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Very nice, I like the streaking on the hull and the general weathering. Cheers Rob

Nice woodwork and rigging Mike, looks like a fiddly but straightforward build and enjoyable build. Cheers Rob

Thanks Carl, I start to like the little over weathered look. Sometimes it's about adapting to the results . Cheers Rob

