Good evening!
I lost a bit of modelling mojo a while back but have been tinkering a little with Eduards Fokker D.VIII kit i 1/48 scale.
I thought of it as a quick build to sort of just get through... which means that I missed a few details that I now regret... like internal rigging in the cockpit. I thought of getting other versions of lozenge but given the out of the box idea I stayed with the decals supplied by Eduard. There are some things added, but the only innovative thing has to do with the aluminium ammunition (?) box. I'll come back to that. If I was to model another of these I'd probably go with a lighter wood tone as well.
After having started I decided on the following scheme.
Even though I've been a weak contributer on the forum lately, I do pop in to take a look at all the great work done by others. Looking through forum posts gives me a good feeling and in at least one case it's also given me and idea to test. Over in the scratchbuild section Kensar showed a method to replicate turned metal.
Ken's build and method. Thanks for the inspiration, Ken!
I thought that a brilliant idea, but I needed the circles to be smaller. A long time ago I converted an old toothbrush head to take a sanding disc. It works wonders when you have to sand something that is a bit hard to reach. With Ken's idea in the back of my head I now converted another head to take a smaller disc, as seen below. The smaller disc is two millimetres in diameter and put to use on a bit of aluminum tape it looks like this. I think it's pretty good, especially when view slightly less close.
So, things were moving ahead despite low spirits and it was time to paint the wing. Following the instructions from Eduard it turned out like this.
At this point I was going to drill through the wing to be able to tension the control wires later and broke the drill inside the wing. Sigh! Efforts to remove the drill bit caused more and more damage to the paintwork and at the same time I was starting to wonder about the streaking on the top side. Looking at Fokker E.V builds here in the forum I came across the idea that the wing shouldn't be dark green or streaked in green and looking at Arma Hobby's instructions for a similar aircraft from the same unit and time period as mine, I'm now thing that I will go with green and brown on the top side and blue and purple (?) on the bottom side of the wing. The picture below comes from the Arma Hobby instructions and it is found at Model Paint Solutions.
Repainting the wing is in progress.
/Fredrik - who really likes being a part of this great forum!
