Hi ARC’s guys, here I am with a pleasant model, although it is very different from real airplane (pleasant too, indeed).

It may be due to the old mould; no matter the re-boxing, it comes straight from the past: Revel itself marked the year 1981 in inner nacelle and I guess a visit to scalemates.com would provide an even longer story for it. Results are: wings are too thick along with a the fuselage missing panellines and with a round section.

Nevertheless, I suggest it; if you give up the idea to make a perfect reproduction, you will enjoy a quick and simple build, allowing you to prove your painting skill in getting some wood taste for body and washing over linen wing coverage.

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This is exactly what I did, along with very few changes: seat belts cut from soft aluminum foil and a cloche got by warmed and stretched sprue. Finally, tail rudder cut and twiddled.

Insignias are amusing: so great compared to surfaces, and so many: balkenkreutz are both on tail and body sides ! Plus red hearts and leaves branche around a white cross. Indeed, white cross should likely be a white swastika, but once more, it was a funny exercise. 

By the way, it was one of the Albatross D.IIIs used by Leutnant Werner Voss; the one he was riding within Jasta 2 of the German Airforce, somewhere in France during the spring of 1917.

The more I go on with modeling, the more I think any bird deserves a location, maybe minimal, but it does. This time, a round paperboard, mostly covered with fake grass (glued by vinyl glue) to simulate WWI airfields. On a side, some styrofoam pieces slightly carved out and painted with different light grey shades, pretends to be a country stone wall defining airfield boundary, therefore, on the other side no more grass but rocks ground and a tree.

It will never be a prizewinner, but it was a so anti stress project; enjoy modeling.

Andrea Pomettini