Compasses for Roden kits

[Apache Arrow]

    I have started buying Wingnuts Wings kits, but I have numerous Roden kits left to build.  I have noticed that several kits lack a compass such as the Albatroses and the Pfaltz DIII.  What materials do you use and how are scratch-built constructed?  Any suggestions

[Jamo]

I think the scratch building should be reasonably straight forward using scrap plastic provided you have a decal for the face of the compass. WNW provide full sets of instrument faces in their Albatros, Pfalz and Fokker DVII decal sets sold separately, which are really useful for all those Roden kits

[Des]

Airscale make a very good set of instrument decals to suit WW1 aircraft  http://www.airscale.co.uk/ww1.php

A full review of this product can be found here  http://www.ww1aircraftmodels.com/page23.html

As far as making the actual instrument many people use plastic shaped to suit their needs, or the use of small diameter brass tube is also very effective. If you need instrument bezels they are also available from airscale or from aeroclub models which are also reviewed on the same page as the decals.

Des.

[lcarroll]

   I use both the Aeroclub and Airscale products and recommend both very highly, great additions to the "tickle trunk"!
Cheers,
Lance

[Apache Arrow]

   I have ordered the Airscale decals and will have them when Roll Models gets around to sending them.  I thought about making the compass body from sprue, but haven't found any large enough yet.  I found some wood dowel that is the approximate diameter and have sanded one end round and sawed off a few blanks.  The fun part wil be trying to form wire to make the bracket to attach it to the floor.