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final aircraft, just that it would

be Jasta 19, as I loved the options

there. Basically, these were a fairly

standard olive-streaked finish with

a white nose cowling, yellow and

black tails, and a personal twist for

each individual pilot. The markings

were going to be masked and

sprayed so I knew it wasn’t going to

be one of the super fancy schemes.

The kit does have state of the

art decals from Cartograf, thanks

to Revell’s re-issuing of the kit in

recent years. However, I wanted

to have a different model from

everyone else’s and thought that

masking and airbrushing should

be a viable option here. So having

finally decided on an individual

aircraft – with a snake-like white

streak along the fuselage – I

proceeded to work on the markings.

I had some leftover ready-cut

Iron Cross vinyl masks from a

previous build and these were

employed on the tail and lower

wings to good effect. In the end,

however, I used the kit decals for

the top wing crosses and can report

that they performed excellently.

It was now time to fit the main

components together. One thing

I had heard on the grapevine was

about the kit struts. I’d seen pictures

of completed models with the struts

slightly out of line with the top and

bottom strut (when viewed from

side on), but I thought that mine

seemed to be ok, so I left them

(yet in the final pictures I can see,

annoyingly, that mine weren’t quite

as in line as I’d thought – so maybe

something to address if you opt

to build one). But that aside the fit

was again excellent and everything

clicked together faultlessly.

RIGGING

Did I mention it came with

rigging? The fat, hairy thread was

apparently for this purpose, and not

for my buttons. My advice would

be to replace this, but that said,

Revell had put some thought into

this and it’s quite cleverly woven

into the build, with instructions and

suitable holes for the threading of

said material. It would be perfectly

acceptable to use this method

except for replacing the thread

with something more refined.

My preferred option was

some Albion fine metal rod, as I

thought that my usual method

of monofilament wouldn’t quite

cut it in this scale. The rod looks

just about right and to scale for

this larger model. Mercifully,

(depending on your viewpoint) the

rigging is sparse on the Tripe, so

whichever method you decide to

employ, there isn’t too much to do.

Finally, all that was left was

to attach the engine, the cowling,

and the machine guns in place.

The cowling is reported to be

overly thick and I believe a resin

replacement is available. But to be

honest, I thought the kit part really

looked ok, and with some judicious

sanding of the edges to thin it

down it really looked the part.

The machine gun replacements

were the standard rolled photo

etch jackets, but I elected to use

the kit body and amalgamate

the parts. Some care is required

here; finding a suitably sized rod

to roll them around is key to a

successful outcome. They looked

very good in the end and light

years away from the kit barrels.

This left the Wingnuts DFW

C.V propeller from my scrap box. I

started by painting the laminations

on to the blades in fairly stark

colours (any lightish two-tone

sand/brown acrylic colour will

suffice), then created the wood

effect by an overall application of

brown oil paint dragged along the

length of the blade. For this model,

I went with a fairly dark brown

shade to match the dark appearance

seen in my references. Left for a

few days to fully dry I added the

propeller to finish my model

CONCLUSIONS

This kit was, surprisingly, great fun

and a pleasure to build. I wasn’t

expecting to be saying that at the

end, but it really was. Once the

extras like the machine guns and

propellor and figures were stripped

away (and the bright red plastic

covered up), the underlying kit

was really excellent and belied its

sixty years – quite incredibly so.

The fit was bizarrely good for

a kit of this age, and the surface

textures and detail were excellent.

I was surprised at the difference

between the quality of the major

components and the poor additional

items and detail, something I can’t

explain. But as luck would have it,

these were easily fixed. Even the

cockpit, although sparse, was easy to

transform with a little imagination.

I certainly had as much fun

with this as with a Tamiya or

Wingnuts from the 21st century –

in fact probably more fun, as the

transformation was all the more

satisfying. I also think the end result

doesn’t look out of place alongside

these modern ”super kits”. I don’t

know if the same could be said of the

other Revell offerings in this range,

but I wouldn’t be averse to finding

out. For £12 what’s to lose? That’s

probably as much as I’d normally

spend on an aftermarket set.

As our American friends

would say – go figure...

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