Go buy a Bristol F2b!
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- Опубликовано: 25 авг 2024
- I built a Bristol Fb2 by Roden in 1/72 scale. Perhaps it's not one of the iconic planes of WWI, but I think it's a great kit to build, and here's why!
Also, here's the link to the Australian War Memorial.
Nice video Prof. My grandfather flew in Bristol Fighters. He was part of the ground crew of a squadron that was posted to Ireland during the Irish War of Independence round about 1920-21. Actually there was not much for them to do but they did deliver mail to the various British army encampments. The plane would fly low over the camp and the guy in the back seat would drop a mail bag over the side. Just to give them a bit of fun pilots would sometimes take members of their ground crew up and have them drop the mail bags. That’s how my grandfather got to fly in that great plane.
That's a neat story! I suppose the IRA didn't operate too many fighter squadrons! Were the Bristols even armed for that mission? Thanks for sharing!
The best autobiography I have read about a Brisfit pilot is "Flying Minnows". He was a huge fan of the aircraft as well. 4 victories, so he called himself a "minnow". :) Wonderful book. [I built an old Brisfit in 1/72 years ago....no clue who made the kit]
Very cool! I'll have to check out that book.
Still remember learning to curse with passion when building Airfix WW1 kits in late 1960s due to aligning struts. Managed ok and had some very good results. Haven't made models since then. Got into woodwork. Searched this after watching a tv programme about last phases of WW1 this evening
I'm glad you found it! What program did you watch? I'm a WWI nerd.
I watched your video because I was looking for advice on how to paint the model. That didn’t happen, however I am impressed with your final build. I’m in the process of a 1/72 build and just hope it looks half as good as yours. The strut fixing has been a challenge to say the least but now all set and cured I’ll move on to painting. If you want to see my end result just get back to me with yeah.
Of course I'd love to see yours! What kind of advice were you looking for, I'd be happy to share what I can.
This is one of my favourite WW1 planes.I have this kit, but as you state, Roden and Toko kits take a lot of patience and expertise. I've built quite a few,but they take time to get right, lots of micro drilling and fitting brass pins,filling,measuring and remeasuring.Please review more WW1 builds.
LOTS of patience! I'll certainly review some more WWI kits. Do you have any requests?
@professorbellbuilds Thanks for the reply. I would suggest reviewing Clearprop's recent release;DH9a 1/72.If you don't know this Ukrainian manufacturer, they are of a similar quality to Arma hobby.I have built it and it is probably the best kit of a two bay WW1 bomber in 1/72.
Photo etch, masks, and quality decals .It goes together well, the undercarriage is a bit tricky, as it needs to support the weight of the finished kit.They are also planning a Russian version.
Arma hobby's Fokker DV111, is another high quality build and a great deal easier in construction.
@@stephenrose1343 I will have to check those out! I have had a few positive experiences with Clearprop, but nothing with their WWI kits (I didn't even know they made any). Unfortunately I don't have either in my stash, and it may be a while before I can afford another shopping spree. I do have a few more WWI kits that I have built that I can review in the meantime, and there are some more waiting to be built. . .
@professorbellbuilds OK, well I always look forward to seeing what you build, best wishes, Stephen.
Good advice about putting a frustrating kit down, I've been working on the Amusing Hobby Conqueror, hard to assemble and poor tracks. I was on the verge of consigning it to the bin when I just decided to put it back in the box and see how I feel in a month. Great article, I have 3 Biffs to build, 2 from Roden, one of the old Airfix. Should be a hoot.
3! That's going to be a LOT of rigging my friend! I assume the brisfit is a personal favorite? I can relate, I must have 10 Mitsubishi Zeros built or in the stash!
it looks like a 1/48 scale. Must be the wings. Great build!
It's a 1/72 all right! I suppose the wings are longer than other fighters though. . .
Loved your video! Thanks for posting! I was searching for an interesting scheme for a Lego model of this aircraft, and the split wing is very curious, especially if we have more models to display.
Thank you! There are a few historical photographs that you can find on the website for the Australian War Memorial. That's cool that you're making a Lego representation. I'd love to see it!
I never made a youtube video showcasing my creations and that is something I really would love to start making. Same with music. I plan to do some shots around christmas time. I will remeber your comment!
