I repainted the skull insignia on the 1/600tg scale Albatros D.III today, having originally painted it facing the wrong way, then added some decals to finish off Godwin Von Brumovski's aircraft, or one of them at least. I'm quite pleased with how it turned out in the end and quite fancy converting and painting some more Austro Hungarian Albatros scouts to go alongside this one. Tally Ho! or whatever the Austrian equivalent is?
Toby E: Apart from purely factual works, for a pilot's eye view of Austro-Hungarian aviation in WW1 it's also worth looking at John Biggins' book The Two-Headed Eagle (1993; subsequently reprinted), one of a series of four novels about a fictional A-H naval officer who spends part of WW1 as a recce pilot and part as a submarine commander. Biggins draws on real memoir literature (incl. Captain von Trapp's), and some real characters have walk-on parts in the novels, notably Hauptmann Adolf Heyrowski, who (in the words of his Wikipedia entry): "Even as Heyrowsky was [scoring aviation victories]... he was also volunteering to serve as an infantry officer in the ongoing Battle of Isonzo in his time off from flying. His leadership of his assigned company was responsible for its blocking an Italian offensive in the Sixth Battle of the Isonzo".
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