Special Hobby 1/32 Fokker D. 11
The Fokker D11 was designed to take over from the Fokker E1, E11 & E111 monoplanes. It even utilised the rear fuselage and tailplane of the Eindecker and used wing warping for lateral control as did the monoplanes. Fitted with a 100hp Oberursel rotary engine its performance was not much better than the Eindecker. There were 177 built and many went to Austria - Hungary. They were no match for the Nieuport 17 which was beginning to dominate the front and were considered inferior to the Albatros and Halberstadt that the front line Justas replaced them with as soon as the better aircraft became available.
The aircraft depicted here , No.62 536/16 KEK (kampfeinsitzerkommando ) Ensisheim flown by Lt. Otto Dessloch who became lost in Oct1916 and landed in Switzerland where he was interned for 4 months.
The quality of the kit was ok with only a few minor fit problems with the rigging causing the main heartache, had to strip 1/2 of the rigging off as I had tension problems, but turned out ok in the end when I changed to Modelkasten 0.2mm rigging line from .2mm monofilament. The kit was OOB except for Gaspatch 1/32 turnbuckles. All up a satisfying build.
Looks awesome, Ian!
Thanks Spiros.
Nice work on an unusual subject, Ian.
Thanks John.
Very good job Ian. This model is not exactly easy to assemble, precisely because of the few details and complex wiring. He gave me quite a bit of trouble before I put it together.
The parts fitted up ok , without to much filling and sanding, fitting the top wing was a bloody head ache though, made a jig to hold it in place in the end.
Amazing result on this D.11, Ian @firelockg
Thanks John.