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Offline Pete Nottingham

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #60 on: December 11, 2013, 08:20:16 PM »
Thanks Ernie, unfortunately that's all I've built so far.

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #61 on: December 11, 2013, 09:23:04 PM »
Pete,
Four very well built and beautifully painted Albatri! Stunning work!
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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #62 on: December 11, 2013, 11:17:40 PM »
To all these GREAT modelers :  Albatrissimo!!

Kind regards and many congratulations
Patrick

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #63 on: December 12, 2013, 10:25:54 AM »
Really stunning models Pete, your painting is superb, very well done.

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #64 on: December 13, 2013, 01:23:16 AM »
Thanks guys.

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Pete.

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #65 on: January 04, 2014, 09:30:40 AM »
These are all great models.  Even the early efforts by many of the modelers are stunning.  I am big fan of the Paul Baumer one, great job. 
Here is my WNW 1/32nd DV.  I don't remember who the pilot was it is a Pheon Decal.  Wilehlm Leusch I think, but maybe not.  I liked the scheme.







And then my Aurora DV.  I used the kit decal and hand painted the lozenge.  One of my early efforts back in 07.  The kit came out in 1977 in Aurora's last re-release with the red blitz.  The kit came from my dad's collection.



Gets my juices up for another Albatros.  Thanks all for posting your models, really great stuff.

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Mark
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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #66 on: January 04, 2014, 10:18:25 AM »
Very nice work Mark, especially the hand painted lozenge!
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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #67 on: January 04, 2014, 10:22:34 AM »
Mark,
The WNW Albie is Terrific and is up to your usual very High Standards! As for the OLD Aurora Kit! WOW, I love to see that Old kit built to such great looking standards!!
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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #68 on: January 04, 2014, 11:53:31 AM »
Thanks Rick and LM56:

I have a whole stash of old Aurora Kits that I would love to tackle.  Just build them for the fun of it.  The fit is amazing.  The shapes are a little off and the engines are bad, but when they came out in the 50's, they were the cat's pajamas!  We couldn't get enough of them!  Every time I open one of those boxes and see that off color plastic, it brings me right back to that time.

Thanks for the kind words and stopping by.

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #69 on: January 04, 2014, 06:06:52 PM »
Hello Mark

It's just great to see what you achieved with the old Aurora Albatros. For all their faults that range represents such an important part of our modelling heritage. I know that some of the moulds were destroyed in an accident but I wonder if the Great War centenary would tempt the current owners of the rest to re-release some?

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #70 on: January 04, 2014, 09:01:42 PM »
Really great Albatrosses Mark. Whatever plane I saw build by you looked terrific. Great modeling. Congratulations!

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #71 on: January 04, 2014, 09:45:22 PM »
Mark, great work on the Albys!  I remember one of the instructors I had
as a kid in Air Cadets was a modeller of Aurora WWI aeroplanes and I was
in awe of his hand-painted lozenge...as I still am.  Amazing job!

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #72 on: January 05, 2014, 04:53:53 AM »
Thanks Nigel, Patrick and Ernie:

I know that Monogram got the Camel, DVII, and the SE5, which have seen several re-releases both as Monogram and Revell of Germany.  Glencoe got the Albatros, which I think they cobbled up to make their Albatros revisions.  They also got the Nie. 28, the Pfalz DIII and the SPAD XIII.  They advertised in their directions the release of the DH4 and I think either the Breguet XIIII or the Halberstadt.  Not sure on that one.  Then there is the European company, I can't think of their name now, that copied the Aurora molds and released some of their kits as well, the Nie. II, Albatros, Camel, DVII, and a DH2 that was some other kit and some others.  It would be neat to see these again in 2014.  Hopefully some far thinking exec at the companies will see the value in releasing these again.  Yes, they are crude by todays standards but, fun to build just as they are.  The rumor is that when Aurora sold the molds, they went by train from the New York plant to Monogram in Illinois during which time there was a derailment and some of the molds were ruined beyond repair.  I remember in about '77 or so seeing the Monogram releases of the kits wondering why they released them when Aurora had just done so.   Aurora re-did some of the molds for their '77 releases for ease of assembly.  Then there were the K&B releases.  Sadly some of their later releases, which weren't bad, were the ones that were destroyed.  Painting the lozenge wasn't so bad.  It was just getting the right paints and the tedium of tracing the patterns using carbon paper.  Try to find carbon paper now days!  :o
Fun stuff.

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #73 on: January 06, 2014, 12:58:13 AM »
« Last Edit: January 06, 2014, 01:04:42 AM by Ian from Doncaster »

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Re: Show us your - Albatross D.V/D.Va
« Reply #74 on: January 06, 2014, 04:31:37 AM »
Awesome albies gents. Thx for posting. Congrats.

Cheers