I remember buying this kit in a hobby shop in Kenosha, Wisconsin while visiting my parents for Christmas of 2019 (or maybe it was 2018?). I worked on it a little when I got back to Maryland, but then set it aside, as I normally do. Then I lost some parts and so it went in the attic for a few years. About a month ago I found the missing parts and was able to get it over the finish line.
The model won't be winning me any awards, but I really wanted to finish it, as the last biplane I built was January of 2018. So it was more than past-due. The kit is a Revell rebox of the Eduard kit. Eduard's kit is from an earlier era, when they were still something of a short-run producer, and so some parts are a little clunky, and fit of components is not what we've grown used to, in the last two decades. Still, as far as biplanes go, this one is about as simple as things get. No cabane struts, and just to broad interplane struts means no wing alignment problems, and no 3-D chess games and need for six arms to get all the struts into the top wing.
I painted my model to represent a machine built and camouflage at the LVG factory in late 1916/early 1917. I followed the paint guide on Wingnut Wings' website, but selected colors that looked pleasing to my eye, based loosely on what I've come to be used to from old books and profiles. I used Gunze's light blue, and 312 green, and Tamiya IJN green and red brown. The gunze colors were sprayed on, everything else was hand painted. A sprayed clear coat eliminated brush marks. The "noise" in the finish, is little paint particles that were in my brush when I sprayed the clear!
Learn from my mistake and keep your tools clean, gentlemen! 
All in all, a fun project, but Revell's decals are a little weird. They went down fine, but even minor handling causes sections of them to come slightly loose and sag. Must be poor adhesive, but they're very flexible, so they dont crack and flake. I've laid down several coats of decal fix to help them adhere, but I noticed in my photos that one of the tail crosses is now sagging. I wonder what these will look like in a few years?
Enough blabbering. Onto the pictures.
you've got to love a model that lets you put cute little curtains in the windows.
Marvellous.
