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Kit: Flashback (1:48)
The Flashback kit. Reworked pylon and undercarriage struts. Improved cockpit interior (including a flare pistol as seen on a picture in the Squadron's "Fokker Eindecker in action"). Humbrol paints. The cowling whirling was hand painted with a mix of silver and black over a base of Silver 11. Decals from the kit, except the Bestell nummer which was reworked from the Gavia Fokker D-II one and the under fuselage stitching which came from the Eduard Sopwith Triplane (Yeah, I know now that German stitching was different from the British... I promise to replace it one of these days). Rigging was done with invisible thread painted a mix of silver and black.
The instructions leaf suggests to paint the model Dark Brown overall, but in my humble opinion, that's wrong... Looking at a well-known picture of 345/15, I think that here is a classic example of misinterpretation of old orthochromatic BW photographs, in which yellow appears much darker than it really is... Otherwise, the man standing by the plane would have been closer to Louis Armstrong than the Teutonic Buddecke..! Or maybe the Turkish sun was so strong and old Hansi spent more time sunbathing at Smyrna than fighting..? I don't think so