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James C
Me too! 👀👍

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

DerMattes
Watching 👍

Slavo Hazucha
Tuning in for the show - cockpit already looks fab, incl. the mission-read elements! 👍🏻

Robert Podkoński
Joining the party!

Zbynek Honzik
That looks like an awesome ride! I'll take the seat!

Bill Gilman
I've uploaded more photos that document the build progress, which has been very slow. Sorry about that, but life keeps getting in the way. I've had a variety of health issues and I'm heading to the oncologist next week to set up a time for a biopsy on some nodes in my neck. Hopefully it's just related to a sinus infection I've been fighting and not the lymphoma coming back. Keeping my fingers crossed. Cheers, Bill

Robert Podkoński
I'll keep my fingers crossed for you too, Bill. Great job on the model btw. Keep it up!

Zbynek Honzik
I'm keeping my fingers crossed that everything goes well with your health, Bill. 🍀

Nicolas
I also keep my fingers crossed that everything will be fine with your health.

Bill Gilman
I used up a few bottles of semi-gloss white, but the Victor is now a "white whale." Thanks for the kind words on my health - I go in on Feb. 29 for a sinus surgery and tissue collection for biopsy. Fingers crossed. I tried to cross my toes but was unsuccessful... Cheers, Bill

gorby
Hope the biopsy doesn't find anything bad Bill.
The Victor looks excellent so far.

Bill Gilman
Oh, by the way - after two weeks (!) of testing my oncologist decided the biopsies were negative. Dodged another bullet.

Guy Rump
Looking great following. 👍

Robert Podkoński
Good to hear this, Bill. Carry on!

James C
Looking fantastic 👍

Ekki
Missed this one.
Following.

Nicolas
Great news Bill.

Rando
Love the Victor but even more glad to hear the good news!

Bill Gilman
Thanks mates. I've added a couple more photos that show the painting of the landing gear and air brake internals. I've also painted the wheels, gear doors and air brake petals (photos soon). Up next is to paint the dielectric panels on the underside as well as the H2S radome. Cheers, Bill

Augie
Love the work so far 🙂 watching in my usual seat.

Bill Gilman
Two more photos added showing some detail painting. I'm off to Rehoboth Beach, Delaware tomorrow for a week of spending what's left of my retirement portfolio. Unfortunately there are no hobby shops anywhere near where we'll be. But the Air Mobility Command museum at Dover AFB should make up for that.

Michael Kohl
Very nice progress so far.

Bill Gilman
Nearing the finish line on this one. The stickers are all on, and I really like how they performed. Hardly any film outside the design, and they snuggled down nicely with the usual solvents. I didn't see any silvering. Next up will be a few coats of a semi-gloss clear, and then I can attach the remaining bits. It's been a long build, but it was interrupted several times. Next project will be smaller! Cheers, Bill

gorby
Beautiful work!

Michael Kohl
Looking good

Joe Marrero
Thank you

Robert Podkoński
Beautiful indeed!

Skyhiker
I absolutely love your model but you need to replace the acrylic cover to the case. It doesn't do your work justice.

Joe Marrero
This was my first time working with acrylic. I made two covers and they both came out terrible.

Skyhiker
It's best to have them cut at the store or to use a proper circular saw. Here is a good video on making display cases: Youtube Video

Christian Bruer
Great start on the Portuguese Corsair 👍

Spanjaard
I am in 🙂

Łukasz Gliński
Interesting one, made me consider finishing my 72nd Twosair in this unique camo 👍

Hans-Jürgen Haag
👀

Skyhiker
Welcome Hans-Jürgen. Enjoy the show.

Roland Sachsenhofer
With these pictures I open the book report on Roden's Junkers D.1: I tried to extend the interior with some steel wire, the seat belts are from Eduard. For the detailing I downloaded the very interesting building instructions from Wingnut Wings for the large D.1 in 1:32, which is quite helpful if you want to have a good documentation as a basis for detailing. I'm also going to realise one of the WW variants, which I immediately liked: all in Dural/ NMF with only a minimal set of markings.

gorby
Nice work so far. Looking forward to this. 🙂

Michael Kohl
Auch da bin ich dabei.

