WNW Sopwith Pup - Baby Mine

[RAGIII]

The interior and penciled in details look gorgeous. Excellent work all around!
RAGIII

[aliluke]

Stunning interior detail, Ken. But since constructive criticism should be part of our groups conversations?...the wrap on the hand grip of the control column doesn't work for me. It feels a little out of scale and does it really add or detract? My eye is drawn to it as something not quite right when the rest is so beautifully rendered to scale. Just my thought and certainly not something that I'd suggest you change!

Cheers
Alistair

[Ryan]

Working on a pup myself Ken, your added details, finish and rigging look well done sir.

Ryan

[kensar]

Thanks for the honest comment, Alistair.  It's appearance has bothered me and I decided I don't like it either, but at this point, I have moved on and won't try to change it.  Maybe I can tone it down with more gray 'weathering'  .  I just put it down as a learning point.  I did change the approach for the wrapping on the tailskid, using sewing thread instead of wire, which I think worked much better, and will likely be the approach next time.

I welcome criticisms to my builds because they help me gauge whether a building technique is acceptable for a given application, or if another approach should be tried.  Another example of this is pencilling in the detail inside the fuse.  I don't know if this will 'work' but I'm not afraid to experiment.
I have yet to build a 'perfect' model and probably never will, but its fun to try!

It's been a while since I updated this and I have been working on it.  I'm just at a point in the build that consumes a lot of time with little to show for it.

Thanks for the comments everyone!

[kensar]

Okay, update time (finally).

I'm still slogging along with general painting, but I had opportunities to do some detail work.

Oil painted wood grain on the turtledeck.


I took the opportunity to do some paint chipping using 'worn effects' from AK Interactive.  Tried not to get too carried away.  This is supposed to be light weathering.
















Looking at adding an ammo belt.  This plane's gun used a cloth belt.  The ammo is small pieces of copper wire and the belt is two pieces of masking tape stuck sticky sides together around the wire pieces.







The hard part was getting the gunpowder in them! 

[RAGIII]

Lovely details and painting!
RAGIII

[kensar]

A short update.
Replacing some wing detail.





Painting and decaling on the fuse and lower wing is in-progress.

[Alexis]

Very cool 



Terri

[coyotemagic]

Awesome detail enhancement, Ken!
Cheers,
Bud

[kensar]

Thanks, Terri and Bud.

Getting through the overall painting and decaling.

[Ryan]

Excellent progress, wish I was that far along on mine.

[RAGIII]

The added detail in the inspection panel is awesome as is the painting and decaling! Loveely bird!
RAGIII

[FAf]

Truly inspirational work (and a bit intimidating

Those extra details that you add, e.g. the pulley for the wing, are those made by you? What material and how?

Cheers Fredrik

[kensar]

Thanks for posting, Ryan, Rick, and Fredrik.

I made the pulleys on my lathe.  They are aluminum.  They are very small!

I hope this isn't discouraging anyone from building models, as that certainly isn't the purpose of my postings.  I have invested a lot of time and money over the years in the capability to build and detail models.  With deep interest and motivation, I am driven to push my capabilities to make every model better than the last one and to see just what is possible to do.  I hope that by posting, others will get ideas to try out and give me some ideas, too.

Best Regards,

[FAf]

I hope this isn't discouraging anyone from building models, as that certainly isn't the purpose of my postings. [...]  I hope that by posting, others will get ideas to try out and give me some ideas, too.

Hi again!
Don't worry about the intimidating remark and focus on the truly inspirational one instead!

A lathe... interesting!
/Fredrik