Hello world,
after showing you my ready done work, I will now start with a build report.
First I have to say, that I do not want to be 100% correct in history regards (hope that are the right words)
I mean it could be, that I show two planes in a single scene, that could never have met in reality, because the first was a British trainer and the other was a German fighter at the Westfront for example (I just look that the timespan is correct, so you don’t need to worry about Dinosaurs in my Dios)
But now, back to topic. I want to do a scene with an Eindecker and a Fe 2b in a dogfight (flying)
The groundwork will be a little bit like a canyon with some wild water, snow and ice knobbed Oaks (the reason why I choose winter is I don’t want to glue any leaves on a tree for the next time) and a tree trunk were some staghounds on the one side and some boars threaten each other. My intension in this is to show an allegory between the animals and the humans because you don’t know how will be the winner.
It will be called “Jäger und Gejagte?” that means “Hunter and Prey?”
It will be in the size of 70 by 110 cm ( 27.5 by 43.3 inch)
The upper 2/3rd will be framed in an old baroqe frame, which will fade into the winter landscape.
The background (sky) will be done in an oil paint-style (maybe dawn).
Now, enough words here is a first Photoshop sketch (without canyon and only one wolf and one boar, so this will be changed)
Here the well known Fokker kit and it's content
My preferred colour scheme
the Pe-fret
First colour (alclad aluminum)
Here an easy method to make Wood:
Take an Artist ink pen (Farber) and paint some Wood grain on the surface.
Wait 2 or 3 minutes to let it dry and then rub with arubber or your finger over it to smear the ink a bit.
After that you kann go on with Tamiya clear yellow/orange.
In this case I didn't do it too accurate, because you won't see it anymore because the Pilot will be covering it.
Here the Pilot from Wingcockpit figures (thanks to David Allan)
with the modified Pe-belt.
See you,
Manni