1/8 Scale Fokker Dr.1 Slow Build

[NigelR]

Coming a bit late to this one but lovely work all round.

[lcarroll]

    Me too on the late comment. Your commitment to detail and accuracy is remarkable and commendable, what a great project and the results are looking spectacular already! I'll be following your progress with great interest.
Cheers,
Lance

[Butch Baker]

Thanks for compliments and now worries coming to the build late :-) As slow as I am your still early 

[Butch Baker]

I finished all the detail on one of the machine guns tonight, now onto the second machine gun. Once these are done I will paint and weather them, then its onto the fuselage

[NigelR]

As slow as I am your still early 

Great to see another slow builder on here, makes me feel better about how slow I am Looking forward to see how this develops.....

[janh]

if anyone might be interested: i have one for sale

[KiwiZac]

if anyone might be interested: i have one for sale

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[Butch Baker]

Finally finished up the machine guns for the Fokker Dr.1.
I wanted to add the writing that's located on the top of the machine guns and along the left side with decals, I used photoshop to create them.
Overall I'm pretty happy with the results, and now I can move on to the fuselage which I have started the basic assembly and have started to add little missing details.












Fuselage:

Adding the bolt flange and bolts for the read handles


In this picture I added a brass tube to the bottom of the step as this was a hollow tube, not a solid piece.
Drilled out the pilots seat metal frame as well to represent hollow tubes, juts to give it that little more authentic look.

[NigelR]

Lovely work - t hose decals on the MGs were really worth the effort, especially in that scale.

[FAf]

It is a bit tempting this level of detail and it looks lovely!
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[KiwiZac]

That extra work is really paying off! This is shaping up to be a real showstopper.

[AngryJazz]

Wow!

[Butch Baker]

After reviewing the cockpit area, I noticed some things I would like to add for detail.
First thing is to make the cockpit floor bracket more realistic. I removed the plastic molded ones as they were out of position and just didn't look right at all. The rear missing tubing that supports the wood floor I made out of brass tubing with soldiered uprights. I added little guide pins to help locate it in the correct position and to provide strength after it us glued into place.



Creating the floor support unit our of brass tubing


I made the vertical post a little longer and will just trim them to the correct height. All cleaned up and ready for the install process.


I install micro bolts to the floor board that are more in the correct scale, the ones with the kit are way to large.


Test fitting the floor boards after the rear tubing unit has been installed.


Next, I wanted to add the wing nuts that were attached to the pilot seat bracket so they could quickly adjust the seat to fit them. I purchased some micro brass wing nuts at (4.0mm) and made the brackets out of brass tubing.

[Davos522]

I had to pay careful attention here, Butch, since I started getting confused as to which photos were Achim's 1:1 Triplane, and which were your model. Which of course is a testament to your modeling skills...

Dutch

[NigelR]

Superb work all round!!