Swimming time. WNW Hansa Brandenburg W.12

[stefanbuss]

While i am waiting for the waves to cure, i worked a little bit more on the scene, adding a family of ducks (or to be precise: a family of mallards (Anas platyrhynchos), being the most popular duck species in northern Germany).
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You can see that the family is approaching line astern, but the little ducklings have their problems in keeping to their station.


And the large ducks will have to duck in a very short time (or they will beheaded from the floats rigging).

What a play with words. Sigh. 

[gedmundson]

Nice touch Stefan! I'm enjoying your updates.
Cheers,
Gary

[Borsos]

Cute little birds..., colorful flowers... you actually seem to be a hippie (leaving aside the "beheading" of course).
Really nice touch on the water, these mallards! And I've never seen a floatplane built where the floats are first fixed onto the base. Quite a clever approach!
Borsos

[Manni]

Hello Stefan,
I like your ducking ducks, nice little detail. Only thing, what you could improve is the to bring some more depth effect into the water, using some water effects from Vallejo or some clear artist's acrylic gel from the next Bauhaus.
Manni

[Adam]

Those ducks will add more life to the diorama.
Nice view.

Adam.

[stefanbuss]

some clear artist's acrylic gel

This is already in use - i was just not in the mood to set up the proper photo/lighting equipment. The water looks like real fake water - it's just very hard to show on photos.

S.

[coyotemagic]

Love the ducks, Stefan!  Very cool.
Cheers,
Bud

[stefanbuss]

Patience is a virtue, my Grandma used to say. But no virtue is seem to possess...
I had problems getting WNW's nacal hex decals to fit around the leading edge, so i started using Mr. Decal setter, to save time. Bad idea.

Mr. Decal setter seemed to be a bit hungry and ate through the decal. Now i have to spend time repairing my shortcut.

Getting the Balkenkreuz onto the lower wing went without problems.

The next step will be to highlight the ribs and to dirty up the wing.

Crewman is finished.

As i had said earlier on, he started as a CSM bombcrew guy, but received the Kaiserliche Marine's fatigue for flying personnel, being a cotton drill, available in field grey or bleached linen, sometimes with an additional pocket on the belly. The photo is taken from WNW'S instruction for the Roland D.VIa.

[RAGIII]

Nice work on the underwing cross and lozenge( too bad about the holes but I am sure you will put them right). The figure is looking good !
RAGIII

[Umlaufmotor]

Class work so far, I really like it, Stefan!!
Get the Wings not too dirty. You are at sea !!
No highly swirled dirt from a dusty airfield etc. etc.

[stefanbuss]

You are at sea !!
No highly swirled dirt from a dusty airfield

Bertl, i know. But the lower side has to be mucked up nonetheless - just wait a bit. First i have to force myself to work on the lozenge-repair-job...

S.

[gbrivio]

There is a lot of good work and details like mallards look very cool. The crewman is very realistc.
Looking to see the plane growing on the floaters.
Giuseppe

[Ernie]

Gorgeous work, Stefan!  The Ducks are a neat addition...nice
thought.  I look forward to your next update, my friend.

Cheers,
Ernie

[Borsos]

The conversion of the CSM figure looks fine. Will you add some dull coat or are you going to leave him that glossy? And what did you use for modelling the Navy fatigue?
Borsos

[stefanbuss]

Borsos,

the poor guy is not glossy at all. I was lazy (once more) and didn't put up the tent i use for high-quality photos. Instead i used two of my high-power daylight-modelling-lamps, without some softening up installation between the guy and those lamps, which is why is seems to be so reflective (which he ain't in reality).

The changes in his dress were made with Apoxie sculpt.