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Great figure I'd always fancied a go at so watching with my green tinged specs on 😉 Paul

Just a quick heads up to Pete that I succumbed at the weekend when I saw one of the O/400 kits on a stand for a paltry £15.00 Well it would have been rude not to buy it . . . .so I did! Looking through the parts I'm generally impressed, but it's a real whopper compared to my usual single seater WW1 bipes so the question will be can I fit it in the cabinet when it's all done or will I need to be on the look out for a bigger cabinet now as well 😁 (Building it with the wings folded feels a bit of cheat, unless I can get a suitable towing vehicle and a few figures to go with it) Got a nice simple little parasol job on the bench first, but I'm already gathering references . . . Paul

Very nice 😁

That makes a change from the usual rotary types 😁 I'll be picking one up if it appears anytime soon Paul

Absolutely outstanding in all regards. I'm a bit lost for words to be honest, but since I usually work in 72nd (twice the size) and have been struggling with making my own I'll bookmark the page and come back to it later when I've got some glasses on. 🤣 Thanks for posting such an inspirational thread Paul

Plenty to like about the Roden (and older Pegasus versions) of which I have several on the shelf, but an Eduard version? Come on chaps (and chapesses) surely that's great news for us builders of 'Gentlemans Scale' WW1 suff 😁 I'll be adding a couple straight away'- Their Nieuports and DVII /Dri are the best available in this scale for ease of building and with nice decals I can't help but think they'll be on to another winner. Paul

Nice choices Bill Working on a full flight of 4 Jasta 19 Dr1's at the moment which are nearing completion although they seem to be taking an age because I insisted on tarting them up a bit (small parts engines, hand carved props etc) 🤪 Love the two choices you've made and have never seen the von Hippel scheme with a green tail so that will stand out nicely. The DVII scheme is a bit unusual as well so I look forward to seeing that one painted up (I recently checked and have 6 DVII kits so I ought to do a couple in the future, but want to redress the balance with a couple of early allied types first) Look forward to seeing them shape up Paul

Love the build and yes I might just be tempted to having a go at this vessel at some point so thanks for the comprehensive look at what a pain it potentially could be. 🙃 (I've actually bought a couple of small 1/700 vessels which I'm lining up as next to get to after the group build I'm working on) Paul

Thanks guys 😊 The KP kit isn't awful Steve, it's just a bit KP ish if you know what I mean 😉 I sanded the wings right down and rescribed the ribs so they looked okay, but it was the louvres around the front I couldn't really live with in the end (As it happens I ended up making them on the Pegasus one anyway) By the way you'll need to change the undercarriage position and some vents if you're planning on an accurate DIIa . . . Potentially it could be a perfect starter WW1 aircraft. Easy rigging of the wings, not too many wires, internal controls for everything except the rudder and most modellers have a stock of green and brown paint to use. There are a few simple graphics to make different versions and break up the camouflage. Paul

Hiya folks. For the last few weeks I've been working on the old Pegasus Roland kit. (I started the newer KP version, but wasn't happy with various bits; detail was a bit soft or missing and wing too thick even after much sanding) When I spotted the Pegasus version for sale I snapped it up and the project was restarted. As usual I only kept the major components. All struts / control rods were made from brass strip and rod soldered together or sanded brass strip. Wheels came from an Eduard kit and most of the kits original detail was sanded off and re-instated. Cockpit was built up from scratch and the wing mount modified to include the large tacho that's very prominent in pictures. I also decided to add a reduced map of the front on the left hand side of the cockpit. 😉 Took three attempts before I was happy with the spreader bar on the undercarriage which is a detail not usually seen hence the close up. The figure is a 3D printed one which was tweaked slightly before adding a pair of wheel chocks carved from plastic. I almost forgot to add the prominent seam where the two halves of the fuselage shell join together (Hopefully nobody thinks my building is quite that bad) 😁 Painting was in acrylics with oil weathering and rigging is fishing line. Love the lines of this aircraft and hope you enjoy my interpretation. Cheers Paul

No, no absolutely not Markio (you weren't were you? 🤔) However I am now absolutely bumping this thread coz I think it'd be a great GB 😀 Plenty of designs with no or very little rigging so room for plenty more . . .

