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Offline huberlu

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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #15 on: March 29, 2018, 07:29:43 AM »

Thank you!

The engine is almost finished. It is cut in the front and below to get into the plane at the right place.







 


I tried to paint the dragon to see if it was easy. I painted it on the eduard fuselage. Oil paint on a matte varnish and a brown background.




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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #16 on: March 29, 2018, 08:50:56 AM »
Impressive artwork to say the least!
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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #17 on: March 29, 2018, 04:24:19 PM »
Waow Hubert, very impressive! much better than the Eduard proposition!

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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #18 on: March 29, 2018, 04:46:58 PM »
Spectacular all around! How did you paint that dragon??? :o It looks better than any decal one might wish to get!
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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #19 on: March 29, 2018, 06:00:30 PM »
That looks fantastic!
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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #20 on: March 29, 2018, 06:01:30 PM »
Wonderful! What a dragon! And besides of that all your interior looks great.
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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #21 on: March 31, 2018, 10:29:42 PM »
Thank you véry much!

with engine spark wires:

The wires are made of metal wire to make baits for "fly fishing". It's very fine.







The fuselage must be sanded to remove too thick details. Some are almost 1mm thick and are not beautiful.Il will redo them.



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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #22 on: March 31, 2018, 10:34:05 PM »
Quote from: PrzemoL on March 29, 2018, 04:46:58 PM
Spectacular all around! How did you paint that dragon??? :o It looks better than any decal one might wish to get!

The wood color painting is done as usual.

Then, I put a layer of acrylic satin varnish. I printed the dragon at 1:48 to lay pencil marks.
Green is painted first. Once dry, I varnish to protect it. Then the black  is painted.
All paintings (green and black) are oil paintings.

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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #23 on: May 29, 2018, 03:53:35 AM »
Hello !

I sanded the traps that are on the nose of the plane. Eduard gives it in photoetching.
It is necessary to resize the opening of the bonnet (in black) so that the hoses of the engine leave in the good place.




Note that the closures of the hoods are very ugly ...

I made plastic wire around the opening of the hood.





I also sanded the bindings of the hoods to try to remake them. The pellets are a bit big (0.5mm) but I have nothing smaller. It will be necessary to add the spring on some.




I cut with the saw in the hood a slot for the synchronization system of the machine gun.
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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #24 on: May 29, 2018, 04:09:28 AM »
The rod and the hooks to carry the bombs are installed. We do not see them anymore or almost with the turret.



A rod is put in place, it leaves the controller  on the right side.



The fuselage is glued. A whole evening of work to get the engine in the right place. No studs to place the half fuselages.


The hole to get the bomb sight out is drilled in the floor and the fuselage.

The photo shows the location as well as the plan in the Aerophile..






No image of the bomb sight. Can be one like this, a "Goerz".



https://www.flightglobal.com/pdfarchive/view/1917/1917%20-%200939.html








The turret is too simplified and exceeds too much of the fuselage.



So I filed down to try to have flanks more "bent".  I wanted a base like the picture, unfortunately the base of the turret is not circular so impossible to resize on a turn. I pasted a profile 0.5x0.5 underneath. The height of the turret is reduced to the scalpel.Not enough yet, the leather protection is in greenstuff.





The turret does not exceed the top of the fuselage.



I cut a very thin band to pack the wall of the turret. Then I cut it all around with a razor blade.



The interior must still be a little arranged..It remains to stick on the handles, the stuff that exceeds and to the slot in the front for the machine gun.

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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #25 on: May 29, 2018, 06:45:07 AM »
Great build so far. I like the interior work.
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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #26 on: May 29, 2018, 06:56:21 AM »
Absolutely awesome building and the added details and corrections are First Class!
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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #27 on: May 29, 2018, 06:44:35 PM »
Nice work on the turret!
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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #28 on: June 13, 2018, 07:25:36 AM »
Hello,

Thank you !

I try to cleanly make the two gills  under the nose.

The gills are etched with a small tool that is a metal rod filed to become flat. I used a metal template, the most difficult is to engrave  the bow to the correct position. I started by drilling a 0.3mm hole at the end of the arches. Then we engrave, then we start again because the arcs are not aligned etc. etc.



In the photo I deposited melted plastic chips in the tamiya glue to correct the width of the arches and their shapes.



The bottom of the fuselage is pierced. It is necessary to made a clean cut and with a form simple to reproduce (not at all like me) to be able to stick in the hole the pierced plate of the gills. I put on the edge of the hole wedges that carry the plate.
The plate is too deep in sticky hence the need to putty. It was not planned. One of the two slots remains to be sanded on the photo.



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Re: 1/48 Albatros C. III
« Reply #29 on: June 13, 2018, 07:32:20 AM »
The results of your work creating the Grills look great to me!
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