Laws of Modeling 101

No a hen, (I see the confounding there, the He was ,or before Pol. Correct, generic)

I guess I should have posted HE/SHE/IT. But then I would not have had such a good laugh.

[NeilE]

this thread always goes in some odd directions....

Neil

PS TopGun

I'm worried!...Did you eat "a chicken" or "The Chicken" which was Herr Doktor Von Humbrol and Dymphna's favourite? "The Chicken" is (was?) the oldest living chicken in the western world being 96 years old. She even had a certificate from Queen Elizabeth II!

[StephenLawson]

Volker said on the topic of Palistine Albatros types '...Hauptmann Walz came over from Aphule to Djenin (both the German way of writing Afule and Jenin at that time), as he had substantial fighting (in the sense of fighter operation) experience."

Walz had been Staffelfuehrer of Jasta B before; there is a photo showing Walz in Jenin with his Albatrs D III (without any special markings, but with twin radiators), playing with what seems to be a young bear...'

The answer to the extra credit question. *And some of you went from Palestine to a chicken. * : *

[StephenLawson]

Here it is

[RLWP]

TOPGUN56

And hast thou slain and also consumed the Eternal Fowl that hast dwelt upon this green and verdant field of England these four and twenty, ten and six years past!!

Beware Sir, for the followers of the Everlasting Chicken are many and secret, and all sworn to preserve its existance unto the ends of time!

Sleep you no longer easy in your bed, beware as you walk the peaceful street, for the brotherhood of the eternal fowl stalk you bent upon revenge!!

Richard

p.s. Beware!!
p.p.s BEWARE!!

[RLWP]

Err,

Four Score years, ten and six....

Richard

Damn....

p.s. BEWARE!!

And I had a sassy reply....It was The Chichen, but after RLWP's post I was laughing so hard the local police would not allow me to type.

And After I informed the nice local cop that Queen Elisa had a contract on my life.....Well I am typing this post with crayons.

P.S. I sleep well, my 20 lbs cats will protect me.

[Barker]

there is something in here about cats but I don't dare.....


question: who choked the chicken?

[NeilE]

Once again the value of the forum is proved. I had never managed to get past volume III of Herr Doktors diaries. His 148 page description of a single drybrushing excercise was all too much like "Remembrance of Things Past".

But I suspect the emnity precedes Great Aunt Dymphna. Schmirzl and Herr Doktor met at the Brandenburg Academy in their younger days. The Doktor was of course lecturing, and Schmirzl, together with a fellow student named "Siga" *Italeri, a nephew of Humbrol's from Asiago in the Austrian Veneto, founded a club called the Superdetailers. Together they did some groundbreaking work on photoetched brass, but Italeri became addicted to solvent fumes while doing research on his magnum opus on resin casting. Schmirzl was working on a 1/12 model of the Wright Flyer (for the 10th anniversary celebrations) which Italeri destroyed with a sword. Von H took sides and Schmirzl left the club, the Academy and Vienna returning to "Dremel", his parents estate outside Schabak.

But as to the doktors "murderous rage", I still put it down to paint thinners and glue.

duckman

My Dear Duckman;

The Good Herr Doktor's description of his dry brushing techniques on his Bleriot XI are a classic of their type. It is interesting you mention Rembrance of Things Past. The Good Herr Doktor lived in the same apartment block as Marcel on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris in 1912, when Proust was working on yet another revision of Rembrance. It is believed by Proust scholars that the oil wash technique that Proust expresses satisfaction with in Vol V of Remberance was taught to him by Von Humbrol at that time.

However, I digress. It is obvious to me that, unfortunately, you are, like many others, another victim of Reinhard Gerbil whose Berlinerhaus fakes of the Good Herr Doktor's Diaries are now infamous the world over. From 1980's to the year 2000, when the Good Herr Doktor's real diaries were bequeathed to the Institute, these spurious works were regarded as the last word in Von Humbrol authenticity. The Good Herr Doktor himself refused to discount them, as he was quite contrary in his old age. *Gerbil himself was a failed and exiled ex-student of the Herr Doktor who hated Von Humbrol for exposing him as a Nazi academic after WW2. He always portrayed the Good Herr Doktor negatively and published fake treatises on dodgy modelling techniques he attributed to Von Humbrol, thus blackening his name amongst modellers.

"Siga" Italeri was not the Doktor's nephew but the illegitimate son of Professor Count Guido Italeri, the Good Herr Doktor's best friend. Von Humbrol always frowned on "The Super Detailers" as he saw it as a hotbed of AMS. The sword incident was in fact Count Guido Italeri, who was a noted duellist, and he was after Schmirzl whom he suspected, with the shadowy Eduard Revell, of pushing illegal photo etch through the front of "The Super Detailers". They had hooked poor "Siga" on the PE and it had ruined him. (Siga later enlisted in the Italian Airforce and was shot down over Caporetto in 1917).

The good Herr Doktor abhorred inhalants, seeing them as an open door to AMS. The find the real reasons for the murder you need to contact Dymphna's nephew Richard, however, they are litigious and are likely to sue you if you say anything about that disolute harlot Dymphna. We could havr asked thechicken but he is, I believe, sadly recently deceased.

All the Best

Neil
Chief Archivist
The Von Humbrol Diaries

PS I could not reply earlier due to running a seminar: "Out of the Box: Building the Airfix Fokker DR-1 Can Be Fun".

[StephenLawson]

Neil
Chief Archivist
The Von Humbrol Diaries...PS I could not reply earlier due to running a seminar: "Out of the Box: Building the Airfix Fokker DR-1 Can Be Fun".

Please Neil_E post your seminar or at least offer it on CD-ROM. If you like I could collect all monies due (since your brother-in-law had that unfortunate experience with the guard dog) and we could rebuild the Insti.