thank you all very much!
the easy link with the ron's work of upgrading is great!
my friend is lucky, but has an hard head.... seeing the wip of this Dr.I, he fall in love, and ordered two more kits, asking me to build also an udet's one, and an F.I with red upper wing... nothing to comply, it's an easy kit, with just some few improvements needed, so it's a matter of quick build and have fun with painting.
improvements that I judge a must, and he a nice... so, for instance, the cowl trouble can be solved just by colors, to him.
obviously, I'm not contrary to that, it's just against my religion!
I found a possible way to solve the cowling case... I may cut out the circular front section as per pencil line, then thin the cowl from inside, and then put in a new front plate from plasticard.
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quite easy, I suppose... for a single sample, but for 3-4 of them?!? look at them side by side will show some little differences, I fear...
I'll think at that then, today I'm enough stressed by weather, this morning I had crosswind up to 47 kts on short final, with heavy rain and thunderstorms all around the field... so, all I want now it's just to relax!
and that I did. I played a little with colors on nieuport, and I took advantage from the dirty iwata also on this one.
but, before the paint shots, some home made upgrading..
the upper fuselage cowling. I opened the second hole for the oil filler neck, closed the holes intended for the spandaus, and opened those for the ailerons cables. also, I opened the hole within will find home the RPM gauge.
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the new filler neck,
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and how it sits in place.
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and now, the paint. some effects on the ammo cans,
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a metallic base for the engine,
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some green on the cockpit frame...
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and the base colors for the interior.
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next steps, some painting by brush on them.
bye bye, p.