Thank you very much Edo!
Pew, this one cost me nerves. I stripped off the paint which was quite thick anyway and covered too much details (it was the first time that I shot Vallejo paints through an airbrush, I think, I'll keep my Gunze, Tamiya and Drooling Bulldog paints for airbrushing instead). After that one frustration followed the other. Pencil didn't work, as they left no clear line on the sprayed surface, decals went fine on the straight parts, but not on the curves (here one should make templates of the parts first, before gluing the bike together... Well, too late for me). And at last I repainted a third time and sprayed yellow first - then I tried Tamiyas new flexible masking tape. But the pinstripes made out of masking tape are just too thin to provide enough room for the glue to stick on the model. In the end I gave up and started another online research, if in fact every P&M 3.5 HP bile had these stripes. Yes, it seems as if every bike had them, but on several surviving examples they weren't too visible any more, e. g. here:
So I finally left them off (maybe Aviattic had equal problems on their test build as they didn't add them neither like Juan pointed out?). In the end I was thinking to ask Ondra for his help (thanks again!), but then I rethought that this bike should be just one part of a bigger diorama (and not even the most important one) where enough work is still to do.
So That's it for now and in fact I am happier with it than before. I would be even happier with the stripes, but well. I have to accept defeats...
As usual I'll leave it for one or two days and then take it back on the working table for last touch ups (and the I'll remove that hair, douh!)
Now I'll go on with the wrecked airplane. After making some progress on the WNW Albatros B II I realized that I simply couldn't do, what I had planned: I wouldn't destroy such a fantatstic kit to make a wreck out of it. And there's another reason: I always had read that the Albatros C. I. as the direct successor of the B II shared many design features with the B II. But only when I compared the B II fuselage and wings with the WDF plans of the C. I, I realized how similar they were in fact. The outline of the WNW fuselage and wings fit the scale plans of the C. I simply too perfectly - besides of the well known changes on the cockpits from the "B" to the "C" configuration. But that's not too difficult to change. So I decided to keep my spare B II kit for a future conversion into a not crashed Albatros C. I (yes, I love these first generation C-class planes...) and to get back to my initial plan to scratch a wrecked LVG C. II. I'll start with the engine and give the wreck a torn out engine including smashed exhaust and broken propeller. Why a broken propeller? I was prepairing wooden props for my Albatros B II and ruined one during the sanding process... I'll start here wit a spare Bz 150HP engine, as I need a break from Mercedes engines...
Best wishes
Borsos
