Hi Nico!

Very nice progress! You should get a medal for the FE.2b kit!

Jean-Luc

MvR's Albi really came out nice. I mean , Really nice. If the purpose of this thread was to encourage me to build this plane, it worked.

Hello Carl,

That's a very nice compliment from you, thanks. Especially from someone who amde such a fine example in 32nd scale. My compliments for your model as well!

The FE2b is going on the road this evening. I am going to take it to a friend who built the kit a few years ago. His finished model will be an excellent guidance for me to construct the tailbooms. Unfortunately a small metal piece which holds the tailsbooms at the end is missing. Have to figure out how to deal with this.

Greetings, Nico

Hello,

A little update for now:


Tailbooms fitted an rigged.


Undercarriage partly installed.

Greetings, Nico

Nico! Very fine work. The Fe is Crisp, clean and the rigging is looking very good. Model On!

I am sure I would have flown that Fe into a wall by this point. And if any pieces were still connected to one another...

But seriously Nico, it looks great.

As for me, Tee time in one hour. Going to go work out some Pfalz frustrations before it takes flight.

Very slowly but surely works continues. Started the rigging of the control cables yesterday evening. This is me at work at the living room table. Not my common place to work, but rigging does not make a mess and is not smelly.



Greetings, Nico

Hi Nico!

I bet you use your own hair to do the rigging!

Sorry, I couldn't resist...

The model looks great by the way!

Jean-Luc

Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch. . .mumble mumble ouch! All mine are too short and grey.

At Jean Luc

"Zjou French got zuch very good zenze of humor!"

L.O.L.

Cheers, Nico

Just out of curiosity, what technique did you use for rigging the Fe? Nice work by the way.

Hello,

Well the basic rigging was done by my old-time method. Drilling holes at the points where strut meets wing. Pull fishing line through it, hold it with tape and drop a bit of suoperglue in the hole where fishing line comes through.

As for the rigging between the tailbooms I used stuff calles "Wonder Wire" specially made for WW1 enthousiats and can only be obtained somewhere in the U.S.A.. I wish I knew where, it seems not possible to order it by internet . Anyway I got one bag of the stuff from a friend of mine. It stretches by itself and can easily glued in place with a drop of gel superglue. This Wonder Wire is some sort of glassfibre. I wish I could get more of it, anyone??

At last I am using "Knitting in Plastic" for the outer control struts. An elastic thread which holds with superglue very easily. Bought it from a shop on-line somwhere in the UK.

Hope this helps. Cheers, Nico

Many thanks, I am currently working on Roden's 1/32 scale SE5 and have made my first effort at rigging. I read all the articles i could find on line and then just went with drilling holes and using super glue/fishing line. Not sure if I have the courage to post the pictures just yet. Having tried to tackle the 1/32 scale, I can say that your work is amazing on the smaller scale.

I kept on rigging this weekend. The end is nearly there. One thought kept wandering in my mind though. Why am I spending almost 4 times as much time on the aircraft which was actually shot down?

Cheers, Nico

Hi Nico!

"You Dutch also have a great sense of humor!"

If you don't have time to finish it, just smash it on the floor and make a wreckage of it! After all it's how the real plane ended! It would be a shame for this fantastic model though...

Good luck for the rest of the build!

Jean-Luc

Go Nico go! Great build.

Nico, Looking really great! I had that kit in my inventory. I used to take it out and admire the pieces, look at the instructions, then quietly put the thing away! I sold mine because I was intimidated by all of those metal struts needing to be aligned!! Nice work,
RAGIII

To be honest I was a bit intimidated by these metal parts as well, but to be honest they work very well. Those white metal struts give the model good strength and can easly be adjusted to the correct position.

This FE2b even made me buy Aerocub's RE8 as well (after some trouble I found one). But, it'll take quite some time before that one is going to be started on.

Greetings, Nico

Lookin good.

I bet it was easier to build the real aircraft than the model.

It's finished!!!

Well as far as I could get it finished for the moment.


"Well sir, in case The Hun attacks us from behind this is how we chase them away!"

For now it is an anomynous april 1917 FE2b. I havn't found correct registration numbers for one of the FE2b's which Manfred shot down during this period.


The gunner/observer comes from an Aurora DH10, while the pilot found it's origin from an Aurora Pfalz DIII boxing.



Is sure can tell this is the kit on which I spent most time on my life on so far (it made me loose a few hairs)






On the background of this picture you can see I'll be busy with other things within 2 months.












So, and now the holidays really start!

Cheers, Nico

Nico,

Beautiful build. Congrats on your upcomming production also. Boy or girl?

We ain't gonna tell!! (now)

Cheers, Nico

You mean you don't know?

I bet he or she will be stringging rigging before age 5.

Hi Nico!

Wow! Congratulations... and welcome to the club! Is the baby your first? I'm looking forward to see how this model will look like!

Fantastic job on the FE2b! Any chance you can take some more pictures on a plain background for a Photo Feature before you are completely focused on "holidays"...

Jean-Luc

BTW, I think you ar missing one support brace in the middle.

Hah, just kidding.