![]() ![]() I considered the correction job tricky enough to live without it. The third omission was the lack of an additional opening in the engine cowl. I used it as a master to make resin copies for the both forthcoming Hanriot models. I made it out of two compound Tamiya epoxy mass, but did not glued it onto the bolster. ![]() The second omission was a lack of bolster cushion. A bunch of stretched sprues formed into horseshoe shape simulated bungee chord shock absorber. I cut an opening out of the rear part of the fuselage, and made the upper half of the tail skid out of the wooden scrap. Real Hanriots had the last section of the fuselage uncovered, but Eduard represented it as a solid structure. First of them was lack of hollow 'Sopwith style' fuselage structure around the tail skid. But the second look revealed that there had been three more or less serious omissions made by Eduard. As the first look at the sprues was very encouraging I didn't want to modify the kit too much in order to make it rather quickly. More careful photo analysis seemed to confirm Alberto's theory and I followed my friend's guidance. He convinced me that the Macchi-built aircraft had been painted with Italian light brown rather. Luckily for me a voice in my head whispered me to contact fellow wwi-models mailing list listee Alberto Casirati who is known for his extraordinary knowledge on Italian aircraft. First suggested overall silver dope finish, but according to the second the plane had been left in clear doped linen livery. By the time when I started construction of this model, I had known two variations on its camouflage. I decided to portray his most usual mount no.7517. The majority of his victories were scored while flying Hanriot scouts. I mean Silvio Scaroni, the second ranking Italian ace with 26 kills. Instead of Coppens' mount I selected an aircraft of an an ace who shot down more enemy planes than any other Hanriot pilot. The First One - Sacroni's Hd.1 Despite being so inspired by Belgian scheme, I decided to make that Hanriot as the last one. Initially I planned to make two Hd.1 models cannibalizing the floatplane's p/e set, but the latter looked so cool that I eventually decided to make all three models. Then I bought the Hd.1 'profipack' and thus I became happy owner of three Hanriot kits. Of course I ordered a 'profipack' Hd.1 too, but I received the Hd.2 floatplane 'profipack' instead. Soon I learned that the other multimedia 'profipack' set had many useful photo etched parts with cellular plywood pilot's seat as a main component. It was a plain kit known as 'non-profipack' nowadays which carried no metal or resin parts, but I found beloved my Belgian markings inside the box. Thus it was not surprising to see me buying the first Eduard Hanriot Hd.1 model I spotted. Luckily I was not aware that it would take me almost twenty years to see the first Hanriot model on Polish shelves. A colorful picture of the flamboyant Olieslager's Hanriot attracted my attention strongly enough to remember its shape for years. ![]() My dad bought me a book devoted to First World War first scout aircraft. However I remember precisely when I saw a Hanriot scout for the first time. Introduction Can you recall when you saw an SE5a or Fokker Dr.I for the first time? Difficult, huh? Same for me. ![]()
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