I'll be mining the Great War for build concepts for a while yet -figured I'd group them under
appropraite banners. First up, the Bristol Triplane is coming along. I need to finishe the rigging,
(and re-do a bit of it
) touch up the paint, and see if twenty or thirty year old Airfix decals are still viable.
One curious discovery while build this - I had gotten two different boxings of the kit, and some time
between the two releases, they pilot figures were resculpted.
Something I started on, and leap-frogged to finish first, was this Hansa-Brandenberg.
Sporting the designation G.III, it comes from the notion that Heinkel started thinking about he monoplane formula before the creation of the W.29, and applied it to a twin engine bomber.
This is mostly the old Meikraft kit, with wing inserts from the Pegasus kit. The latter's wings
were the right shape, but only about half the thinkness, so I laminated them up with strip and
shaped them to match. The nose section, which mounts a 5 cm cannon in addition to the
parabellum, came from a cast off section of the Bristol fighter fuselage. ( The cannon was inspired
by reports that the Hansa-Brandenberg G. I, though unsuccessful in service, was used as a
testbed for a variety of heavy cannon. The tailplane also derives from the shape of the G. I )
Something I picked up at the Austin show in October was a Merlin Fokker D. VIII. Floats from the
Brandenbergs were starting to to pile up, so...
I need to find a sheet of late-war crosses, but the Fokker W. VIII is pretty much done as well.
On the morrow, pics of the AEG DN. IV, from the Classic Airplanes vacuform kit.