No, it is actually on there flat. It just looks that way. My first try making my own decals. The serial number is actually my birthday. Thanks Jesper.

Excellent Carl!

Greetings all;

Here is the first posting of my portion of this GB. First the build thread.
Fokker D.VIIF / BMW I was given a review kit and aside from my distain for the historical figure involved I knew it would make great canvas for this event. Noteably there were several all white Fokker D.VII aircraft in WWI so I went with the idea that I would change the livery of this kit to suit my purposes here.

There are several areas I will clean up before finishing but this is the basic build with some PE involved . See the thread above for details.

It all began in a small town of Zweibrüken in the Pfalz Rhineland area. Coming from a family that operated a small Gesthaus and restaurant called Weinerwald. Hunting in the nearby black forest or the local Phesanery was his favorite leisure time activity. Oblt. Stefan Löwenson rose from the ranks. Serving as an unteroffizier (corporal) in the regular army in the 13th Hussars (Prince Carl Freidrich) through out 1914-1915.

He was cited on several occassions in daily dispatches, but in an extrodinary circumstance wasgiven a battlefield promotion to a regular army Leutnant rather than a reserve officer candidate. (Officer aspirant) during the Battle of Verdun. Wounded three times he continued to serve and took medical treatment in the field hospitals rather than go to a rear area.

He transferred to the Air service and flew in KG II/ Kasta 11 as both a trained pilot and as a trained observer through out late 1916 - to early 1917.

On 24 Dec. 1917 he was transferred to the new Jasta 78b (Bavarian) in the Mars-la-Tour area. He served there until March 1918. Here is his Alb. D.V from that time period.


On 15 April 1918 he was transferred to Jasta 77b in the 2 Armee area near Vrainges. He was involved in an air combat on 13 May 1918 where his engine was destroyed but he survived the resulting crash. Here is the wreckage of his Albatros D.Va in the 2 Armee area depot. In this shot some of the local boys from the pilot pool have decided to pose for the Grufl photographer.


On 13 July 1918 he was transferred to Jasta 34b. Where he inherited an older Fokker Dr.I triplane that obviously had several previous owners. He did not add his personal markings to this machine.


It was on 13 Sept.1918 that he was again transferred but to 2 Armee headqurters for the Gruppen Fluzeug Command. Where he acquired a roving commission as field inpector of Jasta materials and operations in and around Metz. It is believed that in his authority that he appropriated one of two aircraft destined to be assigned to the JG.I commander.

In the 147th Aero Sqdn log book for Sept 26,1918. There were 4 men on patrol at approx. 6:30pm. Brotherton and Brosnon at 1500m and Jones and Porter at 600m. It was the latter two that saw the formation above them at 1000m (approx.) The same comments are copied in the daily text. "In a flight of Fokkers . . .Leader was all-white with what looked like red crosses?. . ."



He further increased his victory total to 23 by traveling in his white Fokker D.VIIF and assigning himself to the different Jastas in that theater of operations during his inspection tours. It was his reports on Jasta 64w that noted the loss of many new Fokker D.VII aircraft due to the failure of substandard bungee shock chord during normal landings during Sept. - Oct. 1918.



News of the day...page one.
"Der Taglich Zeitungen und Blatter" 1 Nov. 1918.

Translated, "...The boys of Jasta R. pose for the camera with a souvenir of their recent sorties over the lines. Left to right, Ltn. des Res. Malincrodt Maifeld, Oblt. Stefan Löwenson, Haupt. Röwan Bayernfüss und Ltn. des Res. Johann-Lucas Frommhertz."

The build was supposed to be a bit dirty and the back paint & red on the cross borders I wanted to look like it was flaking off in places.





Next on to Oblt. Löwenson's twin brother. Oh I didn't tell you this yet. The boys were separated in when their parents had taken them on the maiden voyage of the Titanic in 1912. The parents each had one of the boys and before the ship went down they put them in the life boats. A German woman said she would watch over Stephen and an English woman had said she would watch over Timothy.

