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I had it long time waiting till starting this wonderful kit..... the HANSA BRANDENBURG W.29 in scale 1/32 by Wingnut Wings. There is nothing unsaid about this amazing kit so that I do not want to loose time.... and start directly with the first pictures of it..... The engine.... I added some wire and replaced some parts with thin plastic pipes ..... and painted all in black / iron. The iron was polished aferwards before adding some oil paint, drybrushing and pigments to it ..... All interior parts got a primer with brown lifecolor, before making the wooden parts with oil colors. I wanted to give it a darker look on the inside and used mostly dark brown colors. The tanks and other metal parts were painted with Revell Aqua colors and received some polishing and oil color washing after it. Next I have added more and more parts to the interior ..... Do not wonder about the missing seatbelts... I am waiting for the lased cut parts from HGW right now ..... Hope you like it so far .... Cheers Michael

Hi Ted, I "love" the lifecolors .... I only use these at the moment specially airbrushing is superb BR Michael

Next steps.... working a little bit at the diorama base for the monster...... added some plants, grass and other stuff to it..... the road made of plaster, which I have cut in single pieces and glued on the floor. Plaster, sand and wood glue used for the sides ....... then painted it all .... The light wasn't that good.. but I did not want to use the flash of the camera..... Cheers Michael

After having finished the most important parts which have to be done before the painting I have taped the engines, cockpit, wheelhouses..... Then airbrushed the underside in lightblue by lifecolor and taped the underside for the next steps.... The taping of the engine bay and cockpit was fun... but workable.... then airbrushed the upper side in RLM82 (also Lifecolor)... Next steps.... painting of the camo with RLM81 .... and firstly... next taping.... Cheers Michael

Thank you very much Paul

Thank you very much And here we go.... The "waste" ....: And a first view on the diorama... Next steps: Small parts.... ast details ... Cheers Micha

The new seatbelts from HGW are installed: The interior mostly completed and put together....: The first covers of the hull....: Cheers Micha

... and black primed, rusty and woody colors sprayed over.... then salt added .... ... and same here ..... .... then painted in green .... .... and some dust on the front windows.... first layer, 2nd one follows and makes some streaks on the window.... Cheers Micha

Cheers, Micha

Finished engine - ready for installation: The interior.... - missing: dust, sand, magazines.... Cab with new add on parts under the engine hood.... after a fist washing with dark brown oil colour.... Front bumper.... after several layers of painting (black, brwon, salz, white, taped, salt, red, oil colour dark brown) Frame - after mounting the engine, the cooler, front bumper - after a first washing dark brwon oil colour, after a layer of tamiya buff ... and all together - as it looks right now: Now mud and dirt on the wheels, the frame, the wheel houses is following.... Cheers... Micha

BR Micha

Once the black and brown paint is dry I have added some salt-water mixture on realistich places at the cab, the wheel houses and on the floor of the interior. As soon as the salt is dry the first layer of green is following with airbrush. Once also dry I have sprayed several layers of lightend and darkend green (base colour) on the parts to give it a used look, looking as an older car with old paint.... Once the colors are dried I have removed the salt with a stiff brush.... now it looks like that: ... and put together.... Next steps are painting of the details, interior, painting the front bumper in white/red (also with the salt methode as above), then following oil colour, pigments, rust, streaks of oil, water and rust, and so on .... Cheers Michael

