I am historian, so many of my decisions to buy a kit are driven by the fact that there’s a story behind it. Then I am addicted to beauty, so the look of a plane is another strong reason for me to buy or not to buy. Concerning the Junkers D.I, I’ll probably buy it some fine day. First, because my family‘s history is closely connected with the „post-war“-wars, especially in the Baltic. Second, I am interested in that brutal and important, because world-shaping period of history up to around 1923. Third, I find the Junkers D.I is not ugly at all! Fourth, I love Wingnut Wings kits! - I recently bought the Jeannin Stahltaube (by the way, on the day, Des has passed, so there‘ll be thoughts for him every time I look at that kit!), mostly for the reason that I read Gunther Plüschow‘s war memoires „Der Flieger von Tsing-Tau“, when I was a boy of seven. It is since then that I have a soft spot for the (to me: steam-punk like!) shape of the Taube-planes. So, that‘s me.
Richard