Author Topic: Toms Model Works Pfalz D.VII/III (Read 45653 times)

kensar · « **Reply #165 on:** January 21, 2021, 10:36:10 PM »

One must be 'one with the tool'

Hope you can fix that. If nothing went wrong on my builds, they would take half the time.

Alexis · « **Reply #166 on:** January 22, 2021, 12:41:24 AM »

Yous votes of confindence are most welcomed , thanks guys !

It's just a matter of sanding the are between the engine frame and respraying . An easy fix once I had a better look at damage it was just the paint , no gouges in the metal itself . Luck was on my side at that time . Should have this done buy the end of the day . Colder weather is coming so will be home more .

Patrick , most times I do well with the dremel tool , I should have used a better bit for the job .

Alexis

Alexis · « **Reply #167 on:** January 24, 2021, 06:08:08 AM »

Progress hasn't been very productive over the past few days , but I did manage to spend time on the project .

Undercarriage is ready for weathering now , took me some time masking the wheels this time around . Just couldn't stay focused on the task at hand .

Cowl is repaired with the engine framing painted black and tackled the lozenge on the wings . Top and bottom are ready for rib tapes . The lozenge decals are transparent but I stayed away from shading in the ribs . In this scale with the amount of ribs this would have not looked natural giving it an over done appearance . I will be doing the tapes in blue for the top and bottom , transparent lozenge won't work and will make it look very weird .

Alexis

Alexis · « **Reply #168 on:** January 24, 2021, 06:08:29 AM »

Alexis · « **Reply #169 on:** January 24, 2021, 06:08:53 AM »

Alexis · « **Reply #170 on:** January 24, 2021, 06:09:12 AM »

Radarman · « **Reply #171 on:** January 24, 2021, 06:14:28 AM »

Alexis,
Looks like another productive couple days at the bench.

Stay warm, Kevin

Gisbod · « **Reply #172 on:** January 24, 2021, 06:16:15 AM »

Lovely lozenge Alexis

Guy

RAGIII · « **Reply #173 on:** January 24, 2021, 07:30:39 AM »

Nice work on applying the Lozenge Alexis!
RAGIII

Alexis · « **Reply #174 on:** January 24, 2021, 12:33:48 PM »

I'm trying to stay warm Kevin , hope your weather is fairing better then ours

Guy and Rick , my deepest thank you

Alexis

Monty · « **Reply #175 on:** January 24, 2021, 11:46:54 PM »

Lovely progress on this very interesting plane, Alexis! The lozenge is coming along beautifully, the undercarriage is neat, and the prop is just Wow! Well, done, Marc

Alexis · « **Reply #176 on:** January 25, 2021, 11:13:53 PM »

Hello Marc ,

Thank you ever so much for your positive feedback on the progress I have made towards this build

Alexis

Bughunter · « **Reply #177 on:** January 26, 2021, 03:01:37 AM »

Very nice progress, Alexis!

Quote from: Alexis on January 24, 2021, 06:08:08 AM

The lozenge decals are transparent but I stayed away from shading in the ribs . In this scale with the amount of ribs this would have not looked natural giving it an over done appearance.

With that amount of ribs your decision is clear, but it seems to be a bug of the kit! The lower wing has nine ribs, as normal. See at 1:07 in this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfPvy_4M3Hg

There is a reason, where this comes from. There are additional bracing elements between the ribs, which are visible as small lines in the plans (the normal ribs are double lines). There exists a picture against light, where those looks like the ribs, but they are smaller and the cloth is only nailed to the normal ribs.
So the kit creators have interpreted it wrongly

Cheers,
Frank

Alexis · « **Reply #178 on:** January 26, 2021, 04:00:36 AM »

Guten Tag Frank !

You are very correct on the ribs spacing , they are wrong in the kit . actually the whole wings are just wrong and waaaaay overly thick . I should have made new wings and tossed this in the trash , but then this creates corrections at the lower wing root leading into major work on the fuselage which isn't accurate either . But it is what it is and I do have another where more of these issue will get corrected on that build .

Thanks Frank for sharing your knowledge , it keeps us on our toes

Alexis

Bughunter · « **Reply #179 on:** January 26, 2021, 04:25:31 AM »

Ok Alexis, then I cancelled this kit from my search list. Thanks for the Info!
If the wings and the fuselage need a heavy rework, undercarriage and struts I could do in brass (I trained that recently) and the engine can be used from Eduard then is no big value remaining of this old high priced kit. This is may be the a candidate for a scratch build, one day in far future!

Thanks and cheers,
Frank