That's a really fine and detailed looking interior, Mike @sandbagger
Looks amazing.

Mike Norris (@sandbagger)
Thank you for the detailed description on how you achieve the plywood look. I also went to your website and browsed around for quite some time. A fellow could spend days there... hours at a minimum.

You have some AMAZING work on display there. It's very impressive and the number of various WW1 aircraft you have built is equally impressive.

You have convinced me to go ahead and drag out a 1/32 scale Roden Albatros D-III kit and also a 1/32 Wingnut Wings Pfalz D-III. I have plans to build both up as aircraft that were flown by Lt. Werner Voss, so please watch for it to show up here as a new article / build journal for the Great War group. They should look good sitting next to my Voss F-1 triplane I built using the ancient 1/28 scale Revell kit. As luck would have it, once I completed this one, Meng came out with their 1/32 kit that allows you to build the same thing only in 1/32.

Needless to say, I am looking forward to reading your next installment. You are well on your way to having another masterpiece on your hands. Well done, and please keep it going.

The details you have incorporated into this Albatros are amazing.

Take care. 🙂

Hi all,
The fuselage is now closed up.
The kit supplied machine guns were replaced with the ‘Spandau’ 08/15 extended loading handle (14-32061) from 'Gaspatch'.
These needed to be modified to allow them to locate correctly in the fuselage front/rear gun mounts,

Mike

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Ditto from me, Mike (@sandbagger), the replacement guns looks amazing. The parts must be very thin to get this sort of detail.

Hi all
This aircraft had what seems to be a mirror, flare pistol and flare rack located on the right side of the fuselage, just forward from the cockpit opening
The flare pistol appears to have been mounted on a supported tube, so that the pilot could load a flare, lock then fire the pistol (directed away to the rear right of the aircraft)
The breach of the pistol looks to be open, not closed and locked.
Possibly the pistol is of the 'Hebel M1894' type

To represent this I used a 'Wingnut Wings' flare pistol from my 'spares' and cut the barrel off and pinned it in position using 0.2 mm diameter rod
The mounting was made using a combination of 1.4 and 0.8 diameter tube with 0.4 mm diameter rod

Mike

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Great improvement, Mike @sandbagger
The flare pistol is a perfect copy of the one in the picture.

Love your detail work Mike, engine, cockpit machine guns flare pistol, it all adds up for a great model. Have used the gas patch guns before and have had to modify all to make fit. they can be rather delicate.