Wow, great to see such a discussion evoked by my rendition of panel lines. I realise that it may not be totally real. However, I have seen so many Albatros models with completely monolithic fuselage, that I decided I had to do something to suggest the panelled surface.
Some more progress includes the upper wing and the rigging threads pulled through the holes but still not tightened. Before starting with the upper wing I have let all the rigging lines into the prepared holes in the lower wings.
To get the upper wing on required some corrections to the struts. When compared with the scale drawings from WDS Albatros D.III the interplane ones were some 1 mm too long. I had to trim the lower tips and carve the pins. Then the struts were attached to the upper wing and after the glue set, this subassembly was glued to the lower wing. In this way it was quite easy to control the geometry. Then it obviously came out that the cabane struts were too long, too. They had to be trimmed by some 2 mm. The single front ones were easy to correct. The Vees had to be cut at the lower joint, slightly bent one toward another, glued, sanded and painted. After several trial and error attempts I managed to trim them to the correct length and when attached they nicely constrained the entire structure.