The Bristol Fighter is an aircraft that is close to my heart. A great uncle of mine was an observer on 48 Sqn. RFC and later trained in Egypt as a pilot, though he was involved in a couple of bad accidents flying the DH.9A post-war on courier duties in France. I also edited the individual aircraft histories and the related glossary in the recent Air-Britain book of the type, so if you have it and find any errors, you know who to blame 😁. I have always thought that "Biff" was the correct wartime knickname for the aircraft and "Brisfit" was a post-war appellation. But reading a recent article by the late Canadian historian Stewart K. Taylor in a "Cross & Cockade" journal he quotes from an apparently contemporary diary kept by a scout pilot who records escorting "Brisfits" over the lines, so perhaps I need to change my opinion 🤷. Your F.2B is a lovely model and encourages me to have a go at producing mine, perhaps in the markings of one of the aircraft in which a then 2nd Lt. Thomas Cecil Silwood Tuffield would have flown in, known to the family as Cecil.
Wow, that's really cool! If he was in Egypt, I wonder if he ever met any of the AFC boys. I knew Biff and Brisfit were both nicknames, but I never thought about when they were used. I wonder if the slang changed based on region too? You mentioned it was a Canadian Historian, so maybe Brisfit was more common among commonwealth troops. Thanks for sharing!
The Bristol looks great Prof , you might also like to check out the exploits of Air Chief Marshal Sir Keith Park .
Thank you! I think I will check out this Park fellow. . . I just finished Aurthur Gould Lee's "Open Cockpit" and I'm on another WWI frenzy!
For more on the performance of the Brisfit in WW! you can try the novel Winged Victory by VM Yeates published in 1934. This is a fictionalised account of his service in the RFC/RAF in 1918. Well worth a read in its own right. In this book he states that the Germans were wary of the Brisfits, particularly if they were in formation, because of their unusual combination of manoeuvrability (for a bigger plane) and all round fire power.
That sounds familiar, but I don't think I've read it yet. I'll have to add it to my list! Thank you!
The Bristol F2b was strong and agile enough to dog fight single seat fighters and became a formidable opponent for the German fighters and was very successful. Well tidy review.
Thank you!
F2b. I love the job you did on my favorite biplane !
I have 2 of the 1/72 Roden kits and a 1/48 version too, all in various stages of construction. The engine on the larger scale is very impressive. Have you tried molding foil over the cowling to make a scale version and making it removable?
I'm also building the original Airfix kit ( which I had as my first ever kit in 1957) and an odd US kit as well.
My factory is in full production.
Wow! It sounds like you're busy! That cowling idea sounds very intriguing. . .
Love it
Thank you!
I love the paint job you have made a very nice job of this kit 👌 I like the ww1 aircraft I have a se5 from eduard in 1.48 to build what do you use for the rigging happy modelling old boy all the best from here in the UK 👍
Thank you! I used Infini models black lycra rigging material.
Is that 1/48 Scale? I'm retiring in a few months, after Heart Surgery. Fun Fun. After 44 years of Painting Cessna and Beechcraft I give up. I painted the 1st 208 in the Experimental hangar with Kevin Rodgers inside on 2nd shift. It had No thinner in the paint. All they wanted was pictures in the morning. When the Overspray got so bad, Kevin bailed out the Cargo door. After 7 years at Cessna I got Laid of in 86. Bad year. My Dad Died. The Reactor Melted down and they Laid me off. I told all my friends, I'd go to Beechcraft and Paunt the Starships. I didnt believe it. Neither did they. Long Story Short. I painted all the Production Starships 2 to 53. With Charlie Wade as Boss. Best years of my Life. Now I have 100s of Models to Build. I'm still at Beech. Flight Delivery. Working on the longest production aircraft in the world. The Bonanza and Barons. You said you liked Stories so Here Ya go!!! Brisfit was the toughest Plane of WW1. I'll give that!
It's a 1/72, I like the small scales. Good story! Do think painting the models will be more or less tedious than the starships? As for the Brisfit being the toughest. . . I don't know, the Dvii was a beast too. . .
