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Fokker D.21 and G.1

Inspired by a trip earlier this year to the Aviodrome aviation museum in Lelystad, I’ve been working on two Dutch warbirds. Both were designed during the Interbellum and saw action during the German invasion of May 1940. Sadly, original aircraft of these types no longer exist, at least not in the Netherlands. Not that long ago, however, a beautiful full-scale reproduction of the Fokker D.21 took to the skies for the first time in about 80 years. 

Fokker G.1
Fokker G.1 

Being such niche aircraft, none of the large companies make model kits for them. Luckily, however, smaller companies have stepped up. The Fokker D.21 is by PM Model and the G.1 by MikroMir. Both are in scale 1:72. The D.21 is a very simple kit with few parts, that went together reasonably well with some filling and sanding. There was very little in the way of panel line detailing, though, so I’ve tried to paint these on by hand.

Fokker G.1Another shot of the G.1 

The G.1, on the other hand, was an absolute nightmare. I’ve read online that it’s a scaled-down version of a 1:48 kit, which may explain some of the finicky construction. Assembly is very awkward, constantly requiring you to glue together very small parts without any indication under which angle to glue them or without anything in the way of registration marks.

On top of that, the midsection/fuselage is made entire of clear plastic, into which you need to glue other clear parts. Of course, none of these parts fit and require tons of sanding, filling and more sanding. In the end I just painted over the windows and did the old wargaming thing of painting the windows black with blue lines to mimic reflections. 

Fokker D.21Fokker D.21

The alignment of the triangular ‘roundel’ decals of both kits wasn’t great. The shade of orange of the two kits didn’t really match either, so I used the decals as templates and painted over them with Vallejo bright orange. In the end, they do look really nice in the display cabinet! 

Colours used (Vallejo):

Camouflage: Leather Brown 70.871, Khaki 70.988, German Camo Dark Green 70.979

Metal: Gunmetal grey 70.863

Triangles: Bright Orange 70.851

Fokker D.21

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