And obviously adding a few extra posts to the thread keeps it at the top of everyone's feed so hopefully those teetering on the edge will dip their toe in and have a go too 😉😀

Do we need a few more potential entries, coz I'm happy to build a couple . . . Paul

Great choices Paul 👍 Never seen the Merlin DH10 before, but seen a couple of their kits and was appalled at the quality (Appeared to be carve from the lumps of plastic provided) Hopefully the Vac will be a slightly easier build Paul

Well that one scrubs up well Paul 😃 Lovely job 👍 Paul

Best looking twin ever (Possibly the Mitsubishi Dinah would argue with that, but hey tell it like it is)😀 Paul

Possibly . . . . Got a few I'm working on, but plenty of WW1 aircraft in captured markings (Camel, Nieuport and 1 1/2 strutter to name three British types that look very odd in their German markings Paul

Mammoth task undertaken there young fella with a great result Really enjoyed the thread too - Congrats 👏 Paul

😊 Thanks Ritchie (Nearly got a shelf full now!) Paul

Cheers Roberto (I tend towards the unusual which is the main reason I'm drawn towards these early birds) 🙂 That's very kind of you to say Clio 😊 My personal favorite of the few I've built so far is still the EIII (there's a thread on here somewhere showing some of the build) Paul

Sorry if I wasn't clear in my original post for 'green' I mean the darker shade sometimes shown as green or darker greeny brown/olive drab (I found Raw Umber with a touch of green works well) 🙂 The turquoise colour is usually wrapped around the lower longerons and is quite apparent in some images. (One of the suggested reasons I read that the mix of greeny/brown and turquoise (blue/grey in my original post) are mixed together on some aircraft when streaking is that this hard line of underside colour on the longeron isn't easily seen) FWIW I went olive colour over linen with turquoise undersides on the recent one I built 😃 (1/72 scale Eduard with a few mods and a carved wooden propellor)) Paul

Thanks Chris. Finish is a bit rough in real life, but I feel I'm learning as I go along. 👍

Hi Octavio those should do the trick (I used the ones from the AR88146. sheet, but it looks like these are the replacement sheet)

Cheers Octavio. Stitching is as per my previous DH5 build using Archer decals 👍 Thanks Paul Civilian scheme is very eye catching and you don't need to worry about any guns either. Rigging was straight forward once you've planned it out so don't let it put you off building one. Drill a hole in the pylon to start with, then each line is done thus - Start by threading through the pylon so there is about 12 " of monofilament either side of the pylon. the line goes through a hole on the top of the wing around the top of the undercarriage leg and then back through a second hole alongside the first in the wing (Careful not to twist them or cross them). Add a pair of self closing tweezers to keep it in position and repeat for the line on the opposite side in the same way. Invert the model so the weight of the tweezers tensions the line and make sure everything looks okay then add a spot of superglue to the line where it exits the top of the wing below the tweezers (ie the second time it's passed through the wing). Pop aside to dry and then repeat four times for the different lines (two go to the front leg of the undercarriage and two go to the back leg. Sounds really complicated but is probably the simplest rigging I've ever done 😀 I found that adding pins to the ends of the undercarriage legs allowed a bit of room for the rigging lines to wrap around and making my own pylon meant that I could make sure the hole was big enough for four lines to pass through (0.3mm from memory) Hope that helps Paul

Just been re-reading some of the old Windsock articles about Fokker's infamous streaking camouflage there seem to have been several ways of producing it dependent on procedure at the time or phase of the moon or just the mood of the workers doing the job. On Fokker DV's and some DR1's it appears the effect was produced as shown ie 'green' over doped linen colour. On some aircraft was the blueish shade may have been added before the green streaking was applied after this was dry and finally there are some samples/examples where the green and blue/grey appear intermixed as the streaking takes place by using two different brushes/colours at the same time. Clear as mud as they say 🫣 I'd suggest (And it's what I did on mine) linen interior with the plywood triangular area and metalwork in the greyish green primer colour (As jimmaas already suggested) Truth is we cannot be absolutely certain unless you have a sample fabric from the particular aircraft you are representing. Interesting subject though 👍 Paul