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Hi Ben, I didn't know that Richthofen also flew a bi-plane. Your model is very nice and it is in fact lots of fun to transfer the "set of the year" into a own creation. Do you know the Fokker DR I from Vancouer / Canada: (URL) my personal version of (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) Nice triplanes! How is the comma tale made, exactly? I don't konw of enough pieces to fill it in and make it solid. Thanks, George (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) I do admit keeping the wheel design, although without cross bracing like the Sopwith Camel has, and the upper wing is almost identical except above the cockpit. (why change what works best?) The cockpit was also much more difficult because of (...) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) Yeah, I thought he flew a tri-plane as well. Here's my own minifig-scale version; (URL) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests)
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(...) Dear Drew, Richthofen flew several planes in WWI but the Albatros DIII was the one he painted red. More information is here: (URL) (23 years ago, 13-Dec-01, to lugnet.build.contests)
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