Dear all,
Completed today, my take on Roden's DH2 kit.
Built mostly OOB with some detailing to cockpit, which included amongst other things:
Barracuda resin wicker seat;
3D decal seat harness;
carving away the large ejector pin marks and alse removing the molded internal wire bracing;
addional pipe work missing from fuel pump;
rudder bar foot straps and cables
Also added the missing pulleys for control cables and posed control surfaces. I used the spare decal in the set for creating the illusion of the cockcade on the top wing when viewed from the underside.
Being a brush painter, using pre shading techniques do not work so well so I use post shading for highlighting the internal structure. Lone Modeller (Stephen) very kindly lent me (many thanks, mate!) the Datafile profile for this aircraft which was invaluable reference during the build. I was also able to use the internal structure diagrams to help me draw out the various spars and ribs on the wings. To try and achieve a more realistic look to the structure shading, I drew out with pencil and ruler on the white base coated wings all the spars and ribs structure. I could then paint over (lightly) the main top coat. Once this had dried, I could paint over the show through pencil lines with a darker shade of the beige (for CDL) then a lighter shade once dry. This has hopefully created the highlighting/shading of all the structure? Certainly the best I can do with a brush anyway ...........
Weathered (lightly) using artist oil paint and pastels.
Rigged with Oschi fine elastic thread (for engine ignition leads); Oschi standard thread for control cables and tail boom rigging; Pryme flat elastic thread (to simulate RAF aerodynamic wires) and to add some structural strength to the tail booms, smoke coloured 'invisible' mending thread. A good rigging diagram is a must for this kit - I used the WNW DH2 rigging guide from thier instructions from this kit.
On the whole, I thought this a very decent kit from Roden. The only fiddly bit being attaching the tailplane to the tail booms. I ended up drilling and pinning with wire to get a good joint in the end.
Completed markings of DH2 6015, flown by CO of No. 32 squadron, RFC, Major Lionel W.B. Rees, France, Treizennes, July 1916.
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Regards
Dave
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