Hi all,
With work being so busy the last few months, and a move of house recently, I haven't been at the modelling bench since the end of May when I finished a Roden DH-9. Now that I have the modelling bench set up at the new house, I have finally gotten the smell of plastic cement back into the nostrils. I wanted a relatively simple build to get back into the swing of things, so I pulled the 1:72 Eduard Fokker E.IV (non-profipack) out of the stash (I figured a simple small scale monoplane would be some nice simple fun). I got in a good couple of hours this afternoon, and though I wanted a nice simple build, I couldn't resist the urge to "tweak" things a little - as a result, progress hasn't been great but at least it's some progress!
So far, I have added some pushrods to the engine, and made some additions to the cowl and upper decking. I also sanded off the softly moulded thick cockpit coaming and replaced it with fine solder, whilst widening the opening a little too.
I then got to work on the cockpit. I sanded off all of the interior detail, and made up some framing from fine wire (I had to keep the frames a little short so the modified floorboards would fit). I also made up the seat frame from fine wire as well. The seat came from an Eduard etched seat set I had in the spares box. Other details came from a "Tom's Modelworks" German Interior etched set, or scratched from sheet and rod plastic (and yes, I now realise the compass is surplus to requirements
). I didn't go particularly overboard but I think it's an improvement over the basic kit contents.
Next I will put together the tiny machine guns, then can work on painting up the interior.
The pics make it look like it was put together by a 5 year old, but I am just glad to be getting back into some modelling after the last few months
BC
