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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Under Construction => Topic started by: gedmundson on March 23, 2019, 06:36:10 AM
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Hi Folks, I decided to start another Encore model last month, the 1/32 Encore Albatros D.II. Basically the Roden kit with a few extras like a resin engine and some Eduard etched metal parts. I'm building Richtofen's mount from September 1916. Here are a few photos of the build so far.
Cheers,
Gary
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Gorgeous engine and cockpit, Gary! This'll be another of your show stoppers!
Cheers,
Bud
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Gorgeous engine and cockpit, Gary! This'll be another of your show stoppers!
Cheers,
Bud
Can't say it any better than My Amigo has! Beautiful work!
RAGIII
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Great start Gary, another one of your beauties in the making.
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Beautiful interior detail Gary, looks like another outstanding product on the way from your workshop!
Cheers,
Lance
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If you connect the engine to a fuel and electricity supply, will it start? The interior looks rather fine too!
Stephen.
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Very interested with this plane I will fallow with pleasure..
Xan
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Thanks for the encouragement, guys! much appreciated. The copper colour on those intakes will be toned down a bit on the final look! I just completed buttoning up the fuselage with a lot of Flex-I-File Plast-I-Weld Professional Plastic Welder, especially on the engine cowl. Also, in addition to cutting the wing root out for the flying wire attachment points, I added a couple of scratch-built pulleys for the rudder control...
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Wow, those pulleys look great!
RAGIII
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Really nice work so far on your attention to the details , super ! :)
Terri
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Yes nicely done.
Ryan
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Ooh nice one Gary,
Guy
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Very nice work, the engine is a real jewel.
Cheers
Ondra
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Very fine work, including the scratch. A masterpiece on the way, surely.
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Thanks again for all the nice comments on this project. I've buttoned up the fuselage and filled and sanded all the seams which took a long time. Since MvR's aircraft had a darker finish to the wood on the fuselage, I've base coated the wood part using a mix of NATO Brown toned lighter with some Desert Yellow. Getting ready for a gloss-coat and some woodgrain soon.
The figure painting is underway on a resin MvR by Model Cellar - the one where he's sitting on top of the fuselage with his legs hanging in the cockpit.
Cheers,
Gary
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That looks like him
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Fantastic build, Gary! I really love the early Albatrosses and also your figure painting skills are truely amazing.
Andreas
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Outstanding update and I really love the MvR face ! Lovely work all around.
RAGIII
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Lovely interiors and a living Richtofen's head. This is going to be a real masterpiece.
Ciao
Giuseppe
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Fantastic build, Gary! I really love the early Albatrosses and also your figure painting skills are truely amazing.
I could not say it better!
Cheers,
Frank
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Fantastic build, Gary! I really love the early Albatrosses and also your figure painting skills are truely amazing.
I could not say it better!
Cheers,
Frank
Nor I,
Ed
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Good day everyone - I was able to take the big step this morning and glue on my top wing. This kit has proved very challenging so far, but my biggest worry would be this effort to get the assembly to this point without wrecking something. I ended up using oil paint streaks for the wood grain instead of wood grain decals (which I'll save for when I'm a bit better at decalling) and I masked and painted the large crosses on the top and bottom wings (for the same reason). The wings have been set up with etched metal turnbuckles on copper loops (so they swivel and look straight when the rigging lines go on). Still a long way to go on this one but a small light at the end of the tunnel.
Cheers,
Gary
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Wow Gary, your efforts are truly paying off. She looks great.
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Looking very nice Gary, aren't those individually masked wood grain panels a riot! I swear I lost weight removing the strips of tape on mine until it was complete. I also found using turnbuckles (I used the Gas Patch ones) with "scratched" eyelets a real challenge in trying to keep the CA to the shank of the eyelet and clear of the turnbuckle, what did you anchor them with?
This is really coming together beautifully, I've built their Roden D.III Kit and it comes with some real challenges as I'd guess this one does as well. Great work as always!
Cheers,
Lance
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Knowing the pitfalls of the original Roden kits I am in Awe of your work! The graining is awesome as are the sprayed crosses!
RAGIII
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Juan, Lance and Rick - many thanks for your encouraging comments. To answer your question about the turnbuckles Lance - here is a photo of a couple of them with the copper loops attached. I take the twisted stem of the copper and have a pre-drilled hole in the wings - then just carefully dip the end in cyano glue and push it in. The picture quality of the turnbuckles is a bit poor. My microscope only came with a 5 Mega-pixel digital camera, so I don't use it much.
Cheers,
Gary
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Gary,
Thanks for the reply and info; I use 36 Ga. Nichrome wire the same way. I should have asked earlier, who makes the PE turnbuckles?
Cheers,
Lance
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I think that your comments about not being very good with transfers (decals) are a bit out of place: your modelling skills are of the highest order and it shows on every apect of this model. The wood grain effect is as realsitic as I have seen and the crosses are better than transfers. In all an exceptional model in the making.
Stephen.
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Gary,
Thanks for the reply and info; I use 36 Ga. Nichrome wire the same way. I should have asked earlier, who makes the PE turnbuckles?
Cheers,
Lance
Hi Lance - the turnbuckles are from RB Productions in Ireland.
Cheers,
Gary
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Looking very good, Mr. Edmundson. I especially like the wood grain fuse with the individual panels.
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The early Albatrosses are among my most favored planes and you are doing a fantastic job with this Roden kit. I once built the D I and remember the problems very well. From the wingtips to the wheels this is a wonderful model!
Andreas
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My Albatros is basically finished - so here are a couple of detail pictures before I post a few of the completed model in that section of the Forum.
Cheers,
Gary
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Wow! That is a truly stunning build with a super wood finish on the fuselage. Looking forward to seeing the finished model in the relevant section.
Stephen.
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Your Albatros DII and Figure are both Exemplary examples of Modeling Excellence!
RAGIII
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Your Albatros DII and Figure are both Exemplary examples of Modeling Excellence!
RAGIII
Must agree with my Amigo on this one, Gary!
Cheers,
Bud
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Rick, Bud and Stephen - thanks for the comments, I really appreciate them! Such words are humbling coming from modellers like yourselves.
Sincerely,
Gary
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Such a great airplane, so accurately built and realistically painted and decently weathered.
The figure is the cherry on top. Ingeniously painted and Richthofen's view is so clear and intense.
Great work, Gary,
Bye,
Manni
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Love that pilot and your excellent painting skills!
Gaz
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Hy Gary as I do like Albatrosses I would like to ask what colours in detail you did use for the build of wings and engine nacelle metal parts?
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Hy Gary as I do like Albatrosses I would like to ask what colours in detail you did use for the build of wings and engine nacelle metal parts?
Hi Lozenge - For the metal parts AND the lighter green-grey colour on the wings I used a mix of Tamiya's XF-76 Grey Green and a bit of XF-22 RLM Grey to darken it a bit. The medium green was XF-58 Olive Green, and the Brown on the wings was XF-64 Red Brown mixed with some XF-1 Flat Black which was sprayed over a previous attempt (of which the brown was too close in colour to the fuselage).
As you can tell, my colour mixes are not precise and I usually tweak them depending how they look to my eye, then save enough of the thinned mix in an old plastic 35mm film cannister (remember those?!) to finish the project.
Cheers,
Gary
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A museum piece in search of a museum!