Hello comunity,
as it is a good old tradition I'm going to write a bit a aboute my reason to be here, myself and my projects.
I'm from Berlin Germany, nearly half a century old and do like history, reading, modelbuilding. I've got no TV or radio any longer getting more time for modelbuilding and reading. I'm in real life a sales coach and the motivational clown of my sales division. My modeling interest is mainly in modelshipbuilding and airplanes.
I do again play the old PC-game RISE OF FLIGHT and I'm still in my
Albartos D.III . I love this game as it is slowly enough for my bad eyesight. And so I'll try to build my own airframe in 1/32 from a Roden or in 1/48 from some Eduard kitkit. Just to place her over the PC monitor as some motivation. Nothing special just as she is the game - quite straightforeward.
So I do a restart of the airplanes after several years with a pile of e-bay-pray: Roden, Eduard, Pegasus and Choroszy Modelbud.
There is the beloved
A.E.G. G.IV in 1/72. In the similar scale the sharky-looking
L.V.G Roland D.II a horrible aircraft to land as one had no sight to the ground - but one fantastic maschine to fly - my personal optical favorite. Due to an framed AEG advertising fromm 1918 in my living room I was certainly thinking about the A.E.G. G.IV as a 1/48 kit. But the difference to the WNW kit is so little i and the quality was discriped as so low, that I decided to buy two
Mercedes D.III engine resin kits instead - and hoping for some good plans to scratch the body later for less money. On sunday I'll go to the German Technical Museum at the Landwehrkanal with my wife to make some pictures of this engine.
The most impressive history of the first world war seems to me the Richthofen
Halberstadt D.II story. (I ordered the 1/72 Pegasus kit
). This because of the astonishing story of Freiherr Manfred von Richthofen who landed his gun bulled holed maschine in a field and due to some fence it swifted into a crash landing in Dec.1916. Some minutes later he entered his airfield to took the next
Halberstadt D.II and started immideadly towards his next air victory. Most of his areal fights and kills he will have made in this very little known
Halberstadt D.II. Even WNW doesn't have this maschine in their portfolio... very sad. But as the kit is very tiny in 1/72 I'll try something simpler in the start.
Don't hasitate to ask if you have any questions,
Best wishes from Berlin and sorry for my bad English.,
Yours,
Lozenge