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Pete Iliffe's Albatros D.III
written by Bill Brown
July 21, 2004
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Pete is a long standing friend of mine and is
a meticulous craftsman. He doesn’t build
many models, but they are all exquisitely built
and superbly detailed.
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This model is built to 1/18 scale and features a
fully sheeted, jig-built fuselage. All of the formers
are fretted out exactly as the prototype. |
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The manifolds and cylinder heads are blue foam and
the cylinders are from heat formed styrene. Spark
plugs are 14BA nuts and bolts. |
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The machine guns are made from bond paper and
cocktail sticks.
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Undercarriage legs are made from aluminium tube
flattened around a wire core, and plug into brass
tubes mounted in the fuselage. The axle is bungee
sprung as per the original. |
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