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Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« on: March 10, 2013, 06:24:10 AM »
While waiting for Rowan's decals for Hannover I decided to start another project. This is going to be Jasta 18 von Butlar's D.III with Rowan's decals, too.

The cockpit ready to be buried in the fuselage




The tachometer with its bulkhead will be attached after closing the rear fuselage



Mercedes D.III (how small it is after WNW 32nd scale, and how simplified)



But not much of it will be visible...

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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #1 on: March 10, 2013, 08:30:20 AM »
Very nice work in the cockpit, Prez.  Is the framing Part pe?
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Bud
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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #2 on: March 10, 2013, 08:42:35 AM »
Thanks, Bud.
Oops, I have forgotten to mention it, the framing is indeed Part PE.
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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2013, 08:48:05 AM »
It looks fantastic.  Did you thicken it up somehow?
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Bud
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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #4 on: March 10, 2013, 08:52:11 AM »
No, I did not, Bud. It is just as it is, airbrushed, not painted, so even the paint did not add much to the thickness.
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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #5 on: March 10, 2013, 09:03:15 AM »
That's fantastic Przemo

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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2013, 04:32:19 AM »
  Przemol,
Excellent work on her interior my old friend. As alway you fellows who work in 1/72 scale never fail to amaze me. Just awesome!
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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2013, 07:12:41 AM »
Thanks, Bo and Gregory. You are very kind.

A few steps forward - the fuselage is assembled, the lower wing and tailplane attached.




Needless to say, all the joints required more or less filling, sanding etc. what is not completed yet. The dark lines along the joints clearly indicate where filler (I use a CA glue) was applied. The fleshy coloured forward part of the cockpit coaming shows where I had to rebuild it from Magic Sculp because it was not completely moulded.
At this stage I have decided to sand down the majority of fittings like engine access hatches, footsteps framing, etc. They and some others like strut socket fittings will be rebuilt using Part PE elements.




And of the cockpit you really do not see much, taking a photo is almost impossible, a sort of spy camera would be useful.

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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2013, 07:23:21 AM »
Getting this one together nicely, mate - I like the detail work you have undertaken in the cockpit as well.

I recently built this kit - not one of Roden's (although mine was the Encore 'Blue Max' kit) better kits in this scale but does come together nicely once a fair bit of prep work has been undertaken.

Good luck on the remainder of the build.

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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2013, 07:45:25 AM »
Great work Przemol, I don't know how you guys work in this micro scale, 1/32 is small enough for me.

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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2013, 06:54:49 AM »
Thanks, Dave and Pete.

Now with WNW Hannover completed I could return to this tiny project.
It was four sanding, polishing, test-painting sessions before I was satisfied with the joints. Some PE bits have been added and the holes for rigging drilled.





I have also replaced the moulded radiator imitation with PE bits


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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2013, 12:24:09 PM »
Looking good Prez, as always!
 These Roden kits always seem to present unique problems - we all know what we will face with Airfix, Pegasus or Merlin, but Roden is differant with each kit....

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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #12 on: March 31, 2013, 03:00:56 AM »
   Prze,
Outstanding PE works my old friend. Your new radiator is an excellent replacement.
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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #13 on: March 31, 2013, 09:23:37 PM »
Great PE work Prez, personally I never have any luck with PE, so I'm really impressed.

Cheers

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Re: Pfalz D.III (1/72, Roden)
« Reply #14 on: April 02, 2013, 05:34:57 PM »
I'm a big fan of your models, so I will look here.

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