Junkers D 1 Roden 1/48

[RAGIII]

You are making great progress. I am sure your one to one eye sees the color better than I can on my computer so go with what you see in person.
RAGIII

[Monty]

Hi Martin! Thanks for the vote of confidence in the colour!
Hi Toby, I use Tamiya Acrylics for spraying, this was 8 parts Purple X-16 and one part Light Grey XF-66 just to tone it down a bit, thinned with Tamiya acrylic thinners and I always add a bit of Clear X-22 just to make the paint flow nicely when airbrushing...
Thank You for checking in, Des, once on the site the photos actually change and look closer to real life! Something I can't explain...
Hi Rick, Thank You for the positive comments, I for one can vouch for colours coming up differently on different computer screens, this one is a great example!

So I continued on the wing camo - there is a green in a random, sprayed pattern, so I mixed a fairly bright green, 9 parts XF-5 to one part X-8 just to lighten it a bit and sprayed it pretty random with a feather edge, maybe a bit exaggerated, but it helps the effect in the end! To my surprise, in spite of the bright, lightened colours there's a bit of dulling after spraying, I will keep this in mind if ever I do a WNW DFW, for example!

Herewith a photo, the gloss in the green gives some strange reflections, this will go after clear coats and decals etc...



And the colours used...



Now to wait for it to dry, then mask and paint the fuselage...

Regards,

Marc

[Monty]

So moving on... More masking on the wings, now it's a "tape special!". Then a coat of red-brown on the fuselage - the only hint to this colour is "Chocolate Brown", now is that dark chocolate, milk chocolate or the more creamy kind? So this is my choice... that very visible seam along the top edge of the fuselage is visible on the real plane too....



Now to let it dry..
Regards,
Marc

[RAGIII]

Very nice job on spraying the random green patches! Your choice of brown looks good to me. I am looking forward to your next update!
RAGIII

[Ernie]

Very nice job on spraying the random green patches! Your choice of brown looks good to me. I am looking forward to your next update!
RAGIII

Yep, just what I was thinking.  Well done, Marc.

Cheers,
Ernie  

[Monty]

Hi Rick, Hi Ernie, thank you both for checking in and the encouragement, it's appreciated! Now on to one of my favorite moments in a build: taking all the masking off, it's just good to see all the different colours! I was quite surprised to see the masking over the corrugations was quite neat, in places better than the original aircraft! The small irregularities don't worry me.. I also think the contrast between the underside off-white and the tailplane white came out as I wanted... Now to let it dry for quite a while before clear coating, and then the most testing part of the build, getting the decals to behave over the corrugations!





Regards,

Marc

[PrzemoL]

Lovely painting job, Marc. Great to see you taking on this build again.

[Des]

Your painting is excellent Marc, this is turning into a really great looking model.

Des.

[radio]

Beautiful painting at all Marc. Looks lovely.
Cheers
Martin

[RAGIII]

Looks terrific Marc! The decal work is certainly going to be challenging with all of those corrugations. I am sure you will overcome!
RAGIII

[Ernie]

Very nice work, Marc.

Cheers,
Ernie

[oldalbie]

Nice work Marc, the paint looks just fine.

[coyotemagic]

Excellent paint work, Mark!
Cheers,
Bud

[Monty]

Hi Przemo,Bud, Oldalbie, Rick, Martin and Des, Thank you all for commenting and the encouragement, it makes the project a lot more fun! I haven't made visible progress, but I have coated the whole model in clear, twice, letting it dry properly after each coat... I think this is very important as it does three things: provide a shiny surface for the decals to stick too, protect the paint from the copious amount of decal setting solution needed, and yes, even fill the corrugations a bit to give me half a chance of getting the decals to seat properly... Herewith photograph, the colours look more like real life now...



As they say, if there's no photograph it didn't really happen!

Regards and Happy Modelling,

Marc

[BigBlue]

Looks very nice Marc.  Good luck with the decals... that can indeed be trying!

Chris