Vanquished...!

[Courageous]

Not my scale but love what you're doing here.

 

Stuart

[Brad Cancian]

Hi all – it’s been about a month since the last update. The Albie now has some colour. 

 

I started with replicating the wood fuselage. First was the grain, done with oil paints. I wanted to make sure there was some variation:

 

 

Then an overcoat of clear yellow to blend it all together. I’ve started to block in some of the panel colours.

 

 

While that was drying, I started ‘skinning’ the rudder and elevator. The rudder I kept lozenge, so I used Eagle Strike 5 colour lozenge to skin this. The elevator was slightly tricker, as I wanted to paint some Jasta colours over the tailplane, and lozenge decal wouldn’t be up to masking. So, I applied the decal onto the inside of a layer of foil, which I then used to skin the elevator. This would mean that I could paint the elevator and still have the lozenge colours showing through when I ‘battle damaged’ the elevator:

 

 

Here the elevator is painted, in some very fictitious blue and red Jasta markings (just to add some colour), prior to the application of weathering and battle damage:

 

 

Next was the wings, also done using Eagle Strike lozenge. Here the upper wing is before weathering:

 

 

And here it is after weathering, with the battle damage done:

 

 

Same with the lower wing:

 

 

And again, some more of the fictitious Jasta markings on the wheels:

 

 

Here is the rest of the fuselage, with the rest of the battle damage done. 

 

 

As you can see, I stuck with the ‘four leaf clover’ good luck charm (stolen from the Wingnuts 1/32 decal sheet, which worked well for this scale). The last of the fictitious jasta markings was the blue spinner. The serial number was a home made decal – the astute amongst you will note that this serial number is outside of the range of serial numbers for the DV/DVa series – just to blend in with the fictitious nature of the scheme 🙂

 

Lastly, here is another shot of the tail damage. I think I overdid it in the end a little too much… oh well, no going back!

 

 

Glad to have made it past this part of the build. Now it’s onto the rest of the major assembly.

 

Feedback welcomed as always!

 

Cheers,

BC 
 

[Alan P]

Must have been a very successful month, that last post was epic. Every photo a winner!

 

Some brilliant painting skills and inventive battle damage there. Shaping up to be a brilliant final diorama.

 

Alan

[StephenCJ]

FANTASTIC. Have a look at this youtube vid and other youtube vids from this bloke.

Edited May 12, 2019 by StephenCJ

[clive_t]

Epic modelling. It takes huge confidence to do 'damage' on a model which was already excellent, but you've done it brilliantly.

[Head in the clouds.]

Very impressive, that base went together in quick time.

[Brad Cancian]

Thanks for the kind words everyone! Much appreciated.

 

StephenCJ - thanks for the link - indeed I have used some of his videos to help me with the terrain thus far. I am a little concerned that the resin I'll be using for the river will warp the base though.... might have to think through this a little more...

 

Cheers

BC

[Brad Cancian]

Hi all - a minor update. The top wing is now mounted and rigged. I still have to fix the U/C and add some of the remaining details, but getting close now...

 

 

Now that the top wing is on, it's apparent that the figure won't sit right - the left arm (which was supposed to rest on the top wing) is in fact hanging out in space and the backside isn't sitting properly on the coaming (it's kind of hanging out in space, which looks odd). I'll need to do some rework; the figure will likely end up facing a different direction, I think...

 

I've also been experimenting with the resin that i'll use for the water - this is the first time i've tried something like this so it's a bit daunting. I've settled on a slow curing resin - Envirotex Lite, with some muddy acrylic colouring. Here is my test piece (which is about 1/3rd of an inch deep):

 

 

The slow cure means that I can adjust the final position of the aircraft after the pour if I need to. The colouring also means that the river will look a little murky but still clear enough to see some of the river bed details. I'll likely add some ripples using gloss mod podge or similar.

 

I welcome any thoughts / feedback! 

 

Cheers,

 

BC 

[VT Red Sox Fan]

Very impressive--cant believe this started out as a plastic kit--well done!  Erwin

[StephenCJ]

Brilliant

[Bigdave22014]

Outstanding modelling.

The river test piece has come out well.

Something to consider, depending on how fast the river is flowing a lot of sediment will have been kicked up by the plane and might still be around.

[Silenoz]

Looking really good like this, can't help but thinking what a lucky guy the pilot was to be able to walk away when seeing the holes. But the damage is really well applied, may more oil around the engine, because they used as much oil as gasoline...

[Shalako]

Judging from your painting skills you certainly got it!!!

 

Keep up the good work!!

 

 

Cheers

Bill

[Brad Cancian]

Thanks for the kind words and useful tips everyone - I might look to add a little more oil staining around some of the bullet holes around the engine. The sediment is an excellent point - I could perhaps do the pour in a couple of layers and try to replicate sediment with some light airbrushing between the layers... the danger is trying to get too tricky and messing the whole thing up (something i'm very good at....!)

 

I'm getting very close to pouring the resin so we'll see how it goes. Wish me luck!

 

Cheers,

 

BC

[Vicarage Vee]

This is absolutely stunning, I'm running out of superlatives.

 

I really have no idea how to do it, but is it possible to show the first signs of oil leaking into the water?  That rainbow effect?  Could be circumvented by the river flowing too fast I suppose.

[Brad Cancian]

Hi everyone - i'm calling this one done....

 

 

The full suite of completed pics are here - 

 

The water effects didn't quite worked out the way that I wanted, but I recovered it well enough. Thanks to all for your support through this build; it was a lot of fun and I learned a lot about modelling terrain.

 

Thanks again!

 

BC

Edited May 26, 2019 by Brad Cancian

[Bigdave22014]

Outstanding! 

I think its come out extremely well.

[Mick Drover]

That's fantastic Brad. It's great story telling.

 

Is there a chance it will be at QMHE this year?

 

Cheers,

Michael