Thanks for the kind words, Gaz, Steve, RAGIII, and Juan! I'm quite happy with the outcome too, have gotten used to what I thought was bit too much on the fuselage and comparing to some pictures, I could have gone way farther, and I'm quite happy as well
(as an example of too-much, the photo's of Hermann Pritsch "Bowke" show almost no lozenge at all on the fuselage)
I have not posted a lot, but have been working quietly on the model, I managed to apply all the decals, including the little stencils, except for the propeller, as the oils weren't dry enough for an acrylic glosscoat. I didn't use the "borderless" crosses on the fuselage from the decal set, but the ones for "Nickchen IV" with the white border, if you zoom in on the picture of Greim standing near the tail you can see a slight difference between that and the white of the rear fuselage. As I painted the red bands I cut the texts free of them and applied only those -after I was all done I found a spelling error on the weight table; Nutzlast is spelled Nutzlas. I corrected that with the extra weight table provided in te base kit.
I also went with the normal square crosses instead of the uneven-arm types suggested by WnW, as all pictures of 8## series Albatros D.VIIs seem to have had the normal square crosses. Whether they were converted or not remains unclear of course, as is the difference between the tail cross and fuselage cross, but given how much rudders were swapped...? Anyway, that's my guess
I just finished glosscoating all the decals to seal them an prepare for weathering, so pictures will come later this week hopefully.
Jeroen
