It looks great so I'll add it to my shopping list. But I understood the DV, DVa & III were sesquiplanes [lower wing span less than upper] so why are all these models biplanes?

Not all of them were...check this out

http://www.google.de/search?q=albatr...w=1458&bih=785

So make sure you have your brushes read...seems doable!

cheers
Uwe

Originally Posted by Beltpilot

Really nice model! Great job by Parkzone!!!

Just the "wood" looks odd... anyone knows a good painting technique to solve that?

Cheers,
Bernhard

In the SE5 thread RAGE found a way to fake it should be pretty easy

Thanks Anj4de, an excellent source of information!
Looks like about 95% were biplanes and only say 5% were sesquiplanes? I wonder how their flying characteristics compared. Maybe the ses turned quicker but the bipe was more stable?

Originally Posted by tony lechauve

Looks like about 95% were biplanes and only say 5% were sesquiplanes?

According to what I can find it seems both the D.III and the D.V and D.Va were sesquis with a lower wing with only one spar...

Originally Posted by anj4de

[IMG]So make sure you have your brushes read...seems doable!

A thinned black India Ink wash should probably do it. That's what military and train modelers use for weathering/blending.

That or crash it into the dirt.

Originally Posted by FoamieFlier

For those who believed that Parkzone couldn't do an Albatros because it does not have a square fuselage as was mentioned, then why does every WW2 plane have a "round" fuselage. I think that was Horizon's way of putting some misinformation out there.

Here you go, at 9:10.

HorizonRC.Com Preview - E-flite Fokker DVII 250 ARF (9 min 47 sec)

Two years down the road, seems like technology has improved.

Wasn't that small D.VII made of thin, Depron-like foam?
Cause the Albatros is an EPO-plane, like the Se.5a...

We are talking about different technologies here... still, Parkzone's first fighters were also made of Depron-like foam and of course had round fuselages...

The Eflite SE5a and Folker are ultra-lights with a flying weight at approximately 1/2 lb. A box fuselage is much simpler to construct with minimum weight. The PZ planes are solid foam which can be constructed in any profile without weight penalty.

Originally Posted by 4x4rc

That or crash it into the dirt.

I fly mostly off rough grass/dirt. Getting a weathered look's not been a problem.

Some useful finishing tips here, including painting woodgrain

http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/hintsandtips

Nice and easy, just perfect! Thanks, Roger!!!

Originally Posted by 4x4rc

Here you go, at 9:10.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wW-Fwn-gSw

Two years down the road, seems like technology has improved.

What I gathered from that was that round fuselages aren't hard to make, or make flyable, they're just hard to produce straight. Getting a round fuselage to come out straight off the production line was the issue, but surely you've seen the Wildcat, T-28 & P-47. They may not be totally round, but they aren't square either.

Bruce Dickenson of Iron Maiden once told a fan that you can't have keyboards in heavy metal (this was during the Power Slave tour). The very next album (Somewhere in Time), had keyboards. Or like the RUSH song Tom Sawyer has this line:
"He knows changes aren't permanent, but change is".

The new Parkzone Albatros D.Va model (EXCELLENT scale!) just begs for some added wing rigging that the full size Albatros D.Va had, which was not too much to model as is seen here:





Any ideas? Spiderwire or?

Here's a link to more detailed photos of the full size Albatros D.Va:

http://thevintageaviator.co.nz/proje...dva-walkaround

Can't wait to get one!

-Gary Sewall