GaelHobbies features this rare, original 1:48 Eduard Albatros D.II #8081 During early months of 1916, the German Fokker monoplane fighters became be outclassed by new allied fighters, DH 2 and Ni 11. The German response was the introducing of the new biplane designs, which reached front line in Spring of 1916. The Albatros company introduced it's new design of the streamlined and heavy weaponed fighter with some delay, but these fighters with slightly modernized desing remained in frond line service until the end of the war. Albatros D.lI was designed together with two very similar Albatross designs, D.I and D.III. All these aircraft have had very similar fuselage, the same engine, what was different was the wing. The wing of the D.I was similar like D.Ils wing, but upper wing of the D.Il's was located lower, with new N type cabane struts. This position allowed a good pilots view to front and up of the aircraft, and also a very good access to the two machine guns. The fuselage was not only streamlined, but thanks to the plywood cover also very rigid. This Eduard kit follows the great tradition of ProfiPACKS with a full set of decals, photo-etch and Eduard EXpress masks to help with painting. ProfiPACK is our basic, high standard plastic kit edition. Each ProfiPACK kit contains a complete plastic model kit with additional items for various subvariants, photoetched sets Eduard masks and a large decal sheet covering four to six markings options with stencils. The ProfiPACK kits are produced in 1/48, 1/72, 1/144 and 1/32 scales. This line is easily recognizable with its orange accented box, and with more recent releases, the addition of the ProfiPACK logo. The older ProfiPACK kits had a black box and also carried the ProfiPACK name. ProfiPACK kits are designed for all moderately experienced modelers.  Eduard Model Accessories was formed in 1989 in the basement of co-owner Ctirad Kuraks house in Most, Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). Two years previous, Mr. Kurak and Vladimir Sulc had started making photo etch for themselves and had decided that it was possible to sell to shops, so in 1990 the first photo etch, a 1/48th scale Su 25K, was produced for sale. In that year many more sets were made and sales were so good that they moved into a proper office and opened up a production line in 1991. There was a great demand for other scales as well and so 1/72nd and 1/35th were added and a few years, ships. In 1993, Eduard's first two models came out, a Sopwith Schneider and a Sopwith Baby, both in 1/72nd scale. The production of plastic models necessitated another move into a larger office and more staff. 994 turned out to be a very good year with the first 1/48th scale kit, a Fokker E III, selling very well and an award in Nuremberg for our photo etch line. By the end of 1995 we had 10 kits on the market and lots of photo etch and had also set up a co-operation with Jules Bringuier of Classic Airframes to produce his models. In 1996 Eduard purchased a new building in the town of Obrnice and began renovations and also brought out a new process for moulding models. This was called LTM and significantly improved the quality of their kits. Since then Eduard has continued to improve their technology and are now using full metal moulds which allow the company to produce tens of thousands of kits from a single mould. Early 1997 saw Eduards moving into our new building and the purchase of new equipment. Eduard also started producing models and photo etch for other companies including Revell-Monogram and Smer along with many smaller but no less important companies. Eduard has continued evolve and are always looking for new ideas and technologies to improve their products. This kit is from a large selection acquired from an incredible collection (over +4000kits). *THIS IS A PLASTIC MODEL KIT THAT REQUIRES ASSEMBLY AND PAINTING. ADHESIVES AND TOOLS FOR ASSEMBLY AND PAINTING ARE NOT INCLUDED. GaelHobbies offers combined shipping. See details: Offering combined shipping | eBay |