So after all the Special Hobby and Roden kits, I thought I deserved a treat and would build a Wingnut - but which one?
Idling through the Interweb I happened across a build of a rather striking Fokker D.VII flown by Bruno Loerzer - and checking the stash I appeared to have the same kit, all ready and waiting. Being a bit lazy it appealed to me that the online build showed decals for the fiddly fuselage black bands (and I didn't bother to check my kit or external refs, I just wanted a straightforward oob build from the Wingnut instruction book.)
All the options chosen, internals prepped, installed, painted and we get to the closing up of the fuselage and start to contemplate the main colours. ... but where are the fuselage decals? I check and recheck ... and it hits me that this is a different aeroplane from the one in the youTube build!!
Then I did what I should have done at the start and checked all my refs. Doh! the internet build was a D.VIIF using the extra Fighting Fokkers part 5 decal set. I had sallied forth on the D.VII (Fok) Early kit offering another Loerzer machine as option 5 on its included decal set.
Aaargh, rather than just applying some decals to my white model I was going to have to mask the whole damn thing and recalculate much of what I was doing. That'll teach me not to skip on the essential pre-model research and prep.
Oh well, some weeks later and my Early Fokker is completed. I didn't have a Loerzer figure but thought the excellent Model Cellar Eduard Ritter von Scheich would do nicely in the meantime.
Apologies for the crap phone pictures. (I have an ancient Sony and must replace it soon, or get that SLR working again!)
If you have been, thanks for reading thus far!
Sandy
