Author Topic: Unknown Fokker D.VII. Plastic Supplied by WNW (Read 19778 times)

GazzaS · « **Reply #45 on:** June 24, 2020, 08:33:03 AM »

Thanks Richie! Today's masking will be around all of those fuselage details. I think I will use mostly blutack.

Gaz

RAGIII · « **Reply #46 on:** June 24, 2020, 08:38:19 AM »

Looks Perfect Gaz! Well done!! I am looking forward to the painting and decal work!
RAGIII

GazzaS · « **Reply #47 on:** June 24, 2020, 09:58:47 AM »

Quote from: RAGIII on June 24, 2020, 08:38:19 AM

Looks Perfect Gaz! Well done!! I am looking forward to the painting and decal work!
RAGIII

Thanks Rick. Decals are a bit of a worry. Not that I don't know how to use large WNW decals. I had some practice on 2 other builds. However, this will be my first time with cookie cutter decals. And the fuselage decals will have to be shortened to fit the fuselage band. My big worry there is that I may shorten them too much by mistake. I have plenty of 5-color lozenge. But little spare 4-color which is what the majority of this bird is covered with.

Gaz

Alexis · « **Reply #48 on:** June 24, 2020, 10:22:53 AM »

That was fast ! Super job on getting it ll to fit , even with the tweaking you mention most excellent work Gary . Cookie cutter decals like you I haven't tried them before so I'm looking forward on how that turns out .

Terri

GazzaS · « **Reply #49 on:** June 24, 2020, 09:26:17 PM »

Thank you, Terri!

I find myself at a point in every build where I decide that my second one will be much better because I have learned the foibles of the kit. But I don't double up, usually. But the closure of WNW helped me to squander money quite quickly.

Gaz

GazzaS · « **Reply #50 on:** June 25, 2020, 03:36:44 PM »

Hi everyone,
The hits keep coming. I have come to believe that this build is cursed.

To protect the exposed flying wires, I enclosed them in a folded piece of tape on each side of the fuselage. I had just set the fuselage down and was removing my hand (wearing rubber gloves) when I realized the model was still attached to my glove, it was too late. The tape/glove bond had separated and my Fokker was plummeting to the tile floor.

I had made the propeller shaft very free wheeling. So, trying to drill it out is gonna be painful.

....anyways....

I cut the masks that I had created before I began whacking away at the plastic.

The masking began on the fuselage:

The result on the dorsal spine... some touch-up required:

I found I had a little more time, so did the port side, too...

The WNW decals are white backed... so a little over-spray is no trouble....

Still hurting over that drive shaft, though.

Thank you for looking!

Gaz

Borsos · « **Reply #51 on:** June 25, 2020, 09:00:09 PM »

Wonderful progress on that one, Gaz. Your self made masks are second to none!
Andreas

GazzaS · « **Reply #52 on:** June 25, 2020, 09:18:45 PM »

Quote from: Borsos on June 25, 2020, 09:00:09 PM

Wonderful progress on that one, Gaz. Your self made masks are second to none!
Andreas

Thank you sir!

RichieW · « **Reply #53 on:** June 25, 2020, 10:24:31 PM »

Superb masking Gaz, that looks completely perfect. The drive shaft must annoying but you'll get it sorted.

RAGIII · « **Reply #54 on:** June 25, 2020, 10:36:44 PM »

Excellent Masking and painting Gaz! This will be a beautiful scheme! A shame about the prop shaft but it could have been worse

RAGIII

kensar · « **Reply #55 on:** June 25, 2020, 10:46:18 PM »

As the others said, excellent masking and painting on the fuse.
This one is certainly fighting you, isn't it?

GazzaS · « **Reply #56 on:** June 26, 2020, 07:35:21 AM »

Quote from: RichieW on June 25, 2020, 10:24:31 PM

Superb masking Gaz, that looks completely perfect. The drive shaft must annoying but you'll get it sorted.

Thank you, Richie. I've spent quite a few idle moments thinking about the best way to deal with that shaft.

Quote from: RAGIII on June 25, 2020, 10:36:44 PM

Excellent Masking and painting Gaz! This will be a beautiful scheme! A shame about the prop shaft but it could have been worse
RAGIII

Thank you, Rick!

Quote from: kensar on June 25, 2020, 10:46:18 PM

As the others said, excellent masking and painting on the fuse.
This one is certainly fighting you, isn't it?

Thanks Ken. I think next time (if I ever find/build another WNW D.VII) I'll avoid rigging the aileron controls and just glue monofilament later.

Alexis · « **Reply #57 on:** June 26, 2020, 09:37:42 AM »

Beautiful masking job

Man that looks sharp and colourful

Terri

GazzaS · « **Reply #58 on:** June 26, 2020, 10:43:11 AM »

Quote from: Terri on June 26, 2020, 09:37:42 AM

Beautiful masking job Man that looks sharp and colourful

Terri

Thank you, Terri. A wash or two should mellow out the colors. The 4-color lozenge is already pre-faded. I reckon a light grey-brown should do the trick.

Gaz

GazzaS · « **Reply #59 on:** June 26, 2020, 02:15:30 PM »

Hello friends!
I proceeded with masking and spraying. As was suggested by another thread, I replaced the old cowls with newer OAW cowls with their distinctive lozenge pattern. I even took a pic from the same angle to see if it gave me the right vibe.

I don't feel that this accurately portrays what I see in the picture. What do you think?

Here is the starboard side:

I wonder if there is another kind of decoration up front? Not that we'd know for sure unless we saw another image of this same aircraft from another angle. I hate answering my own questions with "I don't knows".

What do you guys think? Should I just overspray the cheek panels with the basic front end color?

Thanks for your thoughts!

Gaz