Rodens SSW D.III 1/32

[Borsos]

Lovely! I am keen on seeing it all come together.
Andreas

[Alexis]

Thank-you guys for dropping by and leaving encouraging comments ! Mean a lot 

Manni , not totally clean . There are a few errors , just well hidden 

Stephen , glad you like the prop so far . Will be finishing it off this weekend and start with the masking , fair bit to do .
I always like to believe life wouldn't happen without the shit . Some of it can lead to very interesting adventures which we grow 

Andreas , I'm keen as well as seeing her come together . I love this scheme !



Terri

[uncarina]

Terri,

I love what you are doing, and I am taking notes! Will you be using the kit lozenge decals?

Cheers,  Tom

[FAf]

Manni , not totally clean . There are a few errors , just well hidden 

If you can't see the errors, do they exist then? 

[petrov27]

As everyone notes its looking really good and coming together nice

Yeah pinning the struts and other areas is a top idea - on my build of this I must have tried gluing that elevator four times and knocking it loose before I saw the light and put pins in it. That is now 100% SOP on any build

[Alexis]

Terri,

I love what you are doing, and I am taking notes! Will you be using the kit lozenge decals?

Cheers,  Tom

Hi Tom , no I will not be using the kit decals . I pick up these on sale at Hannant's . HGW's Five colour faded transparent upper and lower and faded rib tapes which are per-cut .


Terri

[Alexis]

Manni , not totally clean . There are a few errors , just well hidden 

If you can't see the errors, do they exist then? 

Yup , they sure do . 

[Alexis]

As everyone notes its looking really good and coming together nice

Yeah pinning the struts and other areas is a top idea - on my build of this I must have tried gluing that elevator four times and knocking it loose before I saw the light and put pins in it. That is now 100% SOP on any build

Thanks Pete ! Ya , I pin all struts on my builds . Learnt my lesson in the past before by not doing doing it .



Terri

[Alexis]

Parking myself in front of the bench when I got home , out comes the masking tape and a few hours later with the bit of paint . This is as far as I got . I still need to mask off the chin and spray this alum before i can start unmasking  , but more masking is on the way with the ribs and such starting tomorrow .




Terri

[Bughunter]

Great progress, Terri!
Precut rib tapes are a nice idea, saves effort and all of them are of the same width. That is not easy to do by hand.

Cheers,
Frank

[RAGIII]

Really starting to take shape with the painting T. Looking forward to the next update!
RAGIII

[bobs_buckles]

Great! Now it's my turn to kick you up the butt! 
Keep up the great work *T*

vB 

[Alexis]

Thanks Frank and Rick for the kind comments 

Well I guess in fariness it is your turn too kick back Bob. I was prepared  for such events and have tuck tape a few extra cushion to my ass . This is to ensure that after said ass kicking the side effects will have a comforting result  Abling me to continue sitting in front of the bench 

Sorry to say not much was done in front of the bench yesterday . Ended up spending time doing other things . I did get the chin sprayed alum and unmasked . Has some touch ups and left that to dry overnight . Pic's coming later today on this as soon as those damn camera batteries are charged !


Once again thanks guys for tagging along on my adventure 




terri

[Alexis]

Fresh batteries load in the camera and here is the end results of what she looks like with her stripes . Prop is finished with the wood effect now , decals on and clear coated with a touch of clear yellow . I have no proof that there is a white stripe on the lower fuselage . Only the profile posted on the first page of this blog and two other photo's in the book . The photo's show that the stripes were not neatly applied . I have started the masking of the ribs and I'm almost half way through that . Once that is done more pic's to follow .

[Alexis]