A few other components have also been completed in the past few days.
These include the windshield, which has been sanded down to less than half its original thickness (unfortunately, this cannot be seen in the picture without a comparison).
The frame was painted dark green with a fine brush, a little "smoke" was sprayed on with an airbrush to seal it, and then small, fine oil traces from the Mercedes engine were depicted with oil paint.
The wooden tail skid -- this was primed with Radome, then oil paint was applied to show the wood grain, and finally light blue paint was applied over it.
Before the light blue could dry, some of it was washed off again with a bristly brush and warm water.
The sanding marks on the underside of the tail skid shoe were painted on with "Dark Iron".
The claw brake lever -- some aircraft had wooden claw brake levers, while others had metal ones.
I don't know which material was ultimately used on the Roland, but I seem to remember reading in Otto Fuchs' book (a well-known German fighter pilot in World War I) "Wir Flieger" (We Pilots), published in 1933 by Hase & Koehler Verlag Leipzig, that he was just able to bring his Walfisch to a halt before the airfield boundary with the help of the metal brake bar.
In short, the bar on my model is made of metal.
It is painted with "Dark Iron", sprayed with a little rust red, the bracket is painted dark green, and the actual brake plow "the metal blade that digs into the ground" is polished accordingly.
Servus
Bertl
