OldTroll

Thinning the oil paint with some Japan Drier will speed up the drying time significantly.

Start with some practice material. Spray/brush a coat of fairly light tan/beige/sand paint (any type.) When dry, apply a THIN layer of oil paint (burnt umber or a similar brown shade) using a sponge/tissue/brush. Excess oil paint will be removed in the next step. For simulating wood grain I use a cheap water color brush with all but about 1/4" of the bristles cut off. "Scrub" a wood grain pattern wiping excess oil paint from the brush as you "scrub" the surface. The coarseness of the bristles, the pressure of your "scrubbing" and the amount of oil paint removed by this process will determine the end color and subtlety of the grain. Once the oil paint has thoroughly dried an application of gloss clear coat tinted with a touch of orange and/or yellow will give a pretty good simulation of a varnished wood surface. Again, do your experimenting on some scrap plastic or sprue remnants until you reach the effect that pleases you.

Mighty fine work, Mike.

You seem pretty dependable to me, Ernie and that's the unvarnished truth. Back to the thread - the prime contributor to the "color" of CDL would be the varnish (that varied widely from a yellow tint to a reddish tint plus oil, dust and dirt.) I personally do a "custom" mix of Tamiya XF-55 and/or XF-60 and use white to lighten to suit my eye (since that's the only eye I am trying to please.) I think that research done by the WNW team or Aviattic or Pheon is all knowledgeable and dependable.

I believe they catalog them as PC.9, PC.9.5, PC.10 and PC. Guiness.

the title of this thread is "New WNW Rumor" and raised the question if WNW had produced a Fokker E.V/D.VIII kit. The answer was no. The total count of posts should have been two (question and answer.) Perhaps we need a new thread titled "Nothing to do with WNW" and limit the subject matter to only opinions, misinformation, theories and downright ignorance concerning all things WNW. At least then all the drivel would be in one place instead of blooming anew every time the letters "WNW" appear in a title.

"Probíhá příprava" means "preparing."

Ernie, you should continue with your current project - the WWI seaplane base at Felixstowe. All you really need are two or three more WNW F.2A models and a couple beaching ramps and gear. Now that you've built one the rest should only take a couple months to knock out...

Lovely build - all clean and polished for the General's next flight.

Perhaps Aviattic will produce a custom fit set of properly textured decals???

Lovely stuff, Mike! That red is gorgeous!

Great photos - thanks!

Too stunning for words! Having said that, the combination of your superb skills and the multiple model scope of the project elevate this to the upper level of "master work." An amazing accomplishment and work of art.

Looks absolutely marvelous! I love the subtle weathering/pre-shading touches. Keep on keeping on, mate.

Strangely enough I just ordered a Roland D.VIa from WETA today after it appeared as "sold out" on the WNW website. Odder still was the fact that it will be shipped from NZ instead of Seattle.

I have one in hand but have not looked at much more than the instructions. The castings are HPH's usual high quality and the kit appears to be well detailed - about like a WNW kit in resin. One unhappy aspect is that the hex camo for fuselage and wings is in the form of a mask, not decals. There are hex decals available as an additionalcost option on the HPH website. If I remember my Aviattik-Berg info correctly, the mask method may be truer to the prototype since the hexes were hand-painted as opposed to being printed fabric as used on German aircraft. There are several other (non-hex) schemes that could be used and I may have to get one more kit to do Brumowski's "splatter" camouflaged machine. I look forward to Mike's review.

Not plans but an excellent 1:33 scale paper model. Might be of some use... http://www.ipms.at/ipms/product_info.php?info=p81_BAC-TSR-2.html&XTCsid=0qcqsdlrmo6disdrli4drc6h04

Yup, that did it! Thanks, Brian.

What marvelous painting/staining/weathering skills you have! This promises to be a world class model when completed. I will be watching with great interest (and a wee bit of envy.)

Thankee, Mike. I am on painkillers and not at my peak efficiency. Still won't give the "mail15" discount, though.

I got the same message re the coupon and they added $33 NY state tax to the order. I'll stick with Sprue Bros.

Des Delatorre has an excellent build log at http://www.ww1aircraftmodels.com/ that should be quite helpful.

I'm not an expert but I slept at a Holiday Inn Express last night...the WNW 4 and 5 color decals are as good as any others out there. It boils down to a matter of how you think they look on the model. I have used WNW on several of my models, Aviattik on a couple and thrown away all Roden OOB versions. Aviattik certainly have more variety (fresh, faded, lacquered) so can reduce the weathering effort at the expense of $$. I believe WNW's research to be good as anyone's and it's certainly better than mine. FWIW I prime mine with a pale cream but white, pale grey or the like will all produce good results.

Interesting that WNW lists it as a "(1914)" version. Does this imply that there might be another later(?) version coming??? Inquiring minds want to know.

Mighty fine build of a mighty fine aircraft.