Finally, John Jenkins WW1, I'm in!! (1 Viewer)

[chalklands]

Rob now all you need is.......

and.......

then.......

Wayne :wink2:

Great collection Wayne! Is the 'old bill bus' the airfix kit?

Pete

 

[waynepoo]

Great collection Wayne! Is the 'old bill bus' the airfix kit?

Pete

Yes mate it is indeed.
Wayne.

 

[Rob]

Yes mate it is indeed.
Wayne.

You've done a fine job on it mate, great to see this being re issued this year and inspired by one of your dio's featuring it I'll be getting one of them:salute::

Rob

 

[waynepoo]

You've done a fine job on it mate, great to see this being re issued this year and inspired by one of your dio's featuring it I'll be getting one of them:salute::

Rob

Mate it is good that you will get the new issue, the two I got was twenty years or more old...they were a mother to build.... Bob did his magic paint job on them and you saw the results.
Wayne.

 

[Rob]

Mate it is good that you will get the new issue, the two I got was twenty years or more old...they were a mother to build.... Bob did his magic paint job on them and you saw the results.
Wayne.

Cheers Wayne. Thing is mate that in your dio it looks like it was made to go with those JJ Figures, it's that good^&cool

Rob

 

[ivanmoe]

Seeing as how Rob is now a card-carrying member of the JJD warbird society, thought I'd lead him deeper into the bowels of this particular TS money-pit with some more pics. First, a rarely seen bird around these parts, the Blue Maus being driven by a JJ pilot:

Note the matching blue lining on the pilot's helmet. Jenkins thinks of everything! :wink2:

-Moe

 

[jazzeum]

I don't think I will pick up any of the planes because of space but I've picked up the Ehrhardt Armored Car, which I hope to have soon.

 

[ivanmoe]

I don't think I will pick up any of the planes because of space but I've picked up the Ehrhardt Armored Car, which I hope to have soon.

(Not so) funny how often the issue of space comes up with model airplanes. While I'm 100% feeling, not to mention living, Brad's pain, I feel compelled to note that some of the JJD models, the DR.1 and the Nieuport, have much smaller footprints than the larger types. As always, the stands are pretty much a necessity for anyone who want's to maximize his display space. On the other hand, the pilots are no problem at all. Center-stage we have Lowenhardt, Ball and Mannock:

 

[ivanmoe]

Meanwhile, "overhead," we find a couple of Al's favorites, Mannock's SE.5A and Ball's Nieuport:

 

[ivanmoe]

Back on the ground we find the "chocs away" sets hard at work:

I kind of hate that the NCO standing by Roy Brown didn't come out better in the pics. The figure is one of my favorites in the entire JJD line.

 

[jazzeum]

Is all this in a display case Moe?

Brad

 

[ivanmoe]

Is all this in a display case Moe?

Brad

Yessir!:salute::

 

[jazzeum]

Can we get a photo of that, not close up, but far back so to speak. Like to see what kind you have.

 

[ivanmoe]

And look, there's Trevor Howard behind the stick of an Albatros:

Keep this under your helmets; the Queen must never know!:wink2:

 

[ivanmoe]

Can we get a photo of that, not close up, but far back so to speak. Like to see what kind you have.

This where I keep my JJD models and some other TS-oriented items:

Obviously, the cabinet photographs VERY badly. However, Wayne's post above inspired me to stick the camera inside and capture some images. The man all but put the camera in my hand and pushed the button. This is his doing; blame Wayne! :wink2:

 

[ivanmoe]

At a German airbase, perhaps two feet away...

Two schwarzes, subsisting on black bread and alter mann, labor to return Kempf's plane to its park. Kempf had donned his tunic for dinner at the officer's mess. Some things never change.

 

[ivanmoe]

But not all officers are afflicted with bourgeois preoccupation, Weiss is airborne and looking for a scrap:

To be continued... :salute::

 

[jazzeum]

And look, there's Trevor Howard behind the stick of an Albatros:

Keep this under your helmets; the Queen must never know!:wink2:

The Empress Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein already does :wink2:

 

[Jack]

But not all officers are afflicted with bourgeois preoccupation, Weiss is airborne and looking for a scrap:

Using the word bourgeois in a post! If Jenkins is taking model aircraft to another level, surely you have now done the same for the Forum!:salute::

 

[ivanmoe]

Using the word bourgeois in a post!

Nothing of the sort! I keyed in the word BOURBON and the spell checker substituted that other word! ^&confuse:wink2:

However, we mustn't lose track of the fact that Hindenburg and Ludendorff brought more back from the East than a million stosstruppen. The ranks also carried word of a class-struggle that some viewed as more significant than the clash of empires at hand.

But, that's not why I summoned our readers here this evening...

Yes, the Kaiser has reinforcements, but so do the Allies. Yanks they call them, and the newcomers are full of bluster and bite!{sm3}