i absolutly loved your comments about social media towaeds the end of the video, very weell said with just the right touch of snark....your Grandma would be proud. loved the model as well will definitly put it on my wish list
Thanks! I know I kept it pg, but I think Grandma still would have pursed her lips at my language. . . You're going to love the eindecker, it really is a blast!
I kinda find it hard being an older person dealing with the 'shield of social media'. I grew up in Scotland in the 1960s.... We did NOT suffer from rudeness without consequences! LOL I always say that kids these days just don't have the quality of bullies that we used to have, and that's a bad thing. ;) ...Anyway, the model! I love this scheme and I do wish that airfix would do a new moulding for this plane. I particularly like the wood grain you got n the propeller, and you upgrades are very nice. Rigging, on the other hand, scares me! :D Thanks for the video.
If you want to get into rigging, this would be a great model to get your start. It gives you a lot of practice, but you don't have that annoying second wing to get in the way, and the instructions have a good guide for rigging. I'm working on a bunch of other stuff, but I've got a plan for a RAFC Be2c, and another plan for a SE5a that will show a bunch of rigging. I'm certainly not an expert, but I began adding it just because even shoddily done it adds a huge amount of visual interest. Thanks for your comments, I appreciate them!
I picked up one of these yesterday at a boot fair, £5 for this, the HS123 and Sdkfz 234, in bags with decals! One technique I found works quite well if you dont have an airbrush, is to use make-up sponges to build up layers of very thinned down paint. That way you can build up the translucency over pre shaded areas
Thanks for showing what a beautiful little fighter, it is possible to build out of the 1/72 Airfix kit. Great result Professor👍 i think you gave it the exactly right WW1 look, but who knows ? Happy modeling😀 Lars
Awesome build. I've been building over 50 years and I've had the eindekker a few times and 1/72 is small. It's hard to get a lot of detail done on it.good build, good job.
The wings were very flexible. It was a wing warper, so all those wires that attach to the wing both brace and warp the wing. I think it was kind of a technological dead end, but it was a pretty popular method in the pre-war/early war period.
Thank you! My daughter and I are reading "The BFG" and I learned that Giants apparently fine that the Welsh have a fishy flavor. . . Though with all respect to Roald Dahl, I prefer to think of Wales as the land of King Arthur.
@@professorbellbuilds Wales is a land with its own language and culture,at the same time being a part of Great Britain. As for King Arthur most belive Merlin was indeed Welsh.
@@professorbellbuilds you could say they were all Britons because the countries that make up modern day Great Britain did not exist.Merlin was said to come from the part that is now Wales.
@@kennethjames9416 Oh, I thought he would have come from the post Roman period, like from Gwynedd or something. I guess I need to brush up on my Arthurian lore!
I have two of them, unmade as yet. I have been slightly put off by the heavy details, probably because I remember building the Revell kit as an Austro-Hungarian aircraft some years ago and replacing most of the supporting elements (for want of the correct term) with stretched sprue. Also trying to get the rifled aluminium effect is not easy. I particularly like your laminated propeller, difficult to pull off by hand painting - kudos to you 🙂
Thank you! They really are a blast! It sounds like you went far deeper into the detail than I did. I've been practicing on the propellers for a while, some turn out better than others. Thanks again!
Very much enjoyed this video and what you had to say. I think the problem with MR. cranky pants post was poor grammar and lack of context. I have two of these little beauties stashed away. Cheers and Hee Haw!
By no means a dislike, but the laminated propeller would only be used on a showpiece in a museum. A standad propeller might show some heavy grain, but no contrast colored lamination. That being said, the execution of the lamination is quite impressive.
OMG! How DARE you! I've never been so insulted! Nah, I'm just kidding. It is a bit of a stark contrast. I just think it looks cool, like all they had was maple and mahogany at the prop factory, and they decided to make a pretty pattern to go with their fearsome fighting machines. . . Are you sure there would be no contrast though? I've looked through lots of historical photos of the eindeckers, and although it's hard to tell in those old B/W photos, many of them do seem to have one or more darker streaks in the propeller, again certainly not as distinct as I've made mine. I'm only working from photos though, have you seen real ones in Museums?
