SeatOf course there is a seat in the kit, but if I look on the reference pictures, there is a big difference. The seat looks very special for a specific reason.
The rotary with 100 h.p. was not very powerful for its time, so the Fokker designers tried all to save weight. The fuselage structure looks very fragile and so also the seat.
It is may be a bit too much work for a detail mostly hidden later, but I wanted to try also the
Connecto crosses by Albion Alloy and want to use the seat as prototype for a bigger project. Stephen always try to convince me to do a scratch project and at least I have an idea now.
The pipes are 0.6mm brass, on the front the Connecto crosses are used.
The frame is completed with soldering.
The seat is plugged to the side frames with thin pins. The floor is replaced by a thin layer birch wood.
Also for the seat I glued two layers birch veneer and sanded it very thin.
Tinned in comparison to the kit seat:
After painting the kit frame grey green and the seat black (I know, normally only moving parts black, but the seat frame looks very dark on the photos) I mounted it. The back of the seat is a left over from HGW seat belts - a piece of linen.
I removed some kit details, which where not on the pictures, so I have to add some again. Here a switch on a PE rest and a switch in brass (PE from Parts).
The frame fits in the fuselage halves.
Now I have to add the rest of the cockpit details.
Cheers,
Frank