[WWI] Skybird Rumpler WAS FE2

[Douglas Anderson]

Stunning model.




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From: "Hooper, Dave" <Dave.Hooper at clarks.com>
To: World War I Modeling Mailing List <wwi at wwi-models.org>
Sent: Friday, July 24, 2009 9:24:55 AM
Subject: Re: [WWI] Skybird Rumpler WAS FE2


Hi Steve
 
I finished the Rumpler last night, please find attached photo. The kit very simple to build and very well engineered. The only slight problems I had was that the camera opening in the etched brass flooring was on the wrong side. The recent very hot weather we had caused the upper wing to warp, which I straightened by taping the wing to a metal ruler and dipping it in hot water, but I needed to cut down the centre of the wing and refix to apply the correct dihedral. I really enjoyed making the undercarriage struts from strutz using the method Mike showed us in February.
 
The biggest headache I had was with the colour scheme as most references I could find were very vague on this. There was a profile of the machine I was modelling on the back of the Windsock datafile but I became very suspicious of this scheme for two reasons. 1. It was totally different to colours detailed in an evaluation report of a machine from the same batch and 2. One of the photgraphs of the machine in the datafile clearly shows a three colour scheme. Anyway I eventually decided to go with a Pale Green/Dark Green/Red Brown scheme as on the captured aircraft.
 
Regards
 
Dave
 
 
 


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