Blue Max Pfalz DIIIa (Reissue!) (Encore ec32004)

Category Aircraft Scale Modelling, Subcategory Aircraft Scale Modelling, Scale 1 : 32, ISBN/Box ec32004, Publisher/Brand Encore

Encore Models took the Roden 1/32 Pfalz D.III kit, added some nice resin produced in-house, added photo-etched parts produced by Eduard, and here you have a special kit with some interesting options.

The kit is molded in light gray styrene and presented on seven parts trees plus 32 parts cast in grey resin, seven parts cast in tan resin, and one fret of photo-etched details. Markings are provided by Aeromaster Decals (another Squadron/MMD brand).

The kit can be built in one of three versions:
Blue Max movie version with distinctly different engine details and upward exhaust manifold as flown by Corporal Bruno Stachel (George Peppard) early in the movie
Blue Max literary version with details very similar to the historical version but wearing Stachel's notional markings
Pfalz D.III, 4059/17, Jasta 15, Western Front, 1918, as flown by Lt Heinrich Arntzen

As depicted on the box art, this kit provides resin figures for George Peppard as Corporal Bruno Stachel and Ursula Andress as Countess Kaeti von Klugermann. These will provide a nice vignette to display the movie or literary versions of this kit.