Another oldie built in my sixties schooldays - the Aurora Gotha, probably my favourite model of all time. That big box was so exciting after all the puny Airfix bagged kits - and the distinctive Aurora smell when you opened it. Lovely metallic wine red coloured plastic, black wheels, crew and groundcrew on base - unfortunately lost here.
Again I spent ages sanding off the raised markings and hand painting the hexagons (to my own idea of what lozenge looked like. These were the days when I hand painted lozenges on the Fokker D.VIII (wooden) wing!!!). Stretched sprue by the yard.
Model survived until the nineties in my folks house when these pcs were taken. Goodness knows what happened to it after that.
Mind you it was a good size for displaying - I sold my WNW Gotha coz it was just too big.
Sandy