This is my little homage to World War One. The Fokker is the very old Revell kit, an example of which I first made many years ago when it appeared as Goering's all-white machine. Now the decals are different and the parts are a bit dodgy but it still makes up into a good basic model. Most interesting thing is that Revell supplies the underwing lozenge patterns as black and white outline decals only - expecting us to paint the various colors in. It seems like a very cheap option but I quite liked the idea . . . until I started the painting and found the four-color pattern slowly transforming itself into a slightly irregular five-color. Originally, I'd had the idea of using the plane in a nose-dived stance with the underside on prominent display. After completing the lozenge pattern I decided it didn't look so great - so a collapsed undercarriage, belly landing was the final choice. Painting was by brushed Tamiya acrylics with artists acrylic washes to dirty it up.
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The RHA team is the equally vintage Airfix kit which I bought in a moment of pure nostalgia; a mistake really. The plastic is very soft and the aged seams very difficult and tedious to clean up (with a heated paperclip). And now there are similar products available from newer manufacturers which I believe must be far more user-friendly. The animation of horses and riders though is quite good, but the detail on the guns especially is abysmally lacking; I corrected this a bit with card and
sprue.