Thank you everybody for your kind words. It helps keep me going!
Here is the latest on the taube. Over the last couple of weeks, I've been pecking away at the cockpit details. I often had to refer to photographs of WNW builds for reference and dimensions, so some of the parts may look familiar to those who own the 1/32 kit.
The cockpits have quite large openings, so a lot of the interior will be visible. There are still quite a lot of parts to go yet, so hopefully I can get it looking very busy by the time it is done.
I'm a little bit stuck on the colour of the sidewalls inside the cockpits however and hoped to ask the advice of any resident experten. I'm planning to do Stahltaube A.283/14 which had a dark fuselage very similar to RLM Grey (Tamiya XF-22). To tried and represent the plain interior fabric with a coat of grey on the outside, I have started with a light CDL colour, then given it a sort of speckly overspray of darker tones to depict the bleed of grey paint from the exterior (sample swatch below).
I applied this colour to the cockpit, but it suddenly occured to me that the German aviation industry might have applied one or more base coats of Clear dope first, the same as the British did, before adding a pigmented top coat. If this was the case, I would expect the interior fabric to be lighter than what I have done below. I'm also ludicrously colour blind too, so if anyone can tell me if it is too light or too dark, or too pink or too green... I will be forever in your debt!
