B777s next build!

[B777LR]

The MPM Fokker D.XXI Danish Type, including a choice of 2 or 3 blade props (i went for the latter), underwing 20mm Madsen machine cannons (cant get more danish than that ) and lots of photo-etch, resin, and the obligatory 2 spats!
I started this beauty last saturday. Didnt plan on it being a whiff, but i have been out of school the whole week due to disease (im the sick one, not the school), so i decided to enter it here!
Painting has just started.







Edit: It even comes with an extra set of wings!

[Brian da Basher]

Lookinbg food Trip 7! I especially like the metal plates over the gun ports in the wings. Nice work on the camo too!

Brian da Basher

P.S. I'm sorry to hear you're ill and I hope you get better soon. Shouldn't your sig. line read "I am newly infected?

[B777LR]

There, now i am newly infected!

Got the paint done! Sadly, i dropped the Fokker, so the spats broke off the resin legs. Now i only need to paint the tail wheel, refit the spats and add the RAF decals...

[B777LR]

  Can you spot the 1/72 gunsight i fitted? 

[B777LR]

  Look at the neat work on the engine cowling

[B777LR]

  Broke off hte spats

[Brian da Basher]

Oh no!!! Those poor spats!!!! 

It's coming together very nicely, Trip 7! I really like your camo! You've got a real gift for paint schemes!

Brian da Basher

[John Howling Mouse]

Looks better with the SPATS! on, dontchathink?   Quit dropping this little beauty, willya? 

Then again, everything looks 1000% better with SPATS!   

[B777LR]

Spatz r Back! Build is done!

In 1939, the RAF ordered 50 Fokker D.XXIs to replace the Gloster Gladiator (it had a big design flaw, no spatss). When the Netherlands were overrun in 1939, only 4 had been delivered. These were joined by 24 Dutch D.XXIs that escaped, and 15 RDAF Fokker D.XXIs that fled Denmark on the 9th of April 1940. During the Battle of Britain, these spatted wonders flew with the RAF, making a mocking of the Luftwaffe bombers.
In November 1941, a squadron of D.XXIs where sent to Singapore, to provide aircover for Force Z. On December 10th the same year, Japanese medium bombers spotted the force, consisting of the 2 battleships HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse and the carrier HMS Eagle. Both battleships were sunk, but the carrier managed to escape, when the D.XXIs arrived. It is estimated that 11 Bettys and 3 Nells were shot down, all but two of them by D.XXIs.
In 1942 the Fokkers were retired from fighter command, and put into reserve, where they were used as advanced trainers. With the end of the war, all have been scrapped.

[B777LR]

1944:

Alongside a Spitfire Mk-IX




Alongside a Soko 512 that escaped to Britain

[B777LR]

Next to an RAF Kramme and Zeuthe KZ-5 (still has not been repainted, indicating that it is still in 1940)

[kitnut617]

Trip 7, I'm really impressed, those look so good together.

Robert

[ysi_maniac]

I DO love Fokker D-XXI

[Brian da Basher]

The only thing as delightful as this cool model is the bit in your backstory about the Gloster Gladiator's design flaw! YTet more impressive work, Trip 7! I really like how you rendered the brass-colored collector ring on the cowling and of course, those way-cool spats!!!

Brian da Basher