My new project will be a tribute to the great Polish general - Władysław Anders. He became famous in the years 1942-1945, when he led out of the Soviet Union a Polish army made of the men, who were enslaved and sent into the Red Communist Empire after Soviets attacked Poland on Sept. 17th 1939 aiding Hitler to break Polish resistance in the first days of WW2. The army was in fact a band of famished and sick people fleeing the Soviet "paradise" under the Polish-Soviet treaty. Russia was forced to allow it under the threat of stopping the Allied help during the hard time they had then, when attacked by their former ally - Germany.
It took some time before those people, lucky to escape the overwhelming Russian opression, were fed, healed and made able to form the real army. But when they did, they and their commander - Anders, won the eternal fame as the force, which finally broke the German fortification lines in Italy and capturing in May 1944 the cloister at Monte Cassino and some neighbouring hills opened the way to Rome for the Allies.
But before Anders became a general he served as a sub-colonel and observer on the front of war between Poland and Russia in 1919-1920, when new-born Poland had to fight for the borders both in the west and in the east. Anders is known to fly in the east front at least one mission in the observer cockpit, together with Sgt. Kazimierz Burzyński in the pilot cockpit, of the single DFW C.V among several LVG C.Vs forming 1 Squadron of Great Poland (Eskadra Wielkopolska).
In this lucky instance there are more photos of this particular aircraft, like this one
I am going to build and slightly modify the quite well known WNW kit
and surely you know where to find good inbox shots - undoubtedly better than any ones I could possibly take.
The markings for this particular airframe were ordered at Melius Manu - a small but very reliable and growing Polish company who produce custom ordered decals and masks for different types of modelling. After a busy exchange of emails, opinions and photos they came out with such a marvelous decal sheet
I am also using HGW textile belts (there is a dedicated set for DFW C.V, though the contents do not differ at all from the ones I have recently used for my HB W.12) and PE details for spoked wheels from Part set dedicated for Roden Albatros D.III.
The work on this model has been on for almost two weeks now. After cutting the parts from the sprues, removing some push-pin marks and flash, airbrushing, brushing tiny details, decalling and some wash the interior bits are almost ready for the assembly. The only added bits are: copper wire aerial (not yet trimmed and attached to the tube), fuel selector switch (just visible on the top-left of the instrument panel) and there are still some control lines to be attached to the stick and the bar as well as the MG trigger line.
