Greetings from Bulgaria

[andlaz]

Hello all,

I recently become interested in WWI aircraft - I probably have to blame Rise of Flight for that
So I started looking for WWI modelling resources, and stumbled across this site (the excellent rigging articles in particular).

I've been interested in military aviation for a long time, but mainly from Spanish Civil War on-wards.
Now I have to do some more reading on WWI military aviation

For modelling, I've been modelling 1/72 WW2 and postwar aircraft, and 1/35 postwar armour.
For WWI models, I think I'm going 1/48 scale - Eduard seems to have a decent lineup.

Kind regards,
Andrew

[bobs_buckles]

Hello Andrew,
Welcome to the forum.
You won't go wrong with Eduard kits 

I look forward to seeing some of your builds in the near future.

Cheers,
Von B

[uncletony]

Hi Andrew -- I ended up in this universe via RoF as well

[lcarroll]

   Welcome to the Forum Andrew. You'll find all the knowledge and support you need to get into WWI Aircraft modelling right here, a great resource for beginners and experienced Builders as well.
Cheers,
Lance

[Des]

Hello Andrew and welcome to the forum. You will find some excellent kits in the Eduard range but CSM also have some brilliant 1:48 scale WW1 aircraft as well. Looking forward to your participation with the forum and its members.

Des.

[Borsos]

Hello Andrew,
welcome! It's about 13 years now since I visited your beautiful country, had a wonderful time there. I am sure you'll like it here, 1/48 is a great scale for wwi planes.
Borsos

[Manni]

Hello Andrew,
welcome to this great forum. I think you will like it.
Bye,
Manni

[Ssasho0]

Здравей и добре дошъл

I am sure that you will feel at home here, don't hesitate to open a build log and ask questions, the folk here are great, knowledgable and helpfull!

Поздрави,
Сашо

[RAGIII]

Welcome Andrew and as others have said you can't go wrong with most of Eduards kits! I am looking forward to seeing your work.
RAGIII

[Monty]

Hi Andrew, Welcome to the site! Yes, 1/48 Eduard kits are great, I've completed two this year, they came in very cheap Revell boxes! Have Fun! Regards, Marc

[rhwinter]

Hi, Andrew, good to "see" you here!

May I ask you a question? I am wondering, whether it might be possible to convert Wingnut Wings' DFW C.V late into a bulgarian DAR Uzunov-1? This one:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DAR-U1.jpg
http://avia-museum.narod.ru/bulgaria/dar-uzunov.html
http://www.lostbulgaria.com/?p=4104
http://www.lostbulgaria.com/pic2/4398.jpg

I have found some sources on the Internet that can be found using latin letters, but that is not enough yet to decide, whether the conversion is possible or not. I suspect that there's more to be found, when using cyrillic letters (which I do not have)...

Do you have any hint for me to find bulgarian sources? Are there any useful bulgarian publications? Any idea would be great!

Thank you very much, best regards from Germany,
Richard

[andlaz]

Hi Richard,

Frankly I don't have much on this subject either. Here's a couple of additional sources:

http://www.airwar.ru/enc/other1/daru1.html
https://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.airwar.ru%2Fenc%2Fother1%2Fdaru1.html&edit-text

Says DAR U-1 was a copy of DFW C.V, with minor differences. Doesn't mention what those differences are.

http://archive.li/FScXN (archive copy of a site that is gone now)
(Google Translate manages to translate only half-way?)
The article doesn't mention any specific differences from DFW C.V.
Original spare parts were used, but there was no technical documentation available, so existing original C.Vs were used as reference.
The article mentions that if parts some were missing, they were produced in a local workshop.

[rhwinter]

Thank you, Andrew!

[andonio64]

Welcome to the Forum Andrew!

[Oeli]

Hi,

also a warm welcome from me.
Nice to have you here.

Greetings from Berlin

Jörg