WNW Albatros D.V/Albatros D.Va Triple - and one more Jasta14 Albatros D.II

[Umlaufmotor]

Hello everyone,

Thank you all very much for your kind comments.

There's not much to show today, although the oil paint on the wood grain of the D.V fuselage is almost completely dry, I'm still leaving the model lying around.
The fuselage of the D.I, on the other hand, is already undergoing further work - I have already sealed it twice with semi-gloss.
But I'll take some pictures of that tomorrow in daylight.

In the meantime, however, I have also been working a little on the fourth Wingnut Albatros.
When completed, this model will represent Otto Kissenberth's D.2263/17, Jasta 23b.
While searching through original photos of this machine, I got the impression that the exhaust - explicitly at the outlet - was shaped somewhat differently than the exhaust in the Wingnut kit. The exhaust of the D.2263/17 appears to be slightly narrower, slightly more angular at the outlet and also slightly longer. Wingnut shapes the exhaust more like a trumpet at the end.
Anyway, maybe the pictures are deceptive, but I have modified the kit exhaust.
I glued a few millimeters of waste plastic to it to make it slightly longer and then shaped the exhaust a little narrower. The exhaust was also made a little more angular. Then a thin piece of hot-drawn plastic was used as a rim around the outlet. The opening was then machined to a very thin wall using a milling cutter and small files.
The color is the same as the other exhausts - see post #5 to 7.

Here is the picture of Otto Kissenberth's D.V:



And here is the result of the exhaust for the model after processing and painting.









Servus
Bertl


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[Umlaufmotor]

For comparison, the slightly shorter and trumpet-shaped kit exhaust:








That's it again for today.

Servus
Bertl

[NigelR]

Amazing attention to detail, great research and exquisite workmanship. Well done!

[Jorgo]

Another very realistic look for the exhaust. I take my hat off to you.
Greetings
Joerg

[RAGIII]

Your usual Fastidious detail work! Perfect finish on the exhaust!!
RAGIII

[Dirigible-Al]

That's a pretty amazing bit of work on the exhausts.
Alan.

[Umlaufmotor]

Thank you very much, Alan, Rick, Joerg and Nigel

Servus
Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

A little bit of detail work:
When I was working on the fuselage of the D.I at the time, I sanded off many of the fittings and screws molded onto the surface of the fuselage.
The reason was that I wanted to supplement some of the fittings with the etched parts set from Eduard available at the time, as the ones shown on the model were washed out or distorted - and some of the screw fittings were molded in the wrong positions.
Well, we'll come to the fittings another time - for now, let's look at the screw fittings.

Here in this original picture of a D.I circled in red:



I drilled holes in the plastic with a 0.4mm drill bit (a little over a millimeter deep) at the positions that seemed right to me.
But don't drill through, as you would see that if you looked into the cockpit.



I have used matching MasterClub rivets to represent the screw heads.



....... the 2mm long rivets had to be shortened to a length of less than 1mm.



These were then placed on the blind holes.



and press them in.



Due to the fact that the rivet shank is 0.4mm thick (the heads 0.5mm), they hold relatively well in the holes.
Finally, apply a thin layer of clear varnish over the heads so that they stick to the fuselage.

Servus
Bertl

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[Umlaufmotor]

The tailskid has now found its place on the fuselage - after almost 16 years.
In fact, the tailskid was already painted in spring 2009, but after I painted the metal fittings in a dark metal tone (I didn't know any better at the time), they now had to be repainted in the typical Albatros green.







Servus
Bertl

[Rafael Berlin]

Your models set the bar...

Deine Modelle definieren die Messlatte

Best Regards
Rafael

[Jorgo]

2nd that !

Joerg

[Umlaufmotor]

Hello Rafael, Hello Joerg

Thank you very much for the flowers, that's very kind of you.   

Hallo Rafael, Hallo Joerg

vielen Dank fuer die Blumen, dass ist sehr nett von euch. 

Servus
Bertl

[Umlaufmotor]

I only assembled the D.I. as a "just for fun" to see if and how everything fits together visually when the model is finished.
I think the main direction is right, this will be a nice model of an early Albatros for the display case.











Servus
Bertl

[uncletony]

Beautiful work as always!

[NigelR]

Beautiful work Bertl. Your attention to detail is incredibly impressive, as is your workmanship. The DI is looking really good. This will be very helpful when I build my DII.