I've got the woodwork done on 'Schweinhund' at this point in the build, and now I'm trying to figure out how the cockpit goes together.
I airbrushed Tamiya Deck Tan on all of the woodgrain parts first and followed that with a streaked wash of Burnt Sienna oil paint. When that was dry, I brushed on a thinned coat of Tamiya's Clear Yellow. Lastly, I sealed it all with a coat of Satin clear coat.
Roden doesn't supply any instrument decals so I used some from Airscale's 'WWI Instrument Dial Decal' sheet. The molded bezels were painted with Humbrol's 'Brass' and Vallejo's 'Old Gold'. I clear coated each dial with 'Future'.
In both the image above and below, you'll see that I added cockpit bracing. It's made from 0.10" lead wire and brass tubing for turnbuckles. It looks overscale and that's my intention. When the fuselage is buttoned up, there's not much light inside the cockpit, and the view is restricted, so I wanted the bracing to stand out a bit. It seems to me that 2lb monofilament bracing gets lost inside a dark, busy cockpit. The downside is that it's difficult to pull lead wire taut.
The following images are of the finished struts and propeller.
In regards to the propeller, I haven't added the laminations that are so apparent on German aircraft propellers. I think I read somewhere that the laminates for British props were very similar in colour so it's not necessary to show contrasting laminations. Is that correct, or should I think about showing laminations?
Thanks for looking!
Cheers,
Chris