Roland Sachsenhofer
I'm very pleased - appreciated!

bughunter
Watching!
I have done the short fuselage already, I hope one day I can do the long one too.

Is the engine painting finished? I can recommend the WNW manual for this, still available on WNW page.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thanks for the tip - it's definitely a good one! The printed WNW instructions are next to me, so I want to use a little oily black on the top of the engine and add a little "brass"... But not only WNW instructions, also your excellent work is my reference.

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for your words, appreciated!

Roland Sachsenhofer
The fuselage of the D.1 is now closed, the only thing to be careful of was not to damage the corrugated sheet metal joints. A related issue arises with the leading edges of the wings: in my opinion, the prototype shows a continuous line around the leading edge.... this will be difficult to depict: I will try to get close to this with careful sanding and the same amount of reworking with a scalpel.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Now it worked with the upload of the pictures!

István Szücs
My favourite plane from the Great War-era, I'm watching!

bughunter
Yes to clean the wing seem is not that esay. I must admit I used also wings from another kit after I was not happy with the first try. I have both the long and short fuselage kits and the wings are the identical. But that shifts the problem only to a later date, when I will build the long one. A new Part PE set is waiting too 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for your words, mates! - I completely agree that this is not an easy topic! My approach, which you can see started here, is to work on the front edge of the profile with a triangular file. I didn't even try to bring the corrugated sheet metal runs of the top and bottom together - that would be far too small for me - but simply used the file edge many times.... Well, in my opinion it looks at least a little better now than before, so I'll try to make it a little more precise....

Roland Sachsenhofer
The Alclad metal colours mercilessly bring out all the flaws and imperfections, especially when everything has already been trimmed to a high gloss in preparation for applying the decals like here! The Wingnut Wings instructions describe an effect called 'tiger stripes' on the wing sheeting, which I recreated using various aluminium and dural colours.

Robert Podkoński
A little late, but joining the party!

bughunter
The stripes are great - can be noticed, but both shades still looks like aluminium which it was.

Christian Abraham
Great build so far

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much, mates!
The opinion on the 'tiger stripes' really really pleases me in a very motivating way!

Guy Rump
Following. 👍

David Taylor
Watching.

Roland Sachsenhofer
That is appreciated as well! 🙂

Villiers de Vos
Very nice detailed work.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for your comment!

Ludvík Kružík
Roland, your model looks very good. I really like the interior of the plane and the engine. Also your rendition of the corrugated sheet metal looks very realistic. 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Ludvik, thank you for this comment, giving me a push to get the finishing steps done!

Dietmar Bogatzki
Wieder ein Meisterwerk von Roland 👍 hau rein 😉

Roland Sachsenhofer
Ich sage herzlich dank für den ermutigenden Kommentar! 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
A few steps closer to a finish: working with Roden decals is always an adventure, happy end not guaranteed! The whole thing is spiced up by the corrugated metal nature.... Well, this is the result; I will of touch up up the unclean parts with a brush, but on the whole it will stay like this - now for the signs of use and wear!

bughunter
Brave, brave - with good results 👍
I hadn't even tried those.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you! 🙂
The Junkers D.1 is slowly approaching its final appearance - and that didn't work out quite as well as I had imagined! But what the heck, there are some nice things, like the turnbuckles or the two MGs from Gespatch; I'm also happy with the solution for the typical Junkers handles and footrests: a thin, glued-on metal rod was covered with finely cut Tamiya tape as a ridge. Well. I am satisfied with this overall impression.

Ludvík Kružík
As the work progresses, Junkers grows in beauty. Thanks to decals and small details the model looks better. 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for your kind comment, Ludvik!

