I made some pictures to about exact scale and printed these on clear decal film. It worked just fine with some coats of mid-stone underneath. I’m going to give this procedure a shot on my Albatros DIII later, but I’m going to try the white decal sheet for that.
Here is the propeller, the cowling ring, which is PE, and the machine guns. I used the kit’s barrels, they looked fine, an put on some PE details, the crosshairs e.g. which look rather big. If anybody is building this, do put the crosshairs on as the very last thing on the model. I bent mine about a hundred times….
The buckles are Bob’s Buckles, which are just magnificent. It’s unbelievably easy to rig a single wing cell aircraft like this with these buckles. And they look just right.
The square ejection chutes and the carburettor intake tube are scratched. There was merely a square hole and a round, countersunk indication, respectively.
...to be continued.