Getting Started in WWI Modeling
Written by: Charles Duckworth
After reading the various email regarding a top 5 kit and book list for someone entering the WWI aero- modeling hobby here is my recommendations for the web site on someone entering the hobby.
1/48th Scale
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Testors 1/48 Nieuport 17 - easy to find, cheap, simple to complex color schemes, can be upgraded with white metal engine, guns if desired to improve model.
- DML Fokker VII
- DML Spad XIII
- Eduard Albatros D.V
- Glencoe Nieuport 28C.1
1/72 Scale
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Airfix DH-4 - very accurate, easy to obtain cheap
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Revell SE5a - same
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Airfix Sopwith Pup - same
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Revell/ESCI etc Fokker D-VII - cheap, lots of color schemes
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Airfix Hannover CL.II - accurate, interesting color schemes
Honorable mention: 1/32 Scale
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Hobbycraft Nieuport 17 - large easy to build can be detailed using Tom's Model Works brass set
Books
- Jane's Fighting AC of WWI
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Fighter Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War - Published by Harleyford
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Bombers & Recconisance Aircraft of the 1914-1918 War - Published by Harleyford
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The Fokker Triplane - Written by Alexander Imrie
- Famous Aircraft of the National Air and Space Museum, no. 4: Albatros D.Va
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