Pfalz DIII - Blue Max
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Here you can see the instructions for removing the styrene cowling and replacing it with the resin "movie version" cowling...
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The cowling around the engine is resin and the fit is tricky as you can see
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Another look at the resin cowling
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This is the engine for the movie version...the top is resin with the base styrene
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Its an odd version of an engine design for a Pfalz DIII...probably only used in the movie 🙂
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The decals, specifically the lozenges were of very high quality and were a pleasure to work with.
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The fit where the wing meets the fuselage was quite tricky however and required some additional work (i.e. blending colours, etc.) to fit contours
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Another look at the wing/fuselage connection
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The first assembly of the upper wing
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For the movie version, many of the molded features had to be sanded off. This required a lot of work and filler around the resin piece. Since it was semi-gloss black, it took a lot of work to mostly remove the blemishes :-|
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A different view
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The landing gear was difficult to attach since the connections to the fuselage were not we'll designed (i.e. too shallow).
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7 18 March 2023, 16:01
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This shows the build log of this project - Pfalz DIII - Blue Max