Progress

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August 23, 2018
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September 19, 2018
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December 25, 2018
the gang. they lost some parts but gained in beauty. the progress is painful as every step of the way, some disaster happens
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December 25, 2018
I hope to improve the surface with some polishing pads later
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December 25, 2018
Decaling the wood took me a few months. Pretty cool though.
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December 25, 2018
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December 25, 2018
the yellow has proven to be a very difficult color to spray on. serves me right for experimenting. light blue of the same make was fine though
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December 25, 2018
beginning with washes.
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December 26, 2018
i could not keep myself from decaling. the decals are beautiful. i also had to use some of the lozenge leftovers in the edelweiss plane
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March 13, 2019
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March 13, 2019
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March 13, 2019
I started with the rigging. I had problems with the brass tubes so I was just gluing the thread. The glue makes it curved though, quite unhappy about that.
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March 13, 2019
I had to leave it for a while, think of a better way.
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March 13, 2019
Next day I made a piece of thread with little hooks at each end. Works a LOT better

Martin von Schreckenstein
D.V fuselages put together. D.III close behind. Also instead of expensive model colors I have used my wife's painting acrylics to mix my own shades. A lot cheaper and, considering how difficult it is to confirm color accuracy in old subject matter like this, about as accurate. Turns out my cheap airbrush sprays them just the same.

30 August 2018, 11:43

Martin von Schreckenstein
the fuselage is all sanded and primed for all four planes. I am applying the wood decals from HGW on two of the planes (the others will be painted) but the decals break a lot. Also the props are finished and although not quite on par with the general wizardry present in here, I am quite satisfied with the result for my first wood props.

19 September 2018, 13:35

Martin von Schreckenstein
Again, being me, I have departed somewhat from the historical guidelines, especially with the wooden d.V. I did not like the yellow so I decided to go with white-green stripes. Love the result. The plane is now nicknamed "guardpost albatros". The experiments with painting acrylics were successful in producing a toxic free environment during painting, some of the colors are quite impossible though. Also I sometimes wonder if maybe I have started a project too big to finish especially considering I have never done any rigging aside from the 1/350 ship.

25 December 2018, 21:49

Ben M
There's a second time for everything. Go for it.

26 December 2018, 00:09

Ben M
Your wood textures and props and stuff are very artistic and awesome.

26 December 2018, 00:11

Nathan Dempsey
Looks great. I'm watching this one.

26 December 2018, 01:14

Ricardo Reis
Interesting, I'm taking a seat.

26 December 2018, 01:31

Martin von Schreckenstein
Thank you gentlemen. I am kinda looking forward to the rigging actually Ben. Not sure about the 4x part🙂

26 December 2018, 10:35

Augie
Martin, I am in awe, Especially the "Stropp" wood effect.

26 December 2018, 21:57

Nathan Dempsey
Better and better everytime I go back to look!

26 December 2018, 21:57

Richmond
Great project

26 December 2018, 23:34

Björn Svedberg
Looking great! 👍

27 December 2018, 08:28

Roland Sachsenhofer
Very very cool project and impressive modeling! I will follow for sure!

27 December 2018, 09:57

Predrag Ivanovic
Awesome build report, those Eduard albatros are great,and so colorful that you could buld another after another and never get boring. Great project.BTW i started one(Revell reboxing) too and have one in stash (profipack), i glued lower wing before fuselage paint,that was my dilema. As I can see you did the opposite

27 December 2018, 12:12

Martin von Schreckenstein
Thank you everyone!

Predrag - I have glued the wings before as you can see in previous pics. I had to remove them later.. it is one of the disasters I mentioned in the album. Reattaching will be difficult.

Also I got the VIRIBUS UNITIS limited edition kit for Christmas so two more OEFFAG planes will be joining my circus.

The OEFFAG kits are also newer with a lot more detail. They look incredible!

27 December 2018, 19:01

Predrag Ivanovic
Martin o.I didn't figure that, out i saw lower wings glued on D. III,and you are right, later pictures shows fuselage without wings.
One more question, do you intend to extend the main legs on Albatros D. V? I found that they are 3mm short.

27 December 2018, 21:14

Martin von Schreckenstein
there are a lot of other intricacies on the Albatros build. I also did not install the guns trying to save them from assured destruction during painting only to find that adding them later is showing to be quite tricky. So cool to keep an eye on that too.

as for the gear struts.. I still have time to decide. I found a few dubious references and I will scratchbuild new struts using that. If I do not like the results, I will use OOB

27 December 2018, 21:52

Martin von Schreckenstein
after a few attempts at different ways to rig the planes, I settled on a way to do it using hooks which looks very nice as opposed to the original way of curling the thread with superglue. I am not gonna fix the original results to kinda keep the learning process visible for everyone to see. Sadly the yellow Albatros will be the messy testing plane forever now. Hopefully the others that will follow will turn out much nicer thanks to the yellow Albatros sacrifice. I am gonna take some rest from rigging for a while though. Prepare myself mentally.

13 March 2019, 11:56