Build Your Own Fighter Planes #1 - Fokker E.I Eindecker

Here is my first attempt at a paper model, the Fokker E.I Eindecker.  I searched for some images of this plane before selecting the color scheme.  I found many images of models that were gray with black crosses. I colored the wheels red because I got that idea from the front of the box in my previous blog post.  The model came together very nicely, however I made a mistake while coloring the tail.  I had to glue a piece of the fuselage to the tail in order to secure it, and I accidentally colored that part gray when it should have been white.  I am not going to bother to try to change it now because this was my first attempt ever.

Build Your Own Fighter Planes #1 - Fokker E.I Eindecker

Build Your Own Fighter Planes #1 - Fokker E.I Eindecker

Build Your Own Fighter Planes - Introduction

Here is something a little different for this post.  I was in a busy Chapters store and I was browsing through a hobby section where there were books & kits on all sorts of crafts, when this gem caught my eye.  Needless to say, I bought it without hesitation.  This kit contains card stock sheets to be cut out, colored and glied together into paper models of airplanes.  The models include:

#1 - Fokker E.I Eindecker

#2 - Nieuport 17

#3 - Albatros D.III

#4 - Sopwith Camel

#5 - Spad XIII

#6 - Junkers D.I

#7 - Messerschmitt Bf 109

#8 - Curtiss P-40 Warhawk

#9 - Supermarine Spitfire

#10 - Mitsubishi A6M Zero

#11 - Ilyushin Sormovik Il-2

#12 - North American P-51 Mustang

#13 - Voight F4U Corsair

#14 - Yakovlev Yak-18

#15 - Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15

#16 - North American F-86 Sabre

#17 - McDonnell-Douglas F-4 Phantom

#18 - Panavia Tornado

I will post pictures of my completed models whenever I happen to have the time to make one.

Build Your Own Fighter Planes - Front of Box

Build Your Own Fighter Planes - Reverse of Box