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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => What's New => Topic started by: James Reagan on July 14, 2021, 11:22:22 PM

Title: Just received my new MENG 1/24 scale Fokker DR1
Post by: James Reagan on July 14, 2021, 11:22:22 PM
WOW what beautiful casting.  I hope some aftermarket people provide some super detail sets  for the kit. I also obtained the Merit SE5a kit which I would like to display with the DR1 Does anyone offer a 1/24 scale figure that can be converted into a WW1 British pilot?  Maybe Model Cellar will upscale one their excellent 1/32 scale British pilots.
Title: Re: Just received my new MENG 1/24 scale Fokker DR1
Post by: Borsos on July 15, 2021, 12:19:27 AM
Here you are:

https://modelcellar.com/product-category/124-scale-75mm/

https://elan13.co.uk/epages/8ddd0c5f-33bc-47f3-92b7-7e1177bf5cd9.mobile/en_GB/?ObjectPath=/Shops/8ddd0c5f-33bc-47f3-92b7-7e1177bf5cd9/Products/EL102

https://blackdog.cz/f72020-75mm-german-army-captain/

http://www.skminiatures.co.uk/albert-ball-75mm/4544307420

http://www.skminiatures.co.uk/karl-allmenreder/4535790171

Regards,
Andreas
Title: Re: Just received my new MENG 1/24 scale Fokker DR1
Post by: Pup7309 on July 15, 2021, 09:17:10 AM
Quote from: James Reagan on July 14, 2021, 11:22:22 PM
WOW what beautiful casting.  I hope some aftermarket people provide some super detail sets  for the kit. I also obtained the Merit SE5a kit which I would like to display with the DR1 Does anyone offer a 1/24 scale figure that can be converted into a WW1 British pilot?  Maybe Model Cellar will upscale one their excellent 1/32 scale British pilots.

Good to know! :)
Title: Re: Just received my new MENG 1/24 scale Fokker DR1
Post by: petrov27 on July 15, 2021, 12:15:07 PM
I wasn't going to get the 1/24 kit but ended up breaking down and ordering and it arrived not long ago; I must concur that this is a really good kit - the mouldings seem crisper and with less mould lines vs. their 1/32 offering. Aside from some unfortunately placed round depressions (mould pins?) in the cockpit sides it seems one of the best looking kits I have ever seen in the box (we will have to see how it builds!)

Regarding aftermarket, that is a tough one - everything in the kit seems very solid as is - aftermarket is going to have to be really amazing to be needed at least for me. Decals are the exception - the kit decals don't look bad but other schemes and such would be welcome.
Title: Re: Just received my new MENG 1/24 scale Fokker DR1
Post by: Dave W on July 16, 2021, 07:45:15 PM
The 1/24 scale Meng Fokker Dr.1 is ahead in quality of the 1/32 scale offering. There's a lot in the box.

(https://i.postimg.cc/CLv7YygB/20210626-092942-002.jpg)

The jewellery with this special edition is especially appealing, a very nice rendition of a Pour Le Merite.

(https://i.postimg.cc/KvcfdGdh/20210626-093042-002.jpg)

So I can now claim my wife awarded me with The Blue Max for my birthday :)

Excellent kit and well worth getting.

Dave Wilson
Gold Coast
Australia
Title: Re: Just received my new MENG 1/24 scale Fokker DR1
Post by: Rob Hart on July 17, 2021, 05:32:50 AM
I'm not sure how I feel about the trend towards kits in larger scales. On one hand, I can appreciate the greater opportunity for detailing that the larger scale(s) provide, but, on the other hand, I don't have room to display the finished models or store the unbuilt kits. I never moved up from 1/48 to 1/32, and, as it stands today, I no longer have room to display my finished models. I photograph them and then box them up for storage in the garage.
Title: Re: Just received my new MENG 1/24 scale Fokker DR1
Post by: Pup7309 on July 17, 2021, 08:28:42 PM
1/32 was my max but the Dr1 is a relatively small kite, and the quality is there. I’d get an Se5a for the same reasons. Cheers, glad this one saw the light of day, now where’s that Roden Spad… ;)
Title: Re: Just received my new MENG 1/24 scale Fokker DR1
Post by: bobs_buckles on July 18, 2021, 08:30:18 AM
Nice catch, Dave!  :o
Promise me you will build it!

No pressure... lol

Bob