Pfalz D.III replica from The Blue Max

[Vince1159]

She's a beauty 5054,a real credit to your skills and the 'Blue Max' adds a bit more (have one next to Von Richthofens Dr-1)....

[k5054nz]

Thanks Vince! I have since also done a movie Fokker D.VII and am working on a "German" Tiger Moth:

[SeaVenom]

On 08/02/2017 at 5:24 AM, k5054nz said:

The other one uses a Tiger Moth fuselage frame as its base, so it's longer than it should be. Apparently it's quite nice to fly so TVAL uses it for training their pilots. But as a model it'd mean a lot more work.

 

'TIJ needs a four cylinder engine plus support struts between the fuselage and lower wing.

 

 

Thanks for that.   I don't know if you've had a close look at the Encore 1/32 kit but you can build either the movie version (using the resin parts) or the historical and literary version.   Does G-ATIJ have that distinctive pointing upwards exhaust or does it have a more accurate pointing downwards exhaust? 

 

I can't seem to tell from the photo.  Is G-ATIJ a lot more accurate to the original machines than TIJ or only a bit?

 

P.S. (Love your DVII replica too)

Edited February 11, 2017 by SeaVenom

[k5054nz]

Thanks!

G-ATIJ - Hillbourne/Bellamy - is a LOT more accurate. G-ATIF is the other one (not sure if I got that right earlier).

 

You can just make out the exhaust in my first photo of the real one - mounted to port, slanting up then horizontal. This photo shows it even better. I remember reading the Encore kit had a four-cylinder engine.

[SeaVenom]

Cheers for that!   It looks like they've both got similar exhausts.   I've been trying to find a photo of the 2 replicas side by side but have had no luck so far.