Wingnut Wings 1/32 Albatros D.V: Jasta 5 - Ltn Wolf

[Whitey]

My first WIP on here for while. I often go too far into a kit before taking photos but I'll try to keep this one up to date as we go.

 

I have a Kitty Hawk Kingfisher nearly at the finish line, so I use this to keep me going whilst waiting for final details to dry. The Kingfisher should be in RFI later this month.

 

 

A good friend of mine is from Bavaria, my F104G is in Bavarian colours so I thought I would do the same with this little beauty.

 

 

I am fairly comfortable using acrylics and clear yellow or orange for wood grain interior effect and this one is no different. Undercoat with Dark Yellow, streak with some Browns and then overcoat, with a brush, clear orange in place for darker wood and clear yellow for the lighter woods.

 

Adding the details is fairly straight forward modelling.

 

 

HGW seat belts and I used some micro tape on the seat bulkhead to simulate linen. I'll add some better photos of that next time.

 

The engine is straight forward but I added spark plugs from Taurus, plug leads using EZY line and painted yellow for new leads and made some valve springs from fuse wire. I decided not to add the red line and engine number. Apparently it wore off pretty quickly or came off with all the oil that was spread. The carby and inlet manifolds are kit parts with the manifold covered with thin tamiya masking tape and stained with some flat clear with some light brown added.

 

 

I am using the Pheon Decals sheet, Master LMGs, Gaspatch and Bob's Buckles turnbuckles, Gaspatch Airspeed Indicator and Ezy line for the rigging. Still waiting on a Proper Plane prop and metal exhaust - when the mail sorts itself out, whether I use them or not is not determined. See what they look like.

 

 

It's interesting the WnW paint scheme, as shown in the Jasta 5 Trio that I also have, is different to the Pheon scheme. The Nauve and Green are reversed and Pheon has gold striping on the fuselage as opposed to WnW with yellow. 

 

I have undercoated the wings with Tamiya White Primer and added left over rib tapes from my Roland C.II built years ago. Hopefully I can manage the painting with a bit of the darker rib tapes showing through in place, especially the undersides.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[AlbertD]

Nice start. The WnW Albatros is a great kit.

[MikeMaben]

[Dpgsbody55]

Nice work so far.  Looking forward to seeing more progress. 

 

 

Cheers,

Michael

[Whitey]

More fun underway with the wings painted and tail painted.

 

A variety of different brands used. Supercheap grey primer, SMS Green on the tail, Valejo Mauve and Mr Hobby Green on the wings, with Tamiya Red around the tail surfaces and the nose. Undersides of the wings are Mr Hobby RLM65.

 

Masking of the tail was done by drawing around the surfaces onto OraMask, using a 2 mm marker pen to draw around the outline and then cut with scissors to the inside of the markers line. Took me a while but it looks pretty damn good.

 

Dark yellow under Aviatic light wood grain on the wing root. I think it is too dark so may strip that off and use yellow underneath. Leave that decision until tomorrow.

 

Engine and wings are just sitting in place for the photo.

 

Next up in the morning will be a coat of gloss on the fuselage and when its dry I'll start the decalling. 

 

I hope everyone has a great Christmas.

Edited December 26, 2020 by Whitey

[Dave Brewer]

Coming up a treat Whitey, love your 104 by the way too.

Cheers,

Dave.

[monthebiff]

Lovely work as ever Whitey! Great looking Albatros.

 

Regards.Andy 

[Pete Roberts]

Looking great! What SMS and Mr Hobby greens did you use - they look the part to my eyes. Have the same subject to build so following with great interest. 

[Whitey]

Thanks for the nice comments guys.

 

For Pete, the tail is SMS PL06 Green and the wings are Mr Colour #312 FS34227 as per the Jasta 5 instructions from WnW. The red is Mr Colour #327 Red FS11136. I think any reasonable red would do.

[Whitey]

Well a good week or so modelling of the Bavarian Albatros has come to an end.

It's ready for the Bavarian blue and white checkers but I have painted the bloody thing grey and its too bloody hard to mask it to paint the white fuselage bits.

But all is not lost, I can turn it into one of the other Jasta 5 aircraft with a grey fuselage and get another out of the box to do the Bavarian one again.

It means that I will have to break up my Jasta 5 Green Tail Trilogy. Bugger. I was always going to build two Albatros but I guess now I will have to build 3 - Wolf's Bavarian, Josef Mai's as flown by TVAL in Masterton and the one I guess this current model is going to be - maybe the Pheonix as it closely depicts the model in its present greyness and wing camouflage pattern, and the name is probably appropriate for this stuff up. 

 

Lets see what emerges in the coming days.

 

[jeroen_R90S]

I have an already opened J5 Trilogy, and I'm not doing this scheme... if you like you can have my WnW decals for this aircraft?

(minus stencils, crosses etc as I need these for my own model :))

 

Jeroen

[Whitey]

Very kind of you Jeroen. PM in the system.

 

[Knightofthesky]

Hi!

Very nice Albatros...I remember one thing because of the Pheon decals...the Pheon Bavarian blue/white pattern are wrong on the fuselage rear area.

The WNW are correct...they are going straight around.

You can see it on the WNW-website

[Whitey]

The wolf is back on the bench.

 

Jeroen kindly sent me his spare WnW decals and they arrived yesterday and put to work last night and this morning. Thanks very much Jeroen.

 

They work really well with Mr Mark Softer, especially around the nose where some vents and access panels are located. I cut the clear film surrounding the W off to reduce the chance of any silvery later. 

 

Just waiting for the leather to dry around the cockpit and then put the rest of the checkers on followed by the Wolf insignias, this afternoon.

 

 

Standby for a further update later today.

[LSP_Kevin]

Looking good, Pete!

 

Kev