Jeannin Stahltaube 271/14 (1/32, Wingnut Wings)

[kensar]

Continuing to be exceptionally nice work, Przemol.  Those wheels do look very good, and very nice detail work around the engine.

[Stuart Malone]

Przemol,

I just caught up to your build on this.  Wow.  Inspiring.  Now I wish I had bought one of these before WNW's demise.  I wouldn't come close to what you've done with it, but it's such a beautiful flying machine.  Nice job.

Stuart

[PrzemoL]

Thank you, Kensar and Stuart.

And for today - a small upgrade of the kit elements - those massive turnbuckles were not convincing me

[jeroen_R90S]

A definate improvement, looks great!

[RAGIII]

Awesome correction on the buckles!
RAGIII

[gedmundson]

It's extra work like that which will turn this into a exceptionally well detailed model.
Cheers,
Gary

[KiwiZac]

Those turnbuckles look fantastic! Wow!

[pepperman42]

Yours convince me!!

Steve

[PrzemoL]

Thank you.

More work done: 60 eyelets for rigging attached, the body masked in preparation for main colouring and a quite promising attempt (imho) for machined metal panels - this on the inside of the panel which will not be attached to my model. I hope the exposed surfaces will not be worse.

[Von Salza]

Those panels look impressive. How did You make it?

[Ernie]

Truly amazing work Prze!  I am in awe of your talents and
can't wait for the next installment. 
Merry Christmas my friend!

Cheers,
Ernie

[FAf]

Those panels look impressive. How did You make it?

Yes, please tell us! You can't show that and then just let us stare in awe...
/Fredrik

[PrzemoL]

The panel effect is a purely coincidential discovery. I was experimenting with metal colours, airbrushed the Duraluminium Vallejo Metal Color and then painted the thin "veins" of Dark Aluminium using the 1-grade brush. But the result was not satisfactory as the dark colour was not uniformly opaque. Being lazy I decided not to remove the paint but to cover it with airbrushed Duraluminium to start once more. And after a thin layer out of the sudden this amazing effect emerged. The colour unevenness disappeared and it seems that the airbrushed Duraluminium colour over the brush painted background reflects the light differently then the one on the airbrushed background with interchanging dark-bright effects depending on the angle of view. Exactly the effect I was looking for!
Now my only worry is if I am able to repeat this on the outer panel sides...

[Stuart Malone]

The panel effect is a purely coincidential discovery. I was experimenting with metal colours, airbrushed the Duraluminium Vallejo Metal Color and then painted the thin "veins" of Dark Aluminium using the 1-grade brush. But the result was not satisfactory as the dark colour was not uniformly opaque. Being lazy I decided not to remove the paint but to cover it with airbrushed Duraluminium to start once more. And after a thin layer out of the sudden this amazing effect emerged. The colour unevenness disappeared and it seems that the airbrushed Duraluminium colour over the brush painted background reflects the light differently then the one on the airbrushed background with interchanging dark-bright effects depending on the angle of view. Exactly the effect I was looking for!
Now my only worry is if I am able to repeat this on the outer panel sides...

I tried replicating this once by painting a base coat of a metal color, then tinting that same metal color darker and thinning it.  I used a very very fine brush to paint miniature swirls.  It still came out heavy handed looking and the colors had too much contrast.  I think I should have gone lighter for the swirls instead.  Your method sounds a lot easier and looks far more realistic.  Thank you for sharing how you did it.

Stuart

[RAGIII]

Beautiful work on the panels! Very convincing.
RAGIII