drdave

Thanks John It's polak meadow grass.

Those top photos are the model, rendered into old style sepia! The props used decals on the real planes though!

Cheers fellas

Here you go.....

Its good stuff.

That looks terrific Iain. Very smooth finish

Its Polak Meadow 1/48. Polak have a Polish website but I had to get it from Oz, about 18 quid.

She's done.

The rigging is not too fiddly compared to a Pup

A great build but don't make my mistakes. I lost the Rotherham pump. The firewall I put on back to front- I just realised, hence a gap on the top cowling where a tab should be. Wings went on very easily, if you keep the tabs and slots clean and fix by the Cabanes and then the outer ones, and leave upside down in the box. The rudder decal has worked very well after a hairdryer blast. Alclad clear gloss varnish stays tacky too long. I'm hoping the thumprints won't show! I learned a lot with this. The thread is elastic Goldzack, which looks good but is a tad too thick to thread thru Bob's buckles, so I glued it on and its a bit messy as that then stiffens the thread. I will try monofilament next I think. Control wires are EZ line. The kit decals are superb- no probs at all with microset/sol.

Nearly done now. She's rigged bar the ailerons. Just those and the rudder Then a final touch up.

Cheers! The prop is my own cheat purists may not approve of. My own view is that prop laminations are not always visible on old photos, B/W film plays tricks and different dyes and stains were used and some props were- shock- painted! So; 1. coat of a sandy buff colour of your choice. 2. future. 3. A small dollop of W&N acrylic oil water soluble burnt sienna on a tissue 4. dot some around sparingly. 5 dry brush it around outwards from hub with a stiff 3-4 mm brush to your satisfaction. 6. walk away. 7. walk away again. 8 .spray Gunze clear orange on it. 7 .walk away. 8. future. 9 .decal 10 .future 11 .brush paint the hub carefully with alclad steel or gunmetal- its easy and takes seconds as it dries instantly 12 .dry brush boltgun metal on the hub total job 3 nights!

We'll see about the tail decals. They are just drying. I will give them the hairdryer treatment and then some microset. They all performed wonderfully. The only problem I have had is the under fuselage seam. I find these box section fuselages a real pain in the neck. The cockpit is a more sure and secure fit than the Pup, but I still had a wing gap of half a mm

Thats all till the wings dry!

WNW 1/32

Loads of fun. Used ModelMaster aluminium and Alclad polished aluminium and the cowling is Gunze Pthalocyanine blue translucent. Thanks for looking. Dave

Here's my latest. A Mucky Pup using Pheon and WNW decals.

Would you like to see my Pup?

Ditto!

Gunze tyre black acrylic. WW1, I "grey or pink" it as they were not always dyed with carbon and were rawer latex.

Thats a lovely Pup. Very inspirational.

Blimey now Im aglow!

Thanks all I'm very flattered.

I used a vallejo wood series acrylic (the middle shade), brushed on and the W&N raw umber acrylic water based oil on top. It took 5 mins tops...