1/32 Dr.1

Copperhead · 11 April 2003, 06:51 AM

???Has anyone got info on a 1/32 Fokker Dr.I? I can't remember ( I have a bad case of CRS), where I saw it, but I recently saw an add for a 1/32 Dr.I. I'm not referring to the old 1/28(?) offerrings from Revell/Mono. or Hobby Craft. Any ideas? John

PeterL · 11 April 2003, 07:06 AM

A friend of mine who often has the inside poop spoke to me about this at the RAF Cosford show last weekend and told me Hobbycraft are to release it. He parried my response that it's probably just a misundertanding and likely a re-release of the existing 1:28 kit and insists that this is entirely new product. I have heared it suggested that the recent 1:32 Spad looks like a DML kit pantographed up rather than the Revell kit pantographed down so maybe that's the source here. Whatever, I look forward to it.

fcm · 11 April 2003, 07:44 AM

I am waiting for a very wellcome growth of 1/32 scale WW1 kits... Battle Axe Fokker D.VII and Hi-Tech Albatros are too much expensive for most modelers... *At this moment just Hobbycraft are investing in that category of kits 1/32 for small pockets... *I would like to see images of their Spad kit...

Rob_Owens · 11 April 2003, 04:05 PM

fcm, Hobbycraft's 1/32 (scaled down Revell 1/28) is Camel is pretty rough copy, and IMHO, not worth the money, but their Spad XIII is SWEET, and worth every penny, especially since the 1/28 Spad is becoming so rare. The problem is that there are so few aftermarket decals available for 1/32, even as those 1/32 kits get better and better. Copperstate models went after the 1/28 issues, including the Lozenge for an (admittedly inaccurate) Fok. D.VII, because they (Revell 1/28) were the only Big WWI models available. I've already ordered the Hi-Tech Albatros D.V, fully expecting that it will be better than BOTH the B-Axe D.VII, and Hitech's earlier releases, as I think that just as Hobbycraft has gotten better, so will Hi-Tech. Does anyone remember Monogram's 1/32 (54 mm scale) armor releases which were kicked to the curb when Tamiya (and others) decided that the Armor standard was going to be 1/35? In a few years, Revell 1/28 WWI kits will have been completely eclipsed by better 1/32 kits. My advice is to start planning appropriate aftermarket decals NOW, as 1/32 kits WILL sell. I personally would save my money by passing up 3 1/48 kits for 1 1/32. Rob

Rob_Owens · 11 April 2003, 04:48 PM

fcm, Go to:

http://www.rollmodels.net/nworkbench...d13/spad13.php

for the full story on this beautiful kit. There may not be many 1/32 WWI modelers out there, but ther ARE a lot of 1/32 modelers who MIGHT be induced into building WWI subjects. Alles Gute! Rob

fcm · 11 April 2003, 06:42 PM

My intention is to produce decals for 1/32 WW1 kit as I already started a decal series for those subjects in 1/72 and 1/48 scale (those decals will be available still this month).
The Spad XIII is mymy favorite allied fighter, and I am not resigned with the excellent kit that DML did in 1/48, but with photo-etched struts... *What a hell...
As I can see in Roll Models site, that Hobbycraft 1/32 kit is an excelent replacement for the rare (and too big) Revell kit. *There is no mention about decal options in the kit's decal, but I promise to produce a lot of them as it already can be found for 1/48 scale! (hobbycraft decals used to be not so good...)
I still do not have that beautiful kit, but I think to make the decal drawings for the DLM 1/48 kit and so scale up to 1/32....

If there was in the scale 1/32 at least the half of options that already exists in 1/48, with the price and the quality of that Hobbycraft Spad, I would abandon the scale 1/48 to join to 1/32... *

RAGIII · 11 April 2003, 09:52 PM

I have finished one Hobbycraft SPAD and intend to do another. The Dr1,like the SPAD should be based on the DML kit enlarged,with the photo wreched struts removed! Copper State has indeed done decals for the SPAD and will I am sure do more for the Dr1. Let us remember however that it took about ten years from announcement of the SPAD to fruition. Hopefully the wait on this one will not be so long!

PeterL · 11 April 2003, 10:08 PM

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Let us remember however that it took about ten years from announcement of the SPAD to fruition. Hopefully the wait on this one will not be so long!

If I recall they also anounced the SE5a and Albatros DV at the same time. Does anyone else remember pics of some Albatros test shots in Windsock?. Hope springs eternal. Bound to be here before the Eduard Camel in any case *:

Copperhead · 12 April 2003, 09:17 AM

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If I recall they also anounced the SE5a and Albatros DV at the same time. Does anyone else remember pics of some Albatros test shots in Windsock?. Hope springs eternal. Bound to be here before the Eduard Camel in any case *:

:-*AAAWW PETE, you're such a tease! A real Large Scale SE5? And that grass skirt? c'mon! You're gettin' my hopes up. John

PeterL · 12 April 2003, 09:39 AM

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:-*AAAWW PETE, you're such a tease! A real Large Scale SE5? And that grass skirt? c'mon! You're gettin' my hopes up. John

We are talking about an announcement made a very long time ago, ten years or more. I wouldn't for a moment suggest that it's about to happen, or even that it's ever going *to happen. I long since wrote them both off, but the Spad showed up so you never know.

I took a peek at the Hobbycraft site earlier. There is news of a "Red Baron Triplane" but nowhere is a scale mentioned.

I thought about replacing the grass skirt with something more OT. Whad'ya think?