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Offline RAGIII

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #60 on: April 22, 2016, 08:32:48 PM »
Your work on the Albatros continues to be suprb! Like the others I will have to try the Tea Bags!
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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #61 on: April 23, 2016, 03:29:57 AM »
Lovely work, Borsos! This kind of detailing will help any Albatros model, in any scale... and yes, I'm going to start drinking tea! I'm really liking this... Regards, Marc

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #62 on: April 23, 2016, 07:20:02 AM »
Hello,
thank you - as usual - for your support and your interest. I'm happy that you like that tea bag thing  :). Today I added some paint, some washes and some highlights with oils.
I painted the guns using a base of black and gun metall out of the tube. You can use these paints with a brush, q-tip or cotton cloth. The turpentine of the oil wash hasn't evaporated entirely, therefore some holes in the cooling jackets are still black
I painted also the maior parts of the engine and added some washing and highlighting. I am deeply impressed how well these taurus resin parts fit the WNW engine which is even without additional resin a little beauty and fits perfectly.

The detailed pictures of an early Mercedes D III in the engine-section of this forum shot by Bertl at Oberschleißheim are a great help painting the engine.
Not much progress for today, because it was a long and hard day repairing some annoying stuff on our house (I am neither a carpenter nor a plasterer as I had to realize today again...)
Please tell me if these detailed posts are boring and I should shorten them a bit.
Thank you!
Borsos
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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #63 on: April 23, 2016, 07:28:54 AM »
Boring!!!! Hardly... I think not.  The engine is looking resplendant.

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #64 on: April 23, 2016, 08:01:33 AM »
Awesome engine ! Your posts are far from boring, don't change anything you are doing!
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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #65 on: April 23, 2016, 08:25:02 AM »
Excellent work so far Borsos, I am enjoying every post you make so please don't change anything, and thanks for the tip about the tea bags for the seat belts.

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #66 on: April 23, 2016, 09:26:03 AM »
Keep the posts coming, Borsos: the work is terrific, and the explanations are enlightening.

Chris

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #67 on: April 23, 2016, 11:39:40 AM »
   Like the others I enjoy your updates, Borsos, and they are anything but too detailed or boring. This is a terrific Build and I am enjoying every bit of information you provide.
Cheers,
Lance

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #68 on: April 24, 2016, 01:55:47 AM »
your job is fantastic
great

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #69 on: April 24, 2016, 03:30:37 AM »
Your posts are anything but boring, Borsos!  I always look forward to them, so
keep up the good work, my friend!


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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #70 on: April 24, 2016, 11:56:19 PM »
Brilliant painting and work, Borsos.
Cheers
Martin

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #71 on: April 26, 2016, 09:30:46 AM »
Hey folks,
thanks a lot! I really appreciate that.

Tonight some updates: Seatbelts are done:

When the engine's finished, then it's time to close the fuselage. Of course there are many things that could still be done with the engine. To see how much would be visible, I made some dryfitting of all the components I've been working on yet:

At least engine, MGs and exhaust are not blocking each other

When I build an airplane, it's the overall appearance that strikes me. And leaving off parts of the fuselage changes the silhouette of the plane. So I'm not a big fan of leaving of parts to show the inside of the fuselage. Well, but that means there won't be seen much of the engine. I'll finish it soon without much more detailing. I'm no fan neither of detailing things just to know that they are there...
To ease closing the fuselage and properly placing it's guts I glued the two fuselage parts leaving off the front portion. So the interior can be added through the front. But the engine needs to be glued into the wooden frames first. For that's a tight fit. The WNW engine seems to be slightly bigger than the kit engine...
Things are starting to get shape...
Thank you!
Borsos
« Last Edit: March 30, 2018, 05:10:28 PM by Borsos »
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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #72 on: April 26, 2016, 03:30:19 PM »
Great to see it coming together so beautifully, Borsos!! And I really like your attitude that it's the "overall appearance that strikes" you: Same with me, absolutely!

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #73 on: April 26, 2016, 11:26:51 PM »
Very cool stuff. Love the work you are doing inside. Great idea with the tea bag. I have used mesh tea bags for fine screen but never thought of this. Will raid the pantry tonight.
James

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Re: Albatros D I 1/32 Roden
« Reply #74 on: April 27, 2016, 03:25:53 AM »
Ditto all the above comments, keep the posts coming !!

Ed
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