Hi all from Germany, hope you all spent some beautiful holiday-days!
I posted this before at the "What's New!"- thread (
http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=1120.75 and
http://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=1120.90), but thought it could fit here too, as I prvoked some very friendly answers (thank you!):
I ordered my Hannover on Dec. 1st, it was being shipped on Dec. 7th, arrived at German customs on Dec. 18th and (LUCKY ME !) today, Dec. 22nd, - after having payed the usual tax- amount, I HELD IT IN MY HANDS! A boyhood-dream has finally come true. Thank you, Wingnut Wings!
So here's what made the seven year old boy then, way back when, a Hannover-fan. I was ill, had to stay in bed for some days and read the autobiography of Hans Baur, Hitler's personal pilot. Well, I didn't get far, but I really enjoyed the pages that deal wit Baur as a very young pilot close to the end of WW1. The other book I had with me in bed was the Airfix-catalogue, and there they were, the Hannover and the SPADs, which I had just read of in Baur's book.. wonderful! (And it was also then, whe I fell in love with the Roland C.II - another wish right from my heart towards WNW...)
All the best for 2013!
Richard
