Hello guys,
I try to post some pics of my 2nd WWI 1/48 scale built. Here I found my large topic for the next years:
Aircraft from the battle of Verdun 1916. I started the Planet Models Rumpler C.I about 1 1/2 years ago and finished it last spring (I took a break to move into our new house...). As far as I can remember it is a great kit without any serious problems.
I scratchbuilt the interior according to the little information in the Windsock Datafile (as far as I could see there was no instrument panel in the Rumpler C.I; now I have seen the CSM kit that proved me wrong...). I used the kit's landing gear struts which are made out of a stronger plastic-like material, but scratchbuilt the cabane struts and the interplane struts. Machine guns are resin and PE- ones from Karaya. I used the Crew (Fritz and Emil) from an quite unknown Resin manufacturer (which name I sadly can't remember right now), but they are really beautifully sculpted and cast. The rigger is a 3D printed figure (these figures are presented somewhere else on this forum).
I finished the kit as a Rumpler C.I that was brought down intact by the French in spring 1916 during the German offensives; the unit is unknown. There's a photo in Jack
Herris' wonderful book "Rumpler aircraft of WWI" on page 52. I've seen a profile where this machine is called a plane from KagOHL 4, but I don't believe that. KagOHL 4 used Roman numbers to name the KagOHL and Arabic numbers to namel the Kastas. And KagOHL 4 consisted of the Kastas 19-24.
Well, I hope you like it - although the resin wings started to sag a little (the rigger is doing his best ...). I'll never use such thin resin wings again...
Borsos