Many thanks everyone, you are all too kind!
(20 years you say, Oh my goodness it seems like yesterday I was relishing these new-process Eduard kits over the old short-run SS D.III, Baby, Starstrutter, Alb C.III etc!)
Tell me about it Sandy! I built the very first edition of the DV back in the mid 1990s, when it first came out (I think it was the 1996 release 8019 red baron boxing, going by the tail number). Those that remember will also know that this early kit also formed the basis of the modern release that we have today, so this kit's pedigree goes quite a way back. Here's a picture of my very first build, probably back around 1996 or 1997, when I was about 15 or 16. It was a completely fictional scheme, all brush painted (I didn't own an airbrush then), with stretched fuse wire rigging, hand drawn 'wood grain' (with a pencil), and hand painted lozenge on the tail. I hadn't discovered gloss coats for decals then either, haha! I do remember being pleased as punch with it at the time though
I also remember when Eduard were getting into their 'new' moulding technology, and what a revolution that felt like with their slew of releases back in the early 2000s. What happy days they were!
Cheers again!
BC