Gazzas

Excellent office!

That wing looks great.

Very nice!

That looks excellent!

Hi Everyone, For weeks I've despaired making it this far. The kit wings have suffered terrible paint lift every time I tried masking. In the end, I gave up and resorted to hand-painting with Tamiya enamels. Then I touched up a little with the airbrush. I'll do more once the decals have set and I've sealed them with Future. The wind is blowing a gale today, so I'll seal them later. Here are the photos: The crosses are WNW decals donated from my Green Tail Trilogy(you get three sets of Maltese crosses, and two sets of late war crosses). The rest of the decals are Roden. For some reason the Roden upper wing crosses are 5mm shorter than the WNW upper wing crosses. You can see the back side of my first laminated prop attempt. The serial numbers aren't for this A/C. I don't know the serial for this bird as I've never seen an actual photo of it. So, I decided to use them anyway as I like the way they put the serials on the tails back then. Finally the prop. Roden decals and faint lamination. The lamination is so faint because I mixed Tamiya clears red, yellow, and blue to make brown. The blue is very powerful, so you don't need much of it to turn the mix green. Four yellow, Four red, and One Blue. BTW... I like my props to spin. It irritates me when they make kits with fixed props. So, I stretched some sprue to about the same diameter of the king nut on the center of the prop. Drilled the prop and glued my homemade drive shaft in place. It spins freely.... Thanks for looking! Gaz

Kent, Sure is looking good! Those lightning bolts came out very well. Gaz

Keep the good work coming! I'm amazed that in a kit of this scale, that the belly of it isn't chock full of detail.

Jim, Awesome job! Gaz

Very nice! You've gone from zero to almost done, very quickly.

Nicely done!

With my recent build of a WWI kit, my interest once again swings to The Great War. But, growing up in an Allied country, I've only learned most in depth about the Allied Powers. But being a single-language being, studying the Central Powers is a little hampered. Fortunately for me, more stuff about the other side is now available in my single language. Special thanks to The Book Depository! You can't go wrong about any book written by Christopher Duffy. Ernst Junger was repeatedly wounded during fighting in the trenches yet lived to be 102 years old. He fought in the Freikorps and was one of the millions who returned home after the war to find his world turned upside down. In the age of steam and steel, Felix von Luckner flought his war in a sailing vessel. After years of hearing about Haig, it should be interesting to read about his main opponent. Finally the last two are actually aviation centric. Both aces were to survive WWI. Rudolf Berthold raised his own Freikorps after WWI and was killed by a rebellious mob. Ernst Udet, we all know was to take his own life during WWII. Gaz

Interesting paint modulation technique! Looks cool! Gaz

Amazing work! Love the way your interior painting goes. Gaz

nice!

superbe!

Too cool!

Any hardware store lacquer thinner should do. Gaz

Looks great! Glad your back is better.

What an ugly yet cool bird... waiting for some foil luvvin! Count me in... Eventually. Gaz

Freaking awesome, Dude!

Great job, Shawn! Gaz

KAAAAHHHHNNNNN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! That looks sweet! Could a guy could get a cheap laser in there, and a smoke projector (incense, maybe?) in the room, then it could look like movie phaser fire? Far beyond me as I hate wiring of any kind... Gaz

Excellent! That is an amazingly detailed Cockpit.

Hi everyone, I didn't get as much done tonight as hoped. Tired after a week's work. The Eduard Cockpit parts. Clear fuel tube. A few small decals instead of paint. Both kits have decal seat belts. The molded-on detail of the access hatch behind the pilot is much better on the Tamiya kit, IMHO. Thanks for looking, Gaz

One thing they've definitely got right was the supercharger intake. The seam it's where it belongs. Unfortunately the Eduard intake is more conventional. Another interesting development is the windscreen part. Part of it is glued to the IP and that area fits under the cowling parts in front. But those are still in the future. I'll start on the Eduard cockpit tonight, hopefully. Gaz