I had intended taking some new SLR pics of this model but I've just had an op on my left eye, so might be a wee while before I get round to that. In the meantime I'll put up some camera phone pics.
If anyone is interested in the build log it is here -
https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=13387.0Reports that Josef Jacobs, while recovering in hospital in 1916, had asked his Jasta12 ground crew to paint his Fokker D.II dark blue to try to approach hostiles unseen, set my mind racing. An Osprey profile shows one interpretation, but I decided to make my own showing the aircraft cleaned and freshly painted awaiting his return. Not too often you get a bright blue subject and I decided that JJ was a fairly fastidious sort of chap - installing Camel engines in his later Dr.I -and he'd have wanted it in tip-top condition. Hence clean machine-turned aluminium cowl etc.
Special Hobby 1/32 Fokker D.II - good kit with the usual sprinkling of swear-inducing moments, but all worth it in the end, I thnk.
Sandy
