WNW Pfalz D.IIIa

[bobs_buckles]

Double diamond complete! Thank goodness for that! 
Weathering filters to come - I'm not looking forward to messing with the old girl's makeup, but needs must 
Onwards and upwards.

Von Buckle

[Des]

Wonderful work with the prop and spinner Bob, the chipping looks superb, and your work with the diamonds is exceptional, looking forward to seeing more updates.

Des.

[RAGIII]

Bob,
Your markings have turned out beautifully! I really like the yellow substitution!
RAGIII

[Ernie]

Excellent painting, Bob.  The yellow and silver look perfect.  You are making
great progress.  Thanks for sharing your talents!

Cheers,
Ernie

[stefanbuss]

Please don't mess too much, the Pfalz deserves to stay rather clean!

Stefan

[bobs_buckles]

Please don't mess too much, the Pfalz deserves to stay rather clean!

Stefan

Hi Stefan,
 I do agree with you. I will try to keep the weathering subtle and not over-bake the old girl 

Cheers for the nice comments, guys!

VB

[pepperman42]

She shouldnt have too many Pfalz in the mud Great work!!

Steve

[mgunns]

Greetings Herr Von Plastic Meister!!

I am catching up with the builds, and this is not a great build log, but I certainly enjoy the comments and your approach to modeling Bob!  I do like the Pfalz and I will be watching how you progress.  The wheels look fantastic, gives it that "vintage" look.  I like the clean, slightly weathered look myself, but that is my opinion.  I like how you did the spinner.
Onward and upward!

Best

Mark

[Zabu]

Looking great... i enjoy the diamonds very much... they remind me of that song "Diamons are Bob's best friend"... or something similiar to that!

Cheesr

[ggl1269]

come on whats the hold up..............

[bobs_buckles]

come on whats the hold up..............

Well... here is a micro update 
Cross masked and sprayed - not sure about alignment - looks off to me  Could it be an optical illusion?

We march on inexorably towards finality 

VB

[rhallinger]

Looks wonderful Bob!  The cross seams to be aligned correcty, and it's aligned properly within the diamond, so it must be correct.  I suspect an optical illusion based on the taper of that lovely fuselage.  Well done my friend!

Regards,

Bob

[PrzemoL]

Hi Bob, I am looking forward to see this build progress, too.
As for the cross, I am afraid only you can assess if it is aligned correctly on the real object. Photos may be too deceiving. If I had to tell, I see the cross slightly too much to the rear. But as rhallinger put it - it might be the fuselage shape fault.

[stefanbuss]

Bob,

if you really need to know about misaligned crosses, provide better photos to judge from. In any case - you should leave it as it is. Redoing all this, i think, would cause more trouble/damage to a beautiful model then keeping a slightly misaligned cross.

From the photo you provided I can only guess.

Stefan

[Ian from Doncaster]

Hi Bob,

why not photograph the model from the same angle/viewpoint as your reference pic, if you can, and compare the two for cross alignment?

Needless to say, sometimes changing what you have already done can lead to a lesser job (in my experience anyway!) and this looks great to me so far