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1/72 Roden Junkers D.I Short Fuselage


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I used to build a lot of WWI planes, some of them were vacforms .  Time to have a go at one, no rigging on this one.

 

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Decals

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Three sprues of flashy parts, and there is some very little parts.

 

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Have assembled the engine and cockpit ready for paint tomorrow.

 

Thanks for stopping by.

 

Stephen

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Progress continues. 

 

Engine;

 

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Fuselage:  I put some of Mike Grant's decals on the IP.

 

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I should get time to close up the fuselage tonight.

 

Thanks for looking.

 

Stephen

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Painted, well nearly.  I used AK Interactive paint, they do a German WWI box of colours.  I might have thinned it a bit much.

 

Brush painted the purple, it is a very thin paint and it left the top of the corrugations.

 

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Thanks for looking. 

 

Stephen

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I have the 1/48 version in my stash and it's also from my period of choice (1912 to 1945 more or less) I can probably learn a thing or two from watching the build so I'll follow along too.

 

Since it's a WWI German type, I must share my newest discovered technique paper propellers . I've tried scale a thon s pencil technique, which is ok and with practice I'd probably get the hang of it, but I find this is way better and easier too. Since Monday I've made two and the result is amazing I'd never be able to paint a laminated propeller so well. (BTW Flickr's down otherwise I'd post a picture)

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Progress.

Decals and a few more bits added.  Decals patched.  There are 10 decals on this kit and I only got 4 on without breaking.  Plenty of Microsol and Microset was used to settle them down.  

Have a look.

It will receive a coat of flat tomorrow, maybe.

 

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Thanks for looking.

 

Stephen

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I can imagine that getting the decals to bed down into all those ridges is a nightmare job, but it looks as though you won! Nice job!

 

Ian

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6 hours ago, pheonix said:

Only 6 breakages would in my opinion be a very good score!

 

Breakages, is that something one would expect from Roden?  This is my first Roden kit.

 

8 hours ago, limeypilot said:

I can imagine that getting the decals to bed down into all those ridges is a nightmare job, but it looks as though you won! Nice job!

It was and thank you both for your comments, it is a nice little kit.

 

Stephen 

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Only 6 breakages would in my opinion be a very good score!

Still looking well, despite the hassle. I'm currently wrestling with vintage Lindberg dry transfers 6 breakages per decal, until I had a brainwave and applied thgem to some decal film to make them waterslide.

 

As for the 1/72 props. I'm using three layers of 60gsm paper per lamination for 1/48 so 1 or two per lamination would work for 1/72.  Now the actual carving may be a bit more tricky 

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On 6/15/2019 at 1:52 PM, StephenCJ said:

There are 10 decals on this kit and I only got 4 on without breaking. 

Par for the course with Roden decals, even without the corrugated surface.  Nice build so far.  I found this was one of Rodens better kits overall.  Yours is looking very fine!

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