It has been two years ago I started this build. Work and life did not allow to much progress to be made on the model itself, but it was never too far from my thoughts.
During that time I while looking through the WNW's collection of photographs I came across a picture of a Jasta 17 Albatros that really captured my interest.
To make a very long story short; I was fascinated with the checkerboard fuselage band and a shield beneath the cockpit.
But what could the colors be? The shield beneath cockpit the looked like a family coat of arms or in German a "Wappen". I surmised that if I could match a name to the Wappen I could fine out who the pilot was, and what the colors of the Wappen and also the colors of the checkers.
I assembled a list of squadron pilots and started tracking down the Wappen of each surname. I found that the Wappen matched that of the Esebeck family! Rudolf Esebeck was the Jasta comander from October4 1917 to May 27 1918 when he was killed in action.
Recently I was able to get some painting done.
