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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Completed models => Topic started by: ModelingBob on July 20, 2016, 08:31:57 AM

Title: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: ModelingBob on July 20, 2016, 08:31:57 AM: (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/laskodi/005a_zps544776de.jpg)
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Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: RAGIII on July 20, 2016, 08:37:02 AM: WOW! You have nailed the finish and weathering on your Eindecker! The turned meatal cowling is superb as is the staining on wings and fuselage.
RAGIII
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: coyotemagic on July 20, 2016, 08:49:33 AM: She's a real looker, Bob! Very well done! What a great introduction. Welcome to the forum.
Cheers,
Bud
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: Des on July 20, 2016, 09:45:16 AM: A superb looking Fokker E.III Bob, the finish on this model is excellent and you have done a great job with the rigging.

Des.
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: eindecker on July 20, 2016, 10:41:34 AM: Oh yeah! Thanks for posting the photos. I love Eindeckers and and yours is a treat. I especially like the treatment you gave the fabric surfaces. They appear very realistic and as an Eindecker's should. I assume you used EZ Line as rigging materials and did away with turnbuckles. I think I will be taking that approach on my next Eindecker too.

Great build!
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: lcarroll on July 20, 2016, 11:23:22 AM: Beautiful work Bob! Great work on the finish, the shading is superb and the rigging really "clean" and well done. Your "turned metal" is an outstanding bit of work; My compliments on a magnificent Build!
Cheers,
Lance
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: gedmundson on July 20, 2016, 12:36:31 PM: Excellent work on a great kit! The finish on the cowling and weathered fabric really turned out well.
Cheers,
Gary
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: Borsos on July 20, 2016, 05:31:18 PM: Great Fokker with an excellent finish. Very nice!!!
Best wishes
Borsos
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: stefanbuss on July 20, 2016, 06:07:49 PM: I like the look of weathered fabric. Could you please elaborate a bit on your model - did you run into problems of some kind? Did you detail the kit further? Anything to be aware of during the build?

S.
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: Adam on July 20, 2016, 11:18:14 PM: Your Fokker looks great. Painting and shading makes the model looks like a real. :)

Adam
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: lone modeller on July 21, 2016, 01:54:31 AM: That is a real show stopper. The metallic finish is so realistic and the staining on the fabric surfaces is also excellent. What an introduction to this site!

Stephen.
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: Dirigible-Al on July 21, 2016, 02:01:27 AM: Brilliant work. I love the machined finish effect done on the cowling.
Alan.
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: Russell on July 21, 2016, 02:23:33 AM: Excellent Bob - both in detail & the overall effect.

As mentioned above your cowl in particular is superb.

Regards
Russell
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: ModelingBob on July 21, 2016, 05:53:01 AM: First, thanks to all for the very kind words on my little Fokker!!! And thanks for all the welcomes to this site!!!
The build was pretty trouble free and completely OOB. Typical WNW quality, making a mediocre modeler like myself look like a pro!!! As is typical with WNW kits, they go together pretty nicely with the usual caveats. Make sure you clean the paint away from joined surfaces and make sure all the sprue gates and mold seams are perfectly cleaned up so you won't have any significant fit issues. The only real problem I encounter with WNW kits, is their devoted attention to scale thickness parts, and this makes some parts quite fragile. In the case of the Fokker, I did manage to snap off the horizontal elevators (I pretty much break something on every WNW kit!), but this was easily solved by careful pinning of the elevators to an appropriate sized brass rod. Most of the weathered look was achieved using various pastel sticks ground up in a coffee grinder and applied with a fan brush to simulate that streaky effect. I like using a coffee grinder as it gives random sizes to the pastel "dust" and this leads to some variations in the "streaks".
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: tom1815 on February 01, 2017, 12:27:47 AM: Awesome finish on your Fokker, I have a fondness for weathering which comes from armor modelling and your example is very fine indeed.
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: Russell on February 01, 2017, 03:24:21 AM: Quote from: tom1815 on February 01, 2017, 12:27:47 AM
Awesome finish on your Fokker, I have a fondness for weathering which comes from armor modelling and your example is very fine indeed.

You post made me look again & the model is if anything even better on second inspection. The weathering as you say!
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: dr 1 ace on February 01, 2017, 09:37:48 AM: Ditto all the above comments, very nice !!!!

Ed
Title: Re: 1/32 Wingnut Wings Fokker E.III
Post by: ModelCellar on February 01, 2017, 10:48:32 AM: WHOA, that is really, really nice. I had not seen it before. As others have said, the weathering is great.

Paul