Hello everybody !
After a couple of problems I am joining the Roden 1/32 Group Build.
What can I say about the Fokker Dr.I that hasn´t been said before? … Not much. So, I’m going to concentrate on the version I chose to build. One of the rules of the GB states that we have to use the kit’s decals. That means that I have to pick one of the following versions:
- Fokker Dr.I, 213/17, Jasta 2, Ltn. Friedrich Kempf, March 1918. "Kennscht mi noch?"
- Fokker Dr.I, 477/17, JG, Rttm. Manfred von Richthofen, March 1918.
- Fokker Dr.I, 450/17, Jasta 7, Ltn. Joseph Carl Peter Jacobs, Summer 1918.
- Fokker Dr.I, 586/17 , Jasta 4, Ltn. Ernst Udet, June 1918 (Previously flown by Ltn. Hans Kirschstein, Jasta 6).
At the beginning I wanted to build the Jacobs Dr.I but this machine was most probably equipped with a captured Clerget engine and its corresponding propeller, both of them not provided by Roden. I couldn’t find a good 1/32 Clerget engine and since I’m really delayed with this build scratchbuild one was out of question. So, I decided to build Udet’s (or Kirschstein’s) plane mainly because I have more pictures of it and I can use the kit's engine and propeller.
This project will be a double challenge for me because it will be my first attempt to represent the Fokker streaked camouflage and my first 1/32 WWI model.
