HOLY HANNAH! They did it to me again!
One of the problems I'm having is finding proper guns, especially Austrian Schwarzlose guns for the two-seaters I'm building right now. There are photo-etched brass kits to make cool tiny models of British, French and German guns, but none for the Austrians. The one on my Austrian eindekker was one of a pair somebody made in metal many years ago. It's been so long that I don't even remember who made them. A couple of companies used to make them in resin, but both are now out of business and finding them is proving extremely difficult.
I was on line looking at pictures of the real thing, figuring I'm now going to have to make my own. It still looks that way, but while I was looking on Google I looked at the images page for Swarzlose guns. One of the pictures immediately caught my eye, because it was that same eindekker close-up. And it led to that same picture in this very thread! It happened earlier with my Caudron G.IV, and I mentioned it then. It's just really surprising and really cool to come across one of your own models online somewhere you weren't expecting it.
WOOHOO!
