Always nice to read your feedback!
Beautifully painted Frank! I like the colors and may have to look into getting some of that paint!
Thanks Rick, I find the linen a bit on the dark side, but it is to late to change it. But I can live with it.
I would polish the cowl , will highlight the engine even more and will blend with the livery .
Ok Alexis, I have done it, but tried it a bit more lighter. It was also not working the same way due to the curved surface of the cowling.
And the alloy around the nose...
Thanks Hugh, the idea was to have an eyecatcher on the front to distract the viewer from the crude kit
Lovely painting too, must have taken a long time masking although rib tapes!
Oh yes Richie! And this bird is so small and has soo many ribs ...
My original idea was to mask the space between ribs and spray rib tapes using primer. But due to the small size and my fear of that amount of masking on resin I dropped that idea.
Your ref.pic shows different colors between the cowling and the aluminium so I think you need to polish the cowling in a different way than the aluminium.
The bigger version shows it better, but I can't download or link it here. They are doing dirty javascript tricks with the pictures.
Superb detail work as always Frank, just beautiful!
Thank you Lance, I hope that it will be a nice addition to my triplanes.
The contrast between the cowling and paintwork is also excellent - indeed you really are producing a small scale replica of the original!
Thanks Stephen!
There exists a replica in: "Suspended in main hall. Solent Sky, Southampton", but I think it looks not that nice. It shows an early state, with the wheels in cutouts of the lowest wing, very long tail skid due to that and wrapped wing struts.
Source: wikimedia.org
The Spin kit depicts the latest state.
Due to very nice weather (finally spring) I have not much progress, but it is a biplane now.
Cheers,
Frank