Roland C.IIa, WnW 1/32

[mess]

... and almost ready to close the fuselage.

[PrzemoL]

Nnnice. Especially that I have just closed the fuselage on mine 

[RAGIII]

Everything looks great in place. Excellent work and your detailing shows!
RAGIII

[pepperman42]

Beautiful work

Steve

[mess]

Thanks!
With fuselage closed, seam filled with CA glue and cleaned, I started to solve the windows. First I wanted to replace decal curtains with some 3D representation, but I realised that it was painted even in real. Continuing with decals, there was no white on it and was needed to be painted by hand.
My procedure: I placed decals from inside with front face out. painted white and then used oil paints to represent shades from inside the windows. Complete windows were glued to fuselage and masked.
Wings fall perfectly to their places. Not glued yet.

[gedmundson]

This one is taking shape nicely, mess - well done.
Cheers,
Gary

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Continuing with first camo colour. First I sprayed and masked white squares under crosses and applied brown.

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Brown was GSI, after that I applied two greens by Drooling Bulldog. Awesome paints!

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Then crosses were masked and sprayed.

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[RAGIII]

Absolutely Stunning paint work! What a Beauty this one is!
RAGIII

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Both magine guns were used OOB, I like it more than Gaspatch offerings, it has to thick cooling jackets. The fuselage one was completed, dryfitted, synchro cable replaced with thinner one and complete set was sprayed with gunmetal. Weathering will be applied later.

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And as mentioned before, one hatch cover on engine cover was found unacceptable, so I reworked it by removing it and reworing with sheet of styrene. I also removed all cover locks (or how it should be named ) and drilled out their holes.

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Started with decals and creating cover locks. I was afraid of it because fuselage surface in those parts was quite complicated. Decals went fine and with some effort the result seems ok to me.