SUB-SAM Posted May 30, 2018 Share Posted May 30, 2018 After doing the 1/144 Albatros I've got the bug for small scale great war aircraft. I will be using the Valom kit which seem like a good base but much work needed. There isn't much other choice in this scale either. Starting with the cockpit... 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted May 30, 2018 Author Share Posted May 30, 2018 Fuselage glued together (Not filled and sanded yet) cockpit 'tub' fits well. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorby Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 This way madness lies! 1/72 is too small for me. Did you post your completed Albatross on here? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted May 31, 2018 Author Share Posted May 31, 2018 Hi, yes the Albatros is here: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 Good start and nice work! Håkan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted May 31, 2018 Author Share Posted May 31, 2018 Can't believe I spent the whole evening trying to make a tiny Oberursel U.1 After several failures I made this, which 'will have to do' as I'm going dotty. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VMA131Marine Posted May 31, 2018 Share Posted May 31, 2018 Very nice work! I thought the Airfix Fokker E.II was small. And I'd call you crazy, but I just bought this: http://www.brengun.cz/en-ww/e-shop/1-144-construction-kits-18/airco-dh-2-stripdown-925#!prettyPhoto 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted May 31, 2018 Author Share Posted May 31, 2018 Oh nice, I would be very interested in that build, I've seen that kit about so I may have to give it a try as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
k5054nz Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 I didn't realise there was a kit! I've only seen scratchbuilds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Masters Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 You people are insane...😀 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John_W Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 2 hours ago, John D.C. Masters said: You people are insane...😀 This is Britmodeller... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 I have primed the main parts now. I used my 'paint thickness detailing' technique (Don't know if there is a proper term for this) to create the canvas stitching under fuselage and the band seen on the cowling. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 All parts sprayed the base canvas colour. Aluminium cowling painted and given the special brushed/swirls seen on the E iii I have decided to do gotthard's LF196, which is unfortunately one with spokes wheels visible that I will have to scratch build. I do love torturing myself. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsairfoxfouruncle Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 3 minutes ago, SUB-SAM said: brushed/swirls seen on the E iii Wow that looks real good ! How did you do that please tell ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted June 3, 2018 Author Share Posted June 3, 2018 2b pencil whilst aluminium basecoat still slightly soft. Not quite as high fidelity as I hoped but 1/144 has it's limits. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Azgaron Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Looks nice! Håkan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted June 4, 2018 Author Share Posted June 4, 2018 (edited) Did some work around the cockpit, improving on the kit to represent the leather impact protectors. Also putting the decals on tonight. Mildly disappointed that the wing crosses supplied on the kit decal sheet aren't 100% true to original but close enough for me to not pull them off. If you are thinking it looks quite plain, my plan is to achieve all shading through oil washes as I find pre/post shading with airbrush in 1/144 more trouble than it's worth. Edited June 4, 2018 by SUB-SAM 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted June 6, 2018 Author Share Posted June 6, 2018 I'm really really trying to do spoked wheels but struggling, has anyone ever managed this feat before? Are there any cheats? because I think I've reached the limit of what I can do without employing the skills of a very well trained flea. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waylandsmithy Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 15 hours ago, SUB-SAM said: I'm really really trying to do spoked wheels but struggling, has anyone ever managed this feat before? Are there any cheats? because I think I've reached the limit of what I can do without employing the skills of a very well trained flea. No idea if this will work, but got an idea... make a rim out of metal. cut notches around the outside and then spoke the rim with rigging thread. Then glue tyre in two halves on the rim. Or you could saw grooves in the tyre and rig it through the grooves, fill and repeat. Either way, I don't think I fancy trying it! Ooh, how about gluing rigging thread on a circle of clear plastic, with notches on the edge? That would give you something to mount the hub on? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Army_Air_Force Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 How about a clear acrylic hub, scored with a knife for the spokes and the score lines stained with ink/paint etc? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waylandsmithy Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 A stack of three or four money spiders, all pinned together? Obviously ones that have died naturally. If you can get them to die naturally while they're having a bit of a morning stretch, the spokes will be straighter. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 Thanks for the ideas, they have proven to be very helpful. I initially tried the clear hub idea but it looked very obvious, for this scale I used acetate sheet but it looked more like a window than it did spokes, It's certainly one way of doing it. I liked the idea of winding onto a circular frame. Perhaps what I was trying to do with hollowing out the kit wheels and glueing individual spokes was the hardest way of doing it. So tonight I collated all these ideas and made a separate hub from some 0.65x0.08mm Nichrome ribbon and superglue lengths of 0.05mm nichrome across the hubs, 4 lengths each side of the hub. Once each side was dry I trimmed the excess with a knife whilst face down. I then inserted the hub into the painted, hollowed out kit wheel. After 2 hours of playing about I have made one wheel: It certainly doesn't have the spoke density of the real thing but I'm thinking this will do? I think maybe the effort to get greater spoke density might be almost invisible to the eye...it looks spoked at a glance. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 A closer view. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waylandsmithy Posted June 8, 2018 Share Posted June 8, 2018 It looks great. Maybe add a money spider? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SUB-SAM Posted June 8, 2018 Author Share Posted June 8, 2018 I'm saving the money spiders to perform the rigging for me, it's quite delicate on the E.iii especially the underside. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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