@@professorbellbuilds You are right, I just leafed through a book that has original period photographs of German WWI planes. They are of course black and white and the quality is not great, but many planes have a stark contrast lamination. Also many don't seem to have, some seem to be more uniform colour. And if the contrast between the laminations is more subtle it's not easy to see as the quality is not great. But the point is there seems to be a wide variety of different looking propellers. My hands are too shaky to to do what you did, paint it with a brush. I have used thin thin strips of masking tape, but that method is also difficult and slow in 1/72, and its it's almost impossible to make curvy stripes. I think this kit is out of production, and I'm not optimistic about it being re-issued in the near future, WWI kits, especially in 1/72 don't sell well. I started this hobby mostly interested in WWII planes, but now my favourites are mostly WWI and inter-war birds. My latest double build was Arma Hobby's Fokker E. V and Eduard's Nieuport 17. Very nice kits, have you built them?
@@thekinksfan5102 Thanks! To HotelPapa's credit though, I do think the contrast in my lamination is too distinct to be strictly realistic. I'm going to have to do a study of WWI propellers now. I had it in my mind that the laminating made for stronger propellers, but now I'm also wondering if they did things like alternate heartwood and sapwood, or if they deliberately sourced different woods to create better properties. . . Again to HotelPapa's credit, I love getting curious about this stuff, and his comment was a great way to pique my curiosity! Anyway, I have drooled over Arma's E.V, but I haven't made a purchase. I'm a big fan of Poland and Polish stuff in general, so that expert kit looks especially good to me. As for Eduard's Nieuport 17, I actually won a prize for it at the Reno model convention! My buddy and I bought the dual combo kit together, and I did Charles Nungesser's plane. It was a fun little build. Maybe I'll do a quick review of that next.
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i absolutly loved your comments about social media towaeds the end of the video, very weell said with just the right touch of snark....your Grandma would be proud. loved the model as well will definitly put it on my wish list
Thanks! I know I kept it pg, but I think Grandma still would have pursed her lips at my language. . . You're going to love the eindecker, it really is a blast!
I kinda find it hard being an older person dealing with the 'shield of social media'. I grew up in Scotland in the 1960s.... We did NOT suffer from rudeness without consequences! LOL I always say that kids these days just don't have the quality of bullies that we used to have, and that's a bad thing. ;) ...Anyway, the model! I love this scheme and I do wish that airfix would do a new moulding for this plane. I particularly like the wood grain you got n the propeller, and you upgrades are very nice. Rigging, on the other hand, scares me! :D Thanks for the video.
If you want to get into rigging, this would be a great model to get your start. It gives you a lot of practice, but you don't have that annoying second wing to get in the way, and the instructions have a good guide for rigging. I'm working on a bunch of other stuff, but I've got a plan for a RAFC Be2c, and another plan for a SE5a that will show a bunch of rigging. I'm certainly not an expert, but I began adding it just because even shoddily done it adds a huge amount of visual interest. Thanks for your comments, I appreciate them!
I picked up one of these yesterday at a boot fair, £5 for this, the HS123 and Sdkfz 234, in bags with decals! One technique I found works quite well if you dont have an airbrush, is to use make-up sponges to build up layers of very thinned down paint. That way you can build up the translucency over pre shaded areas
Love it!!
'I gave up facebook 10 years ago' So did I, best thing ever!
Great build, really like the metallic effects.
Thank you!
This is a fantastic build with great detail for such a tiny model. Quite impressive.
Thank you!
Prop looks good.
Thank you!
An excellent bit of work.
Thank you! It really was a fun build!
Thanks for showing what a beautiful little fighter, it is possible to build out of the 1/72 Airfix kit.
Great result Professor👍 i think you gave it the exactly right WW1 look, but who knows ?
Happy modeling😀
Lars
Thank you!
The wooden parts are very nice painted. Smart palette of colours. Tip Hat
Thank you! It's my tried and true method!
I made one last year nice little kit I look forward to seeing your next video all the best from here in the UK 🇬🇧👍
Thank you! my semester just ended, so hopefully I can keep them coming!
Nice video I’ve recently got into ww1 model kits and this is a good review 😊
Thank you! Just be careful, the WWI kits are addicting!
Excelent build, i love detail of the wood effect propeler 👍. It´s a iconic plane of WW I, i´m going to build the Albatros D III i 1/32 from Roden.
Let me know how that turns out. I've done quite a few 1/72 scale Roden models, and I kinda have a love hate relationship with them. . .
Awesome build. I've been building over 50 years and I've had the eindekker a few times and 1/72 is small. It's hard to get a lot of detail done on it.good build, good job.
Thank you! It's one of my favorites.
So its a good lil Fokker then? 😁 I loved your completed model and your wooden propellors are serioiusly, next level.
Definitely a good little Fokker! Thank you!
No ailerons I hear. The wing must have been super flexible. l'll look for one. Great build.
