Albatros D.III/D.V Aces' Fighters, Famous Airplanes (Kagero 2018)

The Albatros D.III was a biplane fighter aircraft used by the Imperial German Army Air Service (Luftstreitkräfte) during World War I. A modified licence model was built by Oeffag for the Austro-Hungarian Air Service (Luftfahrtruppen). The D.III was flown by many top German aces, including Wilhelm Frankl, Erich Löwenhardt, Manfred von Richthofen, Karl Emil Schäfer, Ernst Udet, and Kurt Wolff, and Austro-Hungarian ones, like Godwin von Brumowski. It was the preeminent fighter during the period of German aerial dominance known as "Bloody April" 1917.

This new book from Kagero comes in the "Famous Airplanes" series that combines historical narrative of the type plus excellent modelling builds in 1/48 and 1/32 scale.

92 pages in first rate quality paper, nice photos and many color profiles by Janusz Swiatlon. The cover of the book is made by a Greek talented illustrator and artist, Anastasios Polychronis.

The text is bilingual in both English and Polish, side by side column style. 30 pages are devoted to the history of the Albatros DVIII/DV, written by Tomasz J. Kowalski and then Vitor Costa builds step by step the Eduard 1/48th scale kit (12 pages)

Wojciech Fajga then builds the 1/32nd scale Albatros DV using the Wingnut Wings kit (21 pages) and Damian Majsak builds the DVa, same scale and company (15 pages). The last 12 pages are full of color profiles with many interesting camouflage schemes. We particularly liked the large informative color photos of the model builds, showing every aspect of the used techniques!

All in all a highly recommended reference for this iconic WWI german fighter!

You can find and order it online here.