Noticias

Lenny Li
It's been a while my friends. Have been working on 3 subjects at the same time since October. Stay tuned!

gorby
That looks like it's going to be a remarkable diorama.

Lenny Li
Some updates. First time using hot wire foam cutter. It turns out OK for setting up the base. Applied AK diorama paste on top.

Made the first mistake when using spray can - the paint or the agent reacts and corrodes any exposed foam surface. Had to reapply paste for the 2nd time to fix. Painting is quite straightforward, just Tamiya acrylic paint with airbrush.

Next step will be weathering.

Derek Ryan
Fantastic work, great job

Neuling
Very good looking vehicle! - Where in Africa stand these giantesses?

playtime 222
Are the figures of Indiana Jones and his dad next?

Neuling
Your reference picture shows the Erechteion on the Acropolis in Athens.

Rui S
Great paint work so far. 👍
@Neuling yes They will leave soon to Afrika😉

Lenny Li
All done. Still working on my figure painting skills...

Hanno Kleinecke
Wow that looks superrealistic and lively ! Excellent modeling ! The only question that comes to me is - how did this Steyr manage to sink two subchasers and 10.600 tons of enemy shipping - in the african desert..... 🙂 No offence ! 🙂

Moritz Fentzahn
Great scene. Love it 👍

Neuling
Top paint work on the Steyr and the figures!👍

Konrad -
That is indeed a very very nice dio with all that details in it! Great presentation on this unique background!
Absolutely great 👍!

Rui S
Impressive work and dio. Great weathering on the Steyer, lot's of details. Very well done 👍

Spanjaard
it looks great. fantastic details. Interesting to use copies of the Caryatids as statues (as normal Caryatids they are quite over dimensioned, and the Afrika Korps was never in Athens, I think 😉 ) fantastic dio.

Dimitrios Balanos
Nice work, but Kariatides are located in Athens.

Mathias Decommere
Very original! Love it!

Finn
Superb!

Pietro De Angelis
Damn I just saw it now, awesome dio!

Mr James
Missed it too. Beautiful stone work

Lebloge
Splendid! 😮

Pepe
Great!!!!

CaptGPF
Impressive doesn't do this work of art justice. ❤️❤️❤️

Doubtingmango
Incredible!

J35J
Excellent!👍🏻

Shar Dipree
Looks great! 👍🏻

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 🙂

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 🙂

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 🙂

Roland Sachsenhofer
I am pleased to be able to present the second Junkers F.13 to you. This pleasure is fuelled by the fact that these are not tricky kits - on the other hand, the variety provided by the corrugated sheet metal was great fun and, important to say, these are not bad kits! The one thing I now realise is that with the corrugated metal-work you have to plan exactly what you are going to do and when. In any case, I can only recommend this MikroMir kit! Thank you for your interest and your valuable and motivating comments!

gorby
Lovely! Fantastic photos.

Ludvík Kružík
That's really great! When I look at the pictures, I feel like I'm looking at a real plane.
Very well built model and perfect pictures!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Gorby and Ludvik, your words are high praise for me - thank you!

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 🙂

Gerald
Hello Welcome here 🙂

Mark
👀

Eric Lamare
The glider series, no engines again on this one I guess. I keep thinking on building mine with engines on. So it's nice to follow your great builds ?

Robert Podkoński
Taking a front row seat 🙂

Juergen Klinglhuber
I'm on the next one...

Alec K
I'm in the back…

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you- and feel welcome!

Mark K
Watching, too.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Mark!
The following pictures give a few impressions of the still very rudimentary G-242 fuselage. The granules in the "coal cellar" in the front of the nose should bring the necessary weight to avoid a "tailsitter". It consists of a kind of ground lead; I tried not to touch it when spooning it in and not to breathe! 🙂
The interior of the fuselage will be further detailed, the three windows in the bow will all be reworked with paint- I decided to build that well-known Go with "shark mouth".

Robert Podkoński
Fantastic start, Roland. Installing the instrument panel on the front window frame must have been nerve shaking...

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Robert! I can report: it was not such a challenge with "Microscale Kristal Klear".

Roland Sachsenhofer
A few assembly steps further. Did I mention that the fit of the parts is quite good?

Robert Podkoński
Thanks, Roland - I think for me it would be a challenge, I know Kristal Klear and it is setting slowly. BTW, have you ever tried any of these UV setting glues? They work really good, are transparent and are setting in few second under the UV LED light.

Cuajete
Nice start.
Following!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Dusty, colourful, freshly filled and sanded: but the surfaces are now ready for a first round of RLM 65! The white tail band is already prepared - unfortunately hardly visible in the pictures - to be masked now.

