Just completed this one which has been hanging about for ages now.
It combines modified Eduard Fokker DVII bits and a Dr1 fuselage to create the Fokker DVI used by Kest 1a (I know there's a Roden kit in this scale, but I had plenty of Eduard DVII and Dr1's on the shelf so it seemed like a sensible idea at the time)
The original plan I found showed a slightly longer fuselage than the standard Dr1, but a later plan showed it the same length - guess which one I based this on
Anyway straightforward mods to reduce the DVII wings with struts and tailskid from my usual brass. Throw in a hand carved prop and a small parts engine + some etched bits and bobs and some Aviattic lozenge and this is what you end up with -
Fokker DVI finished by
Paul S, on Flickr
DVI underside by
Paul S, on Flickr
Fokker DVI 3 by
Paul S, on Flickr
Difficult to judge from a black and white photo, but I could find nothing definitive about the cowl colour which looked slightly darker than white. The Kest 1b was shown as mid blue in one profile I looked at so I went with pale blue just because it looked pretty and was a one off anyway. This was an aircraft that was sent to the Kest for training on rotary engined aeroplanes (I understand that they'd previously used mainly Albatros up to that point) I reasoned that it would have been quite heavily used, but went with 'new' rather than faded 4 colour lozenge because I suspect this heavy use would have been over quite a short period before the fabric had the chance to fade - well it's a theory
