Despite being a big fan
of Tom Daniel as a wee lad, this is one that somehow escaped
my attentions. Better late than never I guess. Given its
age, it's a pretty decent kit and fairly simple to build.
You also get a cute little Fokker Dr.I to go with it,
which at a guess I'd say is about 1/100th scale. And no,
I didn't build it. Yet.
The only modifications I made to the car were to hollow
out the ends of the exhausts and scratchbuild some new
machine guns (see bottom of page).
The chrome plated parts
were stripped with oven cleaner, and Alclad Chrome was
used to refinish them after all the seams and blemishes
were cleaned up. Das helmut was done in Alclad Polished
Aluminium. The main body is Humbrol 220 Ferrari Red cut
with lacquer thinner, and the engine block is Citadel
Dwarf Bronze. Interior is Humbrol 85 Coal Black with the
central console covered in Bare Metal Matt Aluminium.
The engine is a pretty
reasonable facsimile of a Mercedes D.III WWI aircraft
engine, but it is grossly undersized, being closer to
1/32nd scale than 1/24th. The guns are also far too small
and quite crude, thus the scratchbuilt replacements.
Left:
The engine is simple but nice. And small. Right:
The Spandau machine guns were quite horrible lumps of
plastic, so I scratchbuilt some new ones from laminated
.040" sheet with photo etched jackets from Fotocut.
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