All parts have now been cleaned and cut from the resin casting pieces. There are just a few parts and now it is time to consider what I am going to do with them (apart from assembly into a model)
The exhaust ring didn't come out in one part:
Above you see the 2 exhaust pipes which connect to the ring and tranport all unwanted gassed towards the back of the cockpit and underneath you see on the left the exhaust ring where there should be 14 tubes from each cylinder, but not all survived. I am going to remove them all and replace those with brass wire. I will drill small holes in the ring. Then one large casting for the engine and the engine cowl:
This is how it is going to be.
The fuselage is one large casting and in the instruction paper there is already a warning that the mould for the fuselage has a problem on top as it seems in the original the fuselage halves didn't fit on top. Some sanding will correct this and rescribing the panels should then be done:
The inside of the cockpit has some imitation frame and a suggestion for MG's fitted inside:
I have no clue about the colors, but I will use the colors for the D.VII as a guidance. There is no instrument panel and I can't find anything anywhere about a D.XVI instrument panel. The total production at Fokker of this type is less than 30.
The lower wing has a nice tight fit in the fuselage and there is a small chair supplied (chair is perhaps too much, it just looks like two square pieces of styrene)
Next step will be cleaning the parts and painting the interior and the engine. Then all struts have to be made to the specifications.
regards,
Ivo
