1/72 Fokker D XXI in Finnish colors

        Oh No!  Not another airplane!

 

I forgot to take an "opening the box" photo, so I stole someone else's

        Hey, I'm entitled, I finished the Cataphracts and started on some Greeks, besides this only took a couple of hours spread across three days. This is an ancient Jo-Han kit (which I think is a re-box of the even older Revell kit). It was poorly cast (lots of flash) in a relatively soft gray plastic, the decals had curled up onto themselves but I was rescued by Micro-Scale products; Old Decal Saver and Micro-Sol saved the day (they couldn't do anything about the yellowing but that's not their job).

 

if I had this much flash I would be on Broadway!

 

 

one wonders how a company can make exact duplicates of aircraft 

but can't manage a human that doesn't look like a deformed monster

 

once I had peeled the flash away from the parts they went together fairly well

colors are all from Americana, the olive drab was custom mixed but the rest are stock

 

 

after being de-flashed and painted the pilot is almost presentable

he is the only detail in the cockpit

 

uncurling the decal to put the Old decal Saver on cracked one very badly

 

and the Saver picked up a LOT of crud from the paper backing,

lessons learned, keep the Decal Saver on JUST THE DEAL

 

it makes a good looking model in the end

 

off to fight the Commies!

 

 

with it's friend, the P-36

 

remarkably similar looking

 

in front of the magic color-changing background,

look at those spats!

 

 

       A neat little model, I hope that when the mold was new there was less flash. Micro Scale products have me thinking that I really can build all these old kits with original decals......