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How could you overlook Buddahaid's and my faaaaavorite?!!! I even played it in college:smug:http://cf.geekdo-images.com/images/pic204982.jpg

Crew in, gun mounted, cabanes on and exhaust stack in place. I had all the decals on two days ago, except the serial number under the tail. I wanted to print my own again, but I couldn't find a font that looked right. Today I finally scrounged some from my spares box.

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I like the gunner position and the whole look of this one.

After four days of doing other things (including getting set up to play SH3 again) I finally got the top wing on.

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A deceptively fabulous paint job!:up:

Nice looking model. I can almost smell the castor oil. :O:

Next up: A DFW C.V.

It was a rather unremarkable aircraft on paper. Others were faster, climbed better turned better. The men who flew it, however, commented on its handling, saying it was a joy to fly. Whatever else may have been involved, the Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke (German Aircraft Company) C.V ended up being built in greater numbers than any other German aircraft during the Great War. DFW built 2005 of the type, Aviatik 1400, LVG 400, and Halberstadt 150, for a total of 3,955 C.Vs. At the end of the July-August 1917 reporting period there were 1057 DFW C.Vs at the front; 51% of all German aircraft in combat service. Though the numbers dropped later in the war they still averaged about 40%.

With the aircraft in service for more than two years and being built in such large numbers by different manufacturers, there are a great many possible variations in paint schemes and markings. Also, somewhere between 11 and 20 of the first aircraft were built with a different nose and no spinner on the front. I wanted to do one of those, but they only amount to one-half of one percent. I would still do it, but kits are few and far between, and if I can't do a later version as well I don't want my only one to represent a very rare variant. I find it odd that there aren't more kits available for one of the most common German aircraft of the war.

The model is another old vacuform I acquired last year.

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The rigging sure does add to the model, and that prop came out really nice.

I photographed the kit on a Friday. Saturday I cut out the fuselage halves. Sunday, a week ago, I fabricated a floor and put in seats. Monday I put the fuselage together. I didn't take any pictures because the interior was so basic I didn't think it was worth it. Tuesday I cut out and sanded one of the stabilizers. Wednesday I did the other. Yesterday I did one lower wing. Today I did the other and put it together. The rest of the time I've been fiddling with mods for SH3.

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Cabanes, tail struts and game tube in place.

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I spent a couple of hours today sanding the top wing to the proper thickness. In the end I barely had time to put on the first coat of paint.

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It's been five days since I reported on this. Let's see...what have I got done? That was last Wednesday. Thursday was game night, and I didn't do anything that day. Friday I spent recovering from being up all night. I had decided some time ago to do the early one without the spinner, so Saturday I glued a piece of plastic sheet on the nose and let it dry for 24 hours. I spent a lot of time yesterday sanding it to the proper shape, priming it and resanding until it looked the way I wanted.

Today I sprayed the topside paint on. The earliest versions seem to have been all one color, and the experts seem to agree it was probably green. I don't know anything, but you can never go wrong with green.

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