Good evening gentlemen,
I actually appreciate your kind words, many thanks for them! Finally I have made some progress worth to show, but at first the answers to some questions or comments respectively:
but I replaced them with a very fine black marker pen from Gunze.
QWouldn't it be much easier then to produce all nails with that pen, instead of struggling through the decal appliance process?
S.
I don't think so. Some single dots are fastly made, especially if you have the decals as a guide. But goinf with the pen alone would mean to make straight lines (masking tape...? But masking a decalled fuselage - no, not if I can avoid that!) and always keep the correct distance between the single nails. I am quite sure that this would take even longer that using those decal strips.
It's just a shame that it's such tedious work. I bought a set for my WNW D.Va, but now I'm not looking forward to trying them. Scary process.
Cheers,
Bud
It is not that bad to use them, Bud, I didn't want to ruin your anticipation of using that product, sorry! It's just the point that it takes so much time, for instance because you always have to wait until the glue has dried if the lines cross each other. It took me almost a week to finish the nailing... Yesterday I had forgotten to remove the carrier film from two or three lines, but it went off without problems even if it had set 24h and not 3h...
May I just say that this is an example of a gentlemanly and professional (IE mature) way to help out a colleague. As my return to this wonderful hobby of ours is recent, I have been perusing some of the other websites and Facebook groups to familiarize myself with what is now available. I have been, frankly, amazed, and sadly so, at the lack of maturity and bonhomie displayed. And in one case, ego...a chap posted numerous photos of a recent build with blatantly crooked wings. Were he a beginner, and seeking guidance, it might have been understandable and his gaff pointed out to him in a helpful manner. The text accompanying the photos, however, made it clear this fellow wasn't the sort to hear criticism no matter how well intended. It's all very disheartening, frankly.
So huzzah to this group...I feel "safe" here
I don't know what else to add here than: yes, me too. I feel save as well here
. I always enjoyed this forum as a place for great communication, exchange of ideas and learning. And I never was disappointed. For me it is crucial to try out new things in this hobby and to learn about history, technology and modelling. I fear, if the day would come when I couldn't learn anything new I would have to quit this hobby (for luck I know that I always will have to learn new things...)
Looking at the PfoP etch you have primed makes m want to let you know, the covers for the airleron cable access on the outer lower wing should be domed and not flat circles in them. these may be eaier to scratch from beer/pop can.
Thank you very much Keith, I didn't know that. I checked my references again and couldn't find any photo of this very dome, so I simply replicated these according to your hint
As the wing gets thinner and thinner in that area I could imagine those domes cover up some return pulleys for the rudder.
Ok now I have to express how envious I was since I saw this greatly looking jig in Stephans and James' posts. I had used some masking tape rolls until then to house my unfinished aircrafts... This morning I received my copy and it works fine...
Nails are done as are the fuselage markings. I decided to go with D. 457/16 of Jasta 6 at Uginy in the fall of 1916. When it comes to new established Jastas with new twin armed fighter biplanes one reads often almost exclusively about Jasta 2. But there were other Jastas which faced the problem of nearly total Allied air domination, as Jasta 6. There are two pics of that plane in the WDF 100 (and I had build that plane already out of the Roden 1/72 scale kit some years ago. It was destroyed in a move and I deeply regretted that.)
The fuselage crosses are kit decals. After I had given the whole decal sheet a good shot of future, they were better to use - better, not good. These Roden decals are actually a crap. But I stole the two Albatros logos for the rudder from the Albatros D III OAW kit and they went on as flawlessly as the serials that I took from Roden's Pfalz D III kit (I am an optimist and therefore when I plunder another kit for decals I am always quite sure that when I would build that very kit I'd have other, fantastic decal sets anyway...)
What else is to say? The PE parts for the fuselage went on without any problems. The drainage holes are made out of brass rod. Some shading and some future to seal the decalled fuselage. So far today, things get shape....
Thank you!
Borsos
