Roden 1/48 BE-2
Hello all. Just completed. 1/48 Roden Royal Aircraft Factory RAF BE-2 completed. No. 12 Squadron Western Front, France March 1916. My first of several Rodens in the stash. A fun easy build, I'm looking forward to doing another one soon. I still have to refine my rigging skills but it's slowly getting there. It's worth the effort. I love the mass of wires everywhere. 😊
Thanks for looking.
P.
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John vd Biggelaar said on July 13, 2021
Speechless, Paul @paulwoodyvanacker
Your bi-planes are at a very high level of modelling.
To me the rigging looks fantastic.
Spiros Pendedekas said on July 13, 2021
Love your job, Paul!
Oh, my, what a bazillion of wires!
Reinhard Spreitzhofer said on July 13, 2021
British biplanes and their rigging madness...great job, especially with a Roden kit!
Bill Koppos said on July 13, 2021
On one hand, they got that box kite to carry 2 machine guns AND bombs? Then the same geniuses put the gunner in the front, in his own private squirrel cage. Things that make ya say Hmmmm.
That is a great looking model Sir. As above, fabulous rigging job.
Paul van Acker said on July 19, 2021
Lol. Thank you.
It was designed for the recce role originally. The guns etc came later but of course, were pretty useless in the front position.
Not something you'd want to go to war in. Lol.
Greg Kittinger said on July 13, 2021
Looks great! All that spider web stuff keeps me from too many bipes!
Robert Royes said on July 13, 2021
Wow!
John Healy said on July 13, 2021
Nice job, Paul. Lots of work rigging this one.
George Williams said on July 14, 2021
Weird but wonderful, definitely liked.
Tom Cleaver said on July 14, 2021
Wow, the "bird cage" of bird cages, and you got it just right. Super result, Paul!
Paul Higgins said on July 14, 2021
Well, that's an elegant, if rather delicate-looking creature, but an absolutely gorgeous finish to your model. Well done in persevering with the rigging in this scale, which I have attempted myself previously, but upgraded to 1/32 scale for WW1 kits... just to get a little more space using sometimes clumsy fingers!
Great work... ;-).
Paul van Acker said on July 19, 2021
Thanks very much everyone. 🤗👍