Thanks, Carl (@clipper), Spiros (@fiveten), John (@johnb), and Ian (@firelockg). Research is fun, but it normally forces you to make a change in what you are building. This time, it allowed me not to make a change.

Excellent progress and I loved your work with the cowling, my friend @gblair! The removed gun area configuration is tricky, maybe adding a flat plate "busied up" with some sort of railing and a few holes where the screws would secure the gun?

Hi Spiros (@fiveten) and John (@johnb): I have found one photo that shows a tiny portion of the area where the guns used to be. It looks like some of the area is filled with a panel, but some of the area also looks open. It never fails that just as soon as I decide what to do and fix it, that someone will turn up with a photo that shows something different.

I hope Santa is good to you, John. Start out slow to prevent frustration, but you will soon be turning out professional-looking parts. Did you ask for a specific brand? Did you ask for a filament printer or a liquid resin printer?

Here are two sites for you to check out:

yeggi.com
This is an aggregator for print files. You type in what you are looking for, and it searches a number of sites for files and then provides a link to each.

cults3D.com
This is a specific site for 3D files. I seem to get most of my files from this site.

Also take a look at tinkercad.com
This is free, simple site that lets you design your own parts.

When you look at the files available, you are looking for files with an ".stl" extension. You will download the files, move them into the slicer software that comes with the printer, and it prepares the object for printing and exports the file in whatever type of format your printer needs.

Nice work on the cowling George (@gblair). Love the humor about old kits! 🙂

I've looked at those sites before and they definitely have a lot of prints available. If I recall, I think Cult3D is where I first found out about the SOC-3 Seagulls I purchased for my USS San Francisco build. Those came out of China, but are 3D printed and quite detailed even for 1/350 scale.

Back at the workbench after a few days off to deal with a bunch of family things. Now that those are done, my wife has a procedure that will take up most of the day tomorrow, so not much modeling tomorrow either. Today I managed to get all of the wing struts and gear struts prepped for painting, as well as all of the wings. I sprayed everything with Tamiya Fine Gray Primer and let it dry. I then sprayed Tamiya Light Blue over everything that needed it. Next chance I get I want to get the top of the wings done so that I can do the streaky camo. I am hoping to paint the fuselage and then add the wings so that I don't have to work with painting between the wings.

I haven't found a picture that shows what they did with the area where the machine guns would be. Indeed, I have only been able to find two photos of an unarmed Dr.1 trainer at all. I measured the open area and designed a slightly curved panel to fit in the open space. I printed it today and hope to get it installed soon.

That's it for the Dr.1 for a couple of days. Cheers everyone.

3 attached images. Click to enlarge.

Thanks for stopping by, John (@j-healy).

Thanks, Spiros (@fiveten).

Excellent painting so far, my friend @gblair!