Wingnut Wings Albatros D.V
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Testing oils and woodgrain on an old wing
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Paints and oils used
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Not much will be seen in the end!
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Test fitting
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3D printed spark plugs
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Engine
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Pre shade
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Main colors
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Decals
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Painting acrylics over a base color to simulate wood grain.
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Adding oils and starting the effect. I will be removing lot of the oils as i work with this.
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Finished - my first propellers!
Stained them with Tamiya clear colors (orange, brown) and gave them a gloss varnish.
Stained them with Tamiya clear colors (orange, brown) and gave them a gloss varnish.
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Weathering started. Just some base for now.
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Preparing wings for rigging
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Eyelets made and tubes cur / drilled.
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Trying to get the wing on... Rubber bands to the rescue!
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Sooo rigging....
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Dropped glue... Damnit... Will be fixed later.
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Needs a beer after all that rigging.
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Final pictures.
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With cowling on.
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Cockpit.
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Rigging up close.
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Gluemark fixed... Soot stain above the exhaust now 🙂
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Cockpit
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Do love that engine!
Opmerkingen
51 7 April 2023, 20:22
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Thank you! 😄
I just finished painting the propellers and about to start my most dreaded task... Turnbuckles, eyelets and rigging! All new things i need to figure out how to do 🙂
26 May 2023, 05:53
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Fantastic work and photography!
Can I ask what is you photo setup?
Thanks!
31 May 2023, 07:16
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Again thank you guys!
@José Pires - I have a Puluz photo box for pictures. However I add more light from an external source. I only have my iPhone for pictures unfortunately. I usually tweak the picture setting a bit with the inbuilt photo edit on iPhone. Mostly just exposure settings and shadow.
31 May 2023, 08:29
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Following you lot of seriously pro WW-I modelers is so captivating - it´s like "the same hobby" but in an alternate universe - to my "sweetspot" in building jets & "fast stuff" 🙂 Top work, fascinating 👍
31 May 2023, 11:43
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My first WW1 plane - the Wingnut Wings Albatros.
Learned so much! Pushed through the hard challenges and made a model im really happy with ?
There are ofc a few things that I would chance and its by no means perfect - but for my first WW1 plane i'm very satisfied ?
Ask away if you want to know more!
For rigging
Gaspatch 1/48 Turnbuckles
Eyelets made from 0,2mm copper wire
Tubes Albion NST05 cut to about 1 mm length and drilled to fit the line.
0,128mm Black monofilament fishing line.