02.10.2013, 05:22
Hi Serpiko,
I did it 5 years ago (with the 75% olive 25% beige paintscheme), but no wires. It it a good model that I enjoyed well !
Great review as ususal !!!
Do you have photos of the building (especially when you have worked on the wires, as it would interest me) ?
I permit myself to add an information concerning the fixed forward-firing synchronized machine gun from wikpedia:
' In the early stages of the air war in World War I the problem of mounting a forward-firing machine gun on combat aircraft was considered by a number of individuals. The so-called "interrupter gear" did not come into use until Anthony Fokker developed a synchronization device which had a large impact on air combat; however, Garros also had a significant role in the process of achieving this goal.
As a reconnaissance pilot with the Escadrille MS26, Garros visited the Morane-Saulnier Works[4] in December 1914. Saulnier's work on metal deflector wedges attached to propeller blades was taken forward by Garros; he eventually had a workable installation fitted to his Morane-Saulnier Type L aircraft. Garros achieved the first ever shooting-down of an aircraft by a fighter firing through a tractor propeller, on 1 April 1915; two more victories over German aircraft were achieved on 15 and 18 April 1915.[4]
On 18 April 1915, either Garros' fuel line clogged or, by other accounts, his aircraft was downed by ground fire,[4] and he glided to a landing on the German side of the lines. Garros failed to completely destroy his aircraft before being taken prisoner: most significantly, the gun and armoured propeller remained intact. Legend has it that after examining the plane, German aircraft engineers, led by Fokker, designed the improved interrupter gear system. In fact the work on Fokker's system had been going for at least six months before Garros' aircraft fell into their hands. With the advent of the interrupter gear the tables were turned on the Allies, with Fokker's planes shooting down many Allied aircraft, leading to what became known as the Fokker Scourge. '
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Garr...aviator%29
It is interesting to read in the french page of wikipedia (dealing with Roland Garros) that Morane Saulnier did a patent in April (1914 i suppose) with a synchronized machine gun. Roland Garros improved this system in January 1915:
' His friend Raymond Saulnier succeeds in making him allocate to the entrenched camp of Paris with the aim of finalizing the shooting through the propeller's baldes (system which the engineer imagined to replace the synchronized shooting for which he applied for a patent in April). It is simply a question of armoring every blade of the propeller by using a triangular metallic part diverting bullets. '
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Garros
Difficult to know who did what on the synchronized forward firing system, but here in France, I ofently hear that R Garros and Morane Saulnier did the first system which Fokker improved in April 1915. If somebody has more informations, please share ;o)
So, now Serpiko, WHAT'S NEXT ???
Ted ;o)
I did it 5 years ago (with the 75% olive 25% beige paintscheme), but no wires. It it a good model that I enjoyed well !
Great review as ususal !!!
Do you have photos of the building (especially when you have worked on the wires, as it would interest me) ?
I permit myself to add an information concerning the fixed forward-firing synchronized machine gun from wikpedia:
' In the early stages of the air war in World War I the problem of mounting a forward-firing machine gun on combat aircraft was considered by a number of individuals. The so-called "interrupter gear" did not come into use until Anthony Fokker developed a synchronization device which had a large impact on air combat; however, Garros also had a significant role in the process of achieving this goal.
As a reconnaissance pilot with the Escadrille MS26, Garros visited the Morane-Saulnier Works[4] in December 1914. Saulnier's work on metal deflector wedges attached to propeller blades was taken forward by Garros; he eventually had a workable installation fitted to his Morane-Saulnier Type L aircraft. Garros achieved the first ever shooting-down of an aircraft by a fighter firing through a tractor propeller, on 1 April 1915; two more victories over German aircraft were achieved on 15 and 18 April 1915.[4]
On 18 April 1915, either Garros' fuel line clogged or, by other accounts, his aircraft was downed by ground fire,[4] and he glided to a landing on the German side of the lines. Garros failed to completely destroy his aircraft before being taken prisoner: most significantly, the gun and armoured propeller remained intact. Legend has it that after examining the plane, German aircraft engineers, led by Fokker, designed the improved interrupter gear system. In fact the work on Fokker's system had been going for at least six months before Garros' aircraft fell into their hands. With the advent of the interrupter gear the tables were turned on the Allies, with Fokker's planes shooting down many Allied aircraft, leading to what became known as the Fokker Scourge. '
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Garr...aviator%29
It is interesting to read in the french page of wikipedia (dealing with Roland Garros) that Morane Saulnier did a patent in April (1914 i suppose) with a synchronized machine gun. Roland Garros improved this system in January 1915:
' His friend Raymond Saulnier succeeds in making him allocate to the entrenched camp of Paris with the aim of finalizing the shooting through the propeller's baldes (system which the engineer imagined to replace the synchronized shooting for which he applied for a patent in April). It is simply a question of armoring every blade of the propeller by using a triangular metallic part diverting bullets. '
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Garros
Difficult to know who did what on the synchronized forward firing system, but here in France, I ofently hear that R Garros and Morane Saulnier did the first system which Fokker improved in April 1915. If somebody has more informations, please share ;o)
So, now Serpiko, WHAT'S NEXT ???
Ted ;o)