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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Completed models => Topic started by: IanB on May 20, 2016, 02:54:58 AM
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I'm calling this one done.
I must admit I slightly lost interest, possibly because the kit just falls together and really requires nothing other than glue and paint! It's not my best effort, but I'm happy with it.
The model represents an aircraft of FA6, a German unit flying for the Turkish Air Service in the Dardanelles in 1916. The pilot was Lt Hans-Joachim Buddeke. Buddeke was killed in action over Lens, France, in March 1918. His good friends Rudolf Berthold and Olivier Freiherr von Beaulieu-Marconnay lie next to him.
(http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z424/Ian_Brand/004_43.jpg)
(http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z424/Ian_Brand/003_71.jpg)
(http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z424/Ian_Brand/002_100.jpg)
(http://i1189.photobucket.com/albums/z424/Ian_Brand/001_106.jpg)
The colour is speculative. There is at least one pic of him standing next to a very dark E.III and whether it was red-brown or dark grey is not known.
Ian
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Excellent work Ian! Turned out better than the 3 I have done so far. My hat is off to you my friend!
John
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Brilliant model, Ian. I still have to remind myself of the scale!
Well done, my friend.
Cheers,
Ernie :)
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Truly outstanding, Ian! As I said on your build thread, I really like the Turkish scheme.
Cheers,
Bud
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Nicely done Ian, the unique scheme really stands out and the rigging is most impressive. Another "God's Scale" spectacular!
Cheers,
Lance
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Congratulations Ian on a job well done, a very attractive model with excellent rigging.
Des.
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Ian,
I enjoyed your build log on this Beautiful Eindecker! I Am impressed with the rigging and love the unusual markings!
RAGIII
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Never mind that it fell together Ian, you have still made an excellent model which would grace any collection.
How very sad that three young men, all undoubtedly very able, and all friends, should lie together in a cemetery in France.
We will remember them.
Stephen.
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Thanks everyone!
Sorry Stephen, I should have made it clearer. They are buried in the Invalidenfriedhof in Berlin, not in Lens. Still sad though, especially as all 3 made it to 1918, Buddeke was killed in March and von Beulieu-Marconney died of wounds at the end of October. Berthold was shot and stomped to death by a mob in 1920....his Pour le Merit was found in a trash can nearby...
Ian
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Great build Ian! One doesn't see this crate modeled very often, and I've become a fan of Buddeke of late due to the Blue Max series of books. I'll have to find your build thread in order to see how you did your rigging.
Warren
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Greta little Fokker, I love the sheme! You did a very fine job!
Best wishes
Borsos
P. S.: While in Weimar the Republic of Weimar, the first democracy on German soil, was founded, Rudolf Berthold joined an extreme right winged Freikorps and fought against bolshevist groups in the Baltic region. Later he and his men supported the revolt of Kapp and Lüttwitz in 1920 to overwhelm the democratic structures and to install a right winged dictatorship in Germany. He and his men fought in Hamburg against several units of local militias who defended the democratic government. He was killed in these fights he and his men had started. That Berthold was killed by a communist mob, even strangeled with the ribbon of his Blue Max, is a myth that was invented by men like Thor Goothe and other nazi writers in the 1930ies and has nothing to do with the historic truth.
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Thanks for clearing that up Borsos. I was aware that the story of him being strangled with his Blue Max ribbon was a myth but I couldn't work out where the Freikorps fitted in and what they stood for. I had assumed they were right wing as they eventually became the Brownshirts and then Hitler turned against them in the Night of the Long Knives....if my history is correct!
Ian
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"History is the lie we all agree upon." - Bonaparte
As someone that has a degree in history, and has worked as an interpretive historian as an avocation and vocation off and on for 30+ years, I can say this is quite true. We can "this and such thing was a myth and is untrue", but in truth the next lie is just being created.
FWIW,
Warren
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Ian, that's correct! But there were many different unofficial paramilitary units called "Freikorps". At the end of ww1 a huge army had to be demobilized in Germany - and many soldiers kept their weapons and went on doing what they did for the last 5 years. It was a time in turmoil and chaos, political and economic insecurity. These men had thousands of different motives to join such a group, from not knowing what else to do and looking for a place where to belong (many went into war out of school, had no jobs or so) to being an extremist - there were wide varieties in thinking. But many Freikorps members later joined Hitlers SA, not all. I don't know anything about Bertholds motives to join a freikorps fighting in the Baltics, but it is quite obvious that he played with fire and that cost his life. Some time ago I read an article about Bertholds death, if you like, I can check the title and send it to you.
Warren, I agree with you regarding the problem of the term "historical truth". I would say, one can use it in a negative way, e. g. 'this or that has certainly nothing to do with a historical truth". But it is difficult to use it in a positive way, like "this or that IS the historical thruth". (Written) history is always an intepretation of the sources, are answers to questions that are asked to the sources. (I wouldn't call it 'lie' :) ) But it seems as we are coleagues, I too hold a PhD for history and I am employed at the university as researcher in history at the moment.
But all of that does not change the great quality of Ians wonderful Fokker E III ! :)
Borsos
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But all of that does not change the great quality of Ians wonderful Fokker E III ! :)
Borsos
Indeed! Now, that IS true! ;)
Warren
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Lovely little EIII Ian! I like the colour and admire your neat, careful work!
Well Done!
Marc
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Very nicely done!
Cheers,
Gary