Albatros DIV Scratchbuilt

[gedmundson]

Nicely done Paul - very unique.
Cheers,
Gary

[DaddyO]

hi!!!

Well, here is s a plane I have never seen modelled before!  Great work and it is commendable to shed some light to the prototypes too. Excellent!

cheers, Skyhook

Hiya Skyhook. Nice to surprise you with something new and glad you like it 

Nicely done Paul - very unique.
Cheers,
Gary

Cheers Gary - appreciate it

[WD]

This is so very nice Paul, I can't find anything to add that hasn't already been said.

Warren D

[DaddyO]

This is so very nice Paul, I can't find anything to add that hasn't already been said.

Warren D

Cheers Warren

Had a bit of time last week so added an officer taking a closer look at this one to give a sense of scale 
(Photo taken under artificial light yesterday so the colours looks quite 'bright')

Albatros DIV with officer , on Flickr

[WD]

Oh Paul, that base is lovely! I would love to "base" my builds, and, like you, include at least one figure for scale, etc. Easy to find German figures in 1/72nd, a little more difficult for RFC/RAF, much harder for French Air Service, and good luck finding USAS figures. I really don't want to deal with the soft plastic figures. I know there have been some releases from Miniature Figuren (SP?) recently as 3D-prints, and I'm hoping we'll see more. I'm hoping against hope we can get some ground crew/mechanics/maintainers in 1/72nd.

Warren D.

[DaddyO]

Hi Warren

These last few figures I've used are all 3d printed ones from Pendinhouse in Germany bought from the Fleabay shop.
A few print lines on the caps, but otherwise rather nice and adaptable. I notice that he also supplies a USAS Aces and various French Ace sets which I've got my eye on. Sets of 6-8 figures are about ?14.00 and Postage from Germany to the UK wasn't bad so they work out about ?3 per figure in this scale which is okayish.
I've no connection with them, but have bought a couple of sets and when I mentioned there was a a slight issue with one figure having a bit of 'extra' resin under a peak I got an immediate response and the complete replacement set sent FOC - Great service

Hope that helps
Paul

[WD]

Thanks Paul. I did pick up some of their Eduard 1/72nd kits that included figures and special decals to match. I will go have another look.

Warren