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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #15 on: August 08, 2025, 08:01:14 AM »
nice work painting the ammunition.

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #16 on: August 08, 2025, 08:12:54 PM »
Thanks very much Alan, Paul, Gary and Bo.

Having built a couple of the WnW D.VII kits myself, I know that joining the fuselage halves can be tricky because of the tight tolerances around the cockpit framing (I'm sure you've heard of this!).
Yes, this is my third WNW DVII and I've run into those challenges before. The first attempt never got finished, partly because I assumed the quality of WNW kits meant I didn't need to worry about much dry fitting...... How wrong I was! The multi-version approach means everything at the front end needs careful dry fitting and fettling before committing anything to cement. The same is true of the cockpit tub, once it's built it needs a fair bit of sanding on the outside to get the fuselage halves to fit together.

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #17 on: August 08, 2025, 09:47:20 PM »
Great stuff. Here's me thinking WnW fit perfect all the time.
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #18 on: August 09, 2025, 02:06:51 AM »
Here's the first stages of my first entry for the "Aces Mounts" Group Build. It's the Fokker DVII flown by Lothar von Richthofen which he described as his "lovely red bird". Ronny Bar produced a profile of this a while back showing the aircraft entirely overpainted in red, and this provoked some discussion on The Aerodrome. Bottom line is that the all-red scheme is definitely highly speculative but IMO it looks great and Aviattic produced a set of decals for this scheme which I will be using.

Hi Nigel,
I didn't spot the start of this GB until I read your post.
I added my 'Schweinhund' SE5a build now.
It looks as though it could be a red letter day for the GWSIG models  ;D

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #19 on: August 09, 2025, 06:29:15 PM »
It looks as though it could be a red letter day for the GWSIG models  ;D

Hehe, it does indeed. Now all we have to do is to get them on the same display table! Any chance you will be at Telford this year?

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #20 on: August 10, 2025, 03:56:56 AM »
It looks as though it could be a red letter day for the GWSIG models  ;D

Hehe, it does indeed. Now all we have to do is to get them on the same display table! Any chance you will be at Telford this year?
Hi Nigel,
Afraid not as, unless anything kicks off over there, I'll be in Eygpt,

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #21 on: August 11, 2025, 08:13:22 AM »
This is some beautiful work Nigel. Love the paint skills.  Can't wait to see how your take on the LVR D.VII.

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #22 on: August 11, 2025, 02:50:36 PM »
Very neat painting in the cockpit!
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #23 on: August 11, 2025, 07:26:09 PM »
Very fine interior!!!
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #24 on: August 12, 2025, 04:24:54 AM »
Thanks very much Warren, Fredrik and Przemo. Work is progressing, the fuselage is buttoned up and joins filled, all subassemblies built, cleaned and ready for priming. Will post some updates when I have something more interesting than grey plastic....... :D

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #25 on: August 17, 2025, 03:37:03 AM »
A bit of progress to report. As the whole aircraft is covered in Aviattic decals, there was a lot of undercoating and gloss coating to be done before decal application could start. I didn't want to bother you with all of that, but here's one shot of the undercoated fuselage:



The Aviattic decals don't include a serial number, as the serial number of this aircraft was unknown. So I made up a plausible one by cutting up and adapting the ones in the Goering kit. I meant to do 4255/18 but in my haste I did 4525/18 (which is outside the likely production batch for this plane). I then did a mist coat over the top so they didn't stand out too much through the decals. I also added a weight table because I didn't think there was one on the Aviattic fuselage decal. But when I went to apply the decal I realised there was a beautifully subtle weight table under the red overpainting on the decal. So now there are two, but fortunatley it's not very obvious!!

Here's where I am so far, still more decalling to do before weathering and assembly can begin:


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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #26 on: August 17, 2025, 03:51:06 AM »
Looking good Nigel and should be a bit of crowd pleaser on the stand  :D
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #27 on: August 17, 2025, 04:26:34 AM »
Gorgeous!
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #28 on: August 17, 2025, 05:21:11 AM »
That's looking great so far Nigel. Your weight table story had me chuckling - there have been so many instances I've fallen into that are similar...it's nice to know I'm not the only one  ;)
Cheers,
Gary

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Lothar von Richthofen Fokker DVII
« Reply #29 on: August 18, 2025, 12:09:37 AM »
That looks great.
Thanks,
Allan Buttrick

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