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At last DFW Taub A.184.13 The Saxon Aviation Company's First Plane The order for the creation of the Saxon Flieger Kompanie came late in 1913 to be based in Großenhain, and on 21/02/14 the unit received its first plane Taube A.184.13 one of two ordered by the German Military from the Leipzig...

The castings were converted from British Officer figures by Imperial Miniatures using parts from the Dorset Soldiers parts range they acquired from Giles Brown. As the Taub was unarmed I have given the observer a carbine as a defensive weapon. I may yet change the head of the observer to give...

At last a Taub. It is difficult to believe that when I first discovered HECO at the London Toy Soldier Show I had no planes in my collection. My immediate thought was I wanted one of these lovely planes, but to fit in with my collection of units of the Royal Saxon Army 1875-1914 it would need...

Thanks Louis without your help I would not have been able to work out how Tony Williams attached the tail section of the pusher securely and I was only too happy to implement a variation of this for my model.

I also now have a Saxon made Biplane - The DFW CV At last I have a Saxon made plane for my Saxon aces the DFW CV. The Deutsch Flugzeug-Werke were based in Leipzig, Saxony and although they failed to design a successful fighter they did produce the CV one of Germany’s finest two seat planes...

At last I have a ‘Gitterschwanz’ – the RAF FE8 Those who collect HECO tinplate models will probably agree that amongst Tony Williams' most iconic creations were the ‘Pusher Biplanes’, with numerous Vickers Gunbus’ , DH2s and FE2bs being made . The Pushers nicknamed Lattice Tails or...

Roland (Li) CIIa with Richard Rübe FA27 I have just finished my latest model in HECO style Germanys smallest WWI two seat war plane the Roland CII in this case a Link- Hoffmann built CIIa hence the (Li) Like my previous Roland DIIa I used the same model of a WWII German Jet fighter for the...

HECO Style Hanover CLII Sadly HECO appear to have only made one German WWI Two Seater model the very nice but somewhat inaccurate Junkers CLI (post 1450 shows a really accurate floatplane version acquired by Louis). So as with my earlier Halberstadt CLII (3175) and yet again converting one of...

Interesting info on Tin Toys possible origin I accidently recently came across an advert for a wrongly name probable Tin Toys Pfalz DXII interestingly from South Africa and the vender appears to have two for sale. Does this mean the origin of the models is South Africa not Germany as I...

Upgrade of my dodgy Albatros DIII The success in using the top of the salt pot inspired the use of the remaining pepper pot for a complete overhaul of the DIII this time based on my modified HECO DIII (OAW) and as with the DV I faithfully detailed it accordingly and surprisingly he minor...

At last a Scratch built Albatros DVa for the Saxon Aces First of all its hats off to Tony Williams (HECO and Alf Blatch in creating such realistic models of the Albatros in tinplate, something one can only truly appreciate following many failures to achieve the same result. Some time ago I...

The German plane on Ebay alerted to by Louis is a Pfalz DIII. I already have a DIII and a DIIIa both by HECO so I will not be bidding but it is certainly one of HECOs better representations of this plane.

The boxed Rolls Royce Armoured Car on Ebay went for £205 after eight bids, but another from USA is now available unboxed for $499.

Fokker DV - Harry von Bülow-Bothkamp Despite being highly maneuverable by the time it became available in Jan 1917 the Fokker DV was both under powered and under armed in comparison to the Albatros fighters then in service with frontline units so most of the 216 planes produced served in...

What a great bargain just goes to show that HECO models can still be bought at basement prices. I really do like the HECO 'Brisfit' and this is a real beaut in interwar silver.

Pfalz DeI Triplane - The Triplane that would become a biplane. Having succumbed to the temptation of the Fokker DVI see the Not HECO but Alf Blatch thread. I decided that in for a penny in for a pound and determined to also add to the collection the Pfalz DrI Triplane one of only three...

The Triplane that became a biplane. Not many people know that Fokker used the fuselage of DrI Triplane to make a biplane using similar designed wings to those later used for the DVII. The resulting Fokker DVI was a lovely little plane but due to the failings of its intended Siemens-Halske...

My Final Fokker DVII - the DVII (Alb) When the chance came up to cheaply purchase another Tin Toys Fokker DVII identical to that in post 2 of this thread, I decided to complete the full set by adding the missing Fokker DVII (Alb) to my collection. Thus Albatros having lost out to Fokker in the...

My Lucky HECO Find ? We were both fooled as I too believed it to be HECO, but at least at £25 it was not an expensive learning process and it will provide spare parts.

My Lucky HECO Find ? It would appear that my 'lucky' find was not so lucky as it would appear the model is not HECO but probably by Dorset Soldiers or even a creation by a collector. On receipt it was clear that both the propeller and wheels were Dorset castings which I recognised from...