Here is something for the aviation enthusiasts.
This is anothere model commisioned that will be used at the Vegas Model Show, it is the 1915 aircraft engine that powered the Fokker Eindecker fighter of World War I.
"The Oberursel UR III"
Here is a brief story that will introduce the model I built.
Before 1914, the Oberursel Motoren Gesellschaft of Frankfurt, Germany had obtained a license to build Gnome engines. However, these pre-World War I designs became obsolete and, with the encouragement of the Army's Inspectorate of Aviation, the company embarked on the manufacture of a copy of the 82 kW (110 hp) Le Rhone engine, which became available from 1917.
Convinced of the merits of the rotary engine, aviation pioneer Anthony Fokker acquired Oberursel, and used its Le Rhone copies to power aircraft such as the Fokker Triplane and D VI scouts. Reinhold Platz designed the D-VIII cantilever-wing monoplane for Fokker around the 82 kW (110 hp) Oberursel, and attained performance equal to the best wire-braced biplanes with 50-percent more power. That aircraft was only built in small numbers at the war’s end.
This 119 kW (160 shp) Oberursel UR IIIa powered Fokker D VI, Fokker Dr I, and Pfalz D VI aircraft during World War I.
This is a 1:16 Scale with a Prop diameter of 6" Height 3 5/8".
It is not a hard model to assemble but has small parts a bit tricky to glue together all 48 metal pieces.
It took me around 24 hours to build and paint it.