So, as it is now dark around 20:30 and my wife has a lot of weekends and evenings to work I've put the van in storage until next april. So after cleaning up the bench and getting a new compressor, I'm back to modelling.
One of my first tasks was finishing the lozenge application on the wings, including trimming and mixing a paint match for the blue rib tapes. I had some slips when cutting the sheet so had a few gaps here and there on the leading edge, as well as the trailing edge after trimming.
The wing tips aren't perfect, but I've managed to make them presentable enough with a bit of touch-up and will overcoat it all later with a brown tinted varnish to tone down the colours a bit and blend my touch-ups in.
I must admit I'm quite proud of the trailing edges, my oil paint mixture was pretty good so it's barely visible (except in daylight at some angles, the decals are gloss and the oils turn matt) about 50% if this is paint.
I also masked off the wheels and went to work masking the propeller -that was quite a frustrating job! In 1/72 you can get away with the overall effect of a few laminations, but in 1/32 it's quite a prominent eye-catcher so I wanted it to look good.
I referred to photo's of other models and of real aircraft, but did not quite get the laminations they way I wanted. In the end, the solution proved simple... (well, not as simple as buying a Proper Plane wood propeller!) If you imagine how the propeller was built from layers of wood and then start at the hub with very thin masking tape strips, just look from the side and mask straight up to above. In my case it's a Niendorf that is straight at the rear when looked from the side, so I used that as a starting point.
The process is probably a lot easer to explain with pictures, but my propeller is now a light wood colour and my 0,5mm masking tape is a paper/linen colour so it's just about invisible...
Hopefully in a few days a new update with more pictures
Jeroen
