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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Under Construction => Topic started by: mess on April 07, 2021, 10:13:36 PM
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Hi all,
as a newbie on this forum I use to check new posts and gather inspiration for my builds. I'm 1/48 builder, mainly cold war era airplanes, but I tried WnW once and I'm WnW addicted.
I'd like to present one of my WnW builds, which is finished already, I will post some pictures with notes. I'm happy for any comment and expect critics to help me get better.
Model presented will be Roland C.IIa named Walfisch. I loved the one from boxart with mouth and curtains on fuselage windows.
I added Taurus stuff to engine, Gaspatch turnbuckles (1/48, I think that 1/32 seem oversized to my eyes), wooden propeller from LF models, friend of mine prepared masks for crosses. Drooling bulldog and GSI paints were used for camouflage, Vallejo for brush and oil colors for wooden textures and weathering. I added some details from scratch too.
I started with engine. Taurus camshaft had to be shortened 1mm approx to ensure perfect geometry for valve springs.
Martin
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Engine story continues with basic installation. I used Mercedes D.III timing gear, spark plugs and intake manifold nuts by Taurus. I added some isolation from tape to intake piping. The hairy sticks under engine are parts for ignition wiring.
Exhaust was completed too.
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Last for today some progress on engine. Ignition wiring installed, pt.1
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.. and pt.2
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Welcome the site :)
That is some nice work on the engine ! :)
Alexis
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Basic weathering and decals on engine.
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And one more...
Will continue with cockpit interior.
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Terrific work on your Engine. The plugs, wiring, valve springs and weathering are all excellent!
RAGIII
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Thanks, RAG.
Next in line was cockpit interior as written before. I tried to replicate wood on the floor with oil colors. The rest was painted according to instructions. Interior graygreen is DB, bluegray GSI. I added wire antenna and tried do some chips on radio and fuel tank caused by aviators shoes. Then used oils and pigments for some weathering.
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... and two more picts.
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Gorgeous work. I Love the worn wood look! I know you used oils but how did you achieve the wear?
RAGIII
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Thanks RAG. Wood was toned by orange clear Tamiya, covered by MRP clear laquer and then treated with oils and pigments until happy with the result.
M.
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Great. Lovely wooden floor. And the engine is very realistic, too.
Surprised to hear you had problems with Taurus camshaft. I had that issue on Mercedes D.IV engines but not on Mercedes D.IIIs. By the way, I am currently working on my 6th D.III for Roland C.II :)
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I shortened D.IV camshaft for my Rumpler too. It doesn't have to be common issue anyway.
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I'm with the others. The floor wear is a great observation you have executed very well!!
Steve
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Many thanks for kind words to all.
Next part were seats. GSI paint shaded with various oils. I replaced photoetched rings on seatbelts with scratched from wire.
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This is fun watching it all come together in one day!!
Steve
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... and two more. Seatbelts will receive some weathering later.
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WnW are almost perfect. I found two circular covers not to be circular. First one was on fuselage. Removed and recreated with styrene sheet.
** Spoiler warning ** The other was on engine cover, will be shown later on. :)
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Nice progress and a great looking plane.
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Although I understand that this one is already finished I do like seeing your processes unfold!
RAGIII
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Great detailing work on all sections, everything given a living look.
Ciao
Giuseppe
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Thanks!
Next step were fuselage halves and bulkeads. Test fitting did not show any issues.
M.
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With some more weathering attempts. And throttle control added to engine and connected to throttle lever in cockpit :)
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Your attention to detail and finishing results are exquisite work all round, and like the others here I'm enjoying the experience of watching your progression in "compressed" time! The worn wood is brilliantly done and very realistic, very impressive already!
Cheers,
Lance
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The interior and engine look fantastic in place. The subtle shading is perfect!
RAGIII
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Stellar work indeed, mess. Very impressive build of the highest caliber.
Cheers,
Gary
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Thanks for all nice comments!
Continuing with completing fuselage interior into left fuselage part. Adding electric generator with belt connection to engine etc.
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Oil tank and some piping to engine.
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... and almost ready to close the fuselage.
