Here is a piece called "Home from the Front."


The mechanic figure offering up a cup-o-java is a CMK figure. The pilot posing as Ltn Strobel is unfortunately Out of production from Van's Scale Models. The Albatros D.III was built before the Eduard kit was available from a heavily modified Glencoe Alb. D.III fuselage and resin poured wings of the Eduard Alb.D.V kit.. It took three attempts to get it right.

Greetings all this is one of my older dioramas titled "Grooming a Thoroughbred."



The mechanic figure is a modified CMK item. The model is a modified DML Fok. D.VII with a resin copy of the Mercedes D.IIIaü 180hp. Covered in the less than accurate Aeromaster lozenge. ( Eagle Strike is my choice.)

Albatros D.III (OAW) 5145/17 of Jasta 46, 27 June 1918. Flown by Vzfw. Steinbrecker. This ‘provisional scheme is based on existing photographs of Jasta 46 machines in their general personal marking applications.

The figure is an Atlee / Rosemont item.
The kit used was the Eduard #8038 and Eagle Strike 5 colour lozenge was used on the flying surfaces. The ‘clean rudder’ represents a replacement item. The fuselage is skinned in .003 Marqueting Wood as mentioned previously. Panels have been purposely altered to show tonal variations as was normal on original aircraft.

Awesome works of art O' Enlighted One!!

Well... here is a Jasta 46 "two fer."
The references provided back up everything you see about this machine.


This is the early Eduard kit with a modified Jaguar figure. NOTE! the tail unit colours are in reversed positions compared to the first Alb. D.III OAW image. Denoting different flights(?)

References;
1. Cross & Cockade USA Vol. 4 #2, Pp.195-7 1963.
2. Cross & Cockade USA Vol. 5 #1, Pp83-4 1964.
3. Cross & Cockade USA Vol.12 #2, p.190 1971.
4. Cross & Ccokade USA Vol.23 #3, Pp.273 -281 1982.
5. WWI Aero (?)Stropp a Mystery Solved? (drafted previous to 1986.)
6. Cross & Cockade Int. Vol.26 #3, Pp.133-130, Esp p.118 1995.
7. Albatros D.Va-German Fighter of WWI by Mikesh, Smithsonian Inst.Press,1980.

Keep 'em coming.....

Greetings all;

Here is a bit of fun. The Fokker V.8. Yes, it was a real aircraft.


The figure is an "O" scale model rail road white metal item. The aircrafte is a kit crash of the Monogram (ex Aurora) Fokker D.VII and two spare DML Fok. Dr. I wing sets

Hi Stephen!

Strange prototype! Do you know why they tried to add those additional wings

Jean-Luc

Hello Jean-Luc! The V8 was to test intandem control surfaces. Anthony Fokker said he flew two test hops himself in this machine. Of course the design was not pursued any further.

"Nice landing herr Leutnant..." represents a Johannistahl built Albatros D.Va 5360/17 flown by Ltn. Victor Häfner of FA300 & 304. Sometime in June - July 1918 after the ground crew had completed repairs to this machine, Ltn. Häfner took it up for a test flight one morning in his pajamas. At about 3000 ft the pilot heard a loud ‘crack’ the resultant emergency landing was due to a collapsed upper left wing tip. He managed to land at Afuleh airfield. This was one of several instances where the Top wing tip of a Tropical Albatros D.Va failed. An interesting note is that this machine doesn’t appear to have the outboard rigging wire seen typically on Western front Albatros D.Va types. True story

The standing figure is a Jaguar item. The pilot figure is a modified Eduard item from the Alb. D.V(a) Profipack #8110.

This was my diorama based on Eddie Rickenbacker's 23 victory on Oct. 1918. Originally it came from a painting that shows Old #1 flying over a downed Fokker D.VII from JG II / J.15 with a simple white band about the fuselage. I tried to show the piece in relation to the actual incident between Rickenbacker and Vzfw (acting Sergeant) Klaudat. Though not dead still wounded badly Not much blood has been portrayed.



Figure is the Jaguar torso & arm with CSM head.

A Fokker Dr.I from Jasta 36 in mid August 1918.

The pilot figure is from the Atlee / Rosemont range. The Fokker Dr.I is a early DML kit.

"There is one in every crowd" Here the student presumes to teach, while the instructor and other students look on.


Figures are Atlee and Jaguar. Aircraft is the early DML Fokker Dr.I as the unarmed trainer Dr.I 451/17.

from the Melbourne Model Expo 2005 WWI Observation Balloon
by Alan Frowen.... http://www.hsgalleries.com/gallery04/balloonaf_1.htm

From the 2005 IPMS Nats... http://photos.kitmaker.net/showphoto.php/photo/86601/cat/14902/page/11

Victorious British Aviator - Fusilier 1/24 (80 mm)

http://www.kolumbus.fi/saarela.mikko/aviator.html

54mm, The Rote Baron & Moritz 1918! Andrea Miniatures from...
http://www.modellversium.de/galerie/artikel.php?id=1464

Another Fokker Dr.I painted as 503/17, flown by Ltn. Körner of Jasta 19.


The figure is a sitting pilot from the "out of business" Van's Scale Models.
The Fokker Dr.I is an early 1/48 DML kit.

From my old diorama titled "We regret to inform you..." About an Alb. C.III crew that failed to return from a mission.


The figures are a pait of Jaguar items and one Atlee Rosemont item.

The Baron and his mount.




The figure is a OOP item from Van's Scale Models item. The Dr.I is an early DML kit.

Here our hero, Col. "Biggles" Camelhill has been captured behind enemy lines.


Figure at left is from Van's Scale Models. The figure at right is from Marc Copplestone figure sets or at least his upper half. The lower half is from Jaguar.

Ltn. des Res. Gunther von Büren of Jasta 18.


The Atlee/Rosemont standing pilot figure is posted with the unmodified early DML Fokker D.VII.

Here we see Biggle's victorious foe. A Zombie pilot serving the Kaiser. From the pulp series G-8 and his Battle Aces.



The basic figure is a British pilot from the old Jager line. The pilots face is an Orukai item from the LOTR figure sets. The Fokker D.VII is a 1/48 Roden kit.

bit of fun from 1990 a diorama from an RC point of view.


Figures Fujimi 1:24 & Preiser 1:72.

Deep in the Ukraine a Fokker D.VII is readied for patrol.



Figures are modified Eduard 1:48 German Fliegertruppe kit #8503. The kit is a Roden 1:48 late model Fokker D.VII (OAW) entirely covered in Roden 5 colour lozenge.