Please allow me to present my latest build for Marc's (wingnut's) "Great War" group build. This is the Eduard kit from the dual combo pack, modeled after Ltn. Hermann Frommherz' mount in the spring of 1918. Frommherz served in the infantry on both the eastern and western fronts before being transferred to bomber duty over the French and Macedonian lines. In 1917 he was assigned to Jasta Boelcke where he got his first air victory in April. July that year he succeeded Hermann Goering as CO of Jasta 27. He finished the war with 32 victories, afterwards going on to serve as an instructor in both the Soviet Union and China. At the start of WWII, he was assigned CO of I/JG 134.
The kit is pretty much OOB, with the exception of the guns, where I used brass cooling jackets and turned brass barrels from Ultracast's master set. For the streaked camo, I wanted to paint my own instead of using some of the AM decals available for that effect, and I'm pleased with how it turned out. They began with a base coat of MM RLM65 (which I also used for the underside color) and a generous coat of Future. This was followed by thin random angled streaks of three primary colors, titanium white, burnt umber, and olive brown (which I made by mixing black, yellow ochre, and a touch of purple to cut the green a bit). All were thinned slightly with japan drier, which reduced cure time to about a day, yet made them even easier to blend together. Tamiya weathering powders and panel line accents helped give it a more used look, and the minimal rigging is a combination of stretched sprue and .005" stainless steel wire.
In real life, this was a tiny aircraft (the kit wingspan is about 6" in length) but it was a blast to build. I hope you enjoy the pics, and thanks for looking. Comments and critiques are always welcome. 
