Shouting Into The Void

When I was a kid of about 10 or 12, a friend of mine had a copy of this game.

The Albatros D-III was built under license by the Austro-Hungarian OEFAG factory, but they improved it considerably with a much more powerful engine and strengthened structure.

I've always tilted my aeroplane models for 3d printing, either nose or tail down, because it gives me smoother surfaces overall.

I've put together a 1:144 Albatros D-V, mostly using components from my D-III.

Next out of the Blender design factory is another Sopwith, this time the 1½ Strutter.

Here I have a bunch of Sopwiths entering the painting queue.

This 1:144 scale Sopwith Dolphin isn't all my own work.

I've dragged out my copy of Wings of War, that I've played maybe twice since I bought it who knows how many years ago, with the aim of making it usable with my little 3d printed aeroplanes.

I've had this on the back-burner for a while now, and I finally got it finished.

This 1:144 model represents one of the modified variants with the cutaway engine cowling to increase engine cooling, a necessary change as the initial production suffered seriously from engine overheating, a problem caused by the synthetic oil that replac…

It's taken a while to get around to it, but I've finally painted this 1:144 scale Fokker Eindekker.

I'm in the process of making a display board for my 3d printed 1:144 WW1 aircraft.

One of my favourite air-war fiction writers is Derek Robinson, who wrote a book called "War Story" about a WW1 RFC squadron flying FE2b and FE2d aircraft.

I am falling behind a bit in my painting queue.

Somebody mentioned wanting a French reconnaissance aeroplane, and lo!

The Aviatik C1 was introduced in 1915, one of the first German C-type armed reconnaissance aircraft.

Doing the RE8 reminded me of this, the BE2c.

A large part of the duties of the British scout squadrons in WW1 were escorts, attempting to keep the arguably more important reconnaissance and bombing machines from getting shot down.

I replaced my old and bung Mars Pro yesterday with this, an Elegoo Mars 5.

I just finished this 1:144 scale Bristol Fighter to add to my menagerie.

After fiddling with the thickness of struts and things, and tinkering endlessly with the placement and height and angle to the print bed, plus adding some custom supports in problem spots, I've finally got a model that will reliably print a 1:144 Albatros…

Somebody asked me if I was going to make a Nieuport 17, and I thought that was a good idea, so I did.

I've built another German aeroplane for 1917, the Pfalz D-III.

I've done two test prints of my DH2 model, for comparison purposes.

Many, many years ago I built the Airfix model of the Roland C-II Walfisch (whale).

Next up is the famous Sopwith Camel, the famous mount of the famous Biggles himself.

I've been concentrating pretty much on German aeroplanes, so I thought I'd better make some opposition to all the Albatroses and Hamberstadts, and fired up Blender to make this 1:144 scale Sopwith Pup.

I'm on a real WW1 aeroplane kick at the moment, so I'm taking advantage of it while it lasts.

I've done a couple of 1/144 Albatros D-II, one with the side-mounted "ear" radiators, and one with the centrally wing-mounted radiator perfectly positioned to spray boiling water straight into the pilot's face if a bullet goes through it.

The next teensy aeroplane in the queue is this 1:144 scale Fokker D-VIII, nicknamed "the Flying Razor".

I've been working on a 1/144 scale Junkers D1, a German metal monoplane fighter from very late in WW1.

I'm experimenting with a drastically simplified model, a Sopwith Triplane.

I printed some 1/144 scale Halberstadt D-II fighters yesterday, and they turned out not to be without issues.

The next addition to my 1/144 scale air force is this Fokker D-VII, which I've been putting off because I wasn't looking forward to painting the lozenge camouflage.

I recently found the home-made version of Avalon Hill's Knights of the Air that I made back in the '80s.

In the 1980s, I occasionally played a game called Knights of the Air, a WW1 aerial combat game played on a hex grid like Canvas Eagles (or Blue Max, which it was rewritten from) but rather more detailed in terms of keeping track of altitude and aircraft s…

I've been designing (in Blender) an indexed flight stand for use with my 1/144 aeroplane models.

I've been working on a 1:144 scale DH2 in Blender, to provide some period-appropriate opposition for the Fokker E-III I printed a little while ago.

The first of my 1:144 Albatros D-III flight is done, now that decals have arrived so I don't have to go mad painting the markings.

I've been 3d printing and painting some 1:144 WW1 aircraft, for playing Canvas Eagles, a tabletop WW1 dogfight game.

These 3d printed doors are some that I found on some site some time in the past, and I don't recall when or where or who the designer was.

Some time in the 1990s I bought a pack of GW metal Warhammer Skaven.

I got these today, four AD&D adventure books, PoD items from DriveThruRPG, bought mostly on a whim.

I'm trying to make some modelling flock, with only limited success.

Since I'm on a cardboard standee kick at the moment, I thought I would show you this — my very first hand-drawn paper AD&D character mini, from 1981.

Many years ago I ran a short-lived campaign set in a Mythic China milieu.

Ive printed and cut out a new batch of paper minis from OkumArts, bought via DriveThruRPG.