Halberstadt Cl.IITo avoid my mojo going completely down, I decided to put the Ansaldo aside (I just don't know how to solve some problems yet) and try an (almost) out-of-the-box build.
Ok, the candidate come in my mind was a
Halberstadt Cl.IIThe company "Halberstaedter Flugzeugwerke" was located in Halberstadt, a city in the German state Saxony-Anhalt. And I have friends in Saxony-Anhalt

In my stash there is a kit made by Mirage in 1/48:

It is very complete, with a lot of plastic parts, PE, decals, printed foil for instruments.
As references I can use two Windsock Datafiles:


And also the manual of the bigger brother of this kit by WNW:
http://www.wingnutwings.com/ww/v3C6C20EF/www/products/model_kitsets/32049/online_instructions/7132049%20Halberstadt%20Cl.II%20(Early)%20Instructions.pdfI like to build the colorful marking of the "Schlachtstaffel 26b".
The big PE fret, which is made from thick 0.2mm brass.
Please not the full scale gun belts on the right!

The kit has very thick sprue gates with tight placement (see left/low of the Cent) - no chance for a cutter. A resin saw is useful!
Some parts are broken, see up/left of the Cent.

The sprue gates goes into the parts, which are itself nice, so this needs a lot of cleaning effort! See part 24, or the gun on top.
Sometimes you also don't know, where the parts ends and the sprue gate starts.

Should I do a build report anyway? It is effort and may be it is better to spend the time with working on the model.
This kit (at least a varinat) was already shown and so the interest is not that high and my finished model is enough?
Cheers,
Frank