Kette of Dr1's

[Tim Mixon]

Wonderful progress with these Paul. I particularly like the finish on the wheel discs. Your Fokker streaking is impressive as well.

[Brad Cancian]

Wonderful progress Paul - I have a soft spot for these Jasta 19 machines, they are quite catching Here was my attempt from last year.



Your work is lovely!

Cheers,

BC

[DaddyO]

Wonderful progress with these Paul. I particularly like the finish on the wheel discs. Your Fokker streaking is impressive as well.

Thank you Tim. I was pleased with how the wheel discs turned out, given some of my earlier attempts 

Wonderful progress Paul - I have a soft spot for these Jasta 19 machines, they are quite catching Here was my attempt from last year.



Your work is lovely!

Cheers,

BC

Lovely model Brad and helped tip me towards the Jasta 19 aircraft (I was originally going for a Jasta Boelcke group) Two of mine will be well known markings and two I've not seen done before . . .

Paul

[DaddyO]

Well I have to say I'm pretty tired of streaking now (To coin a phrase) 

Predictably the fuselages needed re-doing to match the wings, which meant removing the decals and sanding back the varnish slightly to get a key for the new finish. Anyway apart from lifting one of the pattee cross decals slightly no real harm done, just lots of modelling time without any apparent progress . . . 

Gloss coats and decals and then back to the more interesting stuff. In the meantime here are the redone flying surfaces which I'm happy with (sort of)

Paul

[Dutch522]

Looking real good, Paul, this is quite the project. When you're done you'll have built three times as many models as I've finished since about 2003

Dutch

[Tim Mixon]

I was wondering to myself that the fuselage coloring looked different from the flying surfaces. I didn’t mention anything thinking it was possible the lighting was different and not seeing the two parts together.  I know your frustration about having to repaint and the feeling of spinning the wheel with no sense of progress. They are looking fantastic though!  Keep up the good work.

Tim

[DaddyO]

LOL Dutch 

I was wondering to myself that the fuselage coloring looked different from the flying surfaces. I didn’t mention anything thinking it was possible the lighting was different and not seeing the two parts together.  I know your frustration about having to repaint and the feeling of spinning the wheel with no sense of progress. They are looking fantastic though!  Keep up the good work.

Tim

Cheers Tim
Yep sadly quite a difference when the bits were bought together. The colour is actually greener than it looks in the pictures, but I'm quite happy with it as a shade now . . . sort of . . .
Also glad I'm not the only one to spin the wheel as well 

Paul

[KiwiZac]

Lovely work Paul, the parts look terrific and I have no doubt the finished articles will too!

[DaddyO]

Lovely work Paul, the parts look terrific and I have no doubt the finished articles will too!

Thanks Zac 

Right fuselages all redone and glossed and then decals added. Black weight tables, stencils etc don't show up very well, but all there. I decided to add the white decorations first and then apply the stenciling afterwards trimmed around the white so that the shape of the decal wouldn't show through. I also found the very glossy 'varnish' on the decals showed up so they all needed trimming back carefully and the stripy fuselage bands were all separated and applied individually (two sides and top for each stripe) Couple of the ones with shaped ends didn't fit very well so one of the spare white decals on teh sheet was sacrificed to cut a few replacement stripes. Fiddly job, but worked well in the end.

Right while that little lot is drying I'm off to carve some props . . . 

Paul

[Tim Mixon]

Fantastic work Paul. I don’t think I have ever seen the two on the left built before.  The white stripes on the right one is really well rendered. These will be an impressive group when completed.

[NigelR]

Nice progress here Paul. Those fuselages look very good.

[DaddyO]

Fantastic work Paul. I don’t think I have ever seen the two on the left built before.  The white stripes on the right one is really well rendered. These will be an impressive group when completed.

Cheers Tim. An early decision was to make some of the versions not often seen as well as a couple of better known ones 

Nice progress here Paul. Those fuselages look very good.

Thanks Nigel. The colour looks better in real life, but apart from my usual crap decalling they look okay 

Paul

[DaddyO]

Slow progress on these due to incompetence and lots of 'real' work 

Anyway, props carved from laminated ply 'A la Prez'. So far so good, I then decided to try adding some tinted varnish which turned them too orange. Didn't spot this because I was working late in the evenings and then added two coats of varnish, sanded in between and sat them on the edge of the bench. When I saw what color they actually were in natural light they was a bit of muttering . . . 

[DaddyO]

Over the weekend (when I could see what I was doing) I added a couple of coats of varnish and a light tint of sienna brown giving a more acceptable result (I might need to darken them a bit later, but I'll paint the hubs and see how they look when on the aircraft before deciding. The extra prop is for another German model that's sitting at the back of the bench waiting it's turn 

Paul

[DaddyO]

Final progress pic is of one of the fuzes with bottom wings attached (I've done all four, but you get the idea. Bit of filling needed and repainting before adding the stitching detail and a bit of trompe l'oeil painting for the tailskid area 

Paul