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Sweet! Thnx for posting these. Cheers, Jeroen

That looks great. Very extensive PE treatment for an already extensive kit. Thnx for the review! Cheers, Jeroen

This is the Mercedes of all reviews!

Small progress. Uschi wood decals in the pit:

You're breaking all sorts of speed records with this plane! Looks nice! Carefully planing mine...

Superb! Cowling swirled out nice!

1:32 Fokker E.I / E.III / E.IV Resin Cowlings Manufacturer: Aviattic Available directly from www.aviattic.co.uk Everyone agrees that Wingnut Wings kits are top of the range when it comes to details. But lately we’ve seen a huge increase in aftermarket and scratch added detailing on Large Scale Modeller. Aviattic offers us more colour true Lozenge decals with added printed fabric texture. Quite an improvement over the Wingnut Wings decals to be honest. With these decals and other aftermarket sets (like Gaspatch’s anemometer and turnbuckles, Master Barrels guns, real wooden props and real spoked metal wheels) you can really go to town on these kits. Just when we thought we had seen it all, Taurus hit us with their amazing resin engines. About 130 parts make up just one engine. About as much as the entire Fokker E.III kit!! So imagine the disappointment when I heard from Jeroen Veen that this masterpiece would not fit my WNW plastic cowling… Not knowing what Aviattic was up to, I shortened every cilinder to make it fit. Quite an operation and not something you want to do to such an expensive AM part. The same day I finished decreasing the engine’s diameter, I spotted these resin cowlings on Facebook. Not having spotted any inaccuracies in WNW’s cowlings I asked Aviattic if by any chance these were made to accommodate the Taurus engine…. „Yes”. What’s in the bag? A sturdy block of grey resin that gladly has some flexible characteristics. Attached to the rear, undersides and with a thin strip on the top. The first things that strikes is how thin the resin is. Scale thickness. And that’s exactly what you need to make the Taurus Oberursel engine fit, since it is also true to scale! This can be best seen when keeping the resin to the light. My samples featured nu bubbles, cracked or flash whatsoever. Do you only need this if you have the Taurus engine? No. The plastic IM WNW cowlings is too thick and this is quite visible when looking at your model from an angle. These cowlings add the same realism like the PE Spandau cooling jackets. Also the cowlings have moulded on mounting bands which are fairly simplified on the WNW kit. HGW includes these as PE in their update sets. Some nice modeling on the master maker Ron Kootje! Construction To saw the delicate cowlings from their casting blocks you’ll need a micro saw. Since the top attachment is located in quite a visible area you’ll need to be careful here and polish behind you when done Conclusion Nice! Another way to enhance the realism on your WW1 fighter. And at the price of 4,75 pounds per cowling quite worth it. I’ll definately use a set on my current Fokker E.IV build. Highly recommended Thanks to Richard from Aviattic for the review samples!! You can order your set directly here: Aviattic Jeroen Peters Large Scale Modeller

Simply love this Steve.... You can never ave too many eindeckers and you can never watch Dances with wolves too many times.

Thnx for this. Jim gives us wood.

Lovely work Tom. Great to suddenly see a built example instead of the endless chit chat around it! Great work...

Thnx Jim, Here's some gloss black paint on as a base for the Alclad. I'll add the spark plugs later and wires.

Later in the war the 161/16 (and others, like the 170/16 as painted by Ronnie Bar in Fokker Eindecker Compendium 2) received field applied camo. Brown and mid green. I'll stick to the profile as supplied by WnW...

Found this pic of Hans Müller in his plane. Great shot of faded paint on cowling. Note the wheel chocks hanging by chains from the fuselage....

Sweet! Very nice. Super turnbuckle work. Cheers, Jeroen

Hi Bertl, Thnx for those! I should have looked at these pics better before venturing in the Taurus engine. Pure headache material. 1. I glued the cilinders on. Only to discover the engine would not fit the cowling of the WnW kit. 2. I debonded all the cilinders and shortened them 1,5 mm each. 3. Then i saw Aviattic is releasing a beautiful resin scale thickness cowling that will fit the Taurus engine. Duh! 4. After this i somehow managed to glue all the cilinder heads / caps in the wrong way round. This was a pain. 5. And by sawing off the rocker arms from the block I already managed to screw up 2 parts. This piece of kit really makes me doubt my abilities. You can see an empty strip of aspirine in the background. Here's where I'm at...

Really clean and great build. Thnx for sharing! Cheers, Jeroen

Sweet!

Wow.... Nice start. I'm following this one for sure!

As pure punishment... now you MUST build it!

Hi Doug, It sure is a sweet kit from the box.... Doesn't need much at all. Love to see what you'll do with this. Cheers, Jeroen

Wow! That's some nice added detail and painting! Great to have you on board sir! Welcome. Cheers, Jeroen

Hi Bertl, No problem! Just pm me your address!

Started work on the Taurus engine. A gem...

Here's a primed shot:

The Prop Bosses arrived from Shapeways. All i can say is... WOW!! No print lines at all. Very fine detailed crisp detail. Exactly how i modelled it. I'll prime it and take some more pics later on...