Revell 1/72 De Havilland D.H. 2

[SigEp Ziggy]

I am excited to post an aircraft build on MSW, who knew, obviously not me!  I have so many irons in the fire, but I would like to share this one.  I will change out the kit gun and engine with after market parts.

 

 

 

 

Edited February 8, 2020 by SigEp Ziggy

[Old Collingwood]

Welcome to the winged section  -  count me in  I have my comfy chair ready.

 

OC.

[SigEp Ziggy]

Thanks, OC

It mean a lot to me.

[SigEp Ziggy]

I got a little farther, here is the gun comparison and how I modified it to include the cooling cover.

 

 

Edited February 7, 2020 by SigEp Ziggy

[CDW]

D.H.2 is a favorite WW1 aircraft. Glad to find your build thread.

[popeye the sailor]

hey there........I see you found the hanger alright     love a good biplane build!

[mtaylor]

Wow.. what a difference between the kit and aftermarket gun.   I'm following to, as I've always liked the old warbirds.

[SigEp Ziggy]

Thanks everyone!  This is fun!  I model trains, planes and automobiles, like the title of the movie.  Throw in ships and armor too.  I like this forum so much, but thought I had to post elsewhere for my other builds.  Not anymore!

Edited February 8, 2020 by SigEp Ziggy

[SigEp Ziggy]

Working on the interior.  The sides of the cockpit were 'REVELL c 1981' and molded on part numbers.  So I sanded that off and used a 1/32 photo found on line as a guide.

 

 

Check out the little compass!

Edited February 11, 2020 by SigEp Ziggy

[popeye the sailor]

I tend to look for date stamps.......give you an idea of how old the kit is,  or if the molds are from another company.   Revell took over some of the old Aurora molds.  I used to work in injection molding.......some of the molds are not light........closed,  they look like a block of steel.  I find it interesting  

 

added wire detail......very nice interior detail  

[SigEp Ziggy]

Started working on a plan to make magazine holders similar to the ones in the first picture found on-line.  It's a 1/32 scale model.  The kit only had one on the port side with no magazine detail.  I will remove it and scratch build one for each side.

 

 

[SigEp Ziggy]

I found this material at Joann's and thought it would make great scale wicker for WWI airplane seats.  I do not plan on using the pilot, but quite literally used his seat to make the seat of the chair. Unfortunately,  the thickness of the material and the detail added to the cockpit made it too big.  Oh well, I'll have to make a smaller one.

 

 

[mtaylor]

That wicker seat looks great.  Too bad it's too big.

[SigEp Ziggy]

Thanks Mark, I have some hemp thread that I will use for the top edge.  The thickness of the plastic 'tub' and the thickness of the added details, makes it tight in the cockpit.  Hopefully, the new seat will look okay once I make it and place it in there.

[popeye the sailor]

looks really neat      I'd test it out first though....you never know,  it might be fine.

[SigEp Ziggy]

I think I finally have the gun for my D.H. 2 worked out.  I modified the Lewis gun like this.  I wanted it to resemble the 1/32 scale guns and after paint, what do you think.

 

 

 

[SigEp Ziggy]

My cat knocked one of my sprues to the floor and my puppy chewed on it!  This is what I have now!

It should look like this.  I may have to scratch build both frames.

 

Edited February 16, 2020 by SigEp Ziggy

[CDW]

doggone

[mtaylor]

I'm not going to like that post.   I hope the scratch build works out.

[Old Collingwood]

Same as mark said.

 

OC.

[lmagna]

Luckily you took pictures before and know what the part looked like. After seeing the stuff you have already done with this little plane I am certain that you will have no problems at all. Did you at least get mug shots of the offenders so that the rest of us can be warned what they look like? 

[popeye the sailor]

....and finger prints too........I never forget a paw!  our Eskimo,  Gibbs is like that.  if I drop something and don't pick it up right away,  he'll carry it off to his lair {under our bed} and destroy it.  I hope you still have that upper canopy part.......you can scratch every thing else.   if not.......well,  you'll be following her / him around for a little while   

[SigEp Ziggy]

Finally started scratch building the airframes for the DH2.  I will use .032 inch (0.8 mm) piano wire for the frame, reshaped .080 x .080 styrene for the spares and a high E guitar string for the wires.

 

 

[Canute]

You may want to use a cutter with a hardened edge for the music wire. Guitar strings will nick the edges of our brass cutting tools, These old a/c are so spindly, using guitar strings makes sense.