones as it is. Sorry to ramble just stoked to be amongst brethren.
TL
Jules - Right on, will add you to the front page.[tup]
Tanky - Wooverstone8 is doing Rickenbacker, and actually Nungessers is a Spad XIII.
Deathbringer, Sorry but Visconti flew for Fascist Italy, allied with Nazi Germany so he is not valid for this build. You must pick an allied ace.
This looks interesting and plenty of time to start. I would like to join with something different, a 1/48 Classic Airframes Curtiss Hawk III bi-plane in the markings of pilot Arthur Chin - Chinese/American Ace (born in Portland, Orgeon) with 9 kills before he was shot down and wounded in 1939. Recoginzed as one of America’s first aces in WWII by Hall of Fame of the American Airpower Heritage Museum. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross in 1995.
drat! [:(] I had some toruble finding out stuff on nungesser.
Waikong, that is such a cool and interesting subject! I’ve never heard of him. That is why I love these GBs! You get to learn all sorts of neat things. I will add you to the front page!
Tanky, don’t be so hard on yourself, I didn’t realize it but for being such a Famous French ace of WW1 he only had 13 victories, he was a pow for part of the war though.
Did you know that all of John D. Landers’s aircraft had the name Big Doll or some sort of deriviative? His P-40 in New Guinea was called “Big Doll”. I would love to build that P-40 but I have never seen a decal set for it. I guess I should look a little harder.
Oh my bad, I looked right at the “Allied Aces” and ignored it. Since its allies, I’ll probably do the Czech ace Karel Kuttelwascher’s night fighting Hurricane or NZ Falkland Grey’s Mk XIV Spit. I’ve got warbirds conversion kit including the wings which would give me good resin experience.
TL
“This is my Graceland”
That’s more like it Deathbringer, got you added to the front!
Hey Jay, can you point me to the thread where it explains how to post pictures as part of your signature. The FS faq tells what avatar is but nothing seems to happen when I follow the spartan instructions. It says my remote avatar is disabled, but i’ve enabled it by checking the above box. I’m at a loss, is there a probation period ? I want a pic next to my name! WAAHHH! Any help is much abliged. Thanks TL
First off you need a webhost for pictures, I use Photobucket. Then make a picture (.bmp, .jpg, .tif, .gif) you want to use in your sig. My GB badges and the current project pic of the three planes are two separate images. To grab the GB badge, right click on the badge you want and download it your computer, then add it and what ever else you want in the signature pic to your photobucket account and use the [img] tags for the pic you want.
To use the [img] tags, you must go into the update your profile. In the signature box add any text you want and to add the pic. The [img] tags will be addd to the text in the sig box and will look like this: [+img+]http://the addressofyourhost/youacct/thename_of_the_pic [/img+]. I added the + symbol or else it would try to find the non-existant pic I tried to point it to. take the + out.
To add an avatar, save a pic of yourself or what ever you want to use (like my Conan!) on your hard drive some where and use the browse button in the avatar section to go to that spot where you saved the pic, hit update. it will take a few minutes for it to appear.
Also be careful of the size of the image as there are supposedly limits for sig pics according to the sticky post near the top of the GB section!
go nuts dude!
…Hope this helps!
GRRRRR… MUST RESIST!!!
Resistance is futile.
MUST RESIST!!! GGRRRRR… I may jump in near the end…I’ll be back.
[}:)] You know you want to!
Karl
Jay i’m gonna have to switch back to the Sopwith Triplane for this build for reasons that i have explained over in thew Canadian GB[tup]
Jay put me done as a starter for this one please. I will probably build a P-47 from the 56FG (The Wolf Pack), but whose I have no idea just at the moment.
Cheers
Great, I got you on the front page now Darren. We just have to get Tom, Tweety and Pingy in and we’ve got the “Usual Suspects” taken care of![;)]
Okay Jay, you can put me down for a 1/72 Academy Corsair. The kit decals are for Blackburn and DeLong but if I can scare up a decal set for Don Sheppard’s mount I’d rather do that one. I’ll see what I can dig up in the next few months but for now put me down for Blackburn’s Big Hog.
Dave for a Canadian Corsair, check out www.canmilair.com I’m thinking of ordering Lt. Hornells Canso decals from this guy. He might have Don Sheppard’s decals. Make sure you sand down the wing tips to make them clipped!
If you just picked up a F-6F Hellcat, why not Bill Atkinson’s FAA bird , he was a 6 victory ace in the Pacific. And he is still surviving in Vancouver!, maybe you could go visit him?
I’ll add you to the front.