Hallo eveybody,
here is my new project, indeed an unconventional one.
On the other forum I follow we are celebrating one of our fellows modelers who passed away last December. He was not much older than 60 and had a Toy Shop in Rome and used to sell kits to us. He was a modeler himself, a very good one! And a jolly mate in every kind of adventures, both online and in the real life...
So everyone who has a kit coming from him will dedicate the build log to his loving memory and all the WIPs will go under a Memorial Group Build.
I never purchased a kit from him but many tools and colors, he had not much in WW1 subjects, but he once sent me a parcel with some colors and other things and when I opened it I found this kit: an Albatros issued as advertisement by the ARAL Petrol Company, probably in the 60s.
The kit is terrible and is in 1/96 scale! Half of my favourite scale 1/48.
Here are the pictures of the sprues:
here are the "instructions"
This is the leaflet with the national insigna... it's a paper, self adhesive leaflet in the conditions you can see. I wonder whether they were blue on the outside (suggesting a captured plane or maybe black, the colors of the German Empire? A roundel that I guess has never existed... )
And this is the livery I will try to reproduce:
Oblt. Adolf von Tutschek
Serial: D.2274/16
Commander of Jasta 12
1917
27 victories