Focker Eindecker WWI monplane, Eduard 1/48

Submitted by admin on Wed, 12/04/2013 - 10:19

Model, text and images by Luca Cinacchio

After the Albatros, I decided to dig in another WWI plane, but this this a very different one: not a biplane, but the father of all the monoplane, the Focker Eindecker.
I found a good bargain on E-bay, for the Eduard WeekEnd Edition, and bought it. Compared to the Albatros, I found this other Eduard kit more complex, hard to assemble and with the instruction somewhere vague (but, please consider that i am not an expert on WWI subject, so this one is only a personal opinion).
This time for the rigging i didn't use the self-made turnbuckles, but just the classic old school of drilling some small holes and using the CA glue.


Construction started as usual with the cockpit: for the woodgran I applied as usual a basecoat with acrylics, and then some thinned oils working and working them with the brush. For the metal parts i used the Modelmaster Buffable Metallizer.  Seat belts were as usual self made, with a 1 mm wide tape and some lead wire.
After joining the two fuselages halves, and sanding the sea, the engraved "panel" lines disappeared, so i recreated them with some strip of plasticard.
Before painting i went with the usual pre-shading. The most boring paintjob was to paint with the brush the endless small "spots" that were on the engline cowling.
As I said before, for the rigging i just driled some small holes, and used elastic monofilament.


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