After two weeks of beeing heavily engaged in my job I have now found the time to post some update on my Fokker.
The preassembly and the painting of the cockpit is almost finished. The instrument panel has been painted with Tamiya XF 78, sealed with semi-gloss varnish from vallejo. The woodgrain has been brushed with sienna and umbra oil-paints. The detail on the pulsameter has been added by a heat stretched transparent sprue and the wiring was done by using .2 mm copper wire. The instrument glasses were made by using Micro Kristal Klear. Especially the metal elements on the decals for the switches came out very realistic.
The cockpit floor received some weathering with pigments and different oil-painted woodgrains for the two covers. The wiring of the control cables and especially for the rudder bar was quite challenging. At least the cables popped away in the final stage of using oil-paint. I guess that the solvent (white spirit) softened the plastic and cause it to break. Finally I fixed the cables directly on the rudder bar.
The chair was brushed in wood grain and was sealed with acrylic varnish. After that I used the hairspray technique and sprayed the Tamiya XF 60 "Fokker Beige". This coat was brushed and sanded away partially to get a heavy used look. The photoetched seatbelts were painted in Clear Doped Linen and were weathered by using earth-brown Mig-Pigments.
The contol column got some extra wiring for the MG switch. All black parts were treated with metalic-pigments.
The structural wiring was done by using 0.12 mm fishing line. The turnbuckles were made with 0.4 mm Albion tubes, wrapped by 0.05 mm copper wire.
So now I am hooked again in my current build and more pics will follow soon.
With greetings from Germany,
Dirk