What an awesome build. I do love WW1 aircraft as the spirit of flights evolution just speaks out to you. The difficulty I have is like you said, the wings. Strut alignment is mind bending enough, however its the rigging that is very difficult to make it look like it's real. The most interesting camoflage or rather " art work " schemes is the lozenge. Other schemes were a balance of military unit and the " challenge " color to attract the enemy. I need to go way back in my archives however the French had a unique color that had some interesting properties that " should have been carried foward but for some reason remained dormant after WW1, I'll see if I can do a search, some of my records are like the vaults of the Vatican, no promises but I remember the recipe was lost like Greek Fire. I have several WW1 aircraft and actually hand painted the Fokker D7 ,, with lozenge , using a stencil technique. After completing it I discovered There are actually decals, but I prefer painting. If you'd like a real historical build with incredible rigging, I don't recall manufactuer, I bought it in a past life at the Wright Patterson Museum - its the Wright Flyer - based on your skill I'd say the rigging would look tremendous. Can't remember scale I think 1/48, yours looked like 1/72? On the Australians, they have always been tenacious warriors, the primary history i recall is the Gallipoli Champlain. A high casualty campaign with no real winners. The tenacity of the Diggers wouldn't give up. They had extreme loyalty to the UK at that time, a loyalty I believed has changed since then. Unfortunately a lot of people were called " cowards" and deserters because of shell shock. It wasn't until recent times it was Identified as PTSD. A 1980 the movie Breaker Morant covered it, and I believe On the Western front with Kurt Douglas, my Viking Hero, also covered it for the French. A terrible military misunderstanding resulting in loss of life due to not knowing what the horror of war does to your psyche. But I digress. Once again very remarkable build.
Thank you! (and by the way, I have seen Paths of Glory. Remarkable film!)
@@professorbellbuilds Thanks, Paths of Gory it was, They say the second thing to go is memory, I don't remember the first :-) Glad I mentioned Kurt, ( so many wars so many movies and models.. Some other pilots whose fate was determined by battle fatigue. The Red Barron - determined to have traumatic brain entry - his aircraft the tri plane, also presents wing alignment issues but that red camo less difficult. Another pilot , Medal of Honor awarded, was Thomas McGuire, he was diagnosed with PTSD in today's terms , with obsessive compulsive disorder, In his early war success he loved ordering Charles Lindberg around as he out ranked him. No movie reference but A connection to Hollywood, he and my father graduated flying school together and Rosalind Russell pinned their wings on. My father's intelligence officer was Elliot Arnold, wrote books, movies and Tv series Rawhide Thomas's father owned a Packard car dealership, and on weekends they'd cruise San Antonio in the lasted Packard. Again I digress, Thanks for catching my error, its kind of rate for me :-)
Lovely subjects fiddly as hell. The 1/32nd scale kits are better. I put mine back in the box and bought the Wing Nuts kit instead.
Well done!
And I do agree, clearly the best aircraft design of WWI and the first multi role aircraft!
Thank you! I'm always afraid of the 1/32 kits. I just feel like I'd get lost in the amount of possible detail.
Nice build. Very nice rigging. There's an awful lot there and beyond my dexterity I fear. I have a 1/48 Airfix Walrus I'm going to try it on (at some point). What do you rig with?
Good yarn re the colour scheme. You'd think the canvas colour would be better for the middle east anyway.
Australian War Memorial is great (Canberra). Australian Armour Museum in Cairns is as well.
Gallipoli campaign = debacle = Mr Churchill.
We have a public holiday (ANZAC day) each year to remember it and those who have fallen in all conflicts (It's our Veteran's day). And a joint commemoration with the Turkish people at the site of the landings (a pivotal point for modern Turkish history as well).
And then, in WWII, Britain (Mr Churchill) sort of implied that some of Australia might have to fall to the Japanese Empire as long as India was OK.
So we widened our friendship group because we weren't so keen on the idea. We still keep in touch though.
And my Dad volunteered to fight the Japanese Empire and ended up in a Halifax III over Nazi Germany.
Anyway, I always like to see people enjoying themselves and so build on! I'll be watching.
Cheers, Matt 🦘🦘🦘
Hello, and thank you! I used some black lycra rigging material from infini models. I think it was labeled "fine", but I can't remember if I used the "ultra fine" or not. I know there are a lot of other makers of lycra for rigging, and in my opinion it's the best for taught lines (slack lines not so much). I bet if you do a quick search for "rigging material" at your favorite model website, or ask for it at your favorite shop, they should be able to set you up.
