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  1. Despite the box-art, this edition of the Revell 1/72 Junkers F13 includes all the necessary parts for the F13W floatplane version. I used it as my basis for a model of Construction Number 650 "Biene", which was temporarily renamed "Eisvogel" when it was part of the Junkers Spitsbergen Expedition of 1923, registered as D 260. I used Master-X resin replacements for the kit ailerons. I intended ordering one of the Master-X conversions and scavenging the ailerons, but once Lumír at Master-X found out I only wanted the ailerons, he just sent me the ailerons, free of charge! The registration numbers and the laminations on the wooden prop are from Arctic Decals, which I highly recommend--they bedded down beautifully even on the tricky surface of this model. The kit itself came together nicely. I scribed off the rudder and elevators so that I could pose them--this aircraft seems to have a characteristic elevator droop when parked. I tweaked it by revising the area of the tail-skid, which didn't correctly reflect the float-plane configuration, and added a little fairing around the "rhino horn" exhaust, visible in the reference photographs. I also carved open a door, slightly shortened the over-long rear bench seat in the passenger compartment so that it didn't foul the open door, and added a few interior details including some photoetch lap-belts. Oh--and I added a reproduction of whatever-that-is on the starboard side behind the rear window, visible behind the head of the middle man standing on the float. I've also just completed a companion build to this one. This airframe ended its life under somewhat dramatic circumstances in 1934, while registered as LN-ABH to Nord-Norges Aero in Norway, by which time it had been quite extensively revised from its appearance here. Once I have some photographs of that build I'll post it in another thread. ETA: The other build is here:
  2. I've got myself two of this kit, because I'm interested in building Construction Number 650 at two very different moments in its life. This aircraft was part of the Junkers Spitsbergen Expedition of 1923, registered as D-260. It spent the next decade knocking around Germany, Russia, Estonia and north Norway under various registrations, before ending up as the property of Nord-Norges Aero in 1932, registered as LN-ABH. Passengers were flown on sightseeing trips by Norway's famous aviatrix, Gidsken Jakobsen, until June 1934, when it "lost its engine" near Balestrand on the Sognefjord. Literally--the engine fell out of the aeroplane, landing in the fjord somewhere between Hella and Vangsnes. The pilot retrimmed the aircraft by inviting the front-seat passenger to climb out on to the cowling, after which a safe landing was made, but the aircraft never flew again. I'm starting with the trickier option, LN-ABH. It's well documented, photographically, but many images are copyright of the Norsk Luftfartsmuseum (the one above is a rare public domain photograph). I'll post links to reference photos, as well as a few small detailed sections of the original images as "fair use quotations". I'm aiming to reproduce the appearance in this copyright photograph, which I believe was taken later than the one above--but only because it seems more likely that someone painted a pale rudder black, rather than the other way around. LN-ABH was considerably changed from its original configuration. It was fitted with that unusual home-grown rudder, for a start. But it had also been fitted with wider ailerons (visible in my linked picture), and at some point had lost the aerodynamic fairings on its float struts (see image above). It may also have been fitted with a new engine--it certainly lost its original rhino-horn exhaust, and was fitted with a new cowling with a row of rather improvised-looking exhausts on the starboard side. (Original) (Original) I got myself a set of resin extended ailerons from Lumir at Master-X (I won't give a link at present, because his website is currently setting off a trojan warning in my browser), and some decals from Lima November decals (who also provide some very nice documentation for LN-ABH, too). Then I carved a replacement rudder, put together some exhaust pipes, and created a slot in the kit cowling to receive the pipes in due course. Filling the hole in the cowling was never going to come out perfectly. I'll distract attention by adding the tie-down lines visible in the photograph of the original aircraft, above. Then I thinned the moulded shrouds on the float struts--originals above, adapted below: Here they are in place: And because this will be a flying model, I designed and printed myself a prop disc. The bands of yellow and brown are intended to reproduce the appearance of a rotating Heine propeller, laminated in alternating dark and light layers. The boss is the original kit part, shorn of its blades and split in half with a razor saw. And at some point I'm going to need to adapt Lima November's otherwise lovely decals. The typography on the real aircraft included a quite distinctive letter "N", which isn't reproduced by the decals (at right). (Original)
  3. I have a favour to ask, I am building the kit below, in the Airliners Group Build here on BM My question is, what other decal and livery options are available for this kit ? I believe the ones included in the kit are for the prototype aircraft. Any help really appreciated Cheers Pat
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