Orso Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 (edited) In the club we had a Fokker challenge. Build the Eduard 1/48 Fokker DR1. I don't build in 1/48 but I got myself an Revell boxing of the kit and dived in to the unknown. This plane was used by DLR in mail runs between January 1919 and February 1923 but for some reason it didn't get scrapped with the rest of the warplanes after the Versailles treaty. 28/17 was displayed at the Deutsches Luftfahrt Museum in the 1930's. Now repainted to look like Manfred von Richthofen's plane. It was later used in the 1938 movie Pour le Mérite and it is rumoured that it had crashed sometime after the movie. I normally stay away from this scale, but I found that WW1 planes in this scale are rather nice. As I was building it without weapons I needed to build to build a simple fuel tank as it was visible with the guns gone. Edited August 13, 2021 by Orso 22 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swralph Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Very nice Bjorn.😀 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viking Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 That is really interesting, I never knew about this so thanks for the info, a quick google brought up some photos of the real thing. It looks rather attractive in overall silver, did you make your own decals? Cheers John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malc2 Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Wow, what an interesting story and colour scheme! Malc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orso Posted January 3, 2021 Author Share Posted January 3, 2021 Yes I did my own decals for it. It is a very small plane. I was going too look at it to see if I ever did the wires on it but could not find the model. I found it when I realized that the small plane on a shelf wasn't a 1/72 plane but the 1/48 I was looking for. (I never did the wires) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vesa Jussila Posted January 3, 2021 Share Posted January 3, 2021 Nice work Björn and learning again. So these were used in civil too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeddahbill Posted January 4, 2021 Share Posted January 4, 2021 Fantastic build! Bill Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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