Hi Everyone,
I wondered if anybody could help me with a few problems i'm having in regard to the roden 1/72 fokker d.VII (alb) early kit.I don't normally do airplanes ,being more an armour modeller, but have agreed to build this for my brother ,a first world war nut. Thankfully this kit does not appear to need much rigging or I would be panicking but anyway, here are the questions..

1)The decals for the stripes on the wings are supplied as red in the kit yet all the schemes shown on the box illustrations,and i guess for this in the instructions are blue. Does anybody know which should be correct here?

2)I would like to get some decent reference for this plane and have been checking out the windsock books and the osprey on this plane on there websites but i am unsure as to which would be the best in regards to this particular model.Anybody got any any ideas?

Does anybody know any alternative decal sets for this model.I have found some online for the Fokker D.VII but am not sure if they would be okay for the early model.

Sorry if these are straight forward questions but like i say im not an air modeller normally and would like to give my brother something that is reasonably accurate.

Thanks very much for your time.
Darren.

Hi Stephen,
Thanks for your reply.First off,really nice model.
I'm still a bit confused though regarding this kit that i have.The version I have is the Alb early,I apologise if this may have effected your answer.The Plane on the box top is Carl Degelow's machine from Jasta 40.The stripes i refer to are thin ones which appear to be position over the wing ribs over a lozenge pattern on both upper and lower wings.Its these stripes that are red on the decal and blue on the box art,instructionThere are other options listed in the instructions using th same stripe decal but I have no idea if these should be blue too.To confuse me even more I have found a build review of teh 1/48th version of this kit in the same scheme whihc does use the red thin stripes!

If i can confirm that the stripes were red i would go with the in the box shcemes.If not i would like to try and find another decal set that would offer an alternartive,any alternative to the box ones.Like i say i have found sets of decals and books on line but im not sure if they are specific to an alb early.Or does it matter?Was there that much difference between the various Fokker variants that appear to exist?I like the red sheme on your model,if i could do that on this kit and there were decals for it I would go for that or something similer.
Again i do apologise if these questions are a bit 'soft' but the whole varaint thing is confusing me and i dont want to start spending money on reference and decals that might not be apprpriate,so any more help is really,really appreciated.
Thanks Darren/