With the Hawk practically finished and the Hornet in the paint shop, I was needing something to do which can be built quickly, but would provide an interesting challenge for painting.
It happens that I've got an Eduard Dual Combo set of the Fokker Dr.1. This comes with lots of nice photoetch, which I don't think I could manage right now. It has decals for four machines, including both Manfred and Lothar von Richthofen, which is what I intend to do with the two kits. The box art has one of the other options: Fritz Kempf's Dr.1 with "Kennscht mi noch" ("Remember me" in Swabian dialect). This is mostly done in the Fokker streaky camouflage, which presents a challenge to paint
So I'm going to have a go at it, using the Revell Dr.1, which is also a nice kit, if not quite as refined as the Eduard version
The Fokker Dr.1 has very little rigging, which can easily be added later. I;ve already built one of these kits with number one son, so I know it goes together pretty well. Sissel has just built this particular subject too, so you can see what it looks like here:
http://uamf.org.uk/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=4375&p=107449;
First thing is to get rid of that wretched red plastic. I've used Vallejo sand primer on the interior and exterior of the fabric covered parts, and panzergrau primer on the metal parts and wheels.
The sand primer covers the red pretty well, although it will get a second coat when I remove bits from the sprues and stick things together. It is also is a good base for CDL too, and in fact, I may well leave the primer bare on the CDL parts of the interior.
If I get really ambitious, I will try to add a couple of photoetch gunsights and maybe a spinner boss from photoetch - a couple of little details like that really enhance a WW1 model.
cheers
Andrew