Now this is not done yet but here it is 24 hours later. Typically with British aircraft kit of this era you have to put on the cockades first before you can finish the aileron actuation control horns and adding the cables. The elevator and rudder control horns and then a touch up of the rigging anchors and underwing fuel tank details and other fittings with black. Then all coloured areas need some touch up as well. Then all the pulley inspection decals well be edged in the wing surface colours the glazed over. Then the Lewis gun & Foster mount.

Here is the second completed build in the story. Next on to Oblt. Löwenson's twin brother. The boys were separated when their parents had taken them on the maiden voyage of the Titanic in 1912. The parents each had one of the boys and before the ship went down they put them in the life boats. A German woman said she would watch over Stephen and an English woman had said she would watch over Timothy.

Excellent builds, Stephen. The markings look very good.

Thanks for sharing

Just a reminder November 30th, 2008 is approaching and we are half way through this time alotment.

Here is what we have so far.
Jp

Jesper

CaptainA

JackFlash


More later.

Here are the standing so far. 8/23/08

Bigrip74
CaptainA - DONE
Clanky44
DaGreatQueeg
grayghost666
guitarlute101
JackFlash - DONE
jam2727
jaypee - DONE
JollyRoger
Rittersbach
SGTJKJ - DONE
spongya

It looks like Flt. Sub. Lt. Timothy Lawrence served on after the war. Post war he was temporarily assigned to the Polish Air service. At first in 1919 he was assigned to pilot their only Alb. C.VI . The C.VI was The C.III airframe with the Argus engine. A scratchbuilt camera replaced the rear gun and a Vickers replaces the Spandau.

Holly Stratocaster!!!! I am totaly out of time tracking. I have a few ideas but haven't started yet. Gotta move....Cool planes by the way. I personaly loved the white D.VII:]

Next, after his promotion to Flt. Lt. Timothy Lawrence was seconded to the 13th Sqdn Krakow Polish Air Service, 1919-20. His mount then was the Austrian built Alb. D.III 253.257.

Oh happy day! The lost wings have been found! Will post soon!

Hey everyone. I joined this campaign a few days ago. I will be enterign a corsair. However, i got all the nat. insignia on, its numbers, and some kill flags (the important stuff). Hell broke loose when i spilled a bottle of micro sol on the decal sheet. Ruined everything it touched (all the black letter stenciling) so my Corsair wont have all that.

Ouch John! Keep em flying. To everyone else we have about six weeks to wrap this one up. Kick the tires and light the fires. Wings have been found and will be posted in a couple of days. Thanks again to our own Jean-Luc.

Woo hoo! We got the wings back. Thank you Jean-Luc!

Oooookay, as we slowly reach to the end of the campaigne I finaly started my model. Here is the Revell 1/72 Bf.109 G-10 as it apears in mid 1944 serving in JG300 as a night fighter (I didn't decide on the name of the pilot yet) . To start with I cut out the wing control surfaces and tilted the slightly and choped the head armor which was molded to the fuselage, because I decided to keep the canopy open. I will handbuid it I think. Anyways, here it is so far:



Oh and just a little sketch to help me see how it looks:

Hehehe I know what you are thinking..."Shark Mouth? Hell yeah!!!!
PS: Excuse my German, es ist nicht gut:]

Looks very good, Yalym. Cool scheme with the shark mouth.

My German is also very basic. However, I believe it should be "Ich Liebe Lank" on the side of the fuselage.

Looking forward to see more

hello everyone....i have a question!!!!!!!except markings,stencils and units badges(which should be real) i can do whatever color scheme i like?
i have a 1/72 bf109 e...very old airfix kit and i just thought a nice paint scheme and a pilot name for jg26 and i want to enlist

As long as it can be seen as historically reasonable. . .sure. We look forward to your participation!

Thank you Steven...the airfix kit is very empty inside but i just want a cool outside look(this should be very relaxing built)......so enlisting today and starting right away

Wow an old Airfix kit!!! I realy wonder how this will turn out.
Anyways, slight progress report:
I fiddled a little with the cockpit, sliced the canopy and drilled a few holes all around. Also retouched the gunsight with a little transparent part.

Oh and a little sketch on how the sharkmouth will turnout.