Wingnut Wings 1/32 Scale DFW C.V 'Late Production' Model Kit

The DFW C.V was arguably the single most important German aircraft of the First World War. The entire reason for military aviation at the time was to support the war on the ground and the most significant way to do this was through reconnaissance and artillery observation. A skilled artillery observer in a wireless equipped two-seater could kill more enemy with his index finger in a few minutes than the most skilled fighter pilots could in a lifetime and the DFW C.V was the most prevalent front line German two-seater of the war. Much mystery surrounds the development of the DFW C.V but the prototype appears to have first flown in May 1916 and passed its required structural tests in early August 1916 resulting in an order for 60 aircraft.

By late October the 1st dozen or so production DFW C.V were serving at the front and had made such an impression that over the next couple of months 1000 more aircraft were ordered. Production continued up until the armistice, by which time nearly 4000 DFW C.V had been ordered from Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke (DFW) (2005), Automobile und Aviatik (1400), Luftverkehrsgesellschaft (LVG) (400) and Halberstädter Flugzeugwerke (150). LVG would go on to incorporate many aspects of the DFW C.V into their successful LVG C.V.

• 41cm x 27cm.
• 2 high quality Cartograf decal sheets with markings for 5 aircraft.
• 306 high quality injection moulded plastic parts.
• Detail parts for late production DFW C.V manufactured by LVG, Halberstadt, Aviatic and Deutsche Flugzeug-Werke.
• Highly detailed Benz Bz.IV engine.
• Optional "winter" cowlings, PuW bomb rack, lMG 08 & LMG 08/15 Spandau machine guns, cowlings, exhausts, propellers and diorama accessories.
• 12 photo-etched metal detail parts including lMG 08 & LMG 08/15 Spandau and LMG 14 Parabellum cooling jackets.
• Fine in scale rib tape detail.
• Full rigging diagrams.