Hi, for the Mad Fokker Day GB I was going to get the Eduard Profipack Fokker Dr1. Bad luck, they were out of stock, however I did get myself a Strip Down Fokker.
The kit containes a complete plastic kit, and lots, lots of PE parts, the plastic kit inside is mostly for the “spare parts box”, since you only need a few pieces of it.
This is my first attempt at using so many PE parts [:)]
I’ve completed the fuselage and aft-section, for comparison, I’ve placed a standard toothpick next to it.
If that isn’t tiny…
I did the all-brass Fokker VIII and Sopwith Camel and they were a nightmare, especially the bipe. A fun nightmare, if that is possible, but a trial all the same. I bought the Storch, but lost it before it was built. I really like those little kits. Are they still in stock? And where is the Eduard site, anyway?
gott in himmel !
that toothpick really puts it in perspective, whew !
DanCooper, that is one fine job u r doing on a
tiny, intricate model… most impressive & inspirational, 4 sure !
definitely not the rite subject 4 Mad Fokker Day, i think,
but a great way 2 get us fired up 4 building a Dr.1 !
thanx 4 sharing ur work,
Dan, I don’t know how I managed to miss this one before but I did. That is really really cool. I thought that was a chopstick laying next to a framework of a plane. Not until a closer inspection did I find myself stunned. That thing is great!
Since joining this site, I’ve gotten used to being humbled, and even shamed, by people who are so much more talented, so much more patient, and just better modelers all around. Thank god the people on this site are nice people, and don’t make it feel like we are constantly in competition with one another. For instance, for my entire adult life I have been a writer of one sort or another (my grammatically, syntactically, misspelled posts don’t count), and the people in the writers’ groups, classes and web sites are the most competitive, petty, defensive about their work but all too ready to slag anyone else’s, type of people you will ever have the misfortune to meet.
The point of that long introduction is that I was remembering my builds of the Eduard brass kits, compared with Dan’s. My stringers were twisted and coated with extra super glue, my bulkheads were all warped, the cockpit floor sat cockeyed. In other words, and in every way, mine were the exact opposite of Dan’s exquisite work. To really appreciate what he has done here so far, you need to try and build one of these little monsters. Or at least take a good long examination of the parts and really hard-to-follow instructions (they are about like the detail sets, only a dozen times more confusing). But, as I said above, though it was painful and I was so disappointed in my own performance, these are really fun little kits, and if you feel tired of the same old thing, and want to take a break into something completely different from what you are used to modeling, grab one of these beauties. My Storch burned before I got to start it (I never finished either the Fokker or the Camel), but tje Storch has more plastic parts than any of the others in the series, and a Storch airframe is mostly straight lines, so it may be a good one to start with. Great going, Dan. I can’t wait to see it on its wheels and skid.
Tom