The wings were very flexible. It was a wing warper, so all those wires that attach to the wing both brace and warp the wing. I think it was kind of a technological dead end, but it was a pretty popular method in the pre-war/early war period.
Never been on facebook,well tidy video.Greetings from Wales.
Thank you! My daughter and I are reading "The BFG" and I learned that Giants apparently fine that the Welsh have a fishy flavor. . . Though with all respect to Roald Dahl, I prefer to think of Wales as the land of King Arthur.
@@professorbellbuilds Wales is a land with its own language and culture,at the same time being a part of Great Britain. As for King Arthur most belive Merlin was indeed Welsh.
@@kennethjames9416 Merlin, but not King Arthur?
@@professorbellbuilds you could say they were all Britons because the countries that make up modern day Great Britain did not exist.Merlin was said to come from the part that is now Wales.
@@kennethjames9416 Oh, I thought he would have come from the post Roman period, like from Gwynedd or something. I guess I need to brush up on my Arthurian lore!
I have two of them, unmade as yet. I have been slightly put off by the heavy details, probably because I remember building the Revell kit as an Austro-Hungarian aircraft some years ago and replacing most of the supporting elements (for want of the correct term) with stretched sprue. Also trying to get the rifled aluminium effect is not easy. I particularly like your laminated propeller, difficult to pull off by hand painting - kudos to you 🙂
Thank you! They really are a blast! It sounds like you went far deeper into the detail than I did. I've been practicing on the propellers for a while, some turn out better than others. Thanks again!
Awesome video! Love it
And here I thought you were going to tell me that the Nieuport 11 was a better plane! What happened to the stirring up controversy?
Very much enjoyed this video and what you had to say. I think the problem with MR. cranky pants post was poor grammar and lack of context. I have two of these little beauties stashed away. Cheers and Hee Haw!
Thanks! You're going to have a great time when you get to them. They seem very simple, but there's a lot of room for adding details.
I`ve built a few G it sit`s niecley with the Airfix BE2c.
Face off! I was thinking of having an aerial display with those two.
By no means a dislike, but the laminated propeller would only be used on a showpiece in a museum. A standad propeller might show some heavy grain, but no contrast colored lamination.
That being said, the execution of the lamination is quite impressive.
OMG! How DARE you! I've never been so insulted! Nah, I'm just kidding. It is a bit of a stark contrast. I just think it looks cool, like all they had was maple and mahogany at the prop factory, and they decided to make a pretty pattern to go with their fearsome fighting machines. . . Are you sure there would be no contrast though? I've looked through lots of historical photos of the eindeckers, and although it's hard to tell in those old B/W photos, many of them do seem to have one or more darker streaks in the propeller, again certainly not as distinct as I've made mine. I'm only working from photos though, have you seen real ones in Museums?
@@professorbellbuilds You are right, I just leafed through a book that has original period photographs of German WWI planes. They are of course black and white and the quality is not great, but many planes have a stark contrast lamination. Also many don't seem to have, some seem to be more uniform colour. And if the contrast between the laminations is more subtle it's not easy to see as the quality is not great. But the point is there seems to be a wide variety of different looking propellers. My hands are too shaky to to do what you did, paint it with a brush. I have used thin thin strips of masking tape, but that method is also difficult and slow in 1/72, and its it's almost impossible to make curvy stripes. I think this kit is out of production, and I'm not optimistic about it being re-issued in the near future, WWI kits, especially in 1/72 don't sell well. I started this hobby mostly interested in WWII planes, but now my favourites are mostly WWI and inter-war birds. My latest double build was Arma Hobby's Fokker E. V and Eduard's Nieuport 17. Very nice kits, have you built them?
@@thekinksfan5102 Thanks! To HotelPapa's credit though, I do think the contrast in my lamination is too distinct to be strictly realistic. I'm going to have to do a study of WWI propellers now. I had it in my mind that the laminating made for stronger propellers, but now I'm also wondering if they did things like alternate heartwood and sapwood, or if they deliberately sourced different woods to create better properties. . . Again to HotelPapa's credit, I love getting curious about this stuff, and his comment was a great way to pique my curiosity! Anyway, I have drooled over Arma's E.V, but I haven't made a purchase. I'm a big fan of Poland and Polish stuff in general, so that expert kit looks especially good to me. As for Eduard's Nieuport 17, I actually won a prize for it at the Reno model convention! My buddy and I bought the dual combo kit together, and I did Charles Nungesser's plane. It was a fun little build. Maybe I'll do a quick review of that next.
Udet contributed Allies' WWII victory, by his own ways...
He certainly was a complex character.
it's a little Fokker!
Indeed!