I finaly got around to getting some photos of my recently completed models. All are 1/72 Revell of Germany kits.
First up Fokker Dr.1 flown by Manfred von Richthofen
Next an Albatros D.III flown by Werner Voss
From the Allied side
SPAD XIII flown by French ace Georges Guynemer
Finally a Nieuport 28 flown by US ace, Eddie Rickenbacker
Aaron,
I like the rigging on your Albatros. Good work…thanks for sharing
Those are great! I especially like the Albatros. That is the Roden kit? Rigging looks good too. I recently built finished an Albatros D.III and D.V but haven’t been brave enough to try rigging. I think I am going to make my first attempt on an Eindecker!
Excellent collection. Well done [Y].
Regards, Rick
Beautiful. Wonderful detail for such a small scale.
Thanks for the comments, I’m really having fun with these little things. They are quite different to build from WW2 aircraft and it almost feels like I am starting with models all over again, learning something new with each one.
They are all Revell of Germany kits, the detail on the Revell kit is not as good as the Roden or Eduard kits, but still decent and they make up for the inferior detail by being less fiddly and about 1/2 the price.
I’ve been using .008" guitar string (a superlight E string) for the rigging, it is probably a bit out of scale but it is very stiff preventing the common saggy look of string, cheap and easy to find at pretty much any music store. Rigging is still my least favorite part of building, but it is getting a little easier with each one I do. The P-26A I posted with my interwar stuff had pre drilled holes which turned out to be a big help on that particular plane (and probably true for the E.III as well). I will definately be drilling some holes in the future to help anchor the wires.
[Y] Nice work .Ron
Excellent work. The results are outstanding.
What kind of paint did you use? WWI aircraft paint is not easy to come by.
I love the collection of birds. Thanks for sharing. [:)]
Very nice builds, especially with the wiring. I have manodiln string that I was going to try myself. I have a few comments though.
a) Is the light making them shiny? WWI aircraft were actually flat in paint sheen. At Old Rhinebeck they did make a note that the forward end of a WWI aircraft would get shinier over time. They used castor oil as a lubricant and it would make the forward fuselage shinier over time. It also made it important to keep the flights down to 1 hour.
b) check the references for von Richthofen’s triplane. The full red color one had a white rudder (national marking standard) and a later style of balkencross without the flared ends. If I remember, he flew 3 Dr.I’s and a F.1 . The F.1 was handed over the Werner Voss.
Mike T.
Checkmate, most of the paints are Model Master Acryl or Pollyscale. I used a color chart for Misterkit paints (they specialize in WW1 colors) and picked whatever I had on hand that was close. I’ve found there is not a lot of agreement about colors since most references are based on B&W photos or well aged scraps of aircraft, so I’m satisfied with close.
Pollyscale has several WW1 colors, and rather strangely I found many of the Italian WW2 colors are a decent match for some of the WW1 browns and greens.
Mike I used Microscale satin, so they are not dead flat, but not glossy. I understand that they were doped or varnished so fairly shiny when new, and then dulled quickly in use. Satin seemed like a decent compromise for a fresh aircraft.
As far as MvR’s triplane there is a lot of debate about the subject. There have been a number of fakes and frauds, bad research published, misidentified photos, misidentified bits and pieces etc. There doesn’t even seem to be agreement about which of the Dr.Is he actually flew or the exact combination of markings, although there does seem to be some agreement that at least two red triplanes were assigned to him, one all red and one red / white one. [:S] Anyway very confusing so I just picked a profile I liked and went with it.
Often that’s just what you need to do.
Sometimes, all the wrangling over nitpicky details just takes the fun out of it.
Thanks for the tip on the music wire BTW. I have a few WWI kits that I keep putting off due to my apprehension over the rigging.