1/72 Aircraft I've Been Working on

[wrgmr1]

Hi Gents,

A few aircraft I've been working on.
Three SE5A's in 74th Squadron Livery.



Here is an Albatross DVa in Jasta 18, Rabens Ravens livery. This is the first of 7 aircraft I will be doing up in these colors.
Next up a Pfalz DIIIa.




The decals are all from Pheon, nice to work with. As with a number of the older kits the decals have deteriorated to a point where they are unusable.

[jambo1]

Lovely work, look forward to seeing more.

[Driscoles]

Great job

[von Lucky]

Very nicely done.

[aphillathehun]

Nice.   I don't understand your comment though.  The pheon decals have deteriorated?  Or the ones that came with the kits?

[wrgmr1]

Thanks for your kind comments gents!

aphillathehun - the decals in older kits will deteriorate so much that they just fall apart. Thus I used Pheon decals for these kits, which are new.

Here is another model for use in our WW1 air game Canvas Eagles a Pfalz DIIIa, again in Jasta 18 colors. This kit is from Squadron. Not a particularly good kit, it was rather difficult to put together with some bad fit for the pieces.
I have found the same in a Roden Fokker DVII I am currently building.

http://www.maxeagles.com/eagles_models.html

This Pfalz was flown by Lt. Hans Mueller before he flew a Fokker DVII.






 

[Slayer]

they look great

[aphillathehun]

Thanks for the info.  Those Jasta 18 planes, both early and late, look really cool.  I've always loved the look of the SE5 also.

[aphillathehun]

This made me look through the 1/72 catalog again.  It seems there is less available now than the last time I thought about getting into these in a big way.  I always thought it would be cool to start with early war and go through the war adding the planes as they come online.  For the Germans I thought I'd have to start with the Albatros, but now I see that Roden makes an eindecker which is pretty cool.  But it looks like it's hard to come by early Nieuports these days.  I'm not even sure I can get my hands on the Eduard Nieuport 17 anymore....

[wrgmr1]

I’ve found kits on EBay, posting here or on Bartertown. The best place is local conventions, as they go cheap.

[robh]

I’ve found kits on EBay, posting here or on Bartertown. The best place is local conventions, as they go cheap.

Forum member Dadlamassu has some WW1 aircraft kits in 1/72 amongst the items he is currently selling on behalf of his friend's family;

http://leadadventureforum.com/index.php?topic=105556.0

[wrgmr1]

Funny, I was just going to post this. Bought some 1/72 WW1 Aircraft from him. They arrived Friday.

[aphillathehun]

A couple of pragmatic questions for you:

- looks like you are going pilotless with your planes.  I'm not sure whether to put pilots in or not.  What were your thoughts on the tradeoff?

- I assume you attach these to flight stands.  What do you use for that - REMs?  How do you attach those to the plane?

[wrgmr1]

Pilots or no pilots, a lot of models don’t provide them in kits. I don’t bother to acquire extra ones.
Here is the square hook diagram from the Blue Max Canvas Eagles website.
http://www.maxeagles.com/CE/SQHOOKS.PDF