RWD 14 LWS Czapla

Guy Rump
I thought I would build my first WW2 Polish Air Force aeroplane and decided on the RWD 14. The kit is from 1976 by Mikro 72. The decals are basic and the pieces on the sprues are quite thick plastic but I'm going to give it a shot! 🙂 There were 60 Czaplas attached to varying Polish Squadrons (5 per Sqn) at the beginning of the War with Germany.

Maciej Bellos
In!

Guy Rump
Welcome Maciej 🙂

Guy Rump
Welcome Roland, I hope it is interesting..., will probably be challenging for me 🙂

Lost_Erik
Ah ha. A high wing Polish aircraft. Good start. 👍

Guy Rump
Thanks Erik 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
That's an extremely brave challenge. Following

Daniel Klink
Whohoo a classic and a very basic kit!

Guy Rump
Thank you and welcome mates. 🙂

Daniel Klink
Built this 30 years ago, and it is not a bad kit in terms of fit.
Details of course they just do not exist 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Well, maybe the fuselage fit is acceptable, but the wing and its struts made many promising young modellers abandon their further attempts forever 😄
This kit is legendarily infamous where I live 😄

Guy Rump
Progress has been a bit slow. The fuselage and wings are together and painted so far with Hataka Dark khaki from the WW2 Polish Air Force set.

Łukasz Gliński
Not sure whether the dark or the light one (from this set) should be used - will have a look in the internets tomorrow.

Guy Rump
Thanks Lukasz

Łukasz Gliński
Personally I'd go for the light khaki from that set, basing on this article:
modelpaint.pl/2017/0..ice-polskiego-khaki/
But it's not so clear - on one hand this is not a metal plane (hence light khaki), on the other there's no specific info on colours used by Czapla's producer - LWS. On the 3rd 😉 RWD-14s were produced quite late before the war, when the dark khaki was used.

Guy Rump
Thanks for the link Lukasz, it is an interesting article (which I will use as a reference point in the future) . As you say, there doesn't appear to be a definitive answer fir the RWD-14. I think I am going to go with your 3rd point and continue with the dark khaki as the RWD-14s were produced and allocated to Regiments just before the War. I will be using the Light blue gray for the underneath of the aircraft. Thanks again. 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Looking forward to seeing it completed 🙂

Gordon Sørensen
Nice looking little plane, Guy! Too many struts for my liking though...

Guy Rump
Thanks Lukasz & Gordon, I'm just about to find out what fitting struts are like.... 🙂