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Kit: Eduard (1:72)
Eduard's DH-2 is a pretty decent kit I suppose, but at 1/72, it was kind of a stringbag, if you know what I mean. There may have been more Wonder Wire on the little buggar than styrene.I also added some construction and painting shots as they are often more interesting than the finished model.
Kit: Roden (1:72)
Roden's Sopwith Camel, trench fighter version. Basically it's a standard Camel with a couple of MG's mounted through an armor plate beneath the pilot protecting his underside.
I recommend everyone try this paint scheme. It is actually not that difficult once you get the masking swirlies 3-dimensionally mapped onto the fuselage. Once completed, it gave me flashbacks of my days chasing the Grateful Dead around the East Coast.
Kit: Choroszy (1:72)
Looking for something new and different, I picked up five smallish resin kits at the Columbus IPMS Nationals last August. The Scout, likely the weirdest of the bunch, caught my attention from simple lack of conventionality. I've entered it in two IPMS shows people just don't quite know what to make of it. It doesn't exactly take rocket science to figure out why only 4 prototypes were made. Just a tad top heavy and somewhat prone to tipping over, the British gave up on this one none too soon. In any event, it was an interesting experience working on a full resin kit for the first time. My only major complaint with the kit was that the wings and control surfaces were way too thin.