1/48 Special Hobby Fokker D XXI

[JonMW]

My plan for this GB is to do a Fokker D XXI in Finnish winter camouflage. This year it's 100 years since the Finnish independence, so I thought it be fitting to do a Finnish build.

[Lysus]

Oh cool! Are those skids/skis?

[Timplastic]

ow yeah thats a good looking plane with the skids on
look forward too seeing the build

[Bissyboat]

So watching this.

[JonMW]

Probably time to actually do an update on this. I haven't been working too much on this, it has some fit problems so it has taken some time to get the internal frame together and straight. And the instructions isn't the most helpful.



But I got there in the end. I found some actual drawings of the Fokker D XXI that I printed to scale and could use to tweak the frame to the right shape.







Next the cockpit was painted in a light grey, detail painted all the details and then finally gave it a dark brown oil wash.







Now it's just a matter of getting the fuselage halves together, which will need a bit of clamping and probably some filler.

[panzerman825]

Fantastic work on the interior framing. Paintwork is awesome too. Keep up the good work. Bill

[Tomcat64]

I have to admit I didn't even know this plane existed until I saw this thread!

Great work on the fiddly framework Jon - that could so easily have ended up twisted in all sorts of ways.

Look forward to seeing this unusual subject develop now

[Bissyboat]

A seriously intricate build. Looks very good.

[JonMW]

This thing has been fighting my all the way, it really isn't the best kit. The wing roots needed a lot of filler and sanding and the canopy is too narrow (or I put too much stuff in the cockpit). So I heated the canopy and spread it a bit to make it fit better, still not perfect.







Then I saw that the canopy isn't really centered on the fuselage.



But right I just want to get this done, so I spent some time and got it painted in XF-13, MR Paints Viggen black, MR Paints Light gull grey and XF-3. Still not sure what to use for the winter camo, so will have to think about that.

[NorthernModeller]

Love this aircraft mate, Need to get myself on of these but that interior framing scares me a bit top job bud

[Timplastic]

Jon thats some super impressive painting on that there plane

The canopy looked a bit of a night mare but you got it too fit perfect.

Cracking job

[Tomcat64]

Beautiful work Jon, really pleased you're still on this one

[Bissyboat]

Coming along nicely.

[JonMW]

Thanks!

I've had a bit of a push to get this done before the deadline. I had a bit of a set back and had to repaint part of the camo as the winter camo turned out crap. But got that done and then added the decals.



Got the reset of the parts attached.



And it's done! viewtopic.php?f=583&t=22239