Olivier
One of my favourite flying machines. Why the lead ? It is a tail sitter (or am I wrong ?)

Roland Sachsenhofer
Olivier, I've checked it now, you're absolutely right - and I've now made the thing a "bow-seater"! Well, I'd say that went unusually wrong 🙂) I don't know how yet, but a solution will be found.
I think I was wrongly influenced by the pictures of the wheeled B-version.
In any case, thanks for the clarification!

Roland Sachsenhofer
A few impressions of the more or less finished exterior. Now the question arises, how do I get a correct shark mouth? I think I know one possible answer....

Cuajete
Nice painting 👍

Daniel Klink
And the next one...following for sure!👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Cuajete and Daniel, motivating!
The clever plan for the "shark's teeth" part I and II: the taping was more fun than expected- and the preliminary resulting monster with the red smeared mouth looks somehow more scary than the final result, doesn't it? 🙂

Cuajete
This Gotha seems "Gothic" 😛
Fantastic masking job!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Gotha-Gothic! splendid!
Thank you mate!

Cuajete
😄 👍

David Taylor
Getting its grin on.

Roland Sachsenhofer
yes, and I smile back:
just removed the stencils- looking forward to showing you pictures of the outcome tomorrow!

David Taylor
Aww.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Aww!
The covers have come off - and the Go-242 shows the photographer its best smile, or let's say it tries to. Minor imperfections are repaired during the last step, the application of a black decal strip framing the dentures.

Torsten
The sharkmouth looks great, 😎 work 👍
Wondering how many kits you make in short time, awesome

Juergen Klinglhuber
👍 👍 👍

David Taylor
Yeey.

bughunter
What is that looking at me so angry? 👍

Cuajete
Well done!

matt
very well done, some spectacular masking!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you mates for all these encouragement! Tomorrow a black lip liner will be applied...

Roland Sachsenhofer
Last construction photos: the surfaces are basically finished, the first "false" pair of eyes, which can be seen in the original photos, was painted on with a dry brush - and now the application of the decals and the application of the large eyes on the rearmost, uppermost cockpit windows is still pending.

Guy Rump
Looking good 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you mate!

Roland Sachsenhofer
The Gotha Go-242 has indeed been completed! The last steps of construction did not bring any major news, but also no more difficulties. I am happy that the project with the completely masked shark's mouth worked out as I had imagined. Actually even better! The four eyes were finally all painted with a dry brush.
The last photos of the assualt glider assembly are also a kind of conclusion to my personal "theme of the year" - at least in 1:72 scale! It is quite interesting to see such a size and shape comparison 🙂 By the way: all but one of the models were made by Italeri in the 60s and 70s, hats off to the Italians for this beautiful -past- model policy!

Thank you all for your interest, motivating remarks and...."Likes"!

Mark K
Absolutely delightful result! Thanks so much for sharing the build with us.

Neuling
I agree with Mark. - Roland, I really enjoyed your theme of the year. I always had wanted to see these Italeri kits built by an expert.

Robert Podkoński
I agree with Mark and Neuling here. Fantastic!

Olivier
Excellent photo 47 !

bughunter
The undercarriage is really interesting with skids and wheels! Great project!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you very much for your encouraging and motivating feedback, friends, it means a lot to me! Olivier, I'm glad you like the DFS 230 and Go-242 duet!

Guy Rump
Superb build Roland, really like photo 48 👍

Olivier
Ach Roland, I like all your gliders but the 'shark' going after the tiny DFS is just another level.

Alec K
Those glider group photos are great 👍

Cuajete
Fantastic result, Roland.
Very nice comparison with all planes.
Congrats!

Roland Sachsenhofer
Again, thank you for your comments! I am very happy when the theme and the implementation are so well received.

Cristian Stieringer
as always a great model from you Roland i read the report in the aircraft magazine today about the Go-242 you must also read. the report has captivated me from the beginning see you soon then

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you for your words and for the hint; for sure I may say!

Curatorm
Very nice model! Impressed by the paint work for the shark mouth.

Roland Sachsenhofer
I'm glad to hear that, thank you for your words!

Marc Verlot
Hi Roland, starting the Italeri 1/72 242 A or B. Can I come to you for some advice and tips?

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you, I really appreciate your feedback! Marc, always happy to help with whatever I can: just get in touch!

Marc Verlot
Danke, what colours did you use for the camouflage?

Roland Sachsenhofer
Hello Marc, I have now checked: the RLM74 was made with Gunze H68, the RLM75 with H69. Gunze H417 was used for the underside of the original RLM76. The white stripe at the rear and the shark's mouth / various 'eyes' are masked and hand-painted, but the construction photos provide illlustration anyway.
I've been using Gunze acrylic paints for a long time and actually everywhere where it's possible.