Author Topic: Fokker E.II 69/15 Kurt von Crailsheim (Read 30020 times)

michael · « **Reply #120 on:** May 21, 2013, 04:46:09 AM »

i have nothing to say other than WOW!

michael

uncletony · « **Reply #121 on:** May 21, 2013, 05:01:20 AM »

totally convincing, brilliant!

mgunns · « **Reply #122 on:** May 21, 2013, 05:04:21 AM »

Hello Dirk:

Prop is truly outstsanding. You nailed the subtle differences but yet you can see the lamiations. Very convincing. I am liking how it is turning out.

Best

Mark

GAJouette · « **Reply #123 on:** May 21, 2013, 10:57:04 AM »

Outstanding prop my friend.You've captured the life like appearence perfectly. Well Done.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

Chris Johnson · « **Reply #124 on:** May 22, 2013, 10:53:38 PM »

Incredible craftsmanship Dirk. Simply beautiful work.

Cheers,

Chris

dirk · « **Reply #125 on:** May 25, 2013, 05:25:42 AM »

Hi everybody,

I have started with the rigging on the undercarriage. First I prepared some of the excellent photetch turnbuckles from Radu Brinzan. The buckles were masked on the center part which is in brass colour. The rest of the turnbuckle is sprayed in Alclad steel.

After studying Scott's scale drawing of the Fokker EIII at Windsock worldwide, I decided to create my own, more narrow type of turnbuckle for the undercarriage. I used 0.12 Fisherman's Fluorcarbon monofilament for more stability. One eyelet, made of .15 copper wire was sticked into 0.5 mm Albion tube while the monofilament was fixed to the other side. 0.05mm copper wire, bend around a 0.3mm drill was used to simulate the winding.

The rigging was done by using the 0.5mm Albion tube to fix the monofilament on the eyelets of undercarriage and the turnbuckles. I am not very happy with the albion tubes because they seem to be oversized as sleeves and don't correspond with the quite narrow turnbuckles.

With greetings, Dirk

RAGIII · « **Reply #126 on:** May 25, 2013, 06:16:56 AM »

This continues to be an OUTSTANDING build! Beautiful work on the LG rigging and overall aircraft!!
RAGIII

uncletony · « **Reply #127 on:** May 25, 2013, 06:18:06 AM »

Yep, outstanding is the word.

pepperman42 · « **Reply #128 on:** May 25, 2013, 11:18:09 PM »

Allignment and appearance are absolutely perfect!!!

Steve

michael · « **Reply #129 on:** May 26, 2013, 01:23:51 AM »

superb as always Dirk

michael

stefanbuss · « **Reply #130 on:** May 26, 2013, 06:47:59 PM »

Next time you might decide to go for smaller tube sizes - those are available from Griffon, via Lucky Model in Hongkong.

Stefan

dirk · « **Reply #131 on:** May 27, 2013, 02:32:35 AM »

Hi all,

thanks to everybody for showing interest and given such an amount of constructive feedback.

To Stefan: Thanks for the tip using Griffon tubes. For the structural rigging I will use heat stretched Q-tips which prooved to be far more close to the original size.

Here is an update on my work on the wheels. For the effect of the underlying spokes the wheel cover was presprayed in Tamiya Linnen, masked and sprayed in Fokker Beige. Unlike other WNW's kits, the Manufactors label (Continental) on the wheels has no decal option.

To bring out the lettering, first Tamiya white was sprayed and sealed with gloss varnish.

The grey colour was applied and almost immediately sanded down on the lettering by using wet 12000 grain micromesh.

With kind regards,

Dirk

IvotB · « **Reply #132 on:** May 27, 2013, 03:16:09 AM »

Very nice Dirk!

You applied the technique on the lettersI tried for my D.VII, but I failed. Probably because I didn't use the suitable abrasve. Mmm, let's look for 12000 grain micromesh.

I think I should try that too for polishing Alclad copper. It works fine, but just isn't shiny enough yet.

regards.
Ivo

dirk · « **Reply #133 on:** May 27, 2013, 04:41:23 AM »

Hi Ivo,

I guess that it is not only because of the 12000 grain but also because of the use of water and I think it is also important to start the sanding almost immediately after spraying. Maybe some microfabric clothes or rough paper will do the sanding job as well.

Dirk

GAJouette · « **Reply #134 on:** May 27, 2013, 07:37:37 AM »

Dirk,
Beautiful work in progress my friend.Thanks for the great letter tip too.
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette