Old Frog 1/72 Dewoitine D.520

[Black Knight]

One of the many kits I've been given as 'scrap'

Besides no instructions or decals this was missing one aileron, one half of a tail plane and the main u/c legs.

The u/c legs came from my spares, from a Me.109F kit which ended up on floats afair. I replaced the 'shirt button' wheels with Aeroclub white metal ones

The pitot on the wing is a bit of wire. I drilled out the wings' leading edges for the guns. The ejector slots under the wings are marked in the plastic, I just used black decal on them.

I boxed in the radiator and wheel wells and the lower wing needed shimmed to get it level with the fuselage, there was a full 3mm difference

The decals came from a HobbyBoss D.520 I built recently. It had three options on its decal sheet

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Heather Kay]

That scrubbed up nicely enough. 

[John Masters]

Nifty little beastie.  Nice build too!

[SAT69]

I really like that one. Camouflage with such colors makes for a very attractive contrast.

[JWM]

Very good result for that poor kit!

Let me share with some personal relation to the Frog Dewoitine. The D 520 was one of two first 1/72 kits which my father glued (but not painted) for me and my brother Mike ( @KRK4m) when I was maybe 6 years old, so about 1965,,,. The second one was F4U1D Corsair from Revell.  I started to do models by my own when I was maybe 7 or 8 years old, so I painted  D520  first time (very ugly) when I was about 10 then re-painted when I was 14, finally some years ago I washed all paint from it and keep it again not painted thinking, that maybe one day I will rebuild it...In stash I have Hasegawa D 520, so maybe one day I will do double build. Anyway, both models survived in some way about 55 years with us....

Regards

J-W

 

[Wulfman]

Great job on a very old and very basic kit, well done !

 

Wulfman

[Bigglesof266]

Nice.  

 

I built this kit in either late 1966 or early '67 during a childhood which increasingly now, seems a time as far off and different as that "foreign country" Hartley wrote of.  Painted it from Humbrol tinlets with a hairy stick too. I always loved the D.520's aesthetic. Recall notes that I was particularly proud of the finished job I made of it, which wasn't always so. It stood on my dresser in pride of place alongside Airfix's new tool 1/72 Bf 109G-6 which had released the previous year. I liked Frog kits and the range of subjects they offered, when I could get them.  

Edited August 15, 2020 by Bigglesof266

[stevehnz]

Really nice BK, your result looks way better than the kit deserves to my mind. Whose/what colours did you use? They look as I think they should look.

Steve.

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Well Done 520 BK..... Im developing quite a liking for the DeWoitine 500 family of aircraft. I will need to get some of the new 500/510 kits to go with my 520. 

[woody37]

Great to see these old kits put together, great job of it

 

[invidia]

Great looking model. Old kit has scrubbed up well.

[Vinnie]

Lovely job on the old kit.

[Black Knight]

Thanks all for the nice compliments.

They are appreciated

 

7 hours ago, stevehnz said:

Whose/what colours did you use? They look as I think they should look..

1. The D.520 got two thin coats of Humbrol 1 Grey Primer to a. make the white plastic card parts match in and b, so I could use acrylics

2. The underneath pale blue is Humbrol 65 with extra blue added

3. The top side; the grey is Revell 79 'Greyish Blue' (?!), the brown is Revell 84 'Leather Brown' and the green is Humbrol 159 'Khaki Drab'