23 08 09
Excellent photos Philip. Thank you for posting them.

Liam

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I don't know. Mesa day startin pretty okee-day with a brisky morning munchy, then BOOM! Mesa gettin' very very scared!


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Thanks Filip

Yea - the French one is characterised by its very distinct, and different, engine. I tend to prefer the German one, as it's better streamlined. Your photo gives a great feel for the line up of the undercarriage, when the plane is on the ground. According to my references, the shape of the undercarriage is very different when the plane is airborne.

Philip

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"To boldly go.....wherever"

Bernie -

The camera I have is a Canon powershot A530. I had only bought it that week in one of those malls in Orlando, FL, so had not changed the settings. It was on the highest setting, and so I only got 234 photos for a 1 GB card. I only discovered that later, when I got home from my holidays....so that might explain the clarity of the shots - it certainly wasn't the light, as the Storch was tucked away in the far corner of a storage hanger at the Fantasy of Flight museum, and I had to ask specially to take photos, while an attendant watched. I only had 2 minutes to do it. (I have lots of shots of a P-51C, in Tuskegee airmen colours, that was in the public hanger, and the lighting there is much better. I hope to post these on the forum, or maybe the IPMS website, in due course). As far as I know, that particular model of the camera has been upgraded since 2007 - to a powershot 1000. I have had no problems with it since - you can see the camera in a photo of the Dublin chapter's session last month.

Like you, I have Storches by Heller, Academy and Aifix in 1/72 - and also Smer (which I think is a re-boxing of the Heller one, done in Eastern Europe in the 1990's) in my stash. I also have two copies of the Tamiya kit, in the presentation case that came out at the 100th anniversary. One is to be kept as a collector's item, and the other - eventually - for making into a kit. It would be nice if Tamiya were to "scale down" that kit to 1/72, as I am sure it would be as good as their other "warbird" series. If we were getting figures, then we'd need a 1/66 scale SS officer, as I think that the SS guy was about 6ft 8in tall. How he actually fitted into the Storch baffles me!

Hope to see some of your stuff posted on the forum.

Cheers,

Philip

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Hi Everyone!

Thank you for the Storch detail photos, very useful... I was at Duxford at their Spring airshow this year and took a few shots of their Storch, not the greatest and I hope they post OK... There is also a complete, original Luftwaffe Storch at the Swartkops Museum, pretoria South Africa, was flying about 10 years ago, but now grounded with engine problems. I will try to get photos...





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Hope this Works!

Regards,

Marc

Hi FiSe!

Thanks for fixing yet again! Have you ant idea what I'm doing wrong? Photobucket has changed a bit, on other forums I get double posts!

Regards,

Marc