Junkers D 1 Roden 1/48

[Monty]

Hi Andrew! Yes, I do try the hairdryer trick as well! Thanks for checking in...

Well, I have finally called it a day with the decals, I pampered them, flooded them with setting solutions and then even tried the hairdryer... Then I just washed all the muck off, touched up the decals in the worst spots and shot it with some acrylic varnish... this will be close to my final finish, fairly shiny as it's a newish plane... I also need to do a little touch up with the red-brown where the masking chipped things a bit - not serious. The prop, tailplane and exhaust are dry fitted, otherwise sure as nuts I'll knock them off while doing other stuff...



Then I started on all the other detail bits and undercarriage, I need to clean them up and paint them and then attach, I also need to find some Axial decals for the prop, I always like adding them and I think I have spare somewhere....



Regards, Enjoy your modelling!

Marc

[RAGIII]

Your Junkers is really loking the part now! Not far to go on this one!
RAGIII

[Des]

Well done with the decals Marc, the D.I is looking brilliant.

Des.

[coyotemagic]

The decals look fantastic, Marc!  Excellent work.
Cheers,
Bud

[MikkoHeikkinen]

Great job with decals!! I only used serial text from roden. Crosses were, if remember correctly from dragon or eduard. Still had hard time sitting on corrucated surface.

[Monty]

Thank You, Rick Des and Bud for your encouraging comments and vote of confidence! There is quite a lot of compromise in the decalling phase, I just hope it doesn't show!
What a great Junkers, Mikko! Looks very good! Next time I'll find some other decals too... I don't fancy masks on the corrugated surface either...

Well, while the paint on the oversized and under-detailed Spad dries, I went back to this one... I got the undercarriage bits together and the headrest, checked they fitted (sort of) then painted them all in the green mix I had saved... Also thinned and trimmed the troughs that protect the engine from machine-gun debris and painted them... Some progress at last!



Regards,
Marc

[PrzemoL]

Small but fine progress, Marc. It looks like the end is looming, isn't it?

[RAGIII]

Good to see you moving on this one. You are getting close now!
RAGIII

[Monty]

Hi Przemo! Hi Rick! Thank You for checking in and yes, the end is near! But I just seem to get stuck on some stupid details and some brain fade on my part. This particular aircraft had some Junkers Co letters on the wheel covers, they look very hand painted in Old German Script and I just couldn't paint them in acrylics - the paint just clumped and dried too quickly. So I left it for a while and then I remembered the old days - we hand painted enamels OK... so I went out and bought some and mixed these two colours together, thinned them then tried to copy the script in the photos... still not great but OK for me!... Just need to paint the tires now...



Regards,

Marc

[PrzemoL]

Wow, Marc. Lovely. I would have never achieved such an effect with handpainting.

[RAGIII]

Very nice results! Far better than I could have done.
RAGIII

[gedmundson]

Looks great Marc!
Cheers,
Gary

[steveb]

Great work on the scripts! Did you use a brush or something like a quill pen?

Steve

[lone modeller]

Just caught up with this one. This is a super model all round - never mind the transfers they look good in the photos!. The hand -painted script looks very convincing too - if the originals were hand painted it does not matter if yours is not perfect - it is realistic!

Stephen.

[xmald]

WoW you are very skilled modeller!