WnW Hannover Cl.II finished (with a footnote)

[Bughunter]

Gary, you made a great masking and paint job! I like also you selection of color shades.
After a fantastic inside now a great outside finish.

Cheers,
Frank

[RAGIII]

The painted Lozenge fuselage is extremely well done! I am impressed by your results.
RAGIII

[Fvdm]

Wow, what a great job on the fuselage.

[gedmundson]

Thanks to everyone who commented on my fuselage - many tweaks were needed to get the colours and shapes balanced.

I used Aviattic 5-colour faded lozenge decals for the flying surfaces, and unfortunately there was no cookie-cutter type available for this model. The larger sections were not hard to manage for the wing sections, but adding the rib-tapes and surrounds were a bit of extra work. The photo below shows progress on one of the lower wings. I used the WnW decals as a template to cut the shapes. Although the rib-tapes do follow the moulded lines, they can appear crooked to the eye because of the camouflage. I've been through a number of new, sharp #11 blades on this project for sure 
Cheers,
Gary

[Alexis]

Looking good Gary !

Do you re-sharping your blades ? I have a small sharpening stone and when I have lots of cutting such as rib tapes , after a few guts I make a few passes on the stone keeping the blade sharp .


Alexis

[gedmundson]

Looking good Gary !

Do you re-sharping your blades ? I have a small sharpening stone and when I have lots of cutting such as rib tapes , after a few guts I make a few passes on the stone keeping the blade sharp .


Alexis

Thank you Alexis. The idea of re-sharpening the blades is a good one! I should give it a try. I do have an old ceramic Oxygen Sensor probe given to me by a fellow worker at my old job - he made knives and claimed it was a fine sharpening tool. I'll try that.
Cheers,
Gary

[DaveB]

Wow!

Amazing work so far, Gary.  I admire your patience in masking and painting the lozenge pattern to the fuselage - looks great.

Regards

Dave

[RAGIII]

The lozenge is looking good Gary! Keep up the Great work!!
RAGIII

[gedmundson]

Dave and Rick - thanks for that!

While building this project I've been referring to Ray Rimell's modelling book on the Hannover, and finding some very good tips. I typically wouldn't have bothered dressing up the observer's gun mount, but after reading about what Ray did, and seeing a drawing of how it actually looked, I decided to add some small mods to the kit parts.

The small springs were made from wrapping copper wire (salvaged from an electrical cord) around a #79 drill bit. The wingnuts were from some ModelKasten details I had in the spares box. Also added was a wire grab handle that has locating holes, but no handle included in the kit (?). I also cut the locking handle from the side and articulated it back a few degrees. They seem to be mounted on different sides depending on what references you use.

Cheers,
Gary

[mgunns]

Nice bit of work on the springs there Gary.   That's a real fiddly bit of plastic to put those springs on and it adds some real interest to that portion.  Very nice.  The brass handle is a nice touch as well and of course the Wingnut!  A visual pun and another nice touch.   Good ideas for my next Hannover build.

[gedmundson]

Nice bit of work on the springs there Gary.   That's a real fiddly bit of plastic to put those springs on and it adds some real interest to that portion.  Very nice.  The brass handle is a nice touch as well and of course the Wingnut!  A visual pun and another nice touch.   Good ideas for my next Hannover build.

Thanks Mark - I find the copper wire very handy for adding the odd detail here and there. I spent a bit of time today with some of it making those "cages" for the German airspeed indicators. They just don't look right without something protecting the rotary cups. Not as nice as Gaspatch, but quicker and cheaper.
Cheers,
Gary

[Alexis]

Excellent job on the details Gary . The cage around the airspeed cups is a added touch . Also like the springs you made and those along can be a challenge handling them afterwards .


Alexis

[mgunns]

I can see where that microscope is paying dividends in areas other than figure painting.  That is a real challenge to add that to the air speed anemometer and it turned out great.  Gives me an idea.

[Bughunter]

Gary, the gun ring shows a lot of nice parts and the springs are a very nice addition!
The ring looks very common to my recent Halberstadt CL.II build, the part with the springs was one block of plastic in the kit (so I made a new gun mount). What a nice amount of details in the WNW kits - I'm always impressed!

Cheers,
Frank

[RAGIII]

Outstanding  detail work on the ring and the  cage for the cups .
RAGIII