A couple of years ago I built the WnW Albatros B.II and was happy with it. While walking past it as it sat in my display case, I couldn't help notice that the way I'd painted the laminated wood on the propeller, and how poorly done it was. There's nothing worse than odd looking propeller wood laminations (or poorly aligned turnbuckles) on a WW1 aircraft.
So after literally years of looking at this I finally said to myself "That's it!" and dug out the alternate propeller for that model, and painted it up to look the part. I did a bit of research on Reschke propellers, and gave it my best effort to fix my mistake and get the laminated wood to look like it should. I had to make a new rear hub from styrene, but I'm much happier with the overall look of the model now.
Once a model is finished, I've always thought that it should be left alone and the next effort would be better. But this one begged to be fixed with a propeller replacement.
Cheers,
Gary
New propeller painted up for the Albatros B.II model
The Reschke propeller was an option for the particular scheme of my aircraft.
My original pant job on the Garuda type - which looked poorly done in my humble opinion. Not sure why it took me years to finally fix it.
