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Kit: DML (1:48)
My favorite triplane pilot, Werner Voss. DML makes this lovely kit and it just about falls out of the box. It's up to we bratty types to make it truly frustrating...The Kempf DML DR1 has everything you need to do a basic Voss F1. Barry at Rosemont has an aftermarket resin and decal addition that would be damned helpful, but not when I made this kit. So I kept the cowl, lost the wing skids and painted Werner's funny face. The single wing struts fit a bit cranky and are a tad too long. Everything else is wonderful. The tiniest seat supports molded in plastic. An 'experience' with PE machine guns. DML provides a jig to roll them with. The base color is a mixed turquoise as close as I can infer from text and black & white period photos. The cowl is something I found the true color of with exclusive access to Werner's diary. Honest. The fokker streak is applied with a splayed #5 brush using a fairly straight olive mix, thinned. Practice until you like what you see and then don't think about screwing up and just do it. It's a beautiful aircraft and I like the original prototype look.