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I moved my Fokker Dr.1 to Werner Voss' F.1 Fokker triplane build from What's on the Bench to here.
This kit is the 1957 Revell 1/28 scale Red Baron Fokker Triplane kit.
Here's what's in the box. All the parts are in one bag and thus are totally unprotected. There are no clear parts because the Fokker triplanes did not have windscreens.
Here are the parts laid out to show what you get.
Here's a better look at the wings.
Here's a closeup of the kit Dr.1 tailplane. This is correct for the late Fokker triplane but needs to be modified for the earlier F.1 Fokker triplanes of which there were only three made.
Here's the modified version to use on Werner Voss' F.1 triplane. The modification I did was simply sanding the leading edges so that there's a slight convex curve on them.
Here's the kit tailplane and beneath it the modified one.
Here's the inside of the fuselage halves. Note, be careful of the rudder because it's very thin where it joins the fuselage and dropping the fuselage can snap off the rudder as you'll see further down this post.
Closeup of the fuselage half showing the 1957 copyright date.
The right aileron is the early F.1 style used on Werner Voss' triplane and also on the Red Baron's first Fokker triplane which was also a F.1 plane.
The left aileron is the Dr.1 style and it's the correct one for the Red Baron's second Fokker triplane which was a Dr.1 and was the airplane he died in.
This image shows the difference in the early and late aileron styles.
Here are the kit engine, cowling, firewall and prpeller parts.
(Btw, the proper term for the prop is 'airscrew' since it actually screws into the air and 'pulls' the aircraft along whereas a 'propeller 'pushes' an aircraft along. The term given to the latter type of aircraft was 'pusher' because of that).
Here's the decal sheet. Note there are letters & numbers for F.1 102/17. That was the Red Baron's first Fokker triplane. F.1 103/17 was Werner Voss' Fokker triplane. The F.1 would use the Maltese Crosses and the Dr.1 would have used the straight crosses if it's the Red Baron's final triplane.
Here's the cockpit and the engine assembled. There is no instrument panel per se in the Fokker triplanes of the type we're used to seeing.
Notice the electric motor"? I'm motorizing this model which is pretty easy to do due to the large size of the model and because the Le Rhone engine was a rotary engine and the entire engine spun with the airscrew. The Dr.1 used and Oberusal engine which was a direct copy of the French Le Rhone 9J rotary engine.
I'm going to run the motor wires down out of the bottom of the firewall and then use those wires as the landing gear bracing wires. From the landing gear they'll go into the wheels and then exit through grooves I'll cut in the tires and thence through the base for the model and into a small battery box.
The kit engine is actually pretty decently molded especially the cooling fins. Not bad for a 1957 kit.
Here's a closer look at the assembled kit engine on the firewall.
More to come when I get more done.
Cheers
This kit is the 1957 Revell 1/28 scale Red Baron Fokker Triplane kit.
Here's what's in the box. All the parts are in one bag and thus are totally unprotected. There are no clear parts because the Fokker triplanes did not have windscreens.
Here are the parts laid out to show what you get.
Here's a better look at the wings.
Here's a closeup of the kit Dr.1 tailplane. This is correct for the late Fokker triplane but needs to be modified for the earlier F.1 Fokker triplanes of which there were only three made.
Here's the modified version to use on Werner Voss' F.1 triplane. The modification I did was simply sanding the leading edges so that there's a slight convex curve on them.
Here's the kit tailplane and beneath it the modified one.
Here's the inside of the fuselage halves. Note, be careful of the rudder because it's very thin where it joins the fuselage and dropping the fuselage can snap off the rudder as you'll see further down this post.
Closeup of the fuselage half showing the 1957 copyright date.
The right aileron is the early F.1 style used on Werner Voss' triplane and also on the Red Baron's first Fokker triplane which was also a F.1 plane.
The left aileron is the Dr.1 style and it's the correct one for the Red Baron's second Fokker triplane which was a Dr.1 and was the airplane he died in.
This image shows the difference in the early and late aileron styles.
Here are the kit engine, cowling, firewall and prpeller parts.
(Btw, the proper term for the prop is 'airscrew' since it actually screws into the air and 'pulls' the aircraft along whereas a 'propeller 'pushes' an aircraft along. The term given to the latter type of aircraft was 'pusher' because of that).
Here's the decal sheet. Note there are letters & numbers for F.1 102/17. That was the Red Baron's first Fokker triplane. F.1 103/17 was Werner Voss' Fokker triplane. The F.1 would use the Maltese Crosses and the Dr.1 would have used the straight crosses if it's the Red Baron's final triplane.
Here's the cockpit and the engine assembled. There is no instrument panel per se in the Fokker triplanes of the type we're used to seeing.
Notice the electric motor"? I'm motorizing this model which is pretty easy to do due to the large size of the model and because the Le Rhone engine was a rotary engine and the entire engine spun with the airscrew. The Dr.1 used and Oberusal engine which was a direct copy of the French Le Rhone 9J rotary engine.
I'm going to run the motor wires down out of the bottom of the firewall and then use those wires as the landing gear bracing wires. From the landing gear they'll go into the wheels and then exit through grooves I'll cut in the tires and thence through the base for the model and into a small battery box.
The kit engine is actually pretty decently molded especially the cooling fins. Not bad for a 1957 kit.
Here's a closer look at the assembled kit engine on the firewall.
More to come when I get more done.
Cheers
