Battle of the Atlantic Feb. 1 to Aug 1, 2006

Karl  Actualy the French Canadians and others who refused to go overseas where anti-conscriptionists  and their impact on the war effort was minimized by priminister Makenzie King's skillfull handling of the conscription question.

   Quite a few French Canadians served overseas,   To my knowlege there were 3 French Canadian regiments at Normandy " Royal 22 Rgt,  Fusiller de Mont-Royal and Le Rgt De La Chaudiere".  Le Fusiller de Mont-Royal was also at Dieppe,  I'm probably missing a few I'm working from memory. The Airforce also had good representation of French Canadians as for the  Navy I would not be able to say. 

I can't agree more with your statement that the efforts of other countries get lumped in with the UK effort and don't get the recognition they deserve.

Cheers

Bear

Quote: " however like their cousins in France there seems to have been a great deal of ambivalence toward the Allied cause"

Karl:   Sad but true.  This was due to the church and government officials preaching the affaires of Britain are not ours.  The Maire of Montreal Camilien Houde was arrested and turfed into jail for encouraging people to boycotte the draft.  That attitude can still be found today in Quebec despite all that a fair number ignored the powers that be and joined up anyway Ah! the joys of politics.

Cheers

Bear 

You guys sure do make for an interesting read!!  I haven't checked this thread for a little while now and well, the history just keeps on flowing.

Karl, did I hear it mentioned that you have read Max Hasting's Armageddon?  What's it like as a read because I have been interested in picking that book up for a while now.

Cheers

Thanks for the heads up on the book Karl.  I think I'll have to pick up a copy next time I'm down at the book store.

Cheers

Dave, you can count me in as a fer sure.  I just ordered the Academy 1/72 PBY-5a Catalina.  I'll be doing it as Fl/Lt David Hornell's Canso from RCAF No.162 that flew out of Iceland in the summer of 1944. Fl/Lt David Hornell was postumously awarded the VC in June of '44 when he died after attacking and sinking a U-boat. 

Panzerwulf, while I didn't look very hard for Coastal Command decals, I did find Canso marking for Fl/Lt Hornell's Canso.  www.canmillair.com  I think I'll be ordering the 1/72 decals from this guy.

Count me in  with the "Lockheed Hudson".....Solid Wood Kit by Propellermodels.
Colors: Aircraft from British Sqdn.269/S, 1941

"U-570
Captured by Britain on 27 Aug, 1941 in the North Atlantic south of Iceland, in position 62.15N, 18.35W, after being damaged by a British Hudson aircraft (Sqdn. 269/S). Towed to Thorlaks-hafn, Iceland and salvaged. 44 survivors (No casualties)."

razordws wrote:

PS: Your screen name wouldn't have anything to do with your choice of kits would it? lol

Hmmm??   But if that were true wouldn't the rest of be called, " Hollow Plastic Shells That Many Times Don't Fit Well Causing Us To Go Screaming Into The Night." 

Well, I am ready to start. All parts of the kit are accounted for. Will start "cutting" the fuselage block to general shape and then sand. Wood is great, Mahogany, perfectly sanded.

No Problem razordws.....I am making three other models so I can wait..................Thank you.

Will start the old Hudson on Feb 1.....................See you then!!!!

Dave - I will bge building the Hobbycraft 1/48th scale Vickers Seafire XV serving with the Royal Navy.

Richard

Solid a wooden one eh, that sounds cool, I'll be very interested in seeing how this one goes together so can you please make sure you post plenty of pics up

Richard Good choice, you don't see many seafires around.....BTW it's good to be building with you again, just don't fly through it and leave the rest of us for dead again like the komet eh

This is what I could find on the Griffon installed in the Sweafire:

The Seafire XV was the first Griffon-powered Seafire. It combined the wing of the Seafire
III with the fuselage of the Spitfire V and the engine, cowling and prop of the Spitfire XII. The Griffon turned opposite the Merlin, but the "bend" of the airframe was not changed, which led  Griffon Spitfires to swing on takeoff.

Richard

oh yeah.. lately I have been out of it and almost forgot about this GB...  was reading the last 2 pages and found some interesting conversation!

I'm still thinking the S-100 perhaps with the PE set is the set to do...  I'll update yall when it gets closer!

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I checked the kit and there are only a total of 41 pieces.  How long do you think it will take to build this thing?

Richard

RSaddlemire wrote:

Quote:Richard Good choice, you don't see many seafires around.....BTW it's good to be building with you again, just don't fly through it and leave the rest of us for dead again like the komet eh" src="/FSM/CS/emoticons/icon_smile_thumbsup.gif"> I checked the kit and there are only a total of 41 pieces.  How long do you think it will take to build this thing? Richard

To be honest Richard I wouldn't have a clue, If the kit has a good parts fit and goes together smoothly it shouldn't take long at all but if the kit is like my Supermarine Seaplane from testors with a horrible fit and no detail than it may take months, But with your great skill level in mind i would say that you will have it together fairly quickly..... 

Rex Thanks for the links That is one cool looking U-Boat, looks like i'm gonna have 2 1/72nd scale U-Boats in the collection....

Speaking of the Revell monster U-Boat you all know that i'm doing it for this GB along with the Eduard set and i'm pretty sure that i mentioned the fact that i had already made a start on it before this GB came up but stopped work on it untill the official start date....

Anyways here is a pic of what i have already done, I opened up the hull openings by sanding them out from the inside which seemed easier to me than drilling and filing, the torpedo tubes are also painted and installed and the deck has been glued down, I havn't yet put any of the PE onto the model or done any sanding to make the deck seams go away, that will come next after the GB officially kicks off.....

I stuck a DVD case in front of the model for scale, the whole kit is 93:3 cm long

That looks awesome Jules, definitely have to add one of those to the collection as soon as I figure out where to put it.  I don't think the missus will let me put it on the fireplace mantel.  I have my eye on the GATO coming out later this year too!  Need to clean out some of my stash though before I can justify buying it.   Thanks for the pic, looking forward to more.

Two and  a half weeks to go!!! 

razordws wrote:

That looks awesome Jules, definitely have to add one of those to the collection as soon as I figure out where to put it.  I don't think the missus will let me put it on the fireplace mantel.  I have my eye on the GATO coming out later this year too!  Need to clean out some of my stash though before I can justify buying it.   Thanks for the pic, looking forward to more. Two and  a half weeks to go!!!

Yeah my missus said she wouldn't mind if i displayed it in the lounge pretty much where it's sitting in the pic but only if it has it's owm display case and only if the display case is stained the same colour as that lowline entertainment unit....

In hindsight it would have to be in it's own case because the little monsters i mean my wonderfull kids would trash it within a week......

Jay I bet you can't wait until your little one is old enough to destroy a couple of models.....