[StephenLawson]

Originally Posted by hwells

I was looking over my D.1, and noticed that the prop is backwards. The leading edge is very thin and the trailing edge is really thick. It almost looks like it goes on a pusher type aircraft. Has anyone else noticed this?

Henry

Greetings. It seems you are at least partially right. Someone cutting the mold reversed the edge locations but the faces of the paddles are correct. When viewed from the side profile the propeller paddle has a pronounced camber to it. The camber is supposed to curve backward to the last laminations at the rear face.

The fix is to narrow down the thick side (I do this to most kit propellers anyway as they are usually way too thick.) especially at the back side of the boss. The other side is just about scale.

As a side note even Eduard fouled up once on their Albatros D.V/ Va 81xx series. The stub for the propeller mount was placed on what is the face of the prop. So if you followed the kit recommendations it went on backwards. So the camber was reversed.