Author Topic: 1/32 Wingnuts Roland D.VIb - completed for my friend Dave Wilson (Read 13258 times)

NigelR · « **Reply #15 on:** July 16, 2024, 02:54:09 AM »

Nice work Sandy, that interior looks great.

It's not heresy to only build what is going to be seen, I agree with you that life is too short. And of course what happens if you do superdetail everything is that Schrodinger gets his hands on all of your detail work and it disappears (although of course it's still there.....).

Dutch522 · « **Reply #16 on:** July 16, 2024, 11:53:05 AM »

Beautiful work, Sandy. And although that's an amazing cockpit, I'm with you RE: eliminating time spent on unseen detail (Schrödinger notwithstanding...).
Dutch

RAGIII · « **Reply #17 on:** July 16, 2024, 08:26:45 PM »

Your Roland is really looking terrific. The interior is very well done. I have been a Heretic for years. I Don't Model for God, or Schrodinger

RAGIII

macsporran · « **Reply #18 on:** July 19, 2024, 08:31:51 AM »

Thanks, mates.

This is a really nice kit: everything fits like a glove, but the one bit I'm less enamoured of is the requirement to cut off three
of the D.VIa flush-fitting metal fuselage nose covers to replace with a single cover appropriate to the D.VIb.
Simple you say, but remember these are moulded on a nicely represented clinker-built structure, so you have to leave the planking lines under the surgery. I took my time with a new Swann Morton blade and am happy with the result. However when WNW thought of spare SE5a fuselage halves with wrinkles and separate Camel sides for 2F.1 etc, I'd have thought a new Roland nose section with the amended plates would have been pre-planned. Maybe they hadn't thought of the D.VIb variant at initial concept time.

Anyway, careful surgery and new covers ready to go on.

Sandy

RAGIII · « **Reply #19 on:** July 20, 2024, 12:48:11 AM »

Tedious work for a WNW kit

Like you I am Sort of surprised!
RAGIII

NigelR · « **Reply #20 on:** July 20, 2024, 03:06:54 AM »

Nice work. I am going to get me one of those DSPIAE reciprocating sanders that everyone is talking about. I have this kit to do and it seems like it would be the ideal tool for this kind of work.....

PrzemoL · « **Reply #21 on:** July 20, 2024, 06:08:34 AM »

Nice progress.

macsporran · « **Reply #22 on:** July 22, 2024, 10:11:50 PM »

Cheers, guys.

I'm going for the box-art marking scheme so a fair amount of varnished clinker fuselage will be on show.

I'm going to use Mr Hobby H318 Radome as the base colour then work in various W&N oils for the grained planks.

Since it'll all be covered up, I'm going to do something I've never done before - spray the two fuselage sides before gluing it all up. This way I can avoid the tedium of masking the cockpit and engine in situ!
So hold them together with a lump of tissue in the engine/cockpit space and a clothes peg on the tail - and into the booth!

Then out into daylight to dry out before closing up and starting with the oils.

Notice the empty sherry glass to show how work goes on a rainy Sunday afternoon!
Sandy

Dirigible-Al · « **Reply #23 on:** July 23, 2024, 12:09:16 AM »

Dam! That's made me want a glass of sherry now.
Alan.

NigelR · « **Reply #24 on:** July 23, 2024, 06:26:32 PM »

Quote from: macsporran on July 22, 2024, 10:11:50 PM

Since it'll all be covered up, I'm going to do something I've never done before - spray the two fuselage sides before gluing it all up. This way I can avoid the tedium of masking the cockpit and engine in situ!

A very interesting approach that could work well with this fuselage. Masking engines is a right pain!

RAGIII · « **Reply #25 on:** July 23, 2024, 10:43:17 PM »

We are being treated to quite a few unusual building and painting sequences in this Group Build. The best part is they All seem to work well. Nice progress on painting your Roland Fuselage.
RAGIII

AngryJazz · « **Reply #26 on:** July 29, 2024, 04:51:45 PM »

Love the updates! It's looking great

I thought about spraying some og the exterior colors before joining the halves. The Dolphin was very trick to mask.
Im very interested to see how it works out.

macsporran · « **Reply #27 on:** July 29, 2024, 09:28:38 PM »

Thanks Al, Nigel, Rick, AJ.

As hoped, the two sides mated perfectly with only a tiny amount of clean-up necessary. May not, in fact, have been needed as the oils will cover things anyway, but I realized I hadn't done the little strip of keel under lower wing, so popped a few drops of Mr Hobby Radome back in the brush and tidied things up.

Obviously this wouldn't be a process I would follow on most colour schemes, but on this one it did save so much of that intricate masking around the engine bay etc.
The metal panels still to be attached will be grey-green so different colour and the wooden top panel is one of those incredibly satisfying WNW junctions where it just clicks into place with no join line visible. (I just wanted to leave the internals on show for as long as possible before hiding forever!)
Now to start mixing and pre-drying oils!
Sandy

NigelR · « **Reply #28 on:** July 30, 2024, 01:41:10 AM »

That's worked well, like you I hate masking round the engine bay. I think the oils will pull it all together nicely.

Dutch522 · « **Reply #29 on:** July 30, 2024, 04:08:55 AM »

I love it when cunning plans actually work out! Mine usually devolve into having to do seven times more work to fix what goes wrong when they blow up in my face. It's interesting that the Roland fuselage halves fit together so well, while the Eindeckers I'm building now require a ton of work to eliminate the seams, particularly on the turtledeck...

Dutch