Albatros C.V/17. In 1/72, scratchbuilt, a tribute to Dave Wilson

[Skyhook]

Hi!

The Albatros is now ready. I have made a thread about the construction process and techniques in the Dave Wilson tribute topic, so if you want to know how this one has been built, please check out that one….i believe you will find all or at least most of the answers there.

But in short, this bird is completely made of plasticard, styrene sheet, bamboo, balsa and some items from the spares box (the spinner has been modified from a 1/48 Spitfire droptank, observers MG is partly a Roden spare as is the exhaust…all the decal crosses originate from several spares, Roden mainly. The arrows are cut from black and white decal sheets. The numbers are hand painted).

The rigging is heat stretched black sprue.

It was a long and enjoyable build and I took special care of documenting the construction. I hope this model for its own part is a small tribute for Dave…we are here because of him!

I took several pics of the plane today. Some have hard morning light and the others more subdued late afternoon vibe. I also painted a background to make the pics more interesting. Enjoy!

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Btw, i just realized that this one is probably the first model project in many years that I have actually properly finished!

[Rip Van Winkle]

WOW!  That is a real beauty.  Looks like it was worth the effort. 

[Thumbs up]

STUNNING! SIMPLY STUNNING. What a marvellous scratch build.

[enathan]

It turned out really well, excellent work!

[Skyhook]

I am very happy that you like it! Thank you, Gentlemen!

And special thanks to Joachim, who supplied me with some excellent reference material on the subject. The model became better, thanks to him

Cheers, Skyhook

Ps.

This won’t be the last Albatros you will see coming from my direction; J.1 will be completed in the near future and my old models of C.VII and C.XII are updated to better standards on the side. And if that is not enough, I have done the basic components for a C.X

[herbarnold99]

just lovely! thanks for sharing!

[RAGIII]

Like I said on the build thread, If I hadn't followed along I would think this is a Modern Injection kit! Very Well Done Tribute!
RAGIII

[torbiorn]

Fantastic model, again. Love the wood and camoflagued wongs combination.


I’m especially in awe of the propeller, I never manage to get the German ones that good.

[Skyhook]

Thank you all! I am very happy about your comments

Btw,
Torbjörn, thanks about those comments about the propeller. I forgot to mention that it is actually carved from some 1/48 spare ww2 propeller. I firstly thought of using some Roden spare as basis, but the were not long enough (they are from Albatros and Fokker fighter kits). I cut two blades out of a 4-bladed propeller and cut and sanded them into shape. Then I glued them to the spinner. After some filing and filling, I painted them with acrylic paints. C.V had exeptionally big propeller for a two seater, because of the reduction gear the 8-cylinder engine had… so a lot of air moving with relatively low rpm.

Now to come to think of it, i just realised that Roden Gotha kits would have had big spare propellers!

Cheers, Skyhook

[macsporran]

Great model, great Tribute, great story, pretty well great actually.
Sandy

[NigelR]

Superb work all round. This is a great scratchbuild, it's been a pleasure to follow the build along and see how you approached and solved the various challenges along teh way. And the end result looks fantastic, well worth the effort. You need to finish more projects....

[Skyhook]

Thank you very much! 

I will certainly go ahead with my other Albatroses as soon as possible….this project has reminded me that however great and relaxing it is to build a ww2 kit (which i have completed quite a few last year or so), the challenge of a scratchbuilding is even more like that…well, maybe not so relaxing always, but at least you have just yourself to blame for inaccurasies etc!

Photographing a 1/72 model is quite unforgiving, when the plane is many times bigger in close-ups. But there’s also a good point in seeing how one could improve a thing or two next time. With this one I had to paint the cowling panels a few times over the primer…i used the very thin Xtracolor oil paint, but in close-ups one can see that the sharpness disappeared from the lines etc. Next time i will pay attention to the paint finish and its thickness more and try to mix the colour better and try to get it with just a layer or two.

Cheers, Skyhook

[enathan]

Looking forward to your next Albatros two seaters Skyhook!

[PrzemoL]

Great effort in scratchbuilding. Congratulations!

[Vickers]

That's an impressive scratchbuild with a lovely outcome- one of the Albatros types that we don't see very often. Bravo!