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Nnnice. Especially that I have just closed the fuselage on mine :D
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Everything looks great in place. Excellent work and your detailing shows!
RAGIII
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Beautiful work
Steve
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Thanks! :)
With fuselage closed, seam filled with CA glue and cleaned, I started to solve the windows. First I wanted to replace decal curtains with some 3D representation, but I realised that it was painted even in real. Continuing with decals, there was no white on it and was needed to be painted by hand.
My procedure: I placed decals from inside with front face out. painted white and then used oil paints to represent shades from inside the windows. Complete windows were glued to fuselage and masked.
Wings fall perfectly to their places. Not glued yet.
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This one is taking shape nicely, mess - well done.
Cheers,
Gary
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Continuing with first camo colour. First I sprayed and masked white squares under crosses and applied brown.
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Brown was GSI, after that I applied two greens by Drooling Bulldog. Awesome paints!
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Then crosses were masked and sprayed.
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Absolutely Stunning paint work! What a Beauty this one is!
RAGIII
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:)
Both magine guns were used OOB, I like it more than Gaspatch offerings, it has to thick cooling jackets. The fuselage one was completed, dryfitted, synchro cable replaced with thinner one and complete set was sprayed with gunmetal. Weathering will be applied later.
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And as mentioned before, one hatch cover on engine cover was found unacceptable, so I reworked it by removing it and reworing with sheet of styrene. I also removed all cover locks (or how it should be named :) ) and drilled out their holes.
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Started with decals and creating cover locks. I was afraid of it because fuselage surface in those parts was quite complicated. Decals went fine and with some effort the result seems ok to me.
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The last one with whale smile and tail skid.
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First turnbuckles installed to fuselage front part. As I wrote earlier, I used resin Gaspatch 1/48 as it seems better to my eyes than 1/32 ones. And started to work on landing gear. Plough paint wear was achieved with some chipping solution. Weathering was created as before with oil paints and pigments.
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This is continuing to be a Great guild log. Your painting and weathering is impressive. The decals came out beautifully!
RAGIII
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I'm using monofilament for rigging. I used Uschi but it seems to thin and flat to me. I thought how to paint the line. The method accepted was to put monofilament to sprue, fix it on both sides with CA glue and airbrush it on it. It worked for me fine, I just repaired placed damaged during rigging procedure.
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Great progress, again. A pleasure to watch.
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Thanks :)
I had to modify rods used to control ailerons. I repositioned control stick and ailerons and shortened one and lengthened second rod installed behind fuselage radiators (will be installed later on).
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Next steps were rigging itself and some oil weathering.
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There are control rods installed on second photo, it is visible that they were repositioned to represend non-neutral aileron position.
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More rigging... and you could see how finished "curtains" look.
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And finally some wheel dirt and what is visible from cockpit with fuselage closed.
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Wow, this is stunning! Can't imagine why you call yourself Mess! :)
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It's a great mess of details.
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LF model propeller needed some modification to spinner.
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That’s an amazing model of a beautiful bird!
Best regards,
Andreas
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Exceptional build and paint job - really top notch.
Cheers,
Gary
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Thanks to you, guys!
Work continued with fitting both guns.
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And some finale with weathering and small details.
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And the last ones. Thanks for all your comments!
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Thanks again for showing your processes on this Beauty! Construction, Detailing, Painting, weathering, and rigging are all First Class! Superb results!!
RAGIII
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Superb results, Martin.
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A truly outstanding build. The build log is informative and your techniques and application are impressive with the end result being quite stunning.
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Thanks for comments, I appreciate each of them. I would post some more if interested.
M.
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Lovely Walfisch. And a fine build report. Thanks for sharing
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Such an exceptionally nice model, Martin - very impressive. Thanks for posting your inspirational pictures, and well done you.
Cheers,
Gary
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Congrats on a great model, very well detailed and finished.
Ciao
Giuseppe
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Exceptional detail and superb quality of finish Martin, another spectacular model. Do post more, I really enjoy following your progress after the Build and this is inspiring work to say the least! Thanks for sharing this with us here.
Cheers,
Lance
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Beautiful model, I love the painting schema you chose.
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Very nice work. A real attention grabber!!
Steve