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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #15 on: January 03, 2017, 03:11:53 PM »
Stunning!!

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #16 on: January 03, 2017, 06:48:54 PM »
Well done!

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #17 on: January 05, 2017, 12:12:13 PM »
Thank you friends !

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #18 on: January 14, 2017, 10:51:17 AM »
Home for the weekend and right back to the workbench  :-green
As always I like to experiment on my models so I decided to try out a new thing for me, I'm " playing " with the lights as a first step of weathering, canvas areas are matt,metal semi gloss and the wood is gloss, not sure how much is visible on the photos but in life looks good, I'm satisfied  :))

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #19 on: January 14, 2017, 10:52:57 AM »
Overall look is so good

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #20 on: January 14, 2017, 11:33:30 AM »
:-ok

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #21 on: January 14, 2017, 03:14:11 PM »
Yes, excellent appearance!

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #22 on: January 14, 2017, 08:28:49 PM »
Thank you friends !

I didn't like the Eduard's tail skid so I made a new one from my home made laminated wood, same as propeller which is finished in the meantime

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #23 on: January 14, 2017, 08:35:22 PM »
Good to have time for this extras ;)

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #24 on: January 15, 2017, 12:16:31 PM »
Waouw... :-ok

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #25 on: January 15, 2017, 03:37:04 PM »
Yes!

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #26 on: January 16, 2017, 09:46:11 AM »
Thank you friend !

Sadly these 3 days off passed too quick....... The seat is done,the belts are made of masking tape and photo-etch left-overs using decals from the box as a quide. I made all the metal details on the fuselage, replace the lost ones and painted them, it's maybe not as real, I painted them in natural metal, they may have been painted but I like it better this way, a bit of artistic freedom this time  :)) And the lower wing and tail skid are on, that's it for this time, will continue next time I'm home, now back to work......

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #27 on: January 16, 2017, 09:54:48 AM »
About metal chipping on seat.. if I am right, it is made of plywood, not metal

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #28 on: January 16, 2017, 09:58:54 AM »
Yes, that was not on purpose, I fixed it, the seat is wood coated with leather

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Re: Albatros D III
« Reply #29 on: February 20, 2017, 12:13:26 PM »
Back home for few days only, little time for modeling, but I had a little time for modeling  :-green

First I discovered a disaster, don't know why or how some putty on the front of the fuselage disappeared, but not all, only on two ends..... Didn't wanted to putty, sand and paint the whole nose section again so in my spare parts box I founded some Eduard's placards and put them to mask the gap, not authentic I know but don't really care.......

The tires are painted, after doing some research I found a various tire colors can be found on WW I aircrafts so I made my own mixture, dark grey with some sunny skin tone,fell out really nice, like that color for tire

And the exhaust is drilled out