While doing the Dragon Dr1 as 152, I realized had no decals to do Voss's 103.
I posted here and Zac suggested contacting Eduard, and I did.
After a couple of weeks of back and forth, I was trying to explain I just needed the decals and no kit. They said the cost of shipping just the decals would be expensive but if I ordered a kit, they would include them in for free.
So this came the other day...
With some almost alarming rib detail...
Decals duly tucked in as they said they would, thanks Eduard.
But before all that happened, to cover myself, I was still looking for the Eduard kit decals. I got an alert on Evilbay that the decals were in a box in Italy.
These decals could be mine for about $17.00 US dollars. Shipping from Italy was about $20.00, still cheaper than if I had found a kit that now is going for stupid money IF you can find one at all...
Low and behold, the decals arrived from Italy in the box....
Packaged in with the decals was all this other plastic packaging....
The box the decals came in....
I think it was quite the coop.
I was amazed I could not find piles of decals at all for any 1/72 triplane. I have this but no decals.
Since the Eduard decal thing worked out so well, I did the same with Revell/Germany. They have said they will send a sheet out for the kit free of charge. Thanks Revell !!
Not knowing if the Revell thing would work, I discovered Roden issued a tripe with markings for 2 or more Dr1's, I found that as well for cheap on Evilbay.
A little out-of-register but usable.
All these triplane travails are so I can continue to experiment with my "Stenciled Fokker Streaking". I especially think it will work well in 1/72 scale.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all of you. Hope you get just the models you wanted.
