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Kit: Scratch (1:48)
Scratchbuilt from plastic card. The engine is a Mercedes from an Eduard Albatros or Pfalz kit converted into a 200 HP Hiero engine with bits of plastic, wire and stretched sprue. Propeller was carved from a piece of plastic. The fuel tank behind the seat is a sheet of brass curved to shape (my good friend Martin Afflitto wisely says that nothing looks more like brass than real brass). The radiator is a modified one from the scrap box (I'm still trying to figure to which kit from the past it belonged). Paints are Humbrol 71 for the CDL wings and the wooden veneer of the hull and wing floats were hand painted with a mix of some synthetic enamels which brand I can't remember. The Scwarzlömachine gun is from the Blue Max D-III (Oef) kit. Rigging is stretched sprue. Ahh... At a later date and after a close look at some pictures of Banfield's plane, I modified the hull codes (from A24 into A.24.)