Albatros D.III, Revell 1/72

[Chiefpettyofficer]

Just for fun and to get a good comparsion between the Revell and Roden Kits I started a third project, the conversion of an German Albatros D.III Into a ÖFAG producted version.



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[Chris S]

Nice ,I like these old birds ...How are you planning to do the wooden fuselage ?

Chris.

 

[Chiefpettyofficer]

Nice ,I like these old birds ...How are you planning to do the wooden fuselage ?

Chris.

I try some new: I engraved new Panel lines (ÖFAG Albartos Airplanes had different planking) I painted the panels with different bright colors (Tamiya XF 4, 55 and 60) then I add many grain stripes with a small pencil. In the next step I will cover all with thinned oil color (Burnt Sienna, Lukas Studio 309). I guess that will work. We will see

 

[Chiefpettyofficer]

Some construction images

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[Chiefpettyofficer]

some more

As you can see, the grain stripes are too thick, so I removed the Oil-color and tryed it again. It would be difficult to get right size for this scale...


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[Chris S]

That looks good Chief , colours look good too

Chris.

 

[Chiefpettyofficer]

That looks good Chief , colours look good too

Chris.

Thanks Chris, I guess I get a feeling for those wooden fuselages.

I just read, Uschi van der Rosten . com sells paint-masks for grain structures in 1/48 scale. Nice idea, that will help to get realistic biplanes

 

[Chris S]

Yes ...Alex does some very nice wood effect decals for all scales

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/index.php/topic,7529.0.html

Chris.

 

[Chiefpettyofficer]

Yes ...Alex does some very nice wood effect decals for all scales

http://www.scalemodeladdict.com/index.php/topic,7529.0.html

Chris.

Yes, thats it! Great Idea. And for 1/72 scale, too. Nice tool.

 

[JMac]

Great start CPO.

 

[letsgobrowns82]

Nice work so far.