Im so happy!

Wow! Congratulations, Jules! I've never known someone who got their model into a museum. BTW, I don't think that one is a 'crap' job. :)

Bill Banaszak

Did somebody _finally_ get the fact that the wings have anhedral on them right, and tell you to position them that way on the model? Because, if they don't, 9 out of 10 modelers are going to stick them on at a 90 degree angle to the fuselage and start filling in the gap at the bottom inside edge.

Pat

Oh yeah? I've got this little 4' x 8' baby here in my hometown of Jamestown, North Dakota:

got interviewed on statewide TV about building that thing, and detailed it right down to the brass belt buckles on the the 100+ HO scales troops on the diorama... that's built on a accurate model of the terrain it sat on from the original elevation maps from the time period of the mid-late 1800's. That model even has paths worn into the grass from the enlisted men's quarters to the outdoor latrines. And no, although my name is "Pat", it's for "Patrick", not the woman who's standing next to it. Don't have a clue who she is. The story of its building is odd indeed, since it concerns a gay Catholic monk, his Jewish lover, and...don't even get me started...let's just say it was a unique model-building project, and I learned a lot about the Holocaust and gay rights while doing it. :-D

Pat

Well im pleased as punch...just for the email, i love that museum, the little guy who will walk around with you if you want and tell you stuff, loves his job, but he talks so fast in German...and he recognises me year after year. Cant wait to go back and see the new exhibits.

Again this year i took another model, the Dodge Challenger from V point (why you ask for a old DDR guy, i wont bore you with the details) for my ex's father Rainer, and this was his reply...

Hallo Jules,

letztes Wochenende waren wir zum Arbeiten (Holzhacken) in Berlin bei Helmut. Jules, vielen, vielen Dank für das Dodge Challenger-Modell aus Vanishing Point!!! Ganz wichtig sind die Bremsspuren und der Zaun. In unserem neuen Sommerhäuschen hat es schon einen Ehrenplatz bekommen und auch den Film werde ich mir bald wieder anschauen.

Wenn Du nichts dagegen hast, würde ich Dein kleines Mig-Modell (mit dem mitgeschickten Bild von Dir und dem Museumsführer) als Geschenk von Dir als begeistertem Besucher des Flugzeugmuseums Rothenburg dem Museum übergeben? Wie denkst Du darüber? ______________________________ Well i have a idea for the next gift i make him...A T34, which was the last to roll into Germany, and is now mounted as a monument. I forgot i had this foto, the DDR museum gives a link to the page on my site

Can anyone tell me which T34 it is....and which would be a good cheapish kit in 48th or 35th..

Pretty cool, Pat. The plaque says "Patrick Flannery" so I wouldn't have confused you and the lady. (BTW, I like redheads but she'd certainly be safe around me.) I finally had to haul out the atlas and find Jamestown. You do have some interesting place names around you. Vashti? Wasn't she a character on ST/NG? ;)

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

I've never seen a Starfighter in that camouflage scheme before; is the bottom of the aircraft camouflaged too? The tank is a T-34/85, details of how to identify the exact sub-type are here:

are quite a few models available of T-34/85s in many scales.

Pat

im sure it is, but thats from memory, so i could be wrong....im not into the startfighter, or the bronco, and only took fotos cos i was stood next to them.

thanks, will take a look

I think I've seen that on some F-4Fs and Tornadoes. It's probably 'official' in that the Luftwaffe ground crews painted it with those colours.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

Yep, the book dates to 1960. I have a newer one but it's a trifle huge and not quite as detailed with respect to town locations. According to this map that was a Northern Pacific line through Vashti.

I think it was over the summer that CBS News ran a story on a little town out there on the prairie that consists of one person. It was shown on a Friday night and IIRC, I was lucky and Miss Perky from the Today Show was off. Anyway, the lady who is the town is stating so the folks on the farms around her have someplace to go for a change of scene. That, and her husband is buried there. I had an experience a bit like yours when I went up to the northern side of Pa. to see Sayre. It used to be a large railroad facility of the Lehigh Valley RR and I've seen many pics of the place. The town is still there but the facilities have completely disappeared. All that I found to look at were a couple of concrete footings for the oil tank and the walkway bridge that crossed over the tracks. The town's station was partly there and housed a museum, a pizza place and an artist's store. That was 16 years ago so who knows what's there now.

Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.

The rail line is in such poor repair that you could reach down and pull out the railway spikes with your bare hand.

Vashti is still on Google maps BTW, but even less shows up on the satellite images than to the naked eye. I'm not sure I've even found it on the satellite photos.

Pat