Richard M. Forster
Saint Charles, Illinois
“I thought it was an uncommonly beautiful color pattern on the upper surfaces,” says of the camouflage on Hobbycraft’s 1/48 scale Austro-Hungarian Lloyd C.II. “It was called ‘Autumn Leaves.’ He painted with Testors enamels and used copper wire for rigging. “It was an unusual aircraft,” he says. “The wing shape was birdlike; there was a certain ungainliness about it, rather like a goony bird. But as [Sir Francis Bacon] wrote, ‘There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.’”