Challenging the treadheads... The Mad Fokker Day..!

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You may have heard that on 8 August, several members of this Forum will be attempting to build a Tiger in a day. A fantastic idea, and I may even join them in their quest for success!

This give me the idea of another one-day Group Build, this time with an aircraft kit that is at the same time easy and cheap to find, easy to build, even possibly easy to paint. Also it is one of the most famous aircraft ever. I’m talking about Revell’s diminutive 1/72 Fokker Dr.1…

I can hear you from over here: What?? An aircraft??!

Well, this IS the challenge isnt’it? Stop trembling, I can assure it can be done, even if there’s no way to conceal mistakes under tarps, mud and dust…! [}:)]

It can be done in a day. Even a triplane, yes! There’s very little rigging involved with this design, and some of the colour schemes are dead easy (overall while, overall black, …). Also, it’s a great intro into WWI modeling!

There are two kits of the famed triplane by Revell, one that dates from… a long time ago, and one that was released only a year ago, and which, I can assure you, is a little gem. Of course, other 1/72 Dr.1 are eligible, those of ESCI, and Eduard for instance…

I’m proposing that we build this little beauty on Sunday 17th of October 2004, to ‘coincide’ with the 87th (!) anniversary of the aircraft operational debut in 1917.

And by mid-October, everyone should have been able to locate the kit and, why not, done some research into more elaborate paint schemes…

So, who’s in it?

Domi
[}:)]

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what is the wingspan of a 1/72 Fokker ?!?

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Hey, watch the language there, Domi!

Oh that’s a plane, sorry. [;)]

It’s a bye week for the Giants, so maybe…

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about 10cm, Wildwilliam…

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Lordy me. Did they have any with overall gluey fingerprint camo?

I might be game depending on how I go on Sunday.

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I love WW I aircraft, but I’ll sit this out. I will be checking it out though. I still have to do a WW II aircraft for the backwards build. Heaven help me. [:D]

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Phrooosh… for you… gluey fingerprint camo… YES!! [;)]

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But first you gotta get that badly glued gun outta your other build lol

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African or European ?

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out of curiosity, which one are you doing?

Red – No, blue!

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ROTFLMAO!

By grasping the husk.

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You guys are mad enough to do this…! Come on!

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I actually did get it out! It was a bit like a rubiks cube, but I got it.

Any thread that degenerates into Python humour is alright by me![^]

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i did not mean to start that, if i did.
:slight_smile:
let’s see, 10 cm is . . . .
just under 4". eeek!

but you say there were some easy paint schemes? . . .
what’s that? a worm sitting on a hook? i like worms! . . .

let’s see, the 17th of October, the day after the Stug GB ends.
so i should be abt 75% done w/ the Stug by then . . .
and i think my girlfriend said the CCI at Fair Hill is that weekend . . .
hmmm . . .
we shall see . . .

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Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

Hysterical !

DJ,

I don’t know about a tri-plane. How about something a little easier for us “big fingered” armor guys ?

How about a - Fokker Eindekker

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Do we have to build it in a bottle?

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Again wit da language! Sheesh!

Oh, that’s a plane too? [:p]

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Do they make a nodekker? I can deal with a fueselage. Perhaps two other Fokkers could carry it on a line or something.

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What is the airspeed velocity of an unlaiden Fokker ??

Im in for sure, ofcourse I might change my mind after this weekend. [:D]

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Hysterical !

Ausf,

Fokker was the inventor - you know “Gaylord Fokker” ( but his friends never used his full name )