Very nice build Kieth !

Thanks
Stephen, the pile is getting higher and higher in the 48 scale. The 32-scale is on the shelf for the moment. After the pause I had in my hobby last year I was looking for some quick builds from the 48 shelf.

I Gyorik, do not take my build of the interior as a reference. That´s all guesswork, have not found any good references of the interior for this bird yet and at the end of this build I will paint and decal it from the Swedish Airforce


Something likes this. This is just not the right machine, but colors and markings
Keith, I just love your scratch build, you wrote that this is your first, is there more? Have still to do my first one, yours is awesome.

Terri, now when the Olympics is in its finals we can start watching some normal TV again, started to miss my late night build in front on the TV.

Larsa

Thanks for kind words, i am starting to have a go at 1/48 th Albatros b11, don't know why! but if it goes o.k will post pic's, anyway this going of topic, we want to see yours.

Hi
Do not forget to post pictures of the albatros BII, always wanted one Eduard had one many years ago but they go for just to mutch money on ebay.
Larsa

Hi Folks
I restarted this one tonight.The kits have alot of potential and I just put the Wingnut Dv back on the shelf again (sorry Mikael). So stay tuned for this one. In 48 scale is somewhat small after the Tripe so this will be funny to tackle.


Larsa

Was wondering when you were going to pick this one up again , looking forward to the up-date on new progress

Hi Terri
I never lost that feeling for this kit, just to much flowers in my garden in the summer, so give me an week and I´ll come back with updates on this beauty on floats.
Larsa

Model on Larsa!

You bet Stephen, just give me a week and I´ll send up pics again
Larsa

Hi my friends
It´s time to send up some pictures off the recent progress of this after my restart. My fullest attention has been inside the both offices off the FF33e. I guess I can stop working on the interior anytime I want to now.


Fuellines and other stuff is mostly guesswork from me, do I´ll never have found any good references on this bird.


Then a word or two about the etch from Parts for this one. I gladly started to paint up the seatbelts on the fret when I discovered that Part has forgot to do two pair of seatbelts for this one. The instructions clearly tell that both seats should have belts but I can only find one set of belt. So what to do then, I had some belts from an Eduard set in the sparebox so I used them instead.


After fixing the story about the belts the next thing to me some bother was the tiny two piece throttle. A tiny point of glue was placed in the frame and I only had to lift up the Throttle with a brush, and then off the throttle went to the big floor. Have you anytime discovered just how big the floor can be sometimes?
Then again I used some off my spares, so I found a throttle in Parts Fokker DvII set I ended up using

In Eduard’s Bristol Fighter kit they supplied some very nice maps in correct scale. I made a mapholder and used one cut down maps for extra detailing.


So from here I´ll tackle the engine. Hope U like the interior sofar

Larsa

I must say Lars , this is coming along very fine . Thanks for the heads up on the Part set missing a set of seat belts .

The only ref's I have is the datafile , not much online either on this type . I would like to do the L version with the spinner up front ( included in the kit ) with the observer gun gun ring .

Looking forward to your next up-date

Hi Terri
Thanks for your comments, just give me a week or so and ´pics off the engine comming this way.
Larsa

Nicely done interior works!

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I got the Windsock for this bird but lacking pics off the interior all my work I purely guess work more or less.

Hope you like it




- Yes!!!




- I found no picture of the cockpit.

Just description (from Yavor)




This is a description from 1919. The aeroplane was flown by French personnel. Some of the equipment was, possibly, removed.


Regards.

Thanks
All info is needed,

Larsa

Hi Larsa

Very nice interior you've got brewing there, I so like your attention to detail, like the folded map.

Best Regards

Mikael

Thanks Mikael,
For the moment I´m working a some gloves for the backseat The big attention is now focused on the engine.It will be nice to glue the fuselage halves together. I have got some comments on this on the Swedish forum

Larsa

Reference-help needed
Is there anyone who have good pics off the 150 Hp Benz Bz III? I have looked in my stash off books ,but can´t find any useful.

Larsa

Larsa,

Check these links out.

I'm looking for more for you.

http://www.wwi-models.org/Photos/Engines/Benz/index.html

http://www.finemodelworks.com/arizona-models/reference/Thumbs/Aircraft_Fittings/Engines/German/Benz/Benz.html

Great work!!

Mark

Great. This will help alot Thanks.I´ll be back with more updates sone.
Larsa

Hi Folks
Today we had the last model meeting before Christmas and all that family stuff going on at the Swedish Airforce museum.The museum has been closed for a year and they have build new hangars and made a total facelift for the old museum.

I must say we are more and happy to be there and build models once every last Sunday of the month. When they reopened new planes was taken out from different places and joins the exhibition floor, and one big surprise for me was the Thulin G. This bird was active between 1917- 1922, so it´s Swedish built, WOW.
So can you image me sitting almost beside it and working on my Techmod FF33e.











Larsa

Now that is a beautiful looking aircraft !

Thanks for sharing the pic's Lars . From in the back ground looks like the musuem has a very nice collection of WW 1 aircraft . Did you take pic's of them as well ?

Hi Terri
Kind I must say. been taken pics on diffrent machines during the time i been there. It´s almost Swedish planes all off it, so if you dont in for a Swedish project there´s nothing to see, but if you do you have the link here.
http://larsqvarfordt.fotopic.net/list_collections.php

Larsa

Hi folks
Here´s the first pics off the engine. There still alot of work on it before paint can go on.



Have done some work to the floats. The round discs replace the injected one.Yep I will use the pieces from Parts but I had a feeling they was just to thing so tiny discs was punched to give the etsh some lift.


Larsa

Hi Larsa,

Your attention to detail is outstanding – very nice to see.

Best

Mikael