Author Topic: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va  (Read 35064 times)

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #105 on: October 01, 2013, 12:21:49 AM »
Looks fantastic! but yeah, grain should always run lengthwise -- panels were 3 ply and bent much easier in on direction than the other...

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #106 on: October 01, 2013, 12:52:49 AM »
Splendidly !

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #107 on: October 01, 2013, 12:53:55 AM »
Beautiful wood Guy! ;D  I definately want to try the Uschi decals now.  This is a great build!

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #108 on: October 01, 2013, 01:43:54 AM »
Fantastic work Guy. The one panel that runs vertically, while possibly not absolutely historically accurate, lends itself well to the overall look. It will also be partially obscured by the wings. I like the graduated pre-shaded tones; the wood grain really "pops" with that.
One thing for sure: there are enough Albie marking schemes for everyone to do a couple and never repeat!

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #109 on: October 01, 2013, 02:36:34 AM »
Brilliant work, Guy.  Looks like plywood to me.
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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #110 on: October 01, 2013, 03:16:58 AM »

Thanks for the encouragement - much appreciated!


The Uschi decals are going to be hard to beat for realism - I'm using 6 different pattern/tone variation sheets and combined with different shades of base coat - it gives a pretty limitless variation in wood effect. In addition to that you could double up a decal and it becomes darker and richer again..

Does anyone have a link to an Albatros nail pattern map?

Cheers

Guy


« Last Edit: October 01, 2013, 03:28:21 AM by Gisbod »
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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #111 on: October 01, 2013, 03:30:46 AM »
Very, very convincing!
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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #112 on: October 01, 2013, 04:58:37 AM »

Does anyone have a link to an Albatros nail pattern map?


Do you have Albatros D.V / D.Va At War Datafiles? The patterns are shown in the three views. Otherwise, scope out the TVAL repro photos and you should be able to work them out. Remember the pattern is two nails, one.screw :)

While on the subject, some food for thought-- Koloman Mayerhofer has written that uniformity of fastener pattern was not the object both on the originals and his reproductions, and in fact the patterns were (and are) rather haphazard due to the limitations of working space and glue drying time -- only so many guys can fit around a panel being fitted, and they have to completely install it in 40 minutes or so. The purpose of the nails and the screws is simply to provide clamping action while the glue is curing. Nails were placed where needed to achieve the necessary clamping force. The screws were added because they were worried the plywood would delaminate... Once cured the glue provided all the strength.

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #113 on: October 01, 2013, 06:01:05 AM »

Thanks Bo,

No, I don't have those  :-\ but I'll look at the TVAL pictures as you suggest..

As for the screws - I can't see how I could differentiate between a nail & a screw?  :o (I know you could..)

Guy
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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #114 on: October 01, 2013, 09:18:03 AM »
Lovely job, Guy. The woodgrain is certainly a hit.
I'm looking forward to learning as you go along with
the nails.

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #115 on: October 01, 2013, 10:51:06 AM »
Hi Gisbod.

Those wood panels are amazing... very convincing wood effect.

Nicely done.

Cheers

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #116 on: October 02, 2013, 08:14:16 PM »
Very nice Albatros Guy, enjoying this build-log.  :)

I like those Uschi decals, just stunning.

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #117 on: October 03, 2013, 03:43:17 AM »


Thanks Steven,

I'm looking forward to putting one of your lovely wheels on!  ;)

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #118 on: October 03, 2013, 05:19:28 PM »
That is one sweet ride in the making, Gisbod.
As dicussed per email, I wouldnt worry too much for the little red-ish tone. It gonna be fine when all
the details come in and it will be a very balanced model. I mean, we all have lil bit of a "personal signature"
in our pieces and we always find something we would do different on our next project, aye? I also have a learning
curve on all of my projects. Sometimes myself is the harshest critic and as long as it is like that, everything fine, because:
Those who have stopped striving for doing better, have just started to become worse. :-)

@all:
Thanks for the friendly words all you guys had regarding the product. I´m happy to see that all the month of
laborious testing, designing, re-designing and further improving obviously led to a product which is of great use
and well accepted by you, my scale modeling fellahs.
Its very motivating to keep up the pace and to not give up on striving for excellence even more.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, Y´ALL!

Alex  ;)

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Re: WNW's 'Wooden Wonders' Albatros D.va
« Reply #119 on: October 04, 2013, 02:15:07 AM »
Thanks Alex,

The decals are top notch - I quite like the effect now.. I'm planning on an LVG next so plenty of opportunity to put my wood experience to good use!

I hope I can do them justice on the completed model..

Halfway through the nails - pleased so far - but they're very time consuming! Hope to post an update fairly soon..

Guy
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