Now the sprue shots are posted on the WNW website we can see that the plastic parts for both kits are identical apart from sprue F in one kit and sprue G in the other. Sprue F only contains a very few parts and, while welcoming the releases wholeheartedly, they could maybe have just included both sprues in one kit. The second decal sheet could have been available as a separate option.
Don't mean to look a gift (?) horse in the mouth, but I still wish we'd been offered a Cl IV as the second release.
I'll still buy one, maybe two!
S
There are actually quite a few different parts, at least, a lot more than the differences between the Albatros D.V and D.Va... The choice is sometimes a bit strange, though, for example with the DFW C.V Late you get only the late sprue, but if you buy the mid-production version you get both the mid,
and late sprue as well (for the floor and control stick).
I do guess you've got to love building Mercedes D.III engines when building German aircraft....
I have to choose between this one and the Copper State Nieuport for my birthday, so I'll let my wife pick and see what she comes up with.
(when the kids help, probably the Nieuport with the skeleton on it!)
And, kind if hard to figure out from the pictures on the WNW site, did these Halberstadt's have painted lozenges on the top wing center section like the Hannover, or was it a plain colour? I can't see a lozenge decal on the sheet pictures for that, so I assume it wasn't lozenge like the Pfalz D.IIIa?
As for the stippled finish, there are some hints and tips on the AEG G.IV Early, that sometimes apparently also sported this finish with a piece of sponge. Although you do get hexagon decals with that kit for the fuselage, too...
Jeroen