Kempf's Dr.I roden 1/32

[Ernie]

Paolo, the screen stitching is gorgeous.  Nicely done!

Cheers,
Ernie

[Nigel Jackson]

I absolutely agree with Ernie on the stitching. Great stuff, Paolo!

Best wishes
Nigel

[mc65]

....you say? I'm not so sure to use it... I'll give a coat of primer, and let's see.

meanwhile, alienation!
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if working in a series simplifies changes to make to the parts of the kit, certainly produces a state of mind rather insane. neverthless, keep on going.

augh, p.

[mgunns]

Hello Paolo:

I think the stiching will be fine once the "fabric" is painted and you highlight the stiching.  Once in the airplane with the seat, seat belts, and everything else that will be packed into the cockpit, it will look like it belongs.  You are taking on quite a project.  Good Luck and it will be fun to see how you progress through the build.

Best

Mark

[RAGIII]

You are making great progress on a very ambitious project! I am looking forward to your next update!
RAGIII

[coyotemagic]

Outstanding work so far, Paulo!  I'm really looking forward to watching your progress on this project.
Cheers,
Bud

[lcarroll]

This just keeps getting better and better, Paolo. A joy to follow your progress!
Cheers,
Lance

[pepperman42]

Im 3 weeks behind on this great build. Nice work!! Looking forward to more updates.

Steve

[Des]

Great work so far Paolo but you certainly have your work cut out for you.

Des.

[mc65]

yes... it's a long way to achieve some results, working like that.

I received the eduard's PE, so I pushed up some detailing on fuselage(s) wings (a lot of wings!) and tails...
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this time I tried to chew a little the map cases:
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also, I worked on the basic spandaus. nextly, the rear details.
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with PE, mr. kit's fokker dedicated colors finally arrived home. unfortunately, I've very little free time, these days.
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but managed to do some trying on paper, tomorrow (maybe) I'll try the green straining on torquoise...
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cheers, p.

[RAGIII]

Terrific Progress x3!
RAGIII

[Ernie]

I have to hand it to you, Paolo.  I have a hard time keeping one project
going...three is some task!  Thanks for sharing this busy build(s).

Cheers,
Ernie

[ALBATROS1234]

first of all i must say, nice work on a great kit. i like rodens 1/32 dr.1. recently some were requesting a wnw dr.1 but i say this kit can be made into a fine dr.1 so wnw should do other planes that have no kit in 1/32. your detailing looks nice. i like the way you shaded details in the cockpit as well as the overall color scheme you used on the cockpit. some comments. i think the mr. kit fokker pale green is for fokker eindeckers and fokker olive green is for dr.1. second to my eye the eduard photoetch map casepart looks bulky. i dont use mine. i like to use german ww2infantry pouches designed for 1/35 figures. to me this looks better.like the type you find with figure sets,the pouch that mounts on the soldiers rear. i have spares if you wish me to send you some.

[xmald]

A really nice Fokker factory you `ve got here mate!

[mc65]

thanks all...

albatros, you're right, the eduard's map case it's too bulky, I'll try to do something smaller. the WH map cases seems a good idea, except I fear they may seem too what they are, to my eyes!

about the green, I a-gree(n) with you, the pale one is too light. today I did some trials, and I reached those results:
1) the green alone it's not enough, to reach the desired effect. I think it's necessary to add something else, maybe a light brown?
2) also the techniques are not satisfactory. I tried with acrylics applied with various kind of brushes on dry and dampened, plain and future-coated surface.

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the streaking is too hard-edged, and there is no time to work, with acrylics.
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I think that oil colors will work better, to obtain the typical fokker canvas, but I have no idea about wich colors I may use!

any ideas about?

bye bye, p.