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  1. Fascinated by the exploits of Leutnant der Reserve Werner Voss during his short but active life flying various German scouts on the Western Front during 1916/1917, I decided some time back that the appearance of a 1/48 scale model of the pilot reflecting the well-known photo of him in front of the early Fokker Triplane in which he met his end offered 2 interesting departures for me in my erratic modelling hobby. First it gave me the chance to try to improve my figure painting skills (poor at best) and secondl,y it offered me the chance to buils a trio of the scouts he flew, decorated with my interpretation of their colour schemes and markings. The Albatros DIII flown by Voss (while he was comanding Jasta 5 from May 1917 to end July 1917) has been well documented and modelled over time. I've no doubt that Voss flew the earlier Albatros DII, as well as the Halberstadt scout, but I was unable to find sufficient research data on their appearance to warrant adding theses to the project. Nevertheless, I decided the DIII was a worthwhile starting point, since he made claims for as many as 10 Allied aircraft while flying this machine and a replacement after the first was damaged in combat. This was my first experiment with wood grain decals which turned out reasonably well after a few false starts. After researching the contemporary photos of this a/c for clues to the actual colour patterns on the wings, I decided to follow the general and learned opinion of Dan San Abbott in this area, interpreting as I went along, so it ended up as my view, right or wrong. I had intended to use some GasPatch turnbuckles to add to the detail in the rigging department. Sadly my fingers and eyesight prevented this, and my rigging thread was too thick to connect through the eyeholes, so I did without. These 1/48 scale Eduard kits are generally pretty good all round, despite fumble fingers like mine being prone to snapping or losing some of the more delicate parts. However, one gripe that I've aired before with some of the German kits with wing radiators is that no effort was made to include the coolant pipework to and from the rad and the Mercedes engine. A strange omission for a part of the structure that's very viisible on the real aiircraft, so I decided to correct this with some 30 amp fuse wire, suitably bent and glued with cyano. More amusement to follow in Part 2. Comments and criticisms always appreciated. Paul
  2. Slightly wounded during an encounter with an RNAS pilot, Voss was soon back on duty, but went on leave until the end of June 1917 when he was briefly given temporary command of first one then another Jasta. During this period he was also seconded to Schwerin where he test fllew the Fokker Triplane prototype which probably started what became a love affair between the young pilot from Krefeld annd Fokker's Triplane design. His career took a new turn when he was given command of Jasta 10, one of the four units that made up Jagdgeschwader 1 under the command of his friend and contemporary, Manfred von Richthofen (MvR). Voss took command of Jasta 10 on 30 July 1917, just as the unit was re-equipping with the Bavarian company's sleek Pfalz DIII, which for me is one of the prettiest and most streamlined fighters of this period of WW 1, whatever its operational shortcomings. Voss appears to have found the performance of the Pfalz less suited to his flying style and it's suggested he may have flown 1370/17 on only four occasions before reverting to the Albatros DIII in which he made four further victory claims, bringing his total to 38. While better in a dive than the Albatros, the Pfalz was slower and had an inferior rate of climb compared to the V-strutter. The fact that the twin Spandau machine guns were enclosed within the interplane fuselage structure may also have created some issues with the process of clearing jammed machine guns. In addition, Voss may have already been made aware that one of the two prototypes to be issued for combat evaluation was shortly coming to Jasta 10 for his use. In an old Profile Publication from the 60s/70s, I came across the above contemporary photo of 1370/17 after it had been caprtured by the British when it'd been flown by another Jasat 10 pilot, Vzfw Hecht. Right or wrong, I decided that the vertiical bands either side of the fuselage Iron Cross should be in the unit's colour of yellow. I now realise I should have coloured the backround to the cross white, rather than leaving it silbergrau. Hey ho! The eagle-eyed amongst you may also spot the elevator and rudder cables are much thicker than they should have been. In reallity, the whole rigging was finished initially in this thicker gauge material, a fact I'd not noticed until I put the Albatros and Pfalz alongside each other. Much corrective procedure and frustration later, I replaced the majority of this with more delicate rigging and decided against messing about with the aft fuselage items. This Eduard kit (rareish and of some vintage) did not include any parts for the coolant pipes to and from the engine, nor for the fuel pipes running from the upper wing tank to the engine. The former were fashioned from 30 amp fusewire and the latter from artfully-bent thin copper wire. Perhaps forgiveable in a kit this old but it shouldn't happen with modern kits in this scale. Sometime between the last days of August and early September, the F.1 triplane in which Voss would gain his last 10 victories and meet his death was delivered to Jasta 10. I used an Eduard weekend kit for the F.1 103/17, suitably-decorated with the face on the cowling and the khaki drab stripes over the pale blue undercoat. I decided to try out the GasPatch Spandaus instead of the kit ones and found these to be very good though also very delicate. I managed to break off the ring sights which I replaced with some fine brass wire, bent (almost) to shape. I also added some seat belts and the cowling retaining wire around the aft portion of the cowling. I'd decided that both 102/17 and 103/17 had slightly different lower cowl structures compared with the production run machines, as detailed in Paul Leaman's wonderful book on the Triplane, a modification that was easy with a strip of plastic and a bit of filler - not that this is very visible in my pictures. Perhaps controversially, I decided that there's insufficient evidence that either the cowling or the rudder of 103/17 were painted yellow, preferring khaki drab for the cowling and white for the rudder. As you can probably see, the upper surfacce stripes are painted with the hairy stick in my interpretation of the patterns shown in contemporary photos. So, as they used to say at the end of the Disney cartoons at the cinema when I were a lad -"That's all, folks!" Apart from one final shot just to reinforce the point of this lengthy post. I hope you've been amused by it. Paul
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