[WWI] Junkers J.1 photos

[Brad & Merville]

Hi Dave

   The J.I (also the AEG G.IV) was gift to Canada from the king after the 
war and has never been restored.  It is now on semi-public view in the new 
wing of the National Aviation Museum.  The fuselage is standing on the gear 
and the top centre section is attached, there is no fabric.  The tail 
consists of the vertical stabiliser.  All the flying surfaces are stored in 
racks next to the fuselage.  I believe there are some pictures available on 
the WW1 modelling website.  It has not been cleaned in eighty years and the 
colours and camo have always been difficult to make out. However some of the 
close-ups I took in September do show the colours to better advantage partly 
because the new venue is slightly better lit than those in the past and it 
now possible to get right up to the aircraft.  Let me know if you receive 
the shot I sent alright and I'll send some more.  You too Tom.  They average 
around 1.7-1.8 MB.

Brad

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dave Calhoun" <davecww1 at cox.net>
To: <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Sunday, April 01, 2007 3:04 PM
Subject: [WWI] Junkers J.1 photos


Hi Brad,
Send them on to Alan to post! would love to see the J.1 camouflage scheme in 
color.  Is the J.1 a complete airframe? I did not even know that one 
existed.  Hopefully Eduard will retool their 1/72 scale one to 1/48.  I have 
the LoneStar resin/vac one, but looks like a very hard model to complete 
properly with solid resin wings full of bubbles and vac fuselage.  I 
recently saw one built by Bob Doyno at the Wings & Wheels Valleycon show, 
and it looks like it took an engineering degree to get the homemade brass 
struts to hold the heavy resin upper wing in place.
Dave


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