Airco DH2, Eduard 1/48, Upd 16.5.22 Finished

[GazzaS]

Dang Frank!  All of your inspirational work look like so much bigger scale.

[Mike Norris (UK)]

Hi Frank,
I'm really impressed by your modeling skills.
I'm also curious about the power tools you use for turning, milling etc.
Maybe one day you could post some shots of your tool set-ups,

Mike
 

[Alexis]

Awesome work Frank !


Alexis

[KiwiZac]

Instead of fiddling with masking tapes I made a negative mask with a scan of the Datafile to create rib tapes with primer, applied after a shading.

Now that's some clever thinking, bravo Frank! And those painted roundels look superb! I love how the ribs *just* show through.

[lone modeller]

Catching up Frank: just amazed (again) at the quality of the painting and those wood struts! Another Euro gold medal in the making!

Stephen.

[Bughunter]

Thank you all!

Love those painted-on markings 

Gary, that we always want to reach with decals: "looks like painted on". So why not try to do it directly?

You may end up being a famous German painter yet.  Nice job on the number.
Does the pre-shading come through on the fuselage?  Looks difficult to tell in the picture.

Ken, you forgot two most important words: I'm the famous German "too much" painter!
Again one or two layers to much. When the paint is wet this always fakes me At least the grey shades looks different now.
Experience is when you realise that you have made the same mistake before.

I'm also curious about the power tools you use for turning, milling etc.

Mike, I had already a thread, started long ago. I added just some posts today.
https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=11323.0

I love how the ribs *just* show through.

By accident, see above

Another Euro gold medal in the making!

Thank you Stephen!
Since there was the information, that the next three Euro Model Expo will be the final ones I think I will go again. So I thought about which model to show, but I think this model is not "impressive" enough, not much details as the Halberstadt and Bristol? I do not know yet, but I have another year to build some more.

Thank you also Rick, Gaz and Alexis!

Cheers,
Frank

[Borsos]

Great stuff, Frank!
Andreas

[Rookie]

Fabulous work Frank, I love it!

Willem

[Bughunter]

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[Radarman]

 Frank,
Thanks for another great update and lesson.
I alway learn something new with each of your builds.

                                                         Kevin
                                                           

[KiwiZac]

More excellent work Frank, you and Alexis (apologies to any DH.2 builders I've missed out) have inspired me to resurrect a Revell DH.2 that was consigned to the parts bin and requires new tailbooms as the old ones were used for parts. And Revell no longer holds stock...

[lone modeller]

Another of your amazing updates Frank. Every time I look at them I have to remind myself just how small all of these parts are!

Stephen.

[DaveB]

Wow - mind boggling (tiny) details, Frank.

Regards

Dave

[Rookie]

Beautiful, crisp details, top notch soldering, clean paintjob, great additions, what else can I say?

Hats off Frank!

Willem

[Bughunter]

Thank you very much my friends! Glad that you like my fiddly work

Cheers,
Frank