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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #75 on: September 29, 2025, 10:21:51 AM »
Have had few builds which fought hand tooth and nail with a couple extra punches shuck in . Turning out to be beautiful results so far


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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #76 on: September 29, 2025, 06:23:58 PM »
Thanks Alexis  ;D

Top wing fitted yesterday and a bit of rigging done  . . .
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #77 on: September 29, 2025, 09:23:03 PM »
Fortunately our cats are old and can't jump on tables  :P

Hats off for your perseverance.

It looks beautiful and the decals are really well applied.

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #78 on: October 01, 2025, 06:56:56 AM »
Agreed, beautiful finish, and great modelling skills and problem solving overall.
I for one, welcome our cat overlords.

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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #79 on: October 01, 2025, 04:54:28 PM »
Quote from: Rookie on September 29, 2025, 09:23:03 PM
Fortunately our cats are old and can't jump on tables  :P

Hats off for your perseverance.

It looks beautiful and the decals are really well applied.

Willem

Thanks Willem
(Ours our as yet still young and seem intent on distruction of everything they encounter except when they are shouting for tuna or sleeping)  ::)

Quote from: Richtrad on October 01, 2025, 06:56:56 AM
Agreed, beautiful finish, and great modelling skills and problem solving overall.
I for one, welcome our cat overlords.

Warren Q

Cheers Warren
Hopefully get this one wrapped up and on to something more interesting. (The cats are my daughters Ragdolls and are beautiful, but being house cats they do make the most of any opportunity to wreak havoc wherever they land) ;D
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #80 on: October 05, 2025, 08:29:13 PM »
Final push this weekend to get the Pegasus D1 off the workbench.  :D

I'd managed to snap off the tailskid during the various trials of it's construction and painting. Now I could have swiped another one from the Eduard boxing (which has one moulded separately), but I decided to make up a new one from filed brass wire with bungee cords from stripped electrical wire. Anyway here is the result soon to be tucked underneath the vast tailplane never to be seen again  ::)
D1 tailskid by Paul S, on Flickr

D1 tailskid in place by Paul S, on Flickr

At the other end of the aircraft the spinner needed the Prince's logo on the double curved surface. Of course there was no decal available, but a few tests showed that getting one to conform would be a nightmare anyway so it was time for alternative actions. First I scaled down the current logo on the printer to the approximate size so I had a guide and then got out the brushes . . .

Di Spinner by Paul S, on Flickr
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #81 on: October 06, 2025, 02:29:03 AM »
I'm struggling away here with 1/32 bits and bobs on my Nieuport 28 and I'm amazed at how you can do such tiny detail work in 1/72! I didn't realise thee was a skull on the spinner, that is nice work there. You are right, no way that a decal would have worked......
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #82 on: October 06, 2025, 03:28:40 AM »
Quote from: NigelR on October 06, 2025, 02:29:03 AM
I'm struggling away here with 1/32 bits and bobs on my Nieuport 28 and I'm amazed at how you can do such tiny detail work in 1/72! I didn't realise thee was a skull on the spinner, that is nice work there. You are right, no way that a decal would have worked......

Cheers Nigel
I'll be honest sorting out a home printed decal and then trying to stick it down on the hub without creases looked like a whole can of trouble just waiting to be opened  ;)

Drop of weathering tomorrow and I'll be able to add it to the finished collection (at last they cry) ::)
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #83 on: October 06, 2025, 04:33:06 AM »
Well done Paul, both good saves. Your spinner is a thousands times better than any decal could be.
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #84 on: October 07, 2025, 01:14:18 AM »
Quote from: Allan31 on October 06, 2025, 04:33:06 AM
Well done Paul, both good saves. Your spinner is a thousands times better than any decal could be.

Cheers Allan  ;D

Calling this one done (apart from a new base for it)

I'll post some other images on a finished thread

Thanks for your support which really helped keep me pushing on with this one :D
Paul

D1 finished by Paul S, on Flickr
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #85 on: October 07, 2025, 01:59:06 AM »
Wow! That is truly a great result! It's very difficult to believe it is 1/72! But a very enjoyable thread and lovely to look at! Regards, Marc
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #86 on: October 07, 2025, 02:24:54 AM »
Quote from: Monty on October 07, 2025, 01:59:06 AM
Wow! That is truly a great result! It's very difficult to believe it is 1/72! But a very enjoyable thread and lovely to look at! Regards, Marc

Thank you Marc :)
Glad to get there in the end with this one and it looks nice in the cabinet - result!
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #87 on: October 07, 2025, 06:26:22 AM »
She's absolutely gorgeous Paul, well done! This is one of those builds where I need to check the thread title for the scale - it's just so fine.

Terrific work on the spinner art too. Wow!
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Re: Aces Mounts 2025 GB - Dieter Collins Albatros D1 1/72
« Reply #88 on: October 07, 2025, 06:30:28 AM »
Quote from: KiwiZac on October 07, 2025, 06:26:22 AM
She's absolutely gorgeous Paul, well done! This is one of those builds where I need to check the thread title for the scale - it's just so fine.

Terrific work on the spinner art too. Wow!

Cheers Zac  ;D
Being so close to it I can see all the flaws, but then if I built a 'perfect' model I'd probably hang up my scalpels  ;)
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