Thank you very much for all the nice feedback!
I'm on board for the ride too !
Ed, very nice to have you here! With your account name "dr 1 ace" I expected some complains about the form of the wings!
Is the PE set the one that was designed for the older Dr. I kits?
I've been leading you astray!
As some of you noticed already this project is a Dr.I, but not Fokker - it is an Albatros!
Eduard released a kit 8037 of it in 1998 (very rare now). Somehow based on the D.V kit, but the fuselage is closed on underside as needed here.
https://www.eduard.com/Eduard/Albatros-Dr-I-PROFIPACK-1-48.htmlBoxart (source: eduard.com):
Since the name was clearly visible on the PE parts, I have not shown them yet:
The bird was build from a D.V, so I used another Eduard PE set fro the D.V/D.Va.
The matching Windsock Datafile is this one:
It contains two pictures and scale drawings in my needed 1/48 scale.
The pictures can also be found on wikipedia:
So please, if anybody known another picture or info about this only once build bird, please speak up!Your soldering is tempting me to add another element to my modelling.
Fredrik, this here was a easy task, compared to solder a complete aircraft from PE parts. This I have done multiple times and shown here in the forum. I think, the soldered DH-2 is still my masterpiece.
You get More amazing with each build!
I try hard Rick, but this is not always possible
Keep the updates coming.
I am very happy to read Filip from you, because your Albatros W.4 was also a template for the construction of mine lately.
To be able to show a new update I have to build something before!
The upper side of the wings is decaled, but I had some trouble. On some areas a huge amount of small bubles popped up, and I forgot to drill some of the holes. During later drilling some decal stripe got caught in the drill bit - I have to redo that. And I should have started with the lower side, this is not yet done.
And I started to do wooden struts. The mounting is complicated because the lower wings hangs on the struts (to middle wing) below the fuselage. So only dry fitting to get the correct length of the struts.
There are a huge amount of tasks on the ToDo list, I will try to work on the cockpit, fuselage and wings somehow in parallel.
I was not able to find this bird at all in this forum?!
Cheers,
Frank
PS: I modified the thread title.