You can do quite a few of Jasta 11 - the famous 'flying circus' - without having to use any specialist decals. Just scrape (with a thumbnail) the existing decals off the fuselage of the 'Rahn' DR1 and repaint the struts and cowling red. All you need to do is paint the tail and you're good to go. If you want to represent an historical aircraft you have a choice of red, yellow, sky blue or white. There were also several striped tails and lots of aircraft with coloured bands - plain and patterned. For many of the aircraft appearing in photographs, nobody knows the true colour or who flew the aircraft, so if you invent a colour scheme, nobody can tell you it's wrong!
Take a look in my album to see a few of Jasta 11 that I've repainted. I have gone a little further and replaced the straight crosses with the earlier 'Maltese' style, because I wanted to do Lothar von Richthofen's yellow aircraft which crashed before the order was given to repaint the crosses. Then my OCD kicked in and all the rest had to match.
The easiest repaint in the world is probably Manfred von Richthofen's most famous DR1. Just take any DR1 and paint it red!
I'd stick with
WoW models to begin with - they come with a movement deck and base for each, plus already have a peg moulded for the flight stand. I've got loads of metal models from Skytrex and Reviresco, but most of them are models not available from
WoW yet. Adding a peg to the model is really annoying and fiddly.
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