The interior received the seats, as well as the pedals made of wire and pe-parts. The gearshift etc. is made of wire as the kit-parts were broken in the package. But no problem, this is easy to fix: Next step was a big "correction" of a previous mistake which I made with the tires... the pattern of the tires is in different directions.... this is a mistake which is clearly visible at this truck as it has such uge wheels with very prominent pattern. Therefore I took the saw and removed the wrong wheels.... (both front wheels which caused most of the headache).... then I switched the wheels and used the spare wheel for the rear axle.... and fixed all wheels with pieces of thick wire, put in drilled holes so that the wheels are fitting perfectly now.... and the pattern is correct now The cab is mounted, one door installed (the driver's door will be installed open later), then the engine hood was glued to the cab, also the driver's side engine cover. The 2nd engine cover was cut in three pieces, one was glued to the engine hood (and to the front grill which is made of PE-parts only), the 2nd small one to the cab. The part of the engine cover which is removable in original remains separately for the diorama later. Due to that the engine is clearly visibile so that I added some details, wires, ... to the wall between engine and cab...... Then I started a first painting in matt black on everything. The frame, the tanks, the tires and the rims remain black, these parts will receive some cloudy airbrush painting in several grey tones (dark- light greys) to make shadows and different colos of the black. The wheel houses front get, the steps, the cab will receive some rusty airbrush (cloudy, only partly) before the final paintings follow.... This is step 1 of many planed steps... Cheers. Micha

Hi ... here is my next project which I am working on it already since a few days... It is the Russian Heavy Truck KrAZ-255B in scale 1/25 by MiniManFactory. It is a huge truck... a huge kit, full of resin parts, decals, photo etched parts, and more..... very clean parts with lot of details, not much cleaning necessary. Good kit, big kit, also expensive kit See here the first pictures - from the beginning to the actual state.... that's it for now... next update soon Cheers. Micha

Hello, Roland D.VIa is finished.... the base is ready... Roland D.VIa - 1/32 by Wingnut Wings plus gun barrles by Master Models and a figure of a German "Vizefeldwebel der Luftwaffe" by Kellerkind Miniaturen is done. The painting was made with acrylics by Lifecolor and oil colors .... More pictures on my website - hope you like it! Now let's think which Wingnut Wings model will be next .... BR Michael

Hello, here is my finished FOKKER D.VII flown by Ernst Udet 1918. My first Wingnut Wings kit and 100% not the last one Hope that you like it.....

Hello, here is my finished B-17 "Flying Fortress" in scale 1/32 by HK Models. Additionally used the full Eduard sets, Resing and brass parts by Profimodeller, Eduard's fantastic wheel set, metal gear, decals by Kitmaker and some additional scratch built stuff. Here it is.... ... and here are some interieur pics: Thank you so much for your time and interest! BR Micha

Hello, here is my finished FOKKER D.VII flown by Ernst Udet 1918. My first Wingnut Wings kit and 100% not the last one Hope that you like it.....

Hello, Roland D.VIa is finished.... the base is ready... Roland D.VIa - 1/32 by Wingnut Wings plus gun barrles by Master Models and a figure of a German "Vizefeldwebel der Luftwaffe" by Kellerkind Miniaturen is done. The painting was made with acrylics by Lifecolor and oil colors .... More pictures on my website - hope you like it! Now let's think which Wingnut Wings model will be next .... BR Michael

... some painting in the cockpit and some weathering later .....: ... some detail painting at the landing bay after airbrushing in RLM02 ..... ... the painted tanks - for the landing bay and fuel tank (not visable later) .... Now next steps... weathering of the painted parts..... Cheers Michael

Next steps - I finished the cockpit with the PE-stuff from Profimodeller... lot of work, lot of small work and lot of details added. The parts are wonderful designed and a 100% upgrade for the kit.... it is full of metal now.... the painting follows much later ... Cheers - Michael

It is a pleasure to start my new airplane now.... I built some other stuff (ships, military, ...) in the past days that's why I wasn't here onlie with news for longer time .... but now I received a pre-serial sample of HK-Models brand new DO-335 monster in 1/32 scale. Together with the brand new metal parts and photoeteched parts by profimodeller I will build the airplane with all hinges open...... Daimler-Benz DB 603 - Engines of the DO-335 First of all I glued together all the engine parts before paintig it all in black. Then I painted the details with a paintbrush before adding some oilcolor washings in black, brown and beige. After all drybrushing with Iron. Then adding Mig-pigments in beige on the engine and fixed them. Finally added oil on it with Tamiya smoke and worked with some different colors of Tamiya Weathering sets (Silver, beige, rust, black)..... Cheers Michael