If you've seen the 1966 film The Blue Max you'll remember all the 1:1 aircraft in it, a flying cast consisting largely of accurate-looking replicas of German WW1 types with some Currie WOT-based SE5s for the Brits. In the background were also a handful of Tiger Moths and Stampes to make up the numbers, with machineguns fitted and covers installed over the front cockpits to pass as fighters. When I was 20 I told people that if I ever got a Tiger I'd restore it in Blue Max configuration.
Now I'm not so sure, but I still wanted to build a model of one. So when Airfix released its new 1/72 Tiger kit a few years back I grabbed two for different projects and, finally, one of those kits is complete as my Luftsreitkrafte (sp?) Tiger!
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Zac Yates, on Flickr
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Zac Yates, on Flickr
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And here are the three of four planned Blue Max builds all together. I rigged the Pfalz with stretched sprue and really need to do it again with elastic.
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Airfix kit with Revell Fokker D.VII guns and Aviattic lozenge decals. Roden's Albatros D.II provided the crosses (which mostly survived intact) and the rigging is the silver/white thread sold by Wingnut Wings. Annoyingly the instructions didn't include the elevator cables so I used the Haynes manual and internet photo searches to help establish where they enter/exit the fuselage sides.
