Alb D.I Prince Friedrich Carl

[+sinbad]

This skin set depicts the Albatros D.I flown by Prince Friedrich Carl of Prussia when he was forced down on March 21, 1917; he died of wounds suffered attempting to reach the German lines. There is no doubt (because von Tutchek described it) that the fuselage was painted light green. Some suggest that the field on the fuselage emblem might be red, but it seems to me the better evidence is that the field was black. An additional emblem was on the spinner, but I have not found a way to mount that, given the skin format of this model. It would be impossible to see in the air, unless the prop was stopped! The serial number of this plane was painted over and is not known.

 

Thanks to Gambit168 for making his skin set available as a template, to BortdaFarm for the original model, and to Southside Bucky for advice for improvements.

 

This skin set is the final skin of a series presented to acknowledge the dedication and continuing hard work of Peter01 who has given us outstanding flight models for so many other aircraft for First Eagles. Without his work, this model and many others would be just pretty pictures.

 

 

October 5, 2008

 

sinbad

[+christian59]

thank you for this serie

 

christian

[deep]

Yes, thanks sinbad for all these skins. The amazing variety of this period makes FE different from all the others.

 

Thank you!

deep