Lovely work
Superb Jasta 2 kites Peter
Sapiens qui vigilat... "He is wise who watches"
Cracking Trio of Tripes!
REP!!!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Thanks guys. I now have 7 Jasta 2 Triplanes. Not quite the complete group like Tim does but enough for me for a game table.
Nice Dr1 Peter, the more the merrier
Beautiful work on those Dr1s Peter - Thanks for sharing Rep inbound.
That's nice!
Good to see the correct white cowling ring.
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Very nice Paul.
Great looking tripes.
Especially like the Raben.
Fine looking aircraft Paul.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Great work, Paul!
Thanks, Rob. As mentioned above I'm thinking of doing a flight (murder) of Ravens, so that (plus I need to go hex camo for my Sculpteo Friedrichshafen) means experimenting with homemade transfers. Fingers crossed.
But can't be worse than the trouble I had with the decals for this set. I needed 4 decals (fortunately I have 3 valom Dr.I kits) to get the 2 crosses for the rudder.
Very Nice!! My favorite one is BOTH of them.....
You have some lovely choices in both of those Jastas, Paul - it shouldn't be hard to find several to your liking! Beautiful work on those two Dr.Is, to be sure I look forward to seeing what planes join them
All the best,
Matt
I really like the way you highlighted the ailerons on the Raben's DR.I.
Here's to them what are like us. Damn few and they're all dead.
Particularly liked your Weiss side panels Paul.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
Thanks, chaps.
Rob, pity the top wing hides the paint job on the lower wing. It worked out well enough but at this scale I had to do it the opposite (light over dark) of the actual one (dark over light).
Now to replace the photos with ones that have different names to eliminate the extra verbiage. I think it’s a “-“ in the titles that’s doing it.
Yep, agreed. Very nice work indeed, especially given they are made up from Valom kits
Great tripes!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Thanks, Mike...three things to note:
1) Valom are a real delight to paint up.
2) I'm quite getting used to valom kits. I managed to not lose any photo-etched bits and to get them all in the right places.
3) I'm still all thumbs when it comes to building the models - glue everywhere but a good paint job helps cover it up.
4) I've learned that I must place the peg after the landing gear - the peg for Weiss's aircraft is to close for the Litko peg holder. I will have to trim the peg holder.
5) I've got the routine down for decals - some go on before assembly and some after assembly versus all after (hello, Jacobs Fokker Dr.1) or all before (hello, Nieuport 11s)
6) Now for a Reviresco model
That's not three things you say, eh? Well as anyone knows from literature and the movies - trios never come in 3's.
Excellent Tripes Paul.
great re-paintings Paul! Kudos!
Here are my latest Valom models - Werner Steinhauser (Jasta 11) and Rudolf Klimke (Jasta 27). I used a mix of valom (crosses) and homemade decals (anchors, etc.). From what I could deduce from internet, Steinhauser had an early paint version with the red band and yellow cross and a later version with the colours reversed. I preferred the yellow cross on red - with the tail in a reverse colours. I found a photo of the early version (red in mid-grey and yellow in dark grey for the fuselage band) doesn't show enough of the tail clearly but it could have been red with narrow yellow stripes.
This completes my set of Valom Fokker Dr.1 - here's the lot with Lothar von Richthofen (yellow wing), Hans Weiss (white wing), August Raben (red wing) and Josef Carl Peter Jacobs (black)
Nice Phillip. Which Dr1 was it in it's previous life?
Very nice work, Phillip!
Good job, Phillip!
I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!
Very mouthwateringly good Phillip.
Rob.
"Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death."
My squadron of Dr.I's looking for prey. All minis are originals or re-painted originals.
From left to right: Lothar (yellow, re-painted) / Manfred (red, original) / Raben (blue-white, re-painted) / Jacobs (black, re-painted) / Voss (green, re-painted) / Bäumer (brown, original with some added painting) / Weiss (white, re-painted)
The re-paintings are not very accurate, I took some liberties with the paint schemes, used just roughly the right colors and didn't add any personal markings. What you see is what you get. They are far from perfect but they are a beauty to look at because of the colors themself
Great job, they look very nice!
Sweet fleet Felix. What did you not like about Baumer for you to touch it up?
I didn't like the look of the new Bäumer and Kempf from the front, this bright light blue. So I added some brown to some struts and wings on the front. I will do the same with Kempf (I think green) once Keith's package arrives.
The bright light blue didn't bother me with the Raben and Weiss re-paint as it fits their respective color shemes
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