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Just received this model today and thought some people might like to check it out.
First a history of this specific plane.
'The legendary Fokker Eindecker, armed with a machine gun synchronized to fire through the propeller, made its 1st kill on the 1st day of August 1915. It was a 80hp Oberursel U.0 (license built 80hp Gnome) powered wing warping Fokker E.1 flown by Max Immelmann and marked the beginning of the “Fokker scourge”. Inspired by the capture on 18 April 1915 of Roland Garros and his Morane-Saulnier Type L Parasol fitted with a forward firing machine gun (using armoured deflector plates to protected the propeller from ‘serious’ bullet damage) the Germans set about coming up with their own version. Legendarily, the 25 year old Anthony Fokker created his own interrupter gear in just 48 hours after being inspired by the capture of Garros, but this is undoubtedly a myth. A mechanical interrupter gear had been patented in 1913 by Hans Schneider of LVG but it was not until Fokker perfected it, or a similarly inspired design, that it worked sufficiently well to be employed in combat. Lawsuits filed by Schneider against Fokker continued up until September 1933.
Fokker’s unarmed 80hp and 100hp reconnaissance A type Eindeckers (inspired by a successful pre-war wing warping Morane-Saulnier design but with a welded steel tube frame fuselage) provided the airframe for further development and E.1 (armed Eindecker 80hp) types started shipping to front line units in June 1915. Although initially armed with a Parabellum LMG 14, which proved less that satisfactory, very soon into production they were fitted with the lMG 08 ‘Spandau’. The 100hp Oberursel U.1 (license built 100hp Gnome Monosoupape) powered E.II was developed concurrently with the E.1 and started entering service in July 1915. The E.III (externally identical to late production E.II) followed in August 1915 and from about October updated E.III started appearing with internal ammunition storage and a wing mounted compass. The 160hp Oberursel U.III powered Fokker E.IV, initially fitted with 3 lMG 08 machine guns (which proved to be 1 gun to many) first appeared in September 1915 but did not arrive at the front in larger numbers until March-April 1916. By this time the appearance of the highly maneuverable French Nieuport 11 and British DH.2 had marked the beginning of the end of the “Fokker scourge”, effectively rendering the wing warping German monoplanes obsolete. Most Eindeckers had been withdrawn from front line service by December 1916. -Wingnut wings website
If you managed to get through all that here is a picture of the beautiful box art.
There are five color scheme options.
Next the sprues.
Now the manual but its more of a magazine.
Now the decal sheet.I must say it is the largest decal sheet i have every had ,very in-depth.
Finally the photo etch.
Sorry for any glare,light wasn't the best.
I've never brought Wingnut wings kits before, but after seeing this they will certainly be buying from them again. The moulds are clean and sharp with no evidence of either flash or mould seams anywhere. There are ejector pin marks but they are hidden.
Wingnut wing aircraft in my opinion are very high quality and would recommend them to everyone.They corner a era of warfare i don't see much of (at least at my local hobby shops) and really do justice the design of early aircraft.As a side note this model also contain a full interior and motor in full detail.My only problem i found was that the models from Wingnut are fairly expensive but if you have the savings they are well worth the purchases.
link to wingnut wings if you want to see more http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/
Just received this model today and thought some people might like to check it out.
First a history of this specific plane.
'The legendary Fokker Eindecker, armed with a machine gun synchronized to fire through the propeller, made its 1st kill on the 1st day of August 1915. It was a 80hp Oberursel U.0 (license built 80hp Gnome) powered wing warping Fokker E.1 flown by Max Immelmann and marked the beginning of the “Fokker scourge”. Inspired by the capture on 18 April 1915 of Roland Garros and his Morane-Saulnier Type L Parasol fitted with a forward firing machine gun (using armoured deflector plates to protected the propeller from ‘serious’ bullet damage) the Germans set about coming up with their own version. Legendarily, the 25 year old Anthony Fokker created his own interrupter gear in just 48 hours after being inspired by the capture of Garros, but this is undoubtedly a myth. A mechanical interrupter gear had been patented in 1913 by Hans Schneider of LVG but it was not until Fokker perfected it, or a similarly inspired design, that it worked sufficiently well to be employed in combat. Lawsuits filed by Schneider against Fokker continued up until September 1933.
Fokker’s unarmed 80hp and 100hp reconnaissance A type Eindeckers (inspired by a successful pre-war wing warping Morane-Saulnier design but with a welded steel tube frame fuselage) provided the airframe for further development and E.1 (armed Eindecker 80hp) types started shipping to front line units in June 1915. Although initially armed with a Parabellum LMG 14, which proved less that satisfactory, very soon into production they were fitted with the lMG 08 ‘Spandau’. The 100hp Oberursel U.1 (license built 100hp Gnome Monosoupape) powered E.II was developed concurrently with the E.1 and started entering service in July 1915. The E.III (externally identical to late production E.II) followed in August 1915 and from about October updated E.III started appearing with internal ammunition storage and a wing mounted compass. The 160hp Oberursel U.III powered Fokker E.IV, initially fitted with 3 lMG 08 machine guns (which proved to be 1 gun to many) first appeared in September 1915 but did not arrive at the front in larger numbers until March-April 1916. By this time the appearance of the highly maneuverable French Nieuport 11 and British DH.2 had marked the beginning of the end of the “Fokker scourge”, effectively rendering the wing warping German monoplanes obsolete. Most Eindeckers had been withdrawn from front line service by December 1916. -Wingnut wings website
If you managed to get through all that here is a picture of the beautiful box art.
There are five color scheme options.
Next the sprues.
Now the manual but its more of a magazine.
Now the decal sheet.I must say it is the largest decal sheet i have every had ,very in-depth.
Finally the photo etch.
Sorry for any glare,light wasn't the best.
I've never brought Wingnut wings kits before, but after seeing this they will certainly be buying from them again. The moulds are clean and sharp with no evidence of either flash or mould seams anywhere. There are ejector pin marks but they are hidden.
Wingnut wing aircraft in my opinion are very high quality and would recommend them to everyone.They corner a era of warfare i don't see much of (at least at my local hobby shops) and really do justice the design of early aircraft.As a side note this model also contain a full interior and motor in full detail.My only problem i found was that the models from Wingnut are fairly expensive but if you have the savings they are well worth the purchases.
link to wingnut wings if you want to see more http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/
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