Knights of the Air
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Starting the Fokker E.III
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Using tweezer pressure to hold fuselage against wing for adhesion
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Starting assembly
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Undercarriages on Sopwith and D.VII, another coat of paint on the D.VII
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Painted, first time I've mixed a special colour.
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Painted, first time I've mixed a special colour.
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Much more robust now the glue's gone off overnight.
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Drilling for the cotton 'wires'.
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Fiddly!
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52 year old Revell decals working very well!
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Sopwith Camel decals drying.
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Sopwith decals trimmed, complicated decals going on Fokker D.VII.
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Sopwith Camel finished. It's a little bit wonky - but it's from 1963!
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Fokker E.III strung.
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Fokker E.III decals started.
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Lots of colouring in...
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Interesting colour scheme
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Started the S.E.5a
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Most colours have to be mixed for the S.E.5a. Experimenting with a new way to smooth the fuselage join - 240 grit paper, then 1200 grit, then paint. No filler.
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Finished the Fokker E.III.
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For scale reference.
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S.E.5a assembly.
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Back to it... First coat on SE5a and start of Dr1
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More modern tooled Dr1 kit nice to make.
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Finished Fokker D VII
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I think I can see a reason the Red Baron was so successful - his Dr.1 is tiny compared with other contemporary planes!
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Dr.1 and SE5a
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Commenti
4 8 April 2015, 21:29
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Nice work on these WW1 iconic birds, not an easy job I would say. Is that a template that you used for the lower half of the wings
on the D VII ?
23 April 2015, 09:27
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Thanks gents. Hanno: they are decals for the underside of the wings. The decals need trimming, they are oversized, and I used a little paint under any loose edges to 'glue' them down. It's quite time consuming to paint in the colours, but strangely therapeutic! I think it will look great with the second coat and a matt varnish to seal everything.
23 April 2015, 09:37
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Yes, amongst others, that´s what makes this hobby so recreative, it sometimes almost gets me in an
meditational state... I´m curious on the finals of these " Knights of the air" 🙂
23 April 2015, 09:45
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I'm going to rename the album 'Knights of the Air' – I started with two biplanes but somehow a couple of triplanes a monoplane have crept in...!
23 April 2015, 21:16