Welcome to Papa695's Bi plane GB. Chat thread

[adt70hk]

I've got a couple of possibilities..... An Eduard 1/48 ProfiPack C.II or the B-534....a Czech 1930s biplane....same vintage as the Gladiator and NO rigging!!

[Lee Drennen]

NO rigging!!

Yes me too Andrew I’m just not up to it anymore

[Steve-the-Duck]

No rigging is cheating! No, wait...
There's an interesting subset in itself, un-rigged biplanes

[Lee Drennen]

No rigging is cheating! No, wait...

Guess I’m out

[papa 695]

Guess I’m out

You don’t have to rig it if you don’t want to, it’s still a Bi-plane.

[Lee Drennen]

You don’t have to rig it if you don’t want to, it’s still a Bi-plane.

Ok Ian I appreciate it. Guess I’m back in

[Dave Ward]

Get one of these,
build it - then "of course it's rigged! can't you see it?". Joking aside, I bet there's someone out there who can do it!
Dave

[stillp]

There was an octogenarian on a club display at the Midland Air Museum show last week who had rigged several 1:144 biplanes, with fishing line. He'd also made a motorbike in the same scale - with spoked wheels, fishing line again!
When I can figure out to to move photos from my new phone to the computer I'll post them.
Pete

[colin m]

Right, I'm in. I have permission to sign up as, I believe, Father Christmas will be nice to me. Quite what my subject will be - I have no idea. But I did explain clearly, what a bi-plane is. This could go one way or the other !

[stillp]

There was an octogenarian on a club display at the Midland Air Museum show last week who had rigged several 1:144 biplanes, with fishing line. He'd also made a motorbike in the same scale - with spoked wheels, fishing line again!
When I can figure out to to move photos from my new phone to the computer I'll post them.
Pete

He'd also hand painted lozenge camo:

Sorry, I thought I'd photographed the rigging and the motorbike, but apparently not - my new phone had other ideas.
Pete

[Tim Marlow]

That’s incredible.

[papa 695]

Right, I'm in. I have permission to sign up as, I believe, Father Christmas will be nice to me. Quite what my subject will be - I have no idea. But I did explain clearly, what a bi-plane is. This could go one way or the other !

Nice to have you aboard Colin.

[Steve-the-Duck]

Those are 1/144?
Oh
My
God
How did he get the lozenge so regular?

[The Smythe Meister]

Those are 1/144?
Oh
My
God
How did he get the lozenge so regular?

If your cold's bad enough then any Lozenge will do :thumb2:

[stillp]

Those are 1/144?
Oh
My
God
How did he get the lozenge so regular?

Patience, he told me. There were a few places where his hand had shaken a little, but I had to look really hard to find any blemishes.
Pete