Junkers D.I (late)
The fuselage of this kit is made up of 4 sides, but the seam line doesn't line up correctly for all of them. The top and bottom parts had to be cut at the centre seam and be sanded a bit to correctly line up with the side parts
Fuselage all put together and painted
The exhaust was also drilled out
The reference I'm using shows the stripes on the fuselage to be red/white, rather than blue/white as per the decals. I therefore removed the blue sections and made some replacements with red decal stripes
My reference also indicated the makings on the wheels were different to those in the kit, so I drew up and printed some replacements
Wings painted in green/lilac camo
Main subsections put together and decals all applied. The Roden decals were terrible - I ended up replacing the side crosses and white stripes as the kit ones wouldn't settle down. The wing crosses only settled with the strongest decal softener I had (some old Poly Scale stuff)
Comments
11 18 September 2021, 05:05
Uwe KaedingThanks Robert - final photos added. A bit of silvering on the decals, but that's always a possibility with a corrugated surface and flat finish
19 September 2021, 02:29
Robert PodkońskiI know the pain, Uwe - once I built PZL.P.1 resin kit from Arma Hobby... nevertheless, your model really looks good and this silvering is hardly noticeable 😉
19 September 2021, 08:05
Uwe KaedingThanks. Robert, I've built 4 Junkers planes now, both Roden D.I's, the Pegasus Cl.I and the Eduard J.I. The only one I didn't get any silvering was the J.I - probably due to better quality Eduard decals. Anyway the silvering on this one is actually less noticeable in real life than in the photos!
19 September 2021, 22:47
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This is the Roden kit of the Junkers D.I fighter (late, short body, version), built as an aircraft found in Belgium after the war, in late 1918
