Thank you for the fast answer........and I'm definately not stephen either......."where is stephen?!"

Greetings all.

Been down of late with severe sinus junk. and work. They have me on a roving commission and I come home totatlly zapped. Things are better now. Back at it tonight. Must finish the Eduard Dr.I and others.

Sinus junk , I can relate to that . Work seems to always pull as away when we are really into something , however ; no work = no money which leads to no kit's .
Glad to see you back on track Stephen . Would have been nice to see Micro sculpt streaked decals applied in this build , but guess we have to wait for a future project on this . One could say that , very curious on how they will look over the CDL .

Looking forward to the up-dates ..........................

Here is the current condition.

Beautiful job done on the streaking Stephen !

I like it. I always thought the streaking was more of a greener shade though. I guess I need to start re-thinking everything I thought I knew.

See the Streaked decals thread here. I am sure they were greener on the Fokker D.VII types.

Stephen,
Nicely done as always! Looking forward to further progress shots!
RAGIII

Greetings Rick,

Guns and top wing inplace. Landing gear rigging and some decal work next.

No decals yet. Just a bit of rigging.

Unlike other builds of this kit I have seen your landing gear looks "right". Did you end up having to modify them ? If so what method?


Thanks,
CWatson

Greetings C,

It is a matter of opening up the axle wing locator holes and trimming the back legs about 1/16 of an inch then opening the locator holes in the underside of the fuselage. Several test fits are inorder to get it right. See the previous pages here.

Looking really swell so far Stephen !

What # does this one make in the collection now ?

Greetings Terri!

I would have to check my "builds by year list" but if memory serves this is 1/48 Dr.I #36 since my first in 1992. Well the decals are in place. Now just a clean up from the set & sol solutions. I have gone deep into my extra decal sheets to provide some extra werke # serials. I also dug up some build date decals for under the wing locations. These look like "17-12-11" that stands for year-month and day. The airframes after 213/17 were finished around this date.

Dr.I s/n 545/17 w/n 2213 from a contract order dated November-17 It was rec'd by Jasta 11 by May 2, 1918 at Mericout by Cappy. 17:50 Ltn. Hans Weiss KIA Credit to 209 squadron

Then the rest of the rigging and adding the propeller. The previous images gave me a clue as to fixing a couple of minor flaws as well.

Photographing your builds is a great method of cataloging how you did what. So if you build the same kit in the future you can reference your notes and images. This helps whether it is a long or short time between builds.

Though I have mentioned it before here is a great place for Fok. Dr.I research.

http://www.fokkerdr1.com

Greetings right back at yah !

Thanks for the link Stephen , funny though I have it saved in my favroites but never seem to recall that it is there . What I really need is a huge clip board hanging on the wall to pin my notes to for ref's

Looking forward to the final progress pic's

Me TOO Sephen!
RAGIII

The rigging is well underway and the propeller is ready.

Maestro, drum roll please. . .

Here is the end of our tale.

Fantastic build Stephen

Thank you Terri;

Still more to come. In the mean time the full build of the Eduard weekend kit #8490 is on my website now in Download or CD.

Well done as always! Thanks for the build/ review!!
RAGIII

Looks like Eduard is doing another weekend kit slated for release in Aug. 2012. "#8491 Fokker Dr.I 1/48 Weekend". With all the colour schemes available. Its about time!

I was just looking in my decal stash and found the Aeromaster decals for the Dr.I in 48th 8 or 10 different planes.