Roden 1/32 Albatros D.III (OAW), Oblt. Josef Loeser - COMPLETED

[olgerd83]

Here is the time for new project, on my Youtube channel subscribers voted for this model as my next project.

And to be honest Albatros D.III is one of my favorite planes.

 

I found very few information about the prototype and pilot

 

 

 

Windsock also says that colors could be white/red or white/black, I prefer to have white and red stripes, bottom side of wings will be light blue.

 

I decided to start build from cockpit, painted inside parts in Mr.Hobby Radome as base, after using oil paints made a wood effect

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 16, 2021 by olgerd83

[olgerd83]

After oil paints dried i covered model with layer of Future

 

 

 

 

-on the left side put magneto and starter

 

 

 also painted seat and other fuselage elements, gas tank  with brass and ammo box - steel

 

 

 

To be continued...

 

 

 

[Gazzas]

Awesome work!  I have the OAW kit, too.

[olgerd83]

 

Next step is engine:

-I decided to remove plastic spark plugs and cut 0.5mm diameter medical needles in small pieces, drilled holes and glued them

 

- after added copper wires

 

- also removed plastic springs

 

- and made springs using copper wire, cut it into 12 small springs

 

- made ignition wires to new spark plugs

 

- painted the whole engine in black

 

- masked cylinders and painted bottom in aluminium

 

[olgerd83]

 

 

 

 

- ignition wires were painted in yellow, also I glued wires to ignition box

 

- here are photos of completed engine

 

 

 

 

 

[olgerd83]

I also completed a video about the engine build

 

 

[BradG]

Coming up a treat there.

[europapete]

Looking great, nice woodwork. If I may, the ignition wires don't change colour. They would be either all black or all yellow. Otherwise, you have done a very nice engine. Regards, Pete in RI

Edited April 21, 2021 by europapete

[olgerd83]

On 4/20/2021 at 10:57 PM, europapete said:

Looking great, nice woodwork. If I may, the ignition wires don't change colour. They would be either all black or all yellow. Otherwise, you have done a very nice engine. Regards, Pete in RI

Thank you, I didn't know about that, it's a good reference for future builds, will not change for this one because the engine is already inside the fuselage

 

- I covered model with primer

 

 

- made stripes from Tamiya masking tape only on the bottom sides of wings

 

- painted all model in white

 

next step - is masking for the red lolly-pop stripes

 

 

 

[Dpgsbody55]

Great looking model so far.  I like your wood painting and engine.  Very well done. 

 

 

Cheers,

Michael

[dmthamade]

Woodwork paint really well done!! Looking forward to the candy cane color scheme.

 

Don

Edited April 26, 2021 by dmthamade

[olgerd83]

you can watch a new video about a cockpit build on my channel

 

 

[olgerd83]

lolly pop painting part:

 

- I used Tamiya 6mm masking tape and placed 2 stripes to make a one 12mm stripe

 

 

 

 

- put additional layer in between, just to prevent any overspray

 

 

- and covered all upper wings and fuselage with red color

 

[olgerd83]

masks were removed

 

I really like the result, it's very bright and very small amount of red overspray, that I easily fixed

However, only after removing masks, I realized that my paint job was not correct :-(

There should be 7 white stripes on the fuselage and I have only 6, also stripes are not even and not every stripe is parallel...

 

Any way, I decided to leave as is, because a) I just do not want to repaint it, b) I do not have a lot of white paint left, and this will take some time to order a new one,

c) only some experts can notice a mistake.

I think, if I didn't tell you about it, you wouldn't notice ;-)

 

to be continued...

 

 

 

[dmthamade]

Have to say, i would never have known the stripes are incorrect. All i see is a great colorful build!! Reminds me of a JV44 bird.

 

Don