Fokker D.VII Sieben Schwaben, 1/48 Eduard

[Pabbi]

not used to make WW1 stuff thankfully not much rigging but a lot of decals

going to spain for vacation so will be starting this hopefully mid august

[generalgrog]

Welcome to the build!!.

GG

[cib2265]

Now thats a lovely Fokker!

[Neils]

I love the scheme on this. Was tempted to put it on my WnW kits but at an extra 20 quid decided to go with one of the ones out of the box.

looking forward to seeing it built

[Opapapa]

Nice choice Pabbi!

Decalling the wings is little pain but otherwise it's really nice and fun to build. Just finished painting the fuselage to my "Schwaben".

I didn't have any problem with the lozenge decals but i've heard/read that the decals of the painting in the fuselage can break easily. So be careful with those.

Olli

[Jamesday1998]

damn that looks like a nice kit!
good luck

[HamilkarBarkas]

Great looking kit, i like the seven Swabians with the spear a lot (i´m a Swabian you know). They are rather dumb, but lovely protagonists in fairy tales and adventure stories.

Gotta love them

[Prop72]

Nice Limited ed kit! Look forward to seeing it started.

Enjoy Spain

[UKguyInUSA]

Another great looking WWI kit....this is going to be a tough SiG to judge with all these wonderful variants and color schemes being entered!

Enjoy your build

[Pabbi]

so unpacked looks like this....

[Pabbi]

and a small start, page 1 of the instruction finished

[Pabbi]

looking at the post above I notice something was missing now on

[UKguyInUSA]

Looking great so far

[AchtungPanzer]

Wow ! Nice historical plane , super work mate. I look forward to more with interest

[Pabbi]

fuselage now together, some PE switches for intrument panel not used.... too small for me

[Deacon]

Lovely work sir.

[Opapapa]

Good job so far Pabbi. Dont't mind the small PE parts. You wont see much of the interior when the kit is finished anyway.

[Pabbi]

thanks Deacon and Opapapa

ready for primer


humbrol spraycan primer


one of the PE missing and not found


tamiya lightgray and redbrown


all that could go wrong, went wrong during spraying, finally at this stage


rudder taken off to take all paint off and then I will make a second attempt to pant the rudder white

[martin57]

great job so far nice looking kit , have fun with the decals .

[Pabbi]

thanks martin57

decals on, great decals thin but not fragile. mr mark setter and softer worked well.
rudder and undercarriage brush painted
ez wire for rudder and undercarriage
the undercarriage did really test my patience
guns on... no PE parts used
klear brushed on and now "only" the top wing left

[UKguyInUSA]

She came together nicely and looks awesome so far mate! Some excellent details in the cockpit and engine areas

[planemaker]

Superb work so far! Hoping to see it finished.

[Russ72]

Looking good Pabbi.

[rodrant]

Nice build , and again such a nice color scheme , WWI Planes were really great ! Such variety of colors , could be hard to distinguish who was frien or foe

Great Build Pappi ! The cockpit is ***** , liked the wood effects , the engine is great , seems in real metal , good luck with the rigging !

Hey about the PE ...I have an opinion , sometimes it really doesn't matter ..perhaps in WWI Planes the guns could be better in PE , but if you paint it with a good metal color the it will be good !

Keep it up , Would like to see the final reveal soon

[Pabbi]

Top wing on, I think this was the most difficult part of the build, far from perfect but I am just happy that it is on
Will take some better pictures tomorrow for the "Final Reveals".

Thanks to all who commented or followed my build

FINISHED