Thank you all for your encouragement. I've said it before, but the feedback is hugely important in providing motivation.
- PrzemoL, again, if my E.I comes out half as good as your build of Wintgens' high-wing bird I'll consider it a smashing success...
- Fredrik, the question of how I did the finish on the fuel tank has come up before, but honestly I don't remember what I did to achieve it... it was a base of Testor's Copper in the little old-fashioned square bottle, but then I most likely went over it with multiple washes of Dr. P.H. Martin's Bombay India Ink, which I probably wiped back with alcohol. I'm doing either an E.II or E.IV next, so I'll make a point to record how I go about it.
- Ben, thanks, in my "day job" I'm a landscape painter, so the variations of color you mention pretty much come as second nature. And it's one of the things I admire so about your paint work as well!
- Gary, no need to take notes on my work, just go back and read your build thread and the article on Immelmann's E.II in
MAI, since they're two of my main sources of inspiration! (But thanks, that was a great confidence-booster)
- Zac, thanks a ton. And if you happen to bump into Jamo at the aerodrome next time you get back there tell him his photos of the E.III have been invaluable.
- And Nigel, that might be the reason it's been taking so long to make any progress on this kit; half the time when I go down to work on it, it's simply not there...
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