WNW Fokker EIII Kurt Von Crailsheim

[mgunns]

Greetings folks:

Lance:  Glad that this "tutorial" will help with your build.  I hope you find it useful.  Thanks for coming along on this build.
Bud:  Glad to have you with on this one as well.  I appreciate your comments.
Bertl:  Thanks for following along and your comments.  I hope that you can find my landing gear rigging useful.  Thanks for being aboard.
Bob V B:  Thanks for being on board and your comments.
LM:  Thanks for your compliments and glad your aboard and happy to see that you are finding the comments and photo's useful.

[mgunns]

Okay folks:   Just a couple of photo's right now.  I rigged the landing gear and left the underwing rigging lying loose.  Hopefully you can see where the attachment points are and how it all fits.  I used EZ line as I had to adjust the angle of Gaspatch Turnbuckles and in that small space trying to adjust the monofiliment rigging was too cumbersome.  I will be using the Monofiliment for the wings though.









I have sinced tried weathering the fuselage and wings using the airbrush and a mix of acrylics to get an oily look.  Pics forthcoming.

Best

Mark

[FIREFOX1]

Really looking great Mark, nice one..  I broke my undercarriage today,in three parts pushing one of the wheels on, superglue to the rescue,  I need to order some bits from Gas patch, you said you have use 1/48 scale, turnbuckles, do you find the scale works better on 1/32 WNWs
Regards
Dave

[mgunns]

Really looking great Mark, nice one..  I broke my undercarriage today,in three parts pushing one of the wheels on, superglue to the rescue,  I need to order some bits from Gas patch, you said you have use 1/48 scale, turnbuckles, do you find the scale works better on 1/32 WNWs
Regards
Dave

Hello Dave:  Thanks for stopping by and the compliments, much appreciated.  I like the 1/48 as they seem to be more scale than the 1/32nd one.  Some of the holes need to be drilled out due to material residue, but otherwise the rigging line fits nicely through the holes.

Best

Mark

[Vickers]

Fantastic rigging work, Mark.  Looking more like the real thing every day!

[guitarlute101]

Awesome work Mark, the cowling looks really great.

Mark

[Epeeman]

Hello, Mark -

Coming along lovely.    Good luck with the rest of the rigging - what you have done so far looks very good to me.

Regards

Dave

[RAGIII]

Like the others have said the rigging is looking excellent! As for the breaking of the gear, I have found,(How do I Know), that you really need to mount the wheels on WNW kits when they say to in the instructions. Otherwise breakage is a likely prospect
RAGIII

[Jacek]

Great job with the model. I have two Fokker E.III in stocks, as I take up for implementation, surely will be inspired by your Fokker.
Jacek

[Des]

Nicely done with the rigging Mark, you have taken a very sensible approach to a somewhat complex procedure, looking forward to more updates.

Des.

[mgunns]

Greetings gents:

@ Vickers:  Thanks for the compliments and stopping by.  Means a lot and compliments are most encouraging and motivating.
@ Mark:  Hello Mark, thank you for stopping by, checking in and your compliments.  Duly appreciated.
@ Dave:  Hello Dave, thanks for checking in and your compliments.  I should be  making more progress on rigging anon and posting.
@ Rick:   Glad you are along for this ride.  Yes, it is always good to get the wheels on before the model is almost completed.  Dry fitting is essential. 
@ Jacek:  Hello Jacke, thanks for stopping by and your compliments.  Good luck with your builds.  It is a fun build and the rigging of the undercarriage isn't that bad, just takes time to figure it out.
@ Des:  Always nice to have you check out the builds.  I appreciate your comments and compliments, thanks for stopping by.

More modeling news as it occurs folks.

Best

Mark

[Ernie]

Mark, that is superb work.  Amazing rigging!  Thanks for sharing your magic, my friend.

Cheers,
Ernie

[jknaus]

Looking fantastic. Started the landing gear today and am looking at your pics quite intensly now. Hope it works as well for me as yours has. Great work.
James

[mgunns]

Okay folks:

Made some progress on the EII.  This view shows the rigging front underside and the attachment points.  I tried to divine from the instructions, the Eduard instructions and the photo's which line went to which control point.  This is my best guess.  I am using a combination of EZ line and monofilament.  My plan is to rig the underside, leave the monofilament un fixed until I do the upper and then tighten the underside so the wings are level and even, fix and call it good.

I painted the turnbuckles green and red per the discussion on one of the other builds.

On this image you can see that the forward turnbuckles go to the inboard attachments and the rear turnbuckles go to the outboard.



Also  visible is my attempt at staining.  Not real convincing but I am taking a slow less is more approach to weathering.  I am using oils.

Here you can see that the wings do sag and need the strength of a monofilament for support.


Here is an example of some of my weathering.  I just airbrushed a mixture that looked like stain and sprayed it on.  I am not totally convinced but this is an experiment and I will pass what I learn on the next model.  I was going to use the Steve Robson wheels on this one, but will use them on another one.



The wings and the airbrush weathering.



And some of the fuselage weathering.


That's about it for now folks.  I want to get back to the build and get the wings straightened out.

Thanks for looking and comments.

Best

Mark

[Des]

Looking pretty good Mark, the rigging has turned out well so far, the top rigging will take all the weight though. Your weathering looks good in my eyes, a different approach but has turned out looking good, keep up the great work.

Des.