Well,
like many of us
over the last six months I've been kept running on other tasks, other than modeling.
But making a model in memory of Des has been a priority - it had to be a scratchbuilt model since I had a correspondence with Des about scratchbuilding, expecially in the period he was building the Dufaux.
My plan was to scratchbuild a Morane Saulnier G, since when I was young I had a first attempt to scratchbuild an 1/32 aircraft and it was a MS monoplane - it is still stored somewhere, incomplete ... and since i still have the letter from Des with the photo etched MS monogram. Actually it was my first contact with him - my first experience of his courtesy .
Last week i realized that I was completely mising the deadline, so I've asked for a pair of days of vacation.
The first day (yesterday) I was busy piling up some documentation, deciding which model was feasible in two days and running across the various models stored at hand.
I was not able to decide completely but the first option is to build a simple Hergt 1918 monoplane.
I have gathered documentation and pieces to scratchbuild it.
It is an elusive monoplane, a sort of Fokker Eindecker contraption, but studying it better one realizes that it is completely made of wood and it has a cantilever wing like the D.VIII.
A realistic reproduction would entail a scratchbuilt wing - I don't know whether I'll have enough time in the next two days.
This is the current state of my workbench is this:
