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Hello, I am a former police officer from the Czech Republic. After 31 years I returned to building aircraft from the great war. My lifelong interest is history and WW1 pilots. I build 1:48 and occasionally 1:32 models. It's a big inspiration for me when I literally see works of art from other colleagues here.
Aviatik-Berg D.I (Loh. 115), Flashback, 1-48, Oblt. Frank Linke-Crawford, 27 victories, Flik 60J
Quite a demanding construction. Used Gaspatch turnbuckles and finished some small details. Unfortunately, I installed the dashboard [...]
The first model this year was a very pleasant relaxing build to be of greater problems. I can only recommend it for lovers of the great war planes who don't like strings.
Although the Fokker E.V, better known as the D.VIII, still remains [...]
I hesitated for a while whether to display this model. After my return to modeling a year and a half ago, I decided on the planes of the great war, which attracted me since childhood. Above all, I wanted to test myself if I could master [...]
So, before the end of the year, I will have time to add one more model. Another addition to the Fokker collection. Again, a very pleasant build, without any major tricks.
Leutnant Josef Raesch was a World War I flying ace with seven aerial [...]
I recently saw here a beautifully built Albatros D.III by Paul van Acker. I liked it so much that I built it in the same coloring. Very nice build, I just sanded the whole hull and carved new panels and added new engine covers. Lines are [...]
This is my last rebuild from an old wreck by Eduardo. Next time I will only devote it to the new beautiful kits that I have in my stash. As usual, the wreck was taken apart, cleaned and reassembled with lots of missing details added. Motor [...]
Again a rebuild from an old wreck by Eduard. Here it could have turned out much better, but I no longer had the strength or desire for a better result. But it has to be enough for a happy birthday, because this type in 1:48 scale is [...]
The kit from Special Hobby is again of decent quality, only the cockpit is made in a very simplified scheme. Also added details of the cockpit, part of the pipe in the opening of the radiator and a few other small things. Struts need to be [...]
A few years ago I got two wrecks from a friend which his son hastily put together, a Sopwith Pup and a Sopwith Triplane from old Eduard. Due to the lack of these kits on the market and also because I was sorry to throw them away, I tried [...]
This was a very easy going build with no major intricacies. In my opinion, one of the best kits of this type in its scale. I warmly recommend. I myself have three more kits ready to assemble.
Pilot Carl Degelow was the last pilot to [...]