Christian Bruer
Klasse 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
The Junkers D.1 from Roden is now finished, in a way my corrugated metal test run for the somewhat larger Junkers F.13 from Mikro Mir. There are enough problem areas - and also a few insights into how I can proceed better with the F.13, but even so I am surprised by the 'photogenicity' of the little fighter from the last days of the First World War! The markings, which are limited to the bar crosses and two '11s' on the rear of the fuselage, come from the Wingnut Wings documents; they show an aircraft from October 1918, i.e. shortly before the end of the war. Remarkable (and also a reason for my choice) are the 'tiger stripes' due to different metal panelling on the wings, which show up in the right light. I hope you like the pictures, I really enjoyed building it!

Robert Podkoński
Looks like a real one! You're a wizard, Roland!

gorby
Remarkable result! As Robert said it looks like a real one.

Nick Dragone
Excellent build and photography. It would have taken me months to build this. Nice work

David Taylor
Brill.

Villiers de Vos
A fantastic project. Thank you for sharing.

bughunter
The final pictures left me speechless!

Dieter Bihlmaier
Cool pictures and perfect built Roland!

Michael Kohl
very nice and convincing weathering. Great outdoor and hangar shots. A joy to watch.

Ludvík Kružík
Excellent result and very nice photos. 👍👍👍

John
Beautiful finish Roland! 👍 👍 👍

Arseny K.
Very inspirational in-progress and built model pictures! Exceptional example of modeling art 👏🏼

Neuling
Wellblech ....... das muß eine Junkers sein 🙂 Cool pictures and perfect build ..... this must be a Sachsenhofer

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hi mates, I am really impressed and greatly pleased with your comments - thank you very much for this encouragement and motivation! To receive such feedback from highly esteemed modellers means something and makes me.... well, a little bit proud!

Arseny K.
@Roland, can you please share the know-how on making those realistic background photos? Thank you

Eugene Dyatlov
Brilliant work and photoes!

Roland Sachsenhofer
That makes me very happy, thank you mates! Well, what tips would be useful?
The requisites for the shots in front of the coniferous forest consist of a ground plate, the different structures of which I created myself in the 'electrostatic way' with some vegetation, and a simple back plate with a very useful motif from 'Coastal Kits'.
I guess, the real trick lies in the composition of the images as well as in the photo post-processing in the form of a very precise light-dark adjustment by graduation, an equally careful adjustment of the contrast values and the colour tones... In the compositional structure of the photos, I always pay attention to the height of the horizon line. The following applies here: it must be at a 'human' height in order to produce a realistic image and: the vanishing points of parallel directions must lie on the horizon line, otherwise the image cannot appear realistic.
Another principle of this image composition is: get as close to the object as possible! The resulting distortions of the camera lens can - carefully and sensitively used - make the object appear larger and therefore more real, but a second effect is more important: the object is shown cropped due to the proximity. This increases the drama through the attraction of the immediate closeness and thus supports the image narrative.
The above illustrates my approach to picture making, I hope it didn´t bore -but has provided some answers to your question, Arseny?

Guy Rump
Great job! 👍

gorby
Thanks for the description of your photographic process Roland, very useful (I can do with all the help I can get. 😄 ). 👍

Jakub Fiala
Excellent work! Amazing pictures 👍

Dieter Bihlmaier
Hallo Roland,
ich bin beim fotografieren meiner Modelle dazu übergegangen, meine Hintergründe vom Laptop auf den Fernseher zu übertragen. Das hat den Vorteil, daß man die Hintergrundgröße problemlos an das Modell anpassen kann.
Hier ein (leider unscharfes) Bild meiner Vorgehensweise: Bf-109 K-14 | Album by oldman
Gruß Dieter

Ben M
Absolutely beautiful build and photography. The "tiger stripes" provide a nice bit of visual interest and realism. I enjoyed seeing this built by both you and bughunter. Working with the corrugated skin is interesting.

Dieter Bihlmaier
Hello Roland, When photographing my models, I switched to transferring my backgrounds from the laptop to the TV. This has the advantage that you can easily adjust the background size to the model.
Bf-109 K-14 | Album by oldman
Greetings Dieter

art81
Very nice 👍

Arseny K.
@Roland, Danke schön! I will use this as the reference for my next models. Actually because of your Junkers, I've returned to my build of Fokker Dr.I (by Roden). Thank you for inspiration and instructions!