Wingnut Wings 1:32 Roland C.IIa (Early) Feldflieger-Abteilung (A)292b

[Michael Scarborough]

Konbanwa, James-san,

Great photos! I had not seen these before but I will gladly add them to my files.

I would say you've done an excellent job of replicating the look. I respect your determination and your eye! Bravo.

As for shoji, I'm happy to say shoji doors are something with which I am familiar having grown up in Yamaguchi ken in the late 50s and early 60s. Chisai world desu, ne.

I look forward to seeing how the build continues.

Cheers from NYC,
Michael

[Dave in Dubai]

Really nice work on those wings James.

I like the way you have replicated the see through effect of the cdl to show the spars and ribs illuminated from behind.

Best wishes with the rest of the build.

[Pgtaylorart]

Really nice work on those wings James.

I like the way you have replicated the see through effect of the cdl to show the spars and ribs illuminated from behind.

Best wishes with the rest of the build.

Yes! We'll done, James!

George

[coyotemagic]

Gorgeous rendering of the wings, James!  Your usual brilliant work!
Cheers,
jBud

[FarEast]

Midweek hobby time is limited due to the job and family but there are a few times where a task can be done while enjoying some down time with he family in the living-room.

This time masking up the top wings ready for preshading.



Almost done - just need to add the ribs

[RAGIII]

James, Masterful work on the ribs and shading! Just beautiful!!
RAGIII

[FarEast]

So again limited time on the workbench this weekend however I'm now ready for oil painting the light blue rag rolled effect seen on the Roland.

Saturday I spent the time finishing off the masking and then airbrushing in all the preshading ready for the decals.




Once the paint was dry it was time to get busy with the rib taping!



and finally locking it all down with clear.





The final stage was to mask everything off ready for oil painting - this was done late Sunday night as I wanted the clear coat to have at least 18 hours to cure.



So now its time to start seriously thinking about the method I will use for applying the oil paints.

[Michael Scarborough]

This is looking excellent James. I look forward to the continuation of the saga.

As for the rag-rolling, I hope the ideas I forwarded in reply #91 might be of some help.

Cheers from NYC,
Michael

[jknaus]

This is looking really sharp. Loving the build.
James

[RAGIII]

Your Roland continues to be Superb Modeling! Excellent results with the wings! I am looking forward to your rag applied overpaint.
RAGIII

[radio]

Very great work and painting James.
Cheers
Martin

[FarEast]

Yes, James - come on lad!
Great to see your techniques being enjoyed by all here - pushing these products to the limits I hoped they would be...I'm still waiting for someone to use the "Albatros" and "Fokker" blue linens also...

Best wishes, Richard

Thank you Richard! I have 3 days to work out the bluing of the wings now - I have two train of thoughts based on photographs -

• Rag roll using thinned oil paints allowing all the preshading to come through slightly but no need to use the blue decals to show the linen as the paint would have obscured it (Same as the paint over the wings/tailplane on my LF70).
  
• Air brush or sponge on and slightly darker shade of blue or grey to give a mottled effect and then use the decals to show the linen and rag rolled effect

so hard to decide!

[LukasTheLight]

True masterpiece James!!!! I missed quite a bit but your latest posts are unbelievably inspiring as a little tutorials for future

Cheers and Cheerio
Lukas 

[FarEast]

So last night I came to a decision on the method I would use on the wings, I'm going to use all of them!!!

Well not quite - I decided to make a test sheet - using some scrap plasticard and painted it up the the same effects that I had used on the wings shown previously - as well as laying the light linen decals to represent the ribtapes. I then clear varnished the whole sheet  and then sectioned off parts to use for testing.

The first was just a simple application of the Aviattic Light blue Linen decal - this will be my control, all the other section will have different techniques both pre and post effects applied and some with and without linen decal paper to see how they look.

From there it will be a case of choosing the one I think captures the effect most convincingly.



I will also document the effects so you can see how they were done.

[FarEast]

so this morning I got some bench time in - and after doing about 6-7 different test samples I already knew which method I was going to use on the 2nd attempt, but I completed the testing regardless as you never know.

I decided to go with the Light Blue (Tamiya X2, XF18 10:1) and heavily sponge it on to the wings and then once dried apply the Aviattic Light Blue Linen decal over the top. The effect was very uneven as well as being somewhat transparent which was the effect I was going for.



And you can't help a little dry fitting!