Hello all,
Long time no building! I’ve recently moved house and I’m full time decorating at the moment. But.. I’m at the point where I could restart the model bench. With the new house I’m ordering a dedicated wall mounted cabinet to fit 1/48 scale aircraft. I’ve never displayed in the home before (they all end up in the bin!) and need to start a plan for filling it. Largely WW1 but a selection of post war & WW2 to go into the mix. I’ve already got the new Tamiya Spitfire Mk.1 as I thought this would be a straightforward ‘luxury build’ to get back into modelling.
However, I have just also bought the Eduard ‘Du Noct Nicht!!’ Udet boxing of the Albatros, Dr.I and D.VII. I’m very impressed! For £36 it’s incredibly good value. 3 profi pack kits, excellent decals (7 options!), good lozenge (although I’ve already ordered Aviattic’s replacements - along with their Dr.I streaking set) and a lovely resin pilot (seated) figure. I’m planning on doing Udet’s D.VII but with a lozenge top wing (not the candy stripe) as per WW’s D.VII F boxing, the Albatros - not sure yet, but a camouflaged painted wing/ wood fuselage version (not Udet) and probably the Richthofen half streaked, half red version.
I won’t be leaping into this until after the Spit, but I still can’t help planning this lovely trio.
My first query is replacement guns - of the Gaspatch sets, which is the most appropriate for each aircraft?
Many thanks,
Guy