Well, here it is, my first aircraft, Revell´s reboxing of the Eduard Albatros D.V Weekend Edition in 1/48
No big deal, I am going to keep it "weekend" with all its known errors, add rigging self-made seat belts if I do no put Otto in it, my main goal is to finish it, with your help & criticism, whatever the final result is, and I do not want to mess around too much with aftermarkets or photo-etched (which I have never used before). I hope that this post inspires me to get busy with this and other buildings.
Nothing really worth showing until now, I got motor and cockpit in the fuselage without too much sweat, some putty and sanding. Of interest might be my attempt to imitate the wing ribs shadows following Des´s tutorial on "Pre shading the easy way", only I used a soft graphite pencil and I think they came out too thick. Not very successful, but I am nevertheless quite happy with this first try. I also applied a blue filter to the under surfaces of wings and tail, see the difference in hue between lower und upper wing.
Masking, camouflage und fuselage colours applied, chipped paint after removing the masking and will have to retouch here and there (I wonder if a gloss coat before masking would have helped? Any tips or experiences you could share?) and add some tonal variation to the upper wings. And this is how it looks like now on the Lego jig which I hope will help me get the wings and struts more or less aligned (I think the tail is already slightly out of place). And now I realize I still have to get rid of the reinforcement of the wing struts ...
An here comes my first doubt. It seems that most of you first align and glue wing and cabane struts on the lower wing and fuselage... Do you align and glue them all at the same time or first cabane, then wing struts or the other way around? I have been considering all possible combinations... Any thoughts or recommendations on this?
Thanks for watching!