One day I'd love to visit the actual War Memorial. I actually have some cousins in Perth, and at one point in my life I had planned on becoming a pearl diver in Australia and living in an apartment above a bar, but alas. . . I'm still in the US.
Thank you also for sharing your story. I'm not sure how I feel about Churchill. The more I study, the more conflicted I become. I actually just read part of a book which suggested that Churchill bears much of the responsibility for the World Wars. It was interesting, but again, I'm conflicted.
Anyway, wherever he fought I admire your father for his resolve and service, and I'm sure you have good reason to be proud.
Pretty soon I'll be building another Aussie biplane, and I'll show specifically that rigging material I use.
Warm regards, Prof. Bell
Thank you. I just purchased some Infini recently from my local guy recently for aerial cable. We still have a few bricks and mortar hobby shops here in Adelaide.
I just getting back into models after party time, work, university, marriage, kids and a lack of $ that tends to go with such!
Pearl diving was quite an adventurous plan! Aren't those people who deep dive just with held breath amazing. Abalone is also big business diving here now.
Perth is a great place but probably as far as you can get from the USA in Australia. Maybe a good excuse to travel through the rest of the country on the way?
My Dad was one of those blokes who did struggle with the moral conflict that went with his job during the war. I can't imagine the stress. I have flight logs mentioning attacks by a bf109 and a bf110. Also a photo of a group of 12 men from training in Canada, which names them on the back, and then explains that 3 of them flew into the side of a mountain the next night.
Such loss and tragedy for so many. "Through the Eyes of Innocents, Children witness WWII" by Emmy E. Werner is a, well I had to to stop a quite few times reading this.
As for Winston, like all people, historically significant or not, they are all people and all have their foibles (well yes, some a bit more extreme!) and I think there is always danger in seeing leaders/entertainers or whoever as somehow more than human. Hopefully the good out weighs the bad, and the ratio of good to bad in people gets better in the long run.
Anyway, thanks for the reply and I look forward to further builds.
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@@MatterusOD You're lucky you've got some hobby shops. We have a game shop here that sells a lot of neat stuff, but it's geared toward warhammer, not models. I used to be able to hold my breath for quite a while (before party time, college, work, marriage, kids, etc.). Oh well, maybe someday I'll get back into diving and go for some abalone. I've heard it's delicious, but there's not much of it in Nevada! If I'm ever in Adelaide I'll look you up. I'd love to see those logs!
Feel free to if I'm still kicking. You'll find the climate very similar. Who doesn't love a 38+C/110F+ summer and the occasional drought. Sometimes every thing catches on fire too! Cheers.@@professorbellbuilds
well. . . we have all that too except the fires, there's not much to burn in Nevada. We do get the smoke when California burns down though, and we also have 10F winters. My Father in Law was actually hunting out here one time, and the temperature at night was below freezing, and the temperature in the day was near 100! @@MatterusOD
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Hey, I really want to get into modeling to do something new as a hobby; and you seem like a nice enough guy to ask this to: Do you have a recommended model aircraft or brand for beginners on a budget, with the caveat that it is 1:48 or otherwise something a little manageable for someone with poor eyesight/coordination to do tiny details?
Happy to help! I don't have a whole lot of experience with the larger scales, but I did once build an Albatros Diii from Smer in 1:48. I don't know if they make those anymore, but I do remember it was fairly simple and fun. You might also want to check out Hobbyboss. They make "easy assembly" kits that I think are great for any beginner especially with physical limitations. I think they're around $20 for the 1:48's. As for a particular aircraft, I'd honestly say just get one that you like. Maybe don't do your favorite plane in the world for your first kit, but I think if it's a subject that you're interested in you'll be more motivated to persevere through the tough spots. If you don't really care, I'd probably stick to monoplanes. Biplanes are usually incredibly finicky because of that parasol wing.
Now, perhaps you can help me out. Do you use social media? If so, what platform? I was thinking that in cases like these I'd love to see how your first kit comes out, so it would be cool to get on a platform that was good for sharing pictures/experiences that my viewers also use.