1/72 - Airco/de Havilland DH.9A & Polikarpov R-1 by Kovozávody Prostějov (KP) - released

[Patrik]

20 hours ago, Cammer625 said:

So after checking the ADF-Serials site, I’m looking at the RAAF Ninaks as early ones? Is this right?

Interesting question, not an easy answer. From the available photos I am inclined to say yes. However, some of the RAAF planes were from the E*** series, and such RAF planes (with quite close RAF serials) were hump-backed. Go by photos, this is the safest bet.

Edited August 20, 2022 by Patrik

[Patrik]

17 hours ago, stevehnz said:

Thanks @Patrik for sleuthing this for us, I confess to having not knowing why some 9As seemed higher in the observers area than others & always put it down to camera angle, now I know it is not. I'd like to do a between wars Indian service machine & mostly these seem to have the raised rear deck, I think.  I have a couple of the DH-9A/R-1 kits from Russia, I wonder how far out they are to one of these size wise?

Steve.

Never heard about sleuthing until today. Nice to learn new word in a foreign language (three weeks ago, it was "serendipitous").

I am happy to be considered DH.9A expert, but I am not such one. I confess I had no idea of the humpback until about 2010 when I first compared the CMR kit with the excellent Windsock drawings. And frankly, I all but forgot about it until I reviewed the KP kit last weekend.

I suppose, Steve, you mean the Maquette kits. Had one, sold it when I got the CMR resin. I remember it was quite a rough representation compared to CMR, but I can say nothing about its dimensional accuracy, as I do not remember. The KP kit has been based on CMR, so for sure superior to Maquette - if you decide you will not care about the 1/70-71 "KP scale".

As Paul said, many of the interwar silver Ninaks had been hump-backed, some of them had been not. You just need to find the right one to fit the kit on hand. The selection is in my opinion rich enough.

Patrik

Edited August 21, 2022 by Patrik

[Cammer625]

Thanks Patrik - I found that Wingnut Wings did one as a RAAF and it was the early one, so I’ll pick that one to do.  It’s actually very helpful that their info is still up on the web. Cheers

[stevehnz]

1 hour ago, Patrik said:

You just need to find the right one to fit the kit on hand.

The hunt is on I guess. At least now I know what I'm looking for, there are plenty of photos of these machines out there for sure.

I thought this photo.

from this article in the Daily Mail, served to illustrate the difference between the high back (far) & low back (near) versions. I couldn't resist a snigger when I read (a bit further down the page) that the DH.9A was retired in 1931 as engineers turned their attention to designing jets.

Steve.

[Mr T]

Oh Come on,  it is the Daily Mail,  none of the papers,  especially the red tops,  have a clue about any military aviation topic.  Our local paper is no better.  They go into hyperbole mode every time a Globemaster or Atlas does practice approaches into LBA (not that rare) and talk about the giant helicopters flying over Leeds.  If they had been Mil26s, I could understand,  but a pair of not particularly unusual Chinooks? Fortunately they ignored the Apaches. 

Back to the DH9A.  I was going to give it miss in favour of the Clear Prop one, but not withstanding the slight overscale,  it might be worth a punt. I am sure there would be toon for both given its widespread use by the the post war RAF. 

 

[rickpeck]

I had a small interest in the DH.9A/R1 as I thought the foreign R1's look interesting and maybe one after WW1. Reading all the post here it did help as many of you pointed out things I didn't know and also peaked my interest in these.

In other word thanks for all the information.

Rick

[Smudge]

On 20/08/2022 at 22:52, stevehnz said:

from this article in the Daily Mail,

 

Thanks for the link, Steve. Quite an amazing model. Interesting to see all the little details that one can't really appreciate from the old black and white photo's. That'll be a good reference for modelling the KP kit.

 

Cheers. 

[Torbjorn]

That’s not a mere model; that I would call a scaled-down replica! Thanks for posting

[Homebee]

Source: https://www.modelarovo.cz/airco-dh-9a-polikarpov-r-1-1-72-kovozavody-prostejov/

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The new DH-9A kit is based on the model by CMR, a company which is one of the top quality resin kits on the market. This cooperation has been working very well for a long time, which is demonstrated by the many beautiful models we have already released, such as DH-5, Spitfire IX, Buzzard F.4, Bre – 14, Sal 2A2, Attacker, Albatros C .III and also the new DH-9A. Its master model was completely redesigned for injection molding technology and partially converted into 3D modeling. Then it is milled by CAD-CAM technology into a metal mold. In this way we are also creating other new kits, there is certainly something to look forward to. This fast and relatively inexpensive modern technology allows us to keep the selling prices of our kits very low and decent for you, given the high prices of practically everything needed for production today.

 

 

V.P.

[Homebee]

New boxings

 

- ref. KPM0315 - Airco DH-9A - Over Iraq

Source: https://www.kovozavody.cz/produkt/dh-9a-over-iraq/

 

 

- ref. KPM0316 - Airco DH-9A - In Australian Services

Source: https://www.kovozavody.cz/produkt/dh-9a-in-australian-services/

 

 

V.P.

[Homebee]

Released

- ref. KPM0315 - Airco DH-9A - Over Iraq - https://eshop.kovozavody.cz/10690,cz_airco-dh-9a-over-iraq-.html

- ref. KPM0316 - Airco DH-9A - In Australian Services - https://eshop.kovozavody.cz/10691,cz_airco-dh9a-in-australian-services-.html

 

 

 

V.P.