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Offline petero

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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #60 on: October 03, 2016, 12:37:56 AM »
Thanks again for your kind comments!  I've just finished the canvas cover for the mail compartment.  The cover is made from a piece of microfiber, actually the HGW non-laser cut W.29 seat belt set.  Grommets were added with tiny punched disks of 0.005" plastic.  The canvas is painted Tamiya XF-22 Gray. The one-handled wingnuts (how appropriate!) were from a Bronco German Wingnut set, sprayed with Alclad Magnesium.

First I staked the back of the cover to the hatch.  Since it isn't visible when complete, I used plenty of superglue to make sure it wouldn't come apart.  Fortunately, the spot where I peeled up the paint doesn't show either.



The cover was glued back against the spine with a few blobs of gel superglue, then the other wingnuts were added around the hatch sill, in #76 holes that I drilled way back before I installed the coaming.



It came out looking pretty plausible, so I'm happy.  But if I run into any 120-year-old W.29 mechanics at a model show, I'm sure they'll correct me  :o

I think that's all the modifications finished, other than choosing which exhaust stack to use.  Now I can get on with the CDL and lozenge decals on the wings and elevators.

On a side note, RB, did you get the PM I sent about the Horten?  It's not in my Sent list, so I'm not sure if it worked.

Peter

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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #61 on: October 03, 2016, 12:44:17 AM »
Brilliant!
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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #62 on: October 05, 2016, 09:37:05 PM »
The canvas looks great, the plane isa  beautiful piece of work.
Manni
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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #63 on: October 05, 2016, 11:55:21 PM »
Outstanding workmanship.

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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #64 on: October 06, 2016, 12:12:02 AM »
Thanks, everyone!

In July, I visited the National Musueum of the US Air Force, and took this photo.  It shows the CDL on the bottom of the wing of a plane with dark upper surfaces, similar to the W.29's dark lozenge over CDL.



Using that as a guide, I've been practicing on one of the ailerons, and have come up with this:



My technique is similar to everyone else's here.

1) The ribs were sprayed with an off-white mix, using brown as the "off" color.
2) The ribs were masked, and Testor Radome Tan acrylic was sprayed for the base CDL color.
3) Leaving the ribs masked, a Light Umber Prismacolor pencil was used to outline the ribs.
4) A draftsman's eraser and a microbrush were used to smooth and blend the pencil lines.
5) Radome Tan was thinned about 50/50 with water, and lightly sprayed over the lines to blend and tone them down.  I left the lines a bit too bold so I could do the next step without them disappearing.
6) The masking was carefully removed, and Radome Tan was thinned as before, but also lightened with white, and lightly sprayed over the ribs.  This gives a hint of a highlight around the ribs compared to the plain Radome Tan in between.

Lastly, I'll give it a light coat of Alclad Aqua Gloss.  I'm sure Ill get better at it as I tackle the wings, but I think I'm off to a good start.

Peter

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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #65 on: October 06, 2016, 04:00:24 AM »
I`m catching up and I really like what you`ve done here so far. The rib tapes` outline is very accurate! Are you going to add some more post shading? Keep up the good work!
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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #66 on: October 06, 2016, 04:18:42 AM »
Also catching up, and really enjoy looking at this build thread! Thanks for the inspiration! :)

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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #67 on: October 06, 2016, 05:57:33 AM »
I`m catching up and I really like what you`ve done here so far. The rib tapes` outline is very accurate! Are you going to add some more post shading? Keep up the good work!

Thanks!  I'm not planning to add any additional shading, but I may add some staining on the fabric to break up the uniformity.

Peter

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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #68 on: October 06, 2016, 07:14:57 AM »
Wonderful build, every step has something surprisingly good to see.
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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #69 on: October 06, 2016, 08:31:57 AM »
Beautiful work so far Peter, the canvas cover turned out excellent and your rib shading is superb.

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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #70 on: October 06, 2016, 02:56:22 PM »
Hey! Yuor technique for cdl ribs on the underside is just fantastic! I think I'll steal it from you and use on my builds as well!
thank you for posting
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edo

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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #71 on: October 07, 2016, 12:11:43 PM »
Very effective technique. The results look spot on!
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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #72 on: October 18, 2016, 04:18:34 AM »
Thanks for all the motivating comments  :).  Progress was slowed slightly in the last week or so, due to getting ready for the local IPMS show on the 16th, and starting another quick build with a deadline at the end of this month.  But I'm still working on the mail plane too.

Here are the wings, with the lozenge decals and the overpainted German crosses.  The lozenge is done in 5 separate strips per wing, and the edges of each strip have an irritating dark border.  That necessitated patching every joint, which must be why WNW supplied an extra couple of lozenge panels.  In this photo, the upper wing has not been patched, and the lower one's outer joints are patched.  The W.12's lower wings are each one large lozenge decal, which sounds like a lot less work.



Although not visible in the two extant photos of the mail plane, it's assumed the wing crosses were overpainted.  I chose to use Tamiya XF-19 Sky Gray, just to add another color to the plane.  It could have been either of the fuselage colors too... or any color, for all we know.



The lower surface of the wings has been painted, ribbed, shaded and crossed out too.



I've read somewhere that there was a black leading edge tape, but I don't know if I'll attempt that or not.

Finally, I couldn't resist slipping the wings onto the spars... strictly for a fit test, of course!



Man, that's got huge wings!  Presumably the wing area is the same as both wings of the W.12 combined, or more, since the W.29 was larger and heavier.

Peter
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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #73 on: October 18, 2016, 05:01:56 AM »
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Man, that's got huge wings!  Presumably the wing area is the same as both wings of the W.29 combined, or more, since the W.29 was larger and heavier.

Peter

Don't you mean "... both wings of the W.12 combined ..."?   :)

Eric

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Re: My first WW1 build - WNW Hansa-Brandenburg W.29
« Reply #74 on: October 18, 2016, 05:33:22 AM »

Don't you mean "... both wings of the W.12 combined ..."?   :)

Eric

Sure do, Eric, and I've changed it.

Peter