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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: Brian da Basher on October 11, 2014, 07:57:44 AM

Title: The 24 Hour Fokker (1/72 scale)
Post by: Brian da Basher on October 11, 2014, 07:57:44 AM

I'm a pretty busy guy sometimes, so it's good when I can do a quick build. While I'd planned this one out way ahead of time, I started it yesterday. The victim is the venerable 1/72 Revell Fokker D.VII.

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker001.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker001.jpg.html)

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker002.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker002.jpg.html)

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker003.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker003.jpg.html)

I could swear I saw a grainy photo somewhere of Rheinhold Platz sitting in what looked like the famous D.VII but rejiggered as a low-wing monoplane. Goodness knows if I'm hallucinating or if it's real, but the concept is too good to pass up.

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker004.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker004.jpg.html)

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker005.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker005.jpg.html)

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker006.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker006.jpg.html)

Of course, I wouldn't be happy keeping the kit's engine. Oh no that'd be too easy. Gotta complicate things.

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker007.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker007.jpg.html)

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker008.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker008.jpg.html)

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker009.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker009.jpg.html)

Did you ever think a SPAD XIII cowl & grill would fit a D.VII? Neither did I until now. SPAD exhaust pipes got in the way of the snake, so I decided on a single pipe coming out the bottom. Hey, it could happen! Not likely to happen, but it's possible, right?

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker010.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker010.jpg.html)

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker011.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker011.jpg.html)

The major mods were cutting out the lower wing center so the 'pit would have a floor and chopping the upper wing in half. I also cobbled together a hood for the engine out of scrap plastic and added a little windscreen cut from clear plastic. I like to think of this as the follow-on to the Fokker E.V/D.VIII (call it the Fokker ED hehehehe). Maybe if the W.W. I had continued on through 1919.

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker00upper.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker00upper.jpg.html)

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker00under.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker00under.jpg.html)

The model is brush-painted by hand in acrylics. This is my first time attempting to replicate that famous Fokker streaked camo. Decals are mostly from a Roden Fokker E.V/D.VIII except for the snake which I swiped from a Stuka.

(http://i1099.photobucket.com/albums/g392/Bri2k/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker012.jpg) (http://s1099.photobucket.com/user/Bri2k/media/24%20hour%20Fokker/24hourFokker012.jpg.html)

I hope you liked the pictures.

Brian da Basher

Title: Re: The 24 Hour Fokker (1/72 scale)
Post by: FAAMAN on October 11, 2014, 08:05:59 AM

Priceless Mr. Da Basher!!! 8) 8) :D

Title: Re: The 24 Hour Fokker (1/72 scale)
Post by: Frank3k on October 11, 2014, 11:07:55 AM

Wow! At first I thought it was a Junkers D-1... then I saw the Fokker wings and the Spad engine. It really looks good!

Were you  thinking of the Fokker V-17 through V-25, which used many of the same components as the Dr-1? I think Platz was involved with those as well.