Albatros D-1 (1/72nd scale)

This is a Roden kit made in Ukraine. Relatively detailed cockpit – seat, stick. Highly detailed engine, prop, machine guns. Wire rigged.

Probably about 40 hours of work went into this model. Recessed panel lines. The color is field green and reasonably authentic to the time. Markings authentic.

The particular aircraft modeled is the personal airplane of Prince Karl Freidrich of Prussia. The Prince was Commanding Officer of a German reconnaissance squadron on the Western front in 1916.

For fun and sport, Prince Karl-Friedrch liked to fly missions with the figher Jasta assigned to the same airfield; thus, his choice of the new German fighter, the Albatros D-1.

Evidently, Prince Karl Freidrich was not much of a fighter pilot. He was shot down by a Leiutenant Pickthorn of the RFC, who was flying a much inferior De Haviland DH-2.

Prince Karl Friedrich survived being shot down, but died later while trying to escape from an Allied POW camp.