The original design was (I think) from CapnAhab on Thingiverse. He has done a lot of models, designed in 1:100 scale, but intended for printing at 1/300. The geometry is always very simple; no wing ribs or anything like that, and sized to be able to be shrunk down without issues.
I've just smoothed out the faceting of some (most) of the elements, and provided it with a socket for a flight stand attachment.
Having smooth wing surfaces should ease the application of decals, and I can paint on wing ribs, as I've done on 1/300 and 1/200 models.
For gaming purposes, the silhouette is much more important than fine detail, which seldom gets seen at tabletop distances in any case. I have one on the printer at this moment, so we shall see how it turns out.
Few hours later...
The Tripe printed without any real issues, and I also did a Fokker D-VIII from a similar style of model, which also printed very easily.
I clean up the prints as best as I can straight off the printer, but inevitably I find that I miss a bunch of zits and nubbins in the raw bright white PLA which is very hard to distinguish detail in. A quick primer coat reveals them though.
2026-09-09
I've made the model a touch less simple by the addition of some wing ribs. I couldn't resist.
I also tidied up quite a bit of the geometry while I was at it.
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