An airplane that frequently tried to kill its pilot (Aviatik „Berg“ D. I, 1:32)

[Edo]

hey Andreas! thank you for the info on the seatbelts!
you engine seemscready to crank up.... it is a pity to close it between the fusolage....
ciao
edo

[pepperman42]

Amazing work! A credit to the kit and your careful workmanship that everything went together well.

Steve

[FAf]

Great work! What a relief that the fuselage halves joined over the engine. /Fredrik

[lone modeller]

I am with the others - this is truly spectacular modelling, but I think that it proves my point about leaving structures visible on finished models. All of that wonderful detail, especially the engine, is now hidden and simply cannot be appreciated by anyone looking at the model.

Stephen.

[RAGIII]

Lovely painting and added details Andreas! That seat is simply Amazing!
RAGIII

[Borsos]

Thank you very much for your kind and motivating words, Richie, Edo, Steve, Fredrik, Stephen and Rick!

Richie, thank you, but no, I don’t do drawings or painting besides coloring models (wish I could … maybe when I’m old I’ll pick up some canvas and some oils … and force my children to hang my pictures in their homes …     )

I closed the fuselage using 2K glue and smoothed the seams with the help of car putty.






The advantage of 2K glue is that you can sand it like resin when it set. The advantage of car putty is that it sticks to resin what ordinary plastic putty does not.

When I build biplane models which are no WNW kits, I check the fitting of the struts before detail and paint work. And I was happy that I did as the kit’s interplane struts are weak (despite of containing a wire core) and make the upper wing sitting too high:





In reality it is much more visible than on these pics.
So I made my own struts, pics will follow later!
Best regards,

Andreas

[WD]

Really beautiful, impressive work so far Andreas!

Warren

[RAGIII]

You are making great progress on what seems to be a Very challenging kit! I Look forward to the Next update as always!
RAGIII

[Tim Mixon]

Starting to look like an airplane!  Incredible work on the interior and engine. 

[Borsos]

Thank you Warren, Rick and Tim!







That’s it so far. And it looks much better than before compared to the plans I have (resized Windsock Datafile). Strangely now the machine guns look off-center, but they don’t in reality. Or is it just my eyes… however, I‘ll also dry fit the rudders and the landing gear before disassembling the whole thing again and detailing and painting it.

Andreas

[Borsos]

I am with the others - this is truly spectacular modelling, but I think that it proves my point about leaving structures visible on finished models. All of that wonderful detail, especially the engine, is now hidden and simply cannot be appreciated by anyone looking at the model.

Stephen.

Thanks again, Stephen. In fact there are some spots on this engine that I am happy to be able to hide 
Andreas

[gedmundson]

Excellent work, Andreas. You're a very brave man to make your own struts - and everything looks lined up in the photos. Brilliant!
Cheers,
Gary

[PrzemoL]

Fine modelling! /The engine looks great and so does the entire airframe.

[pepperman42]

Nice engineering. The struts are brass but are they shaped/flattened to airfoil? I see a pin so tubing?

Steve

[PJ Fisher]

Going back to your previous post about the seat - your paintwork really came out quite convincing! I admire that sort of attention to detail.  I wonder if the original was made of Preßstoff rather than leather?  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presstoff