Model Forum / General / Models / March 2006

Bill --

Thanks very much -- *everything* helps! I'd be most obliged if you
could email me jpegs of what you  have on the S6B. I'm at:

wingswheels@sbcglobal.net

Thanks, Nigel! I've been to both the spitfireonline and Science Museum
sites online (I'm in the US -- I WISH I were in London!) -- great
images, just not of what we need to see.

Thanks for your help!

Bart

Don --

Thanks for the info! I'm not sure if the S6 would do as well as the S6B
-- my customer is trying to figure out how the pontoons were tied
together, and if the 6 and 6B were the same in that respect, that would
be perfectly fine. Please direct me to where I might find the S6 plans.

Sounds like a great book -- I'm going to check it out.

Thanks again for your help!

Bart

I have built the old Hawk kit ,  It was like scratch building as I seemed to
have to rebuild a big heap of the kit, also built the transport dolly  it
sat on, most of my info came from a "Flight Magazine " covering the event
1931 or 1930 . It was a total coverage from front to back of the Magazine so
that was a big help,
In some of the pics the rigging wires looked fat and others very thin this
is because they were flat so that pics from different angles gave you
different conclusions, The Flight mag was given to me by  a friend who found
it on the local dump so there's a bit of luck, and what's more it was when I
needed it not as usual just when you have finished the project.
Let me know if you get stuck and I will dig the mag out and scan some pics
for you, but there was heaps to do on the hawk kit , build a new prop , etc.
around their cockpit area was all wrong but it was worth it in the end,  If
I did again I would spend the money and get one of the Japanese kit"  knox"
sounds something like that anyhow and avoid all the hard work,
                                      best of luck  regards  JimboD