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Kit: DRAGON (1:48)
This is Dragon's lovely Fokker Dr.I finished as Kempf's Dr.I. This one of two similarly marked Dr.I's he had. That is something else I learned from hanging around this place. I used the decals from the Eduard Dual combo kit, as the Dragon decals were in an almost cream colour (old decals?) . I also attempted the streaking using oil paint. I think the green is a country mile off what it should be compared to other builds in the Gallery, but it sort of matched the info I was kindly sent via scans from a fellow listee. You know who you are! I have learned I am crap at mixing colours. Kit went together really well. Those p.e. struts are a bit weird in a flat 2d way but I was kind of in a hurry and did not take the time to round them out with c.a. as I should have done. I built this rather than the Eduard kit because I had kept this kit for almost 18 years. A small spider had got in and died in the box. I felt it was a message, is this a kit or on ancient tomb of the arachnid? This one was going to be for the other online triplane contest, but I'm not sure what's happening there, so yer 'tis