My friend got sick and couldn't come gaming last night, so I still haven't looked at the Austrian Army Aircraft book. I suspect I'll find that historically my model is totally bogus. The modified tower was likely only on 26.17, and for all I know 27.23 only had the steel tube tower. On the other hand if I'd known about that one I might have done it instead. Whatever the truth is, it's done. Other than the tower it's identical to the last one.
Posing for the camera.
Left quarter.
Right close-up - warts, blemishes and all.
Front close-up showing the crew to effect. There used to be a company called Micro-Scale, who did an outstanding series of decals for planes of all eras, as well as many products to help with detailing. Today they only still make the products: Micro-Set and Micro-Sol setting solutions, Decal Film for saving dried-out old decals and for making your own, and Krystal-Klear, a product for filling in "glass" windows on models. The windows on this model are made of Krystal-Klear.
I had a major boo-boo with this one. I mounted the top wing, put in the struts, did all the rigging and realized I hadn't put the pilot in! I couldn't get the seat and supports in through all the rigging, so I cut them loose and used tweezers to maneuver the pilot into place. There is no real floorboard so I couldn't glue him in by his feet. I finally ended up placing him a scale two feet further back than he should be and gluing his head and shoulders to the tower front behind him. D'OH!