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WW1 Aircraft Modeling => Under Construction => Topic started by: Alexis on October 10, 2017, 10:21:43 AM
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It has been since April being the last time I sat in front of the bench . Had a awesome summer , but now that it's over and the cooler weather is creeping in , time for the bench .
I moved last month and have a hobby room now and to break it in . It just has to be wood and wire subject so Fly's kit came to mind and I have never built this type before .
Terri
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Welcome back Terri, great to hear you enjoyed your summer. I'm looking forward to seeing you start work on your latest build.
Des.
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Welcome back, T! Really looking forward to watching this project unfold. What scheme will you be doing?
Cheers,
Bud
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Welcome back, T! Really looking forward to watching this project unfold. What scheme will you be doing?
Cheers,
Bud
Of course I agree with Bud! Good to have you back T!
RAGIII
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Good to see you back at the bench Terri, and a new one too! I'm looking forward to seeing you work your magic in this one.
Ian
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I echo all of the above Terri. Looking forward to your treatment on this kit. :D
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Hi there Terry,
cool choice, the Roland is a nice little jewel. I am keen on watching your progress on that one.
Borsos
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Great to have you back Teri. Very interesting subject which I will be following with great interest.
Stephen.
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Hi Terri
Glad to hear you had a great summer.
Just a little pre warning about the kit, I found the location points incorrect for the cabane struts on the fuselage. Simple enough to fix, just re drill in the right place but a bit harder if you have already glued them in. Unless they have changed it my kit had a Mercedes engine but most of the D.VI b's had benz engines, I just modified the kit engine to look like a benz. Otherwise a really nice kit with great detail.
I am sure this will be a beauty in your capable hands.
Alan.
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Thank-you for the welcome back my friends :) Feels good to be back !
Bud , since the parts for the a version are included in the kit I will be doing this as an A version and the markings will be
Roland D.VIa 1222/18 Ludwig Marcher Jasta 32b MIO 1918 . He only had 1 victory but it's such a cool scheme and will go very well with my other stripe machines . I have replacement lozenge and will use Microsculpt 4 color upper and lower and will try the kit rib tapes and if those turn out to be crap then I will use Aviattics . Have Richards blue sheet kicking around some where . Which I should just in the first place :o
Resin parts have been washed and are ready to be removed , will have an up-date once the engine is good to go .
Terri
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Progress is coming along rather well . I did have to re do the floor , had it upside down and in the process of fixing this I made a mess of the control column and will have to make a new one before everything gets close up . Nothing fancy with the detailing . only items added are the instrument dials which came from the spare part box . Once the fuselage halves are close up won't be able to see all that much .
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Still have a bit od detail painting and hint of weathering .
Terri
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Great start Terri (even with the little misstep, like we all haven't been there). Looking forward to your progress.
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Great start indeed Terri, I have the DVIb kit (the one with the edelweiss) so I am very interested in seeing how this grows!
Antonio
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Nice start T! Love the woodgrain, Panel, engine, and seat/belts.
RAGIII
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Like yourself I too have had a break over summer and now am returning to the bench. I don’t think I’ve seen a Fly kit built before so will follow this with interest. Nice start so far.
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Nice to see you back at "work" Terri, the summer was great however, as we both know as neighbors, typically short here in the Great, soon to be white, North! Enjoy the joys of a seven month Build Season and dress warm!! ;)
Cheers,
Lance
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Terri,
Let there be no doubts this Lady is a first class modeler! Outstanding progress to date my old friend. Looking forward to following this latest project of yours. Keep up the high excellence.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
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Thank-you guys for the kind comments and the welcome back . Feels good to be back at the bench once more .
Lance , yup the cold weather is coming , just no snow in the forecast .
Toby , this is the second Fly kit for me and it is not a shake and back style . None of the cockpit parts lined up and their was a fair bit to trimming those parts down . Other the that it does have not bad detail
This weekend progress is going rather well so far . Fuselage halves and tail feathers are glued up . I did have some filling to do . Lower wings have been pinned as well as the flight controls for added strength . These parts are ready for primer and the next stage . Now it's get the struts cleaned up and ready for paint .
