Eduards Hansa-Brandenburg D.1

[lone modeller]

Sorry I have not dropped in recently Terri - mjo problems I am afraid.

What you are doing is marvellous. Wood finishes are never easy to get right in my experience but you are doing very well indeed.

Stephen.

[Borsos]

Very nice progress, Terri. I like it a lot.
Andreas

[Alexis]

Thanks guys for following and leaving positive comments !
I spent part of the day working the details in the cockpit pit . Control lines are now in place and the buckles are stretched Q-tips.Ended up making a few details , pump and some other do-hicky-thingy-me-bob . It shows in the drawings I was able to have aid with . Rudder bar is almost finished up , few more coats of clear yellow/orange to go . Seat-belts are set to go for weathering now . Still have the instrument panel to get done been avoiding it up until now . I don't have anymore compass decals left in this scale so I will use the kit PE part which is still a work in-progress .


Terri


 

[Alexis]

While waiting for paint to dry on the pit parts I drilled out the hole for the PE gun Barrel which was replace with plastic rod instead . I didn't want to deal with rolling and having a seam to deal with as well . Still have to add all the PE parts , but at least it is starting to take shape .


Terri

[Alexis]

I didn't stop there , no sir ...I moved on with the extuast . The instructions call for a flesh mount so it's either pinning into place or drill out the holes so the whole part slides in forming a better join then pins . I drilled the holes and glad I did .


Terri

[Alexis]

Exhaust end is hollowed out as well  My thumb took battle damage while doing this 



Terri

[lcarroll]

    Nice touch Terri, those little extra touches always pay great dividends. Coming together very nicely!
Cheers,
Lance

[FAf]

Looks like great work, Terri!🙌
/Fredrik

[kensar]

Drilling all those holes will lead to a more realistic result.
That's the issue I have with injection molded parts.  An assembly of separate parts, molded as one unit, doesn't have separation lines.

[RAGIII]

Very well done T! The exhaust look awesome!
RAGIII

[Bughunter]

Good attention to details Terri, I hope your battle damage heals quickly!

Too bad Eduard doesn't make 1/32 WW1 planes.  It could expand the range of available kits.

Other way around Ken - too bad, that WNW do not 1/48 kits

On the other hand is Eduard creating a new Camel?!? The old one is not bad and there are sooo many other interesting biplanes without moulds!

Cheers,
Frank

[Alexis]

Thank-you all so very much , you guys are the best 

Ken , Frank . Would be nice to see Eduard to something different other then a retool of the Camel . Their Hannover comes to mind . Other then the Koster kit and Eduards 20+year release . WNW doing 48 scale would be the cats meow !


Terri

[gbrivio]

Nice progress, hollowing exhaust pipes is one of the best ways to get authentic look.
And agree, I'm hoping as well someone will produce really new 1/48 WWI kits.
Ciao
Giuseppe

[Alexis]

Not sure what is going on here , but my post from yesterday on new progress are no longer here

So here we go again .

Cockpit is finished and ready to be glued in place . Instrument panel is still a work in progress . The PE part is very flimsy so I back it with .15thou card and more gluing surface in the end .

[Alexis]