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Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« on: June 10, 2017, 07:03:09 AM »
Hello,
after a short holiday I found a lot of great feedback in my other threads - thank you very much!

After the stripdowns series back to 1/48: Here I like to show my third plastic model, a kit of Eduard: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153
The wooden propeller is made from canadian maple and sycamore, the turnbuckles are Gaspatch and the rigging was done with fishing line. I had some trouble to get it straight ...
The painting was done with Gunze, Alclad and oils for the wooden fuselage. The rib painting do not respect the light correctly, the later models are better in that point, but I learnt a lot!

Please be gracious ;)
Cheers,
Frank
 


















The view from below. Please note the brass drain pipes (the arrows points to them)


Offline dr 1 ace

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2017, 07:04:52 AM »
Another fine example of your work !

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2017, 09:03:34 AM »
Another beauty Frank, lovely as usual.

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2017, 05:02:59 PM »
I do love your models Frank..

Although the ribs may not 'respect the light' they look artistically spot on..

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2017, 06:58:31 PM »
Another beautiful example of your excellent modeling skills Frank, a superb looking model on all counts.

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #5 on: June 11, 2017, 03:48:03 AM »
Another example from a first class modeller. I really like your work - the wood fuselage on this is super. Many congratulations.

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #6 on: June 11, 2017, 09:29:28 AM »
One of my fav kits to model, excellent build loved seeing it

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2017, 02:48:12 AM »
What a beautiful model, Frank! Lovely to look at and enjoy! I love the subject too... Regards, Marc

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #8 on: June 12, 2017, 04:17:00 AM »
D'ouh Frank, what's going on? This one is a total disaster.
Well, kidding aside, another beauty off your bench makes me doubt that you sleep, eat, drink or make anything that distracts you from finishing one masterpiece after the other.

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #9 on: June 12, 2017, 06:24:10 AM »
I think it came out great! Wood, metal & linen surfaces are all well represented. I am not sure what you mean by "do not respect light correctly." If you are talking about the darkness of the ribs, it looks correct to me. Very similar to the 2 photos below.



Steve

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #10 on: June 12, 2017, 07:11:25 AM »
@all
Thank you for your great feedback for my Albatros!

another beauty off your bench makes me doubt that you sleep, eat, drink or make anything that distracts you from finishing one masterpiece after the other.
:) I'm still alive and eat, drink and also sleep. This models are the result of my last two years. I made 6 models per year, this year only two until now.
The next and last model to show here will follow the next days.

I am not sure what you mean by "do not respect light correctly." If you are talking about the darkness of the ribs, it looks correct to me.
My mistake was at that time, to paint up and down side in the same way.
The light comes from top, so the wing rib is often brighter compared to the fabric aside.
In the view from below the ribs are darker and the light goes trough the fabric and make it brighter.

Cheers,
Frank

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #11 on: June 12, 2017, 11:24:24 PM »
Frank,
I have been negligent in commenting on completed builds. So I am going kind of backwards as I see you have many others posted. Beautifuk wrk on the Albatros! Lovely wood tones and everything works all around!
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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #12 on: June 13, 2017, 12:15:50 PM »
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My mistake was at that time, to paint up and down side in the same way.
The light comes from top, so the wing rib is often brighter compared to the fabric aside.
In the view from below the ribs are darker and the light goes trough the fabric and make it brighter.

But, I also see dark ribs on the wings of the D.III in the photos that I included. That was my point, yours looks correct.

Steve

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #13 on: June 13, 2017, 03:33:11 PM »
The Oeffags of 153 series are some of the most beautiful planes from the WWI era (the combination of wood, metal and CDL) and your rendering shows her in her complete beauty, well done, Frank!

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Re: Albatros D.III OEFFAG 153, Eduard 1/48
« Reply #14 on: June 14, 2017, 03:16:26 AM »
But, I also see dark ribs on the wings of the D.III in the photos that I included. That was my point, yours looks correct.
Steve, now I got it. So you made me feel more comfortable about my model 8)
If I remember right, I have seen s/w pics, where the ribs looks brighter seen from top. May be it depends from light and environment (dark ground etc).

The Oeffags of 153 series are some of the most beautiful planes from the WWI era (the combination of wood, metal and CDL)
Thank you Ondra! And it was more robust than the german original ;)

Cheers,
Frank