Eduard 1/48 Sopwith Triplane - WIP

bughunter
Oh, that is a very old kit. I have built a newer edition. Not sure, if the plastic parts was identical tool. The PE sheet was bigger.

Never a Pro
I know, I have seen your great build. This one will also be a Collinshaw's "black maria" with decals borrowed from a Camel.

I got this one from a guy in Switzerland, with my luck Eduard will retool it after I am done with this and sell it for half the price I paid for this one.

The detail looks acceptable, but I will have to do some improvements (aileron check windows, machine gun, cockpit, etc). The plastic quality is not great, but decals are impeccable.

Meister
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Michael Kohl
me too. I have a scale 1:72 for a bigger project in my stash. I am keen on your experiences.

Never a Pro
1:72 Sopwith sounds punishing. I am already on my limits in tolerating tiny PE pieces

TH SCALE MODELS (Thomas Haberl)
Awesome progress so far. Would never be patient enough to do these kind of rigging ... never! How often did something fly around your bench? 😁😁

Never a Pro
I like rigging with EZ line, it is the cherry on top of a beautiful WWI kit

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
Following too!

Ben M
I've occasionally had luck with painting "microscale liquid decal film" on before using old decals. For the tail you can mask and paint the stripes pretty easily, I'd do the whole tail white and then do the red and blue. In the case where replacement decals cannot be obtained I've had luck scanning them and sending the scan to these folks: stsdecals.com/

I'm also going to try making my own decals for a project soon.

Anyway, as someone who builds old kits, the decal problem is one very familiar to me. Good luck!

Never a Pro
yeah, I can easily paint the tail stripes, but the problem still persists on the roundels. Anyway, thanks for the great tip, you never know when you need custom decals