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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Completed models => Topic started by: gcn on May 28, 2012, 08:22:33 PM
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Inks still dry on this one. WNW Pfalz using their decal set to replicate Hans Bohnings blue Pfalz although its black in the Osprey book and light blue elsewhere.
Engine was tarted up a bit with wiring and I've tried to replicate the Eisfeld flares, gun and chipped windscreen on the starboard side of the aircraft.
The propeller was hand drawn and the rigging was with knit in elastic. I'm not happy with the rigging and I shall go back to fishing line for my future builds/
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss134/itreallywasntme/Pfalz/P1010317.jpg)
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss134/itreallywasntme/Pfalz/P1010318.jpg)
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss134/itreallywasntme/Pfalz/P1010319.jpg)
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss134/itreallywasntme/Pfalz/P1010321.jpg)
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss134/itreallywasntme/Pfalz/P1010320.jpg)
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss134/itreallywasntme/Pfalz/P1010322.jpg)
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss134/itreallywasntme/Pfalz/P1010323.jpg)
(http://i569.photobucket.com/albums/ss134/itreallywasntme/Pfalz/P1010309.jpg)
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Very tidy Pfalz gcn, the blue you chose looks great :)
Andrew
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GCN,
Beautiful Pfalz my friend,and I like that shade of blue. Well Done.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
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GCN,
Oh my, she's a beauty! Very nice work, really like the shading on the panels and the blue is simply perfect. Thanks for sharing this .
Cheers,
Lance :)
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great job there spot on :) stunning colour scheme!
what paint and colour did you use on the exhaust, if you dont mind sharing tips :)
cheers
michael
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Another beauty. What a great looking airplane!!!
Steve
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Thanks for the comments they are appreciated
regarding the exhaust.
Primed with tamiya flat black and then covered lightly with Gunze Dark iron and finally a top coat of Vallejo model air rust which was sprayed over certain areas of the exhaust and thats it nothing else was added.
oh it was all airbrushed
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She's really stunning, Gary. That prop in perfect and your shading is nice and subtle. As everyone else has said, that blue is very pleasing. Well done.
Cheers,
Bud
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Lovely Pfalz! Love the color scheme!!
RAGIII
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Lovely Pfalz! Love the color scheme!!
RAGIII
I ditto that. Wonderful.
Paddy
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Sorry Gary, I missed this one, stunning build mate, she looks superb, well done.
Cheers
Pete.
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Very impressive Pfalz!
What tubes did you use for braces?
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Tubes were brass 0.5mm od .3mm id. The problem I found is that the knit in elastic would only go through the tube once rather than looped which is what I would do with fishing line so some sleeves don't sit quite right over the eyelets.
From a distance it's not so bad :-)
Hope that helps
Gary
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Great work...will have to try your exhaust paint recipe on my next project...would be keen to learn how you created the brown stain around the wheel hub. Is it a wash? Thanks for sharing.
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Great work, I love the cleanness about it all, everything is clearly a separate part of the aircraft.
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The hubs:
Base coat of silver mixed with white.
The black spiders legs were brush painted with Vallejo black.
The brown is a very thin mix of tamiya brown and black, with more emphasis on the brown than black from how I remembered it. Normally it would be 50/50
A black oil pin wash right up against the hub and due to the thin nature of the wash capillary action meant it covers the entire od with one application of brush to plastic.
Eternal edge of hub highlighted in silver to create highlights.
The whole wheel followed a similar process. With the edges getting lowlights, raised areas having a pin wash to accentuate shadows with the raised bolts highlighted. Finished with random spraying of the black brown mix across the surface. This is highly thinned as the effect should be very subtle.
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Pfantastic Pfalz!
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Perfection in plastic ! That is beautiful , nice suttle weathering and tonings .
Sean
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Lovely work, Gary -
Particularly like the colour scheme.
Regards
Dave
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Gary,
Once again, beautiful job. Bear with me; regarding the hubs, what is a "pin wash"? The term is new to me, and I'm always trying to learn new techniques and tricks.
Cheers,
Lance
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Lance it's a term borrowed from the armour modellers.
Basically it's a thin oil wash of predominantly a dark colour that is used to emphasise shadows on raised items. Your surface should be veering towards a glossy shine. What you do is load the brush with enough liquid that when the brush hits the surface capillary action and the gloss surface means that the wash will hug the surface around the base of the raised area.
If you have too much liquid it will flood the area but just touch a dry brush into the flood and the oil will soak into brush and you can start again.
Oil washes are much easier to control compared to an acrylic wash but the technique is essentially the same.
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Gary,
It's a technique I have often used........just didn't know it had a name. Clever folks, those "mudders"!
Cheers,
Lance
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Looking at the quality of your build Lance I would have been amazed if you didn't use that technique in some form or another.
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Very nice indeed!
Cheers,
Chris