I have a couple of the 1/72 Le Rhones from Small Stuff and there is nothing that comes close to them! Thanks Small Stuff.
Thank you! Glad you liked the engines.
in 1/48 we are left wanting for a good engines. all the ones available are either wrong, made to look like a combination of a d.iii mixed up with a d.iiia/au or they are too large to fit in the majority of my kits which are mostly eduard and special hobby. i wish someone would create engines like these that will fill the need for 1/48 modellers. the best we have is the vector which was built from the 1/48 roden engine so its too big to fit in most of my kits.
Well, the size of the engines is a problem, and I'm afraid, making an engine that will fit most of the target kits without modification is both impossible and, in my opinion, wrong. Such an engine would be just too far off to be considered an accurate replica. Not to mention it's just not possible for the set designer to check the engine against all the potential target kits. Still, with 1/48 rotary engines I tried to compromise a bit and and made them just a little bit smaller then they should be (about 0.2 - 0.3mm in radius). This should make fitting them into the cowling a little easier, but still some of the the cowlings might require thinning from the inside.
