ssculptor

I no longer have a wish list. I just bought the COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2. in 1/32 scale. I have all the rest of the models I ever wanted except for the Consolidated P2Y flying boat (same as Martin P3M-1 and P3M-2). Oh, I also like any other fluying boats in 1/32 or larger scale. Once I make up my mind I am full of indecision.

Happy happy joy joy! I just found a model kit that I have been looking for since I switched over to 1/32 scale the past umpteen zillion years ago. It is COBI TOYS #5754 Dornier DO 17Z-2 in 1/32 scale. Was its existence mentioned in this forum? Yeah I know. I should have been following this forum more often. Shame on me! I have been writing novels for the past 8 years and got all involved in that. Never fear, I am back. Yeah I know, who cares? I just found the kit on ebay. There were three listed so I bought the one that cost about $80, rather than the one listed for over 200 smackers. It was delivered within a week. Right now I am in the middle of my third book and as soon as I can finish writing that I will jump back into modeling. Keep 'em flying.

I love it! TheJug returns to war.

Lets face it guys, no producer is going to spend good money on having accurate replicas of WW1 aeroplanes produced for a movie just for the sake of historical accuracy. Forget about accurate paint jobs. I won't even mention the sappy story lines they use. We are lucky if they give us good flying scenes. Movies made during a war are excusable because their purpose is partially to get young people to run down to the local recruitment office and join up. Also to get the folks who stay home to accept the necessity of sending their children off to war. In any case the movie people are under constant pressure to make a profit. I am a pre-WW2 baby and by the time we reached puberty I and my friends knew it was all hokum. But I enjoyed the war movies made during WW2. By the way my favorite Korean War movie was The Steel Helmet (I think that was the correct name of the film). Also I saw Gung Ho, starring Randolph Scott, nine times until I reached 20 years of age. Over the years I have seen many war movies and I almost always found merit in at least parts of them. OK, so some movies are real stinkers;, especially when they rewrite history to include love interests. But what are you gonna do, they have to make money.

The worst war movie was the one made in Germany earlier this century called The RED BARON, or something like that. They tried to make him over to be a sensitive youth. Somewhat disturbed by all the lives he had taken. He was really more of a stone cold killer in reality. The female lead kept me wondering when she would forget her role in a movie and start yawning. The action scenes were interesting, however.

I agree 100%. If a person does not enjoy one's life then what's the point of living? Of course sometimes reality trips us up, slows us down, makes us change course but that's a part of living.

Hi Mike, Yes long time no see. For the past lifetime I have been making sculpture as my main art form. But I never stopped enjoying model airplanes, ships, military vehicles and G gauge model trains. Some years ago I started writing novels. My first book is The Streamlined Locomotive. Currently my second novel just came out. It is called Dick and Jane Go to War. My writings, as my sculpture are surrealistic and humorous. Dick & Jane Go to War is not as humorous as I see nothing funny about World War One aviation. As soon as I can find time I will make a model of the triplane SE5c which my male main character RFC Leftenant Reginald Pfyff-ffyff Cockup creates. I have a lot of fun writing. The models I make are of airplanes that serve in the armed forces of the hard-to-find Balkans country known as Vulgaria. I mentioned Vulgaria on this forum a number of year ago. I doubt if anyone remembers it. Yours, Stephen

Back during World War Two I was building these and I have been making and accumulating and buying these these solid carved wood aeroplane models ever since. Along with umpteen zillion plastic kits, of course.

as reported by The War Zone Wire <TheWarZone@thedrive.com> Interesting article. Thought some of you might like it. ssculptor

QUESTION< CAN YOU LIST THE LINK TO THE MANUFACTURER? OR AT LEAST THE NAME OF THE COMPANY?

The answer is so obvious. Dandiego is in the state of Dalifornia

i would like one in 1/32 or 1/33 scale as a paper model kit. I like big models. It is not all that hard to copy the paper model onto sheet styrene and then make a plastic model out of it. Problem is not the size, space or money but the time! I am just too busy writing novels and making sculpture. Maybe next year. Ssculptor

For the longest time I have wanted a 1/32 m iodel of the We can only hope. I remember just after WW2 ended when I was a child my neighbor had a 1/72 ID (identification) model from WW2. It was cast in a form of bakelite plastic. I fell in love with that model. But it was not mine; so I put it out of my mind. If my memory serve me right (lots of luck!) I still have a 1/72 kit of it somewhere in my stash (assuming it is still there after a dozen moves in three states, two fires, one flood, etc.). I am gradually cleaning out my basement and two storage lockers and I might even find i?. But I doubt if I will assemble it as I have transferred my mania to 1/32 and larger scales. But now you have given hope to me. A 1/32 scale He-115?! Yes, I have something to look forward to. Hopefully while I can still assemble a model. I am still waiting for a Japanese Kate to appear in 1/32. Stephen

Question, how do I buy the model through Facebook? Is there a special section for doing this?

Where can I buy one of these in 1/32.