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You are moving right along Terri! Looks great!
RAGIII
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Thanks Rick 8)
Terri
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Wow, what a pretty build on a pretty machine. Very nice progress on a rarely seeb kit.
best regards
Borsos
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Terri,
Beautiful work to date my old friend. Keep up the excellent progress!
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette
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Thank you guy , your comments are much appreciated . Work continues with the clean up of the rest of the parts and I should be priming this weekend and start on decaling the wings .
Terri
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Coming along nicely Terri. I'm assuming this will be on a par with your Siemens-Schuckert so looking forward to the next update!
Ian
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Somehow I missed this Teri - but I am really pleased that I have caught up. This is well up to your usual standard - really looking forard to seeing more to come.
Stephen.
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Thank you Ian and Stephen 8) Here's too hoping that it is on par with past builds . It has been a while since I did a string bagger and feel I'm a little out of practice . Primer is on and for this I used Tamiya gloss white sprayed very thin building up the layers . This time around I didn't do any per-shading on the wings . The microscultp decals are solid colours so any shading won't be seen .
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Up next Decaling the wings and start the masking for some blue stripes ...
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Excellent construction and prep work T! Looking forward to seeing the decals applied to the wings!
RAGIII
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Thank you Rick , hoping to have the wings done by the weekend minus the rib tapes .
Terri
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Spent the weekend applying the lozenge decals on the wings and I stareded this on the top wing to soon . Forgot to paint the rad before the decaling began . Will have some masking ahead of me and hop the tape won't lift the decals . Will hit this with a few coats of future . The lower lozenge I didn't have any troubles with . Can't say the same for the upper lozenge . Had lots of patch work to do . The decals would tear and cracking up . Also sprayed the wheels and these still need clear coat before decaling . Will also start masking up the fuselage and getting it ready for paint .
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Uppers :-X
Terri
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Looking good to my eyes T! I can't see any evidence of rips and tears.
RAGIII
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Spent the weekend applying the lozenge decals on the wings and I stareded this on the top wing to soon . Forgot to paint the rad before the decaling began . Will have some masking ahead of me and hop the tape won't lift the decals . Will hit this with a few coats of future . The lower lozenge I didn't have any troubles with . Can't say the same for the upper lozenge . Had lots of patch work to do . The decals would tear and cracking up . Also sprayed the wheels and these still need clear coat before decaling . Will also start masking up the fuselage and getting it ready for paint .
Terri, I would suggest using Post-it Notes for masking over the decals for the radiator. I recently had a similar problem masking for a stripe around the fuselage. I tried Tamiya masking tape that I had reduced the tack on by sticking it several times to my clothing, yet it still was strong enough to pull the underlying decal off in several places. It made for a PITA repair that turned out rather well in the end. I have always had good results with the Microsculpt lozenge, but it just goes to show you that you can't take for granted when the "Decal Gremlins" will rear their ugly heads.
Chuck
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Those wings look good to me Terri - cannot see where the repairs had to be done.
Stephen.
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Looking good to my eyes T! I can't see any evidence of rips and tears.
RAGIII
I agree with my amigo, T! Looks good. Try using post-its for masking the radiator. Very low tack.
Cheers,
Bud
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Thanks guys and soory for the late reply back . Work has continued and the wings have been glossed for the rib tape decals . Wheels are also cleared coat for their decals to be applied .
I don't have enough lozenge left over to do the taping so my options are to use the ones supplied in the kit , but these are coloured tapes , blue for upper and I'm not sure about the bottom colour if it can be called that . And the scheme I'm doing has loz taping . Other option is to use the upper loz from the kit and use that for the upper taping , but then the lower loz isn't even close to the Microsculpt loz .
I did start to mask the stripes on the fuselage and had to re start this three times now , this is getting frustrating . I never had this problem masking stripes before ...
So no pic's yet until I can get myself sorted .
Terri