1:28 Revell Fokker Dr1 Complete

plasticjunkie

I will be more than glad to grain the prop for you.

Hmmm  That is tempting. There's no way I could do as good a job. I'll give it a try on a scrap piece and if I just can't get it, Ill PM ya. I studied your discription on your guillotine last year and have tried it a few times with terrable results. 

Steve

Not a problem if you want the prop done. I can PM you my mailing address. I will be more than glad to grain the prop for you.

still looks great

Thanks Crown but actually it was not Voss's machine. This machine is Dr-1 183/17 Flown by Hasso von Wedel of Jasta 14.  Easily confused with Voss's mount from the top picture I posted.

The streaked scheme is olive green streaked over unbleached linnen at different angles per documentation.

I just ordered the cockpit and gun detail set from Tom's Model Works. It should be here soon.

The reason for the 3 wings was to increace wing area therby making for a lower wingloading, this equals a much better climb rate. You do not want to simply increace wingspan as this reduces roll rate. Because of the rotary engine's massive gyroscopic effect it wouls not react like a normal plane, if you could master it , it was extremely agile. Just like Sopwith Camel, you used the same direction of rudder offset to turn left and right! These rotaries also dod not have a norma throttle, you had selector switches that turned off some of the spark plus thereby decreacing power. That is why they "blipped" the engine for landing. Theuns

This is such a cool plane, looks kinda unstable though. I understand that while not as fast as most of the allied fighters (too much drag) it could really turn on a dime (a lot of lift). PJ, you are so good at wood recreation, I should send you my prop to paint . Just kidding, I need to learn myself. That paint job looks very convincing. Looks like it was painted with a dope wash of varying shades of green. I'll look into a PE set, maybe I can find one on the cheap on eB. Thank you everyone for your interest.
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Thanks Theuns for that info. I kina wondered what that was for.

Werner Voss nice build. I made this kit so many times in the 60's

Theuns

do you know what the reason is for the "cutouts" in the mid wing at the wingroot? So that the pilot could actually see where he was going when on the ground :-) Theuns

 

That sounds like a very good reason to increase pilot visibilty.

 

 

Thanks Don. I also have the old Camel and it too makes an impressive model , again with scratchwork and pe updates.

I have been looking at this kit for some time, will be watcing :-) As a matter of interest, do you know what the reason is for the "cutouts" in the mid wing at the wingroot? So that the pilot could actually see where he was going when on the ground :-) Theuns

More proof that not all really old kits were junk.  Very nice!

Thanks Toshi.

Steve

Forgot to mention about the different shaped ailerons. I don't know how deep you are going with the build but here is a quote from one of Stephen Lawson's posts explaining the odd shaped ailerons and serial number range.

"Only approximately 15-18 of the initial production batch had the odd aileron set up.  This included Dr.I 135/17 -144/17 for sure.  After the Idflieg order to have them enlarged (among other things including factory spec top wings) the first machines to be refitted went through the assembly line with one of the older type ailerons still in use.   See Alex Imrie's book "The Fokker Triplane."

Now why would Revell match this?  The schematic for this and the old 1/72 scale kit were drawn up by Revell of Great Britain in the early 1950's.  The plans they used were from "Flight" magazine  and were of a machine that had been brought down on Jan. 13, 1918.  Fokker Dr.I 144/17  was one of the odd aileron machines.  It was studied and then had half of its fabric covering removed and was displayed along with other captured German machines in Ilsington at the Agricultural Hall for the benefit of the RAF hospital.  A penny would get you a walk through in 1918."

I will be following your thread religiously during your build.  I'm looking forward to this one!  Also, nice build PlasticJunkie.

Toshi

MC

That is a rebox of the old mold going back to 1960 or so and it's actually a pretty decent kit with the help of some scratch work and pe. I got mine a while back at a garage sale for a buck or so if I correctly recall. It had a decal set from an IPMS convention issue from the 60's or 70's and they were still good.

I completely scratched out the pit and added pe details from Tom's Modelworks. FSM purchased the article but it hasn't been published and have no clue when it will be. It was partially built so I could not get into some areas to improve the detail cause I was afraid of damaging the fragile plastic.

Here are a couple of pictures of mine. As you can see, Tom's pe really dresses up the twin Spandaus over the stock ones.