Old Man Posted June 25, 2009 Share Posted June 25, 2009 This is a pretty odd duck even for me, but it has character.... Here is a profile shot of the nose in blank form: More pictures and a full account can be found here: http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index....p;#entry1751521 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ross blackford Posted June 26, 2009 Share Posted June 26, 2009 Ah, great to see. Looks like another Old Man Flying Machine Corporation airframe on the production line. It's good to see your beautiful work once again Old Man. :), Ross. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man Posted July 15, 2009 Author Share Posted July 15, 2009 Ah, great to see. Looks like another Old Man Flying Machine Corporation airframe on the production line. It's good to see your beautiful work once again Old Man., Ross. Thank you, Mr. Blackford! Here is some further progress on the build, with more at the link in the post above. It will be taking a back-seat to the Morane-Saulnier BB I am doing for the Knights of the Sky G.B., but I will be chipping away at this in odd moments even so over the next couple of week.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted July 16, 2009 Share Posted July 16, 2009 Brilliant scratchbuild Old Man..I LOVE the subject that you have chosen as I like historical themes.. :wub: The Hawk Biplane looks really great in your B/W photo... are there any left anywhere in Museums? HOLMES Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Graemeb Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 Excellant work M8, Lovely scratch will keep an eye on this to the end ;) . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Brilliant scratchbuild Old Man..I LOVE the subject that you have chosen as I like historical themes.. The Hawk Biplane looks really great in your B/W photo... are there any left anywhere in Museums? HOLMES Thank you, Sir. So far as I know, there are no survivors of this precise type. Only eighteen were ever built: several were wrecked during service, and only three were still in flying trim by 1937. They served only in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, and it is hard to imagine anything having survived the war years there, even as recognizable scrap. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man Posted July 17, 2009 Author Share Posted July 17, 2009 Excellant work M8, Lovely scratch will keep an eye on this to the end . Thank you, Sir. My 'Morane Biplane' for the K.o.t.S.GB will be taking precedence now, but I will be carrying on with this. The next step will putting in the cockpit decking, the fillets for lower wings and horizontal tail-plane, and surface detail on the fuselage. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted July 17, 2009 Share Posted July 17, 2009 (edited) Thank you, Sir.So far as I know, there are no survivors of this precise type. Only eighteen were ever built: several were wrecked during service, and only three were still in flying trim by 1937. They served only in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia, and it is hard to imagine anything having survived the war years there, even as recognizable scrap. Old Man, thank you for that..it is interesting t know that... the photo that you have posted , where was thattaken or stationed...looks American Mid west lookign at the background.... TIA. HOLMES Edited July 17, 2009 by HOLMES Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man Posted July 15, 2010 Author Share Posted July 15, 2010 As I have gotten back on this project, and am nearing completion of it, I thought it would not be out of place to revive this thread with a picture up-date. Intermediate steps can be found here: http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index....howtopic=209580 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HOLMES Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 good work Old Man... {I dont know why but I thought the Dutch East Indies company was mainly based in INDIA AND A lot of wheeling and dealing was done in that Country than Indonesia !}} Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fishwelding Posted July 28, 2010 Share Posted July 28, 2010 good work Old Man...{I dont know why but I thought the Dutch East Indies company was mainly based in INDIA AND A lot of wheeling and dealing was done in that Country than Indonesia !}} The Dutch had a colonial "empire" amidst the Islands between Australia and the Asian Mainland. ""Indies" was a generic term, of course,, based on the albeit-incomplete knowledge Europeans had, since ancient times, that there was an "India." Recall that Columbus blundered into the Americas in a hilariously-misguided attempt to reach the Indias, China, and "the court of the Great Kahn" generally. These companies were curious proto-....well, proto-precursors of the modern corporation. True, they were joint-stock companies, but it was the later railroads that supplied the models of corporate bureaucracy we understand today. Classic Imperialism, though: In the days of sail, a variety of things could be brought back to Europe and sold, mostly luxury goods for the elite and the remarkable Dutch middle class. Additionally, the Dutch likely looked for colonial markets to sell other stuff, too. By World War II a big deal was, of course, the region's petroleum. Hence the Japanese Pacific War. My understanding is that by World War II, the locals in the "Dutch East Indies" weren't too thrilled about Dutch rule any longer. Big surprise. Anyway, the Japanese attempted to capitalize on this with anti-European, anti-imperialist propaganda, but as in India, outside of notable exceptions I don't think it earned much allegiance for Japanese occupation, either. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man Posted July 31, 2010 Author Share Posted July 31, 2010 The Dutch had a colonial "empire" amidst the Islands between Australia and the Asian Mainland. ""Indies" was a generic term, of course,, based on the albeit-incomplete knowledge Europeans had, since ancient times, that there was an "India." Recall that Columbus blundered into the Americas in a hilariously-misguided attempt to reach the Indias, China, and "the court of the Great Kahn" generally. These companies were curious proto-....well, proto-precursors of the modern corporation. True, they were joint-stock companies, but it was the later railroads that supplied the models of corporate bureaucracy we understand today. Classic Imperialism, though: In the days of sail, a variety of things could be brought back to Europe and sold, mostly luxury goods for the elite and the remarkable Dutch middle class. Additionally, the Dutch likely looked for colonial markets to sell other stuff, too. By World War II a big deal was, of course, the region's petroleum. Hence the Japanese Pacific War. My understanding is that by World War II, the locals in the "Dutch East Indies" weren't too thrilled about Dutch rule any longer. Big surprise. Anyway, the Japanese attempted to capitalize on this with anti-European, anti-imperialist propaganda, but as in India, outside of notable exceptions I don't think it earned much allegiance for Japanese occupation, either. Excellent summary, Sir! The Dutch company was the first of these things, and sale of shares in it the origin of stock exchanges. All a very interesting and odd passage of history. The locals certainly were tired of Dutch rule by the time World War Two began. The Japanese occupation was initially popular, but cruel mis-rule took care of that pretty quickly; probably a million Indonesians died as conscripted laborers in service to Imperial Japan between 1942 and 1945. After the war against Japan concluded, there was a great deal of fighting between Indonesian Nationalists and the Dutch, conducted atrociously on both sides, which has been largely forgotten in the West, even in Holland. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Old Man Posted July 31, 2010 Author Share Posted July 31, 2010 A bit more progress o this, by the way.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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