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Early Aviation
Discuss World War I and the early years of aviation thru 1934.
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JPTRR
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RAILROAD MODELING
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Posted: Monday, March 07, 2005 - 06:02 AM UTC
My first acft in 8 years, first WWI in twenty. Airfix's 1/72 'Walfisch', Roland C.II. RFC ace Albert Ball called this German's best plane c.1916. Relatively fast and manuverable, and consider that unobstructed field of fire!





Built out of the box except for Aeroclub MGs and a wire pipe, and wire control actuators on the tail, plus fishing line rigging.

Can't wait to build Eduard's 1/48 kit!
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Posted: Monday, March 07, 2005 - 08:08 AM UTC
I love the prop! Plus, that model must be TINY! Good job.

cheers

Philip
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AEROSCALE
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Posted: Monday, March 07, 2005 - 08:20 AM UTC
Hi Fred

That's a beauty! It's great to see a WW1 model in the forum - we really could do with more!

I've got the Eduard 1/48 scale version... it IS pretty tasty! And I got hold of their new DH2 last week - a real beauty! I'll review it soon.

All the best

Rowan
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Posted: Monday, March 07, 2005 - 05:07 PM UTC
Greetings JPTRR; Thanks for posting the images. Interesting scheme.
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Posted: Tuesday, March 08, 2005 - 08:32 AM UTC
Great stuff, I'm sure I built this about 100 years ago. Iknow it wouldn't have been as good as this. Thanks for sharing.
Mal
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