Hello all,
I have started this in March 2023. I completed it for 80% and left it for over a year just to start some other projects which are also unfinished to this day. Oh yes, I do have problems finishing modelling projects.
In the meantime my picture host abload.de went bankrupt and all my photos are gone including those I once had moved from photobucket there. I do not know when I have the time to do this again, so no in-progress pictures from this build.
If you are interested in the historical background of this airplane, here?s the link to the old build report:
https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=13733.0I chose to build 138.119 because it is the airplane before 138.120, the plane that is portrayed by the HPH kit. These Austro-Hungarian airplanes are much more unique objects than any other Nations? aeroplanes of World War One, as A-H was the least industrialized nation of the warring parties.
To my knowledge only one photograph of 138.119 exists and it only shows a part of the machine. So there?s much on this airplane that leaves fields of interpretation.
I painted the hexagons with self-brewed paint mixtures and the kit-supplied masks. The serials and the star markings were masks. These were made by my friend Frank (bughunter) who might be remembered here by some. He is a master on his plotter.
Hope you like my first Austro-Hungarian subject.
Andreas
