1/28 Revell D7

[StephenLawson]

In the Jan.99 issue of Finescale Modeler we see a 'How to' article on correcting and building the Revell/Monogram Fokker D.VII in 1/28 scale. While enjopying that piece and your thread on the subject, I would like to address a problem that has gone unchecked for many years that had its origin in a simple transposition of relavent captions.

Originally from a coffee table sized book titled 'Flying Colors' from Blandford Pub., a book on aircraft profiles concerning production type combat planes, their camouflage, national, unit and personal markings. On page 24 at the bottom we find aircraft profiles #4 & #5 with their captions switched. They should be;

#4 - The blue and white Fok. D.VII with a black trident acxtually belonged to Ltn. Josef Raesch of Jasta 43. We see in Cross & Cockade USA Vol.8,#4 Winter 1967 Pp.307-335 several clear photos of this aircraft. Jasta 43 inherited some of their first Fokker D.VII from Jasta 18 - so there is the possibility that instead of blue - a variation of red maybe possible. Ltn. Raesch lost his early Albatros production Fok. D.VII on 25 July 1918 in a combat with elements of 10 sqdn RAF and credited to Lt.Hind.


#5 - The lozenge covered Fokker D.VII with the lilac colored fuselage band (bordered in black) belonged to Ltn. Rudolph Stark of Jasta 35b at Epinoy. Over the Front Vol.13, #3 Fall 1998 Pp.268-276 and esp. the rear cover tell the story of this aircraft's evolution in its markings applications. See also Cross & Cockade USA Vol.24, #1 Pp.34-69 covers the unit history of Jasta35b.

The Blanford Pub. mistake was perpetuated by SuperScale Int. in their sheet #48-479. I don't doubt they ignored Dan San Abbott again.

In the Lozenge application the builder laid the decal for the lower wing span-wise, which is wrong. Should be chord-wise. Also the location of the lozenge decals was reversed. The dark colored lozenge should be on the top surfaces and the lighter pastel colors should be on the bottom surfaces.

Nuff for now. Here's to getting it right the next time. STL

[Dan_San_Abbott]

Steve:
The people at Microscale came to me and asked if I could help them with the lozenge fabric decals. I provided a four color pattern drawing, color chips, diagrams of how the various aircraft were covered, were the seams were etc,( which they totally ignored.) They copied the diagrams from I believe an early Airfix Magazine, which had it wrong. It was recently drawn wrong in the Fokker D.VII Anthology 1. The pencil drawings I furnished, were supposed to redrawn for publication, they were not the greatest by a long shot, whatever!
Happy New Year Steve,
Dan-San

[StephenLawson]

Dan,
What is it with Krasel Ind. that did decals. While yes they were first do the WWI series they always overstated or ignored the information that they paid knowlegable people to develope. The 1/72 series of American fighter unit insignias was far better suited to 1/48 in size in most cases. American units were not allowed (officially at least) to have over stated unit markings. Prime example 147th Aero. Yet the 27th Aero(of the 1st Pursuit Group) had the huge Eagle & Sun motif. Dan, what were the allowed dimensions for American unit insignias 1'X 2' ? STL ???