The lower wing was finished already.
The middle wing are now also done, including the inner cutout.
Today the remaining rib tapes on upper wings was applied. All done.
But with securing the rib tape on the trailing edge with Future I run into trouble.
The lozenge decals have come loose, Future has run under them, blown bubbles, and with every attempt to save it somehow, it has gotten worse and worse. I was so angry, I tore off the centerpieces.
So I put it away and tried to do something different.
WheelsOne open task was the wheels.
The left bright grey wheel ist the kit wheel. This is according to the Datafile drawing, but I think it is a bit small. A friend warned me that the Eduard Albatros is sitting notoriously low on the landing gear, so a small wheel would increase that effect.
The Experimental-Datafile mention also the Albatros D.V pages in the Albatros Special Datafile, so I checked the drawing there. The wheel is much bigger, accordingly the wheels in the Albatros D.V kit on the right in the picture, but there are no spares.
I found remaining bigger wheels from a Fokker kit (the dark blue grey), but the tire is thin and the wheel itself too.
Later I found wheels in a Mirage Halberstadt kit, which are not needed. But this are only the tires! I sanded them a little bit thinner.
On the inner side I cut 0.5mm plastic sheet, but what about the conus on the outer side? I tried deep drawing with a hot air gun, but this fails. I don't have the needed tooling as the experts showed here.
But I have a lathe! So I glued two 1mm sheets and turned a flat conus.
I turned also two brass bushes for adapting the nickel silver axle on the left. I think I have now two bulky wheels which look like the ones on the original picture.
I can glue them after painting and don't need masks.
Cheers,
Frank