Thank you all for your kind words... You did see that I forgot to remove that mold line on the copper pipe, didn't you?!
More pictures and now we move to fuselage and painting. Many of you probably know about the blue diamond pattern on Wolf's aircraft (otherwise you can see a drawing of it on the first picture in this thread, or google it) and here's my approach to that - no decals needed...
Fuselage closed and some areas masked off...
I had this idea that i would simulate the underlying wood, hence the desert yellow and the pencils in the picture. I believe someone else here might have provided the inspiration for that idea, can't remember who though. It turned out to be more or less a waste of time. After that everything was painted white.
Looking at the decals and pictures of the aircraft I realised that there are parallel ribbons going around the fuselage and that the diamonds are created from a sort of spiralling strand from front to back. So masks going around the fuselage where placed first.
After having marked the spacing at the rearmost and foremost masking I then placed the spiralling tape lengths - a lot of eyeballing involved in that... The forward and aft diamonds are, according to Wingnuts decals, not connected and therefore the slant of the masking is different.
And finally everything in between the thin strips of masking tape and anything else not meant to be blue was also masked off.
I'm still catching up with my own work, so everything so far was done a while back and that includes colour as well but you'll have to wait until tomorrow Swedish time anyway. Good night!
/Fredrik
