tomcervo

About the most honest and balanced assessment of the man I've read. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4397566-bader-s-war

It was in A Good Clean Fight (his best, I think) that DR thanked Bob Spurdle for his insights. I started out recommending it as the best Mel Gibson movie never made--now I say Tom Hardy.

One of DR's sources was Bob Spurdle, who in his own memoir described (without naming) the actual Moggy. When he had a fatal crash on the runway, Spurdle mentioned the pleasure it gave him to walk through that area and think that bits of "Moggy" were still underfoot.

Your wish came true. The colors are still up to debate. https://www.hobbysta.eu/se5a-night-fighter-148-p-68387.html

There's also that disreputable couple that came with the Encore Blue Max Pfalz.

The particular SE5A decaled by Pheon is D 3459, from 61 HD squadron in 1918. It was powered by a Hispano Suiza engine. The Pheon website has more info and reviews of their sheet may include more information. Much of it is speculative, though based on input from authorities like Ray Rimell. Those profiles you found are speculative as well. Without documentation, tread lightly. In 1/48 you're talking about a lot of masking. If worst comes to worse . . . (Wrong engine, and probably color.)

Why not go for broke and start praying for Mannock's Nieuport 17?

Yes, a vhs transfer but excellent. Who knew that Bob Cratchit was once Biggles? And the first speaker is Freddie West. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freddie_West

But not exclusively--and none more eye-catching that this:

Reportedly the WD stands for Warehouse damage, and it's to keep them from being resold at full retail. But like you, the box on mine was the only thing marred.

Aviation artist John Ficklen painted one of the 4 Camels flown by David Ingalls while he was attached to 213; he worked with Ingalls, who autographed the print edition. He'd said that all of his planes were 'plain, very plain'. The Osprey Naval Aces book shows another, even plainer--one pair of serials on the vertical stabilizer in gray.

Old to many, perhaps, but some youngsters may have missed this:

In honor of Von R.'s 125th birthday--and the kit's 58th(?)--there's yet another reissue: https://www.revell.de/en/products/model-building/gift-sets/id/05778.html but at least there's a brand new instruction sheet for it. https://www.revell.de/fileadmin/import/images/bau/05778_%23BAU_FOKKER_DR_1.PDF incidentally, Von R's choice of red, according to Ray Rimell, may have been the same reason for many other pilots' color choices; red was the facing color of his old regiment.

Blue Rider's take:

I think it's an ideal choice. Very good at its intended job in two theatres, a simple build and relatively easy rigging, and an array of colorful schemes--or Italian monotone schemes, with colorful markings. A simple extra sprue for the floatplane version, with French and US markings. http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v1/v1n3/hd1ital.html http://worldatwar.net/chandelle/v2/v2n1/hd1for.html And it's a very good looking airplane, from any angle.

Which may explain the hint of the irrational in the lineup. One French aircraft modeled? The old story was that the Hobbycraft Spad and Camel (the good ones) prevented a WNW release of same, but that's hard to believe, based on the overlap of WNW/Roden kits, and now the WNW Camel. A Spad would be monster--certainly more so than a Roland DVI. Apparently the French and American and Italian, (and half the postwar air forces in Europe) market have been written off.

This may help. Fourth post down. Hucks starter conversion

As a whiffer, you can paint it any way you'd like, but the ideal is to make it look almost real. Over on one of the flight sim boards, someone proposed a squadron marking for Biggles' squadron: a hollow square between the roundel and serial rectangle, a little larger than the solid square of 28 Sqn. So far as I know, no other squadron used this, and it has that basic 1918 RFC/RAF minimalism. The serial could be from an unbuilt order; B & P had the full F9496 - 9695 canceled. The letter? B, of course--it's a high flight leader's letter anyway. And if I was doing it, all of the above on a worn, weathered Camel, based on actual pictures or a good profile--no cowlings so polished you could use as shaving mirrors, no wood that looks like antique cherry.