Battle Axe Fokker DVII 1/32

[bobs_buckles]

Kofoed,
That is a beauty, make no mistake.
Well done

Bob Von Buckle

[Jim52]

Originally Posted by StephenLawson

Cry HAVOC! and let slip the dogs of modeling!!! Against said French creation, fortify yourselves and entreat with mercy as it sucumbs to thine prowess. Yet let it not lay dormant on thine shelf in mocking entreats, yet pull it down and remove it from its security and apply thine work! Now it is time to arm, to carve, hack and empale it on thine Xacto pike, naked and without its guarded safety disarm said battle axe. Nay, drop not thine heart into the sink of fear, From Calais to Burgundy to Orleans send the word that its has not bested thee. Years from now modelers on other websites will think themselves accursed that they not partook of our victories here. Therefore good friends strip your sleeves bare your scars and say '...these I earned on St. Fokker's kit.' Be not compelled to cruelty to its creator, but rejoice at the challenge as then the victory will be all the sweeter. Let thine 'ingenuity' glow like a burning torch light of the watch into the darkness. So the cloak of darkness not smother its guiding light. Old men forget but we not forget we few we happy few, for he that survives this build has shared in it victory. Dispose the empty sprue.

Amen! Ol' Willy couldn't have put it better!

[Zabu]

Hi there Kofoed. Must tell you that I enjoyed very much the transparent blue on the wings and streaky effect. Terrific model. Congratulations. Cheers.

[Kofoed]

Wow, Stephen, you're a great poet as well! Reminds me of my happy youth when a kit was made in a week-end and there was time to also read my Shakespeare.
Thank you very much for your beautiful poetry. I have enjoyed reading it several times, and I really enjoy my victory over "said French creation". The empty sprues will be discarded, but I'll keep the box as a victory trophy.

Thank you
Kofoed

[Kofoed]

Thank you very much for your nice comments on this, Bob von Buckle, Jim and Zabu. They are really appreciated.

Thanks
Kofoed

[Dan_San_Abbott]

Kofed:
The first Fok.D.VII that Hptm. Rudolf Berthold had was was a Fokker built D.VII from the first production order, D. 227/18 t0 D.526.18. The serial number has to be in the range prior to D.374/18. The machine that Ltn. Oliver Frhr. von Beaulieu-Marconnay had that was Berthold's was from at least serial number range of Fokker built D.VII 4250/18 to D.4299/18.
We know Hptm. Berthold, had at least three, the early Fokker built, The Fokker built that Ltn.Beaulieu-Marconnay got and the one he was shot down in. I would imagine that he had probably twice that number in 1918.
I can say, that I would expect Berthold to be flying a BMWIIIa powered D.VII, however, there is nothing in the photo that makes the statement that it it had a BMWIIIa, it could of had a Mercedes D.IIIaü 180 Ps with the dual cylinder air pump. There is no difference in the machine gun mounts on a Fokker D.VII with either a Mercedes D.IIIaü or a BMWIIIa engines. That is a lot of baloney. The machine gun mountings are exacty the same, for either engine. The forward machine gun mounting is fixed in the vertical height.
For you information, I have identified nine variations in the airframe, cowlings and engines for Fokker built D.VII, seven in Albatros Built D.VIIs and ten in OAW built D.VII. To this you would have to add a large numer of variations in the covering and finish by the three manufacturers of the D.VII.
Blue skies,
Dan-San

[Miguel1]

Spectacular kit!!!!! And precious aircraft.

I liked the whole model, but above all the transparent blue on the wings and streaky effect which produces on the lozenge and another thing to standing out is the propeller.

Congratulations

Cheers

Miguel M.

[Kofoed]

Thank you very much, Dan San and Miguel.

Dan San, that's a lot of nice information, thanks a lot. Very interesting. And nine Fokker built, seven Albatros built and ten OAW built make 26 in all! Impressive! I'm not aware of all of them, I shall have to re-count.
Interesting that there shouldn't be any height difference of the machine guns mountings on Mercedes and BMW powered DVII's. That's new to me. Do you mean, that there wasn't any difference between the DIII aü and the BMW, or do you mean that there wasn't any difference between all Mercedes' and the BMW? Based on what I have seen and read so far, I've always thought that there was a difference due to the higher BMW-engine on all builds, Fokker, Albatros and OAW.

Miguel, Thank you very much for your nice words on my model. Much appreciated.

Thanks,
Kofoed