Aviattic 1/32 Pfalz D.VIII, Jasta 14 WIP

[DannyVM]

Hi everyone,

 between my 1/48 projects, i still like to build 1/32 airplanes, at least when it comes to W.W.1 aviation. My main interest go's to the scout's who served in the Jasta 14 unit and most importand to those who are depict in my personal Jasta 14 photo's collection.

Previous i build a Fokker Dr.I, the one who was flown by Lt. Jozef Shulte. A Meng kit with Aviattic decals which can be seen in the 'ready for inspection' section here on this forum.

 My next Jasta 14 build, is one that will give me lot's of challenges. This kit, the Aviattic 1/32 Pfalz D.VIII kit will keep me as sharp as an knife when it come's to modeling skill's in all sort's.

No plastic, but resin, 3D printed and PE part's will give me lot's of fun (i hope......... ) and lot's of different sort's of techniques that need to be used for this sort of multi media kit's.



I pre-ordered the kit last year and receive it from Richard in march of this year. After a long wait, i knew this kit was full of detail and so it was worth the wait. I ordered the basic kit because my only intention was to build the Pfalz that was depicted on my photo's, serial 172/18.





These photo's are also depicted in the book of Jasta 14.



Ok, time to start...........beginning with the Siemens Halske SH.III rotary engine.

 Front



Back of the engine. Nothing will be seen much once the engine is placed on the fuselage and behind the cowl.



Lot's of dry-fitting is nessecary for this kit. Still fit is fairly nice.



Control colum and rudder pedals also dry fitted with a great fit.





All part's in this kit are nicely stored in seperated plastic bag's. The really thiny part's are put into a protective foam. I put all part's into alu tray's so i can easily find what i'm looking for. The Gaspatch turnbuckles are no part of this kit.





So, time to start with some 3D printed material. Still new for me, i used some on my 1/48 models. Great stuff, lot's of unseen detail but at the same time caution is adviced due to the brittle nature of this 3D printed material. Still, with some care, it is very easy to seperate the part from the supports.

 This is the inner cockpit frame, which is made from one piece. I never seen that on a W.W.1 model.





After the part is cleared from it's support's.





So this is it for now guy's, Hope you enjoy my build.

 Regards

 Danny

[RAGIII]

Great start on your Pfalz! I am looking forward to seeing another build of this kit!
RAGIII

[DannyVM]

Great start on your Pfalz! I am looking forward to seeing another build of this kit!
RAGIII

Thank's for the interest RAGIII. I hope i can do it justice.

Regards

Danny

[FokkerFodder]

This pugnacious little fighter is growing on me! Good to see another one underway!
Cheers
Matt

[DannyVM]

This pugnacious little fighter is growing on me! Good to see another one underway!
Cheers
Matt

Thank's Matt for hoping in.....

question?

    Good to see another one underway                   

Are there more Aviattic Pfalz D.VIII kit's that are in progress here on the forum? I seem to miss them??

Regards

Danny

[NigelR]

Nice start on a lovely kit. Looking forward to this.

Are there more Aviattic Pfalz D.VIII kit's that are in progress here on the forum? I seem to miss them??

This build is underway now: https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=14419.0
Here's a few in progress shots of the test build that I did: https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=14091.0

[DannyVM]

Nice start on a lovely kit. Looking forward to this.

Are there more Aviattic Pfalz D.VIII kit's that are in progress here on the forum? I seem to miss them??

This build is underway now: https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=14419.0
Here's a few in progress shots of the test build that I did: https://forum.ww1aircraftmodels.com/index.php?topic=14091.0

Thank's Nigel.

Regards

Danny

[DannyVM]

Hi Guy's, back with part two of this progress.

 

Time to paint some part's which i find alway's very challenging. 

 

Starting with priming the part's that will receive a mettalic finnish.



I noticed that the resin part's aren't really sharp casted. Many imperfections are vissible which surprised me for a fairly expensive kit of this sort.



Once painted, some disortions are still vissible. This is a blury photo but still you see the lines of the casting process. Primer is a very thin layer.

https://i.imgur.com/zes39GUl.jpg

Luckily, most of these part's are hidden into the fuselage. I noticed that the more vissible part's are much better of quality.



Time to paint some part's, starting with the inner fuselage cockpit walls. So the cockpit of the Pfalz D.VIII had a light grey'isch-blue color. The only natural wood that was vissible where the two side panel's where at right the manometer and magneto switch was located and left the benzin regulator switch and benzin switch.

 First the two cockpit side walls.



Second, the cockpit floor, which is a whole part together with the lower wings. Control colum and rudder panels are allready glued in their place. Wheatering is also done.





Finally the cockpit frame. For painting i used the AK real color range. With the kit is a splendid instruction booklet with lot's of color reference photo's of the Scout which is beautifull restored and flown by Mikael Carlson. Regarding color photographs this is the only game in town to rely on color choice. I used AK Real Colors RLM 65 (1938) RC271.





So after i painted the part's it was time to start some fun detail painting and the wheatering of the cockpit and engine.

 The engine, which is a very nice 3D printed example was painted in Alclad II polished aluminium. Details are painted with Vallejo model colors and wheatering was done with the Tamiya wash set's.









Cockpit side walls are wheatered



And finally for this progress, i added some details to the cockpit frame. Also wheatered with Tamiya washes.











Hope you like it guy's

 Regards

 Danny

[FokkerFodder]

Really looking nice! I love the engine and the copper in particular looks fantastic- what did you use for this?

Cheers
Matt

[NigelR]

Lovely work Danny, this is looking great.

[DannyVM]

Really looking nice! I love the engine and the copper in particular looks fantastic- what did you use for this?

Cheers
Matt

Thank's Matt, i'm glad you like it.

Engine was painted in Alclad II polished aluminium. Copper was achieved by using Vallejo smoke in two very thin layers onto the polished aluminium. Afterwards i added a black Tamiya wash onto the whole engine.

Lovely work Danny, this is looking great.

Thank's Nigel.

Regards

Danny

[Edo]

i agree with the others: that engine is really beautiful!

ciao
edo

[DannyVM]

i agree with the others: that engine is really beautiful!

ciao
edo

Thank's 

Regards

Danny

[PrzemoL]

Great progress so far! I am sorry I missed the start of your build log.
The kit is finely engineered and the instruction book prepared by Nigel is very instructive, yet, should you have any doubts, I will also be glad to help.
As for 3D print traces, unfortunately I found many visible places where faults are present - take care of the wheel covers, fuselage and wings area between the ribs - especially those are crucial to avoid problems with losenge decals.

[DannyVM]

Great progress so far! I am sorry I missed the start of your build log.
The kit is finely engineered and the instruction book prepared by Nigel is very instructive, yet, should you have any doubts, I will also be glad to help.
As for 3D print traces, unfortunately I found many visible places where faults are present - take care of the wheel covers, fuselage and wings area between the ribs - especially those are crucial to avoid problems with losenge decals.

Thank you for the nice comment and the warnings. I will keep that in mind.

Regards

Danny