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Kit: Roden (1:72)
Inspired by the color profile in the Osprey book "Fokker D.VII Aces of WWI", I hunted down photo's of Lindenberger's Fokker, and quickly realized the color profile was quite wrong. Oh well, even the experts make mistakes, right? After I built it in what I felt was the correct color scheme, I was happy (and humbly relieved) to see that Osprey corrected the profile later in their "Jagdstaffel 2 Boelcke" book. The point I'm trying to make is to go with what you want to build, trust your own intuition and have some fun. As for the Roden kit itself, the fuselage halves were horribly warped and badly molded. It took a good deal of work (and even more cursing) to correct all the molding flaws, but it came out well in the end. Lozenge, rib tapes and all national markings are from Americal. In fact the decals were the biggest challenge, since there are 189 of them. The nicely molded resin figures are CMK's "Richtofen's Circus".