Junkers D1 Polish airforce 1919-21

Caveman · April 07, 2015, 01:56:53 PM

Late starter, no pics yet. The Roden 1:72 kit, amazing detail, tiny plane!

The idea is that the Poles manage to get their hands on some factory fresh D1s that have just been sat in the open for a few months after the end of ww1 slap some red markings on and equip a fighter bomber squadron with them.

Hope I manage to finish it, just spent an hour assembling the engine! It was 4 seperate pieces and about the size of the end joint of my little finger. It fits in the top of a 15ml pot...

NARSES2 · April 08, 2015, 07:23:06 AM

Interesting idea. The old WWI Eastern Front is a fascinating place for speculation on what could or might have been

Caveman · April 08, 2015, 08:54:24 AM

I think technically post WW1...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War

Caveman · April 09, 2015, 05:59:45 AM

Looking for piccies of d.i and found this old thread.

Basically details how I'm hoping to build the kit.

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php?topic=29060.0

NARSES2 · April 09, 2015, 07:02:04 AM

Quote from: Caveman on April 08, 2015, 08:54:24 AM
I think technically post WW1...

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish%E2%80%93Soviet_War

Yes indeed. I didn't get my meaning across at all and reading again I'm not surprised

I meant equipment from the old Eastern Front protagonists used post war. Just didn't say it.

Caveman · April 10, 2015, 04:31:49 AM

Oh yes indeed! I'm fascinated by the possibilities of an equivalent of luft46, luft19?

Caveman · April 10, 2015, 02:06:29 PM

Plastic!

PR19_Kit · April 11, 2015, 12:07:30 AM

Blimey, wall to wall corrugations!

Caveman · April 11, 2015, 12:23:47 AM

Yeah. No chance of PSR ing this one...

Captain Canada · April 11, 2015, 06:59:54 AM

Very cool. Nice to see all this WWI stuff coming back to the site ! Great job so far.

Caveman · April 11, 2015, 03:17:22 PM

Might be defeated by a 15ml tin of paint! Bloody humbrool gloss white!

PR19_Kit · April 11, 2015, 05:14:37 PM

NEVER use Humbrol Gloss White, it's neither Gloss nor White.......

Caveman · April 12, 2015, 06:38:05 AM

Calling it done...

NARSES2 · April 12, 2015, 07:55:49 AM

That's come out well

I've got that kit in the stash, your build has inspired me to have a peek under the lid

Idea's

Caveman · April 12, 2015, 08:38:17 AM

It's a great little kit! So much detail, being used to airfix the thinness of some if the parts was scary. Some really tiny parts too.

[excuse]One thing to note about the Polish D.Is is that they modified the aileron control linkages to be on the underside of the wing to smooth flow over the top surface and improve love speed roll control (the linkages were found to cause early separation of the flow leading to some unfortunate landing accidents).
This has been faithfully recreated on this model, you just can't see them...honest.[/excuse]