Found this pic of a model without any reference to the plane it represents, not sure even If is a rela plane, looks Austro-Hungarian to me, but who knows. So anyone recognize the plane?

Man, that one I have never seen before! ?¿ It looks like a strange modification of a Hansa-Brandenburg C.I...

Lloyd C.V

The Lloyd C.V was a reconnaissance aircraft produced in Austria-Hungary during the First World War. It was a departure from Lloyd's previous reconnaissance types, which had all been based on a pre-war design. The C.V was a more compact and streamlined aircraft with an unusual wing structure.

The design was fairly conventional, except for the interplane struts. These were arranged in two sets, front and rear, with the rear sets consisting of two struts per wing, and the forward sets of only one strut per wing. When viewed from the front of the aircraft, the rear struts formed a V-shape, converging to the point where they met the lower wings. From bottom wing to top, the single forward struts sloped inwards towards the centreline, matching the angle of the inboard rear struts. The fin was triangular and similar to the unit on earlier Lloyd designs, but featured an extension at the top of the rudder that reached over the top of the fixed part of the fin. With its curved leading edge and scalloped trailing edge, this rudder resembled the tail of a rooster.

The wings departed from the conventional structure of one or more spars surrounded by airfoil-shaped ribs and were built instead from ribs surrounded by longerons that stretched span-wise along the wings. This was all then covered in plywood sheeting. While this made for a strong, light structure, it also meant that repairs to damaged wings were difficult, and proved impossible to carry out in the field. Damaged aircraft were sent to depots for exchange. Another problem was that moisture trapped inside the wings had no way to escape quickly. This could cause the plywood skin to buckle or delaminate.

Lloyd built 96 C.Vs in 1917, powered by Austro-Daimler engines, while WKF built another 48 with Benz engines. The type saw only brief front-line service before being relegated to secondary duties. A number of continued in service after the war with the military forces of Poland, Hungary, and the Ukraine. In Poland, six; aircraft were operated until 1924.

I trust it will be included in the Italian Front expansion pack to WOFF?

Many of these Austro-Hungarian types were designed to be built by unskilled labor as much as possible since the dual Monarchy was a very agrarian society. Some of them were really ugly! Being a rabid WWI RC modeler I like unusual and ugly in these warbirds because no one else will have one when I show up at the field!

Ugly? I think I really like this kite! Looks a bit a like a steampunk plane. Thanks for discovering the name of the bird guys. One always is learning new things.

Yeah, that's not really ugly. It looks more or less like your typical WW1 two-seater.

However, there was at least one pretty awful-looking Lloyd design:



The Lloyd 40.08 Luftkreuzer. Mercifully, only one was ever built.