Ansaldo A.1 Balilla Polish (1/32, Aviattic)

[GAJouette]

 Prze,
Awesome,nothing else to say my old friend. Thank You for this build thread!
Highest Regards,
Gregory Jouette

[Borsos]

It's still the wooden finish that excites me most. An overall brilliant build. So nice to follow!
Borsos

[KrzysiekK]

so mamy tricks how to do sth which seems to be impossible to achieve...
astonishing results
regards
K

[Juan]

Incredible results thus far, really excited to see your progress.

[steveb]

Wow....this looks so good! I am still amazed at that resin panel to represent the metal engine cover. The thickness & finish are as close to perfection as possible!

Steve

[Gisbod]

It's a gem Prze!

Can you tell what was the colour of your wood undercoat & which wood decals did you use?

Thanks

Guy

[PrzemoL]

Thank you, all!

Can you tell what was the colour of your wood undercoat & which wood decals did you use?
Guy

Guy, the wood decals are from the kit. They are printed on the white paper, so no undercoat in any specified colour is necessary. My experience with wood or linen decals was that I had problems with sticking them to acrylic airbrushed surfaces, which seemed to be rough and this led to silvering (in the case of clear decal paper) or not conforming to surface details. But this time, seeing the perfectly smooth fuselage surfaces in this kit, I disobeyed the instructions and applied the wood decals to bare (though degreased and washed) resin fuselage. And it finally worked, the decals hold firmly!
As mentioned earlier I gave the decals a coat of clear gloss lacquer mixed with clear orange to give them more orangy hue.

[Gisbod]

Ah thanks Prze 

Guy

[lcarroll]

Prze,
   Beautiful wood finish on the fuselage and the detail is mind numbing! I'm drawn to those (Photoetch I think) fittings, are they one piece or assembled?
Cheers,
Lance

[PrzemoL]

Thanks, Lance.

I'm drawn to those (Photoetch I think) fittings, are they one piece or assembled?
Lance

The rigging fittings I showed in my last report are indeed assembled. PE base with bent-up sides, a wire axis (scratch - I used a copper 0.3 mm wire) to make the hinged support for the rigging eyelet (single or double), which itself is a PE wrapped around the axis and secured with a drop of CA glue. And there are additional PE eyelets for stagger and cabane rigging lines.
The fittings shown earlier are mostly single-element bits, with a few exceptions, as for instance the air inlet scoops for the engine compartment - they come as two-piece affair - a horse-shoe shaped base and a bent scoop. Probably an illustration will be better so I suggest you refer to the publicly accessible pdf instruction in Aviattic website.

[RAGIII]

Continuing to be a real education in how to build this kit! In addition like I said earlier one of your most beautiful builds!!
RAGIII

[lone modeller]

I have missed this recently - Wow you have really made excellent progress. Looking at those wing fittings I really appreciate the amount of intricate detail that you put into all of your models. Another masterclass for the rest of us to follow.

Stephen.

[Monty]

Hi Przemo! Some really amazing modelling there! As usual, your interpretation of wood, metal and various fittings is really beautiful - a real tutorial in modelling! I would be really interested in the correct badges for the Polish Camel - please let us know when and where we can order them! Regards, Marc

[Bughunter]

Great amount of details! Love it.

Cheers,
Frank

[PrzemoL]

Thank you, gentlemen.

And some more progress, slowly but still crawling forward.

The turnbuckles were tied to the kit PE fittings using loops of copper 0.07mm wire secured with CA glue

1) lower stations at interplane struts




2) upper stations for cabane rigging




3) lower fittings at wing roots





With this the wings could be attached for good




And the undercarriage done





In the last photo are just visible 16 PE fasteners added to the chin cowls - those from some spares, unfortunately not included in the kit.

And the silver painted fittings now ready to be glued to the fuselage