Winter LF-1 Zaunkönig

Kit:	LF Models (resin), 1/72; finished on 2008-07-04; bought at Hannant's years before for £17.50.
Aircraft:	"D-YBAR", the first prototype of the Zaunkönig built at TH Braunschweig.

Construction Notes

The LF Models' resin kit is quite accurate and generally easy to build, but most resin detail parts are completely unusable. Decals are good (made by Tally-Ho) and are provided for the first prototype both in the German and British colors (although I did have a little bit of trouble with silvering until I switched to MicroSol from MicroSet).

Fuselage with the brass center wing struts

I cut off the flaps

Scratch-built landing gear

As for actually completing the model, I made the center wing struts from brass wire (for strength), and landing gear was scratch-built using plastic strips, as were all other wing and tailplane struts and the tail skid. Attaching the wing to the fuselage (with the center struts already attached to the fuselage) was easy due to the T-tail.

References Used

Aeroplane Monthly November 1992, December 1992
Air International December 1976
LF 1 'Zaunkönig' (Franzmeyer); Flugzeug Profile 39; UNITEC Medienvertrieb 2000
War Prizes (Butler); Midland Counties Publications 1994 (pp.60, 74)

Attaching the wing

More About the Model

My model's entry at the Finnish scale model Web site pienoismallit.net
My "Aircraft Build Report" from the August 2008 IPMS Patriot newsletter.
Scalemates' entry for the LF Models' kit
Article about the Zaunkönig at luftarchiv.de