[WWI] 1/72nd Alb DV Question

[Patrick Cook]

I did some measuring last night to see what I could learn.  I compared the Eduard 1/72nd scale Albatros D.V wheels to the Roden Albatros D.V kit wheels.  The Roden wheels are larger than the Eduard ones by about the thickness of a sheet of paper.

I checked the size of the wheels against both the Osprey and Windsock Datafile drawings/profiles.  Again the Eduard wheels appear to be too small by about the thickness of a single piece of paper.  We are talking about VERY small differences.  If I didn't have calipers out to measure them with, I would not have been able to detect a difference of that size.

If anyone has these 1/72nd scale Cooper resin wheels, could he/she please measure the difference in sizes between them and the kit wheels and let us know how much bigger they are?

Patrick C.
Atlanta


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James and Linda Fahey<mailto:fahey.j.l at clear.net.nz> 
  To: World War I Modeling Mailing List<mailto:wwi at wwi-models.org> 
  Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 02:14
  Subject: Re: [WWI] Alb DV Question


  Yes thats an interesting point Patrick, I remember when I first got the Cooper wheels I compared them to the Eduard kit parts and thought the difference wasn't worth bothering about. In 1/48 it's a different matter altogether. I should dig them out and take a side by side photo . . . 
  James
    ----- Original Message ----- 
    From: Patrick Cook<mailto:festercook at msn.com> 
    To: World War I Modeling Mailing List<mailto:wwi at wwi-models.org> 
    Sent: Monday, November 16, 2009 5:19 PM
    Subject: Re: [WWI] Alb DV Question


    My understanding has always been that the 1/48th scale wheels are the ones that are incorrectly sized.  I have not heard of that issue about the 1/72nd scale Albatros kit wheels.

    Patrick C.
    Atlanta
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