What the… another Roland!?
MAC 1/72 Roland D.VIb. This aircraft is modeled as 6125/18 which through not very well researched data on my part is supposedly the first D.VIb that Roland sprayed a camo pattern on the fuselage? The datafile (#37) doesn’t really have a lot of information on the examples with painted fuselages, I speculated that the colors would be the same as the Halberstadt Cl.IV that Roland was building under license. My dilemma was if the colors were in reverse on opposing sides of the fuselage as on the Halberstadt. I rolled the dice and ended up painting them uniform on both sides… some time later I saw the plans for the WNW Roland D.VIb and it looks like I out guessed myself (admitting here that I probably took the easy route with the camo pattern). I have another D.VIb in the stash so hope to add a correctly painted example one day.
Landing legs replaced with wire and wheels were replaced with spares from Roden. Guns are from the kit (breech) and Fotocut PE for the cooling jacket and sight. Capacities and aircraft identification should be in light blue text, not black.
