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According to the accompanying report, the Triplane crashed and troops rushed forward, took away the body and started to souvenir the wreck. German Artillery dropped a few shells nearby which caused a retreat to the trenches. The sketch was drawn then - with the deserted plane nose down and strips of fabric missing from its structure.
The basis is the old Merit/Smer Dr.1. I started off with the basic kit, a razor saw and lots of enthusiasm! Soon I had half a plane and started building framework from plastic rod and strip. This was actually much easier than it looks and did not take all that long. I think the plywood capping on wing leading edges worked well and the plastic propellor (which you can't see in this picture!) is always mistaken for splintered wood. I later added Eduard PE machine guns but everything else is fabricated from plastic rod, strip and sprue.
I spent days working up an interior consisting of all the tubular wing/fuselage cellule and think it looked pretty damned good - then of course when I closed up the fuselage with the seat in place, you can hardly see a thing! Still, a nice kit which requires a bit of careful work thinning and re-corrugating trailing edges. The guns supplied are OK but for something as visible as this Eduard PE items had to be brought in.