This all started with a 1/72 Encore Albatross D.V bagged "Econo-Kit". I picked up a fistful of these on the cheap a while ago and decided it was high time I built one of them. Did you ever have a project that took you in a different direction than you intended? Well, I'd meant to build something for the Great War GB, but this kit had other ideas.
As you can see, the wings are molded so you can insert different center sections for particular Albatross variants.
This parts layout makes this kit ideal to convert from a biplane into a monoplane. However, doing this means you lose the upper wing radiator, so a different cooling solution needs to be found. Fortunately, the front of a Revell Fokker D.VII BMW wasn't a bad fit after a little cutting and sanding.
Some card was used to cover the top of the nose and the Revell BMW engine cylinders & exhaust were glued on top. From there, the rest of the build went easily except that the landing gear struts snapped into pieces which were lost and I had to substitute the wing struts.
A spare windscreen was attached and the model was rigged with busted guitar strings. Decals are a mix from the decal dungeon. Sharp eyes will notice the Danish codes aren't accurate for 1919, but I enjoy including little, hard-to-notice anomalies in my models.
I had a lot of fun building this model and I hope you enjoyed it and reading about the long-forgotten air racer Dag Dalmar, the "Dangerous Dane".
Brian da Basher