I decided I needed a break from some longer term projects which are causing me some angst (most recently my Albatros W4!), so I decided I needed a quick and dirty build to get me back into the game for '08.... after watching Stephen Lawson's very fine build of the Roden 1/48 Junkers D.I, I decided that a simple and well engineered kit like this was just the ticket!
I decided to keep it pretty well out of box for this build. So far I have completed work on the interior. Roden provide a nice interior for this kit. Keeping with the OOB theme, I made minimal modifications to the cockpit, namely the addition of strip styrene to enhance the fuselage formers, the scratchbuilding of the fuel pump on the starboard sidewall, the addition of seatbelts from the spares box, rigging from elastic, and adding switches and gauges to the instrument panel. Like Stephen, I figured that this aircraft was fitted with armour plating in the cockpit and as such, the corrugations did not show through on the inside of the fuselage. Roden would have you paint the interior in aluminum, but I figured that like all German WW1 cockpit metal work, the metal components would be painted for protection (this is bourne out by accounts of junkers aircraft still being flyable after being left out in the weather for 3 months after the end of the war) - so I painted the cockpit my owm mixture of grey/green. Anyways, here is some pics:
