Fokker D.VI

Kit: Scratchbuilt/Conversion (1:72)

Fokker DVI: This model was made using the fuselage from the 1/72nd Airfix Dr1 and the wings from the 1/72nd Revell D.VII. Colours and markings taken from Fighters 1914-19 by K.Munson. Built in late 1960s.

Stapenhorst's Fokker Dr.I

Kit: Revell (1:72)

Fokker DrI: Markings of Lt von Stapenhorst, Jasta 11, captured 3/1/1918. The Fokker streaky finish was built up as described in Munson, using drybrushed green on a linen basecoat. This was then overbrushed with thinners to soften the hard edges, then with diluted Games Workshop brown wash to simulate the dark linseed oil varnish. I think I overdid the varnish.

Fokker V8 Experimental

Kit: Airfix + Revell (1:72)

This model came about from a bag of Fokker Dr.I and D.VII bits. There is one known picture of this machine, outline dimensions in a Fokker table of aircraft, and a 3-view drawing from WW1 Aero, which I modified according to what I could see in the photo. From the shadows on the struts I decided the forward top wing was longer than the rear, so I made the rear span the same as a Dr.I, and split the wing around the cockpit.
The fuselage is made from the front of the D.VII and the rear of the Dr.I, with a simple scratch-built cockpit. The exhaust pipes are copper wire.
Descriptions of the V8 say a lot of V6 ( an earlier experimental triplane) components were used, the V6 had scaled-up Dr.I wings so the span and chord were greater than that on the Dr.I. The V8 wings were lesser span than the V6 so they may have been different again, however, my wings are Dr.I wing chord.
The white finish? The photo shows it very pale, the fuselage cross has no visible white border, and I can't see ribs in the wings so I don't think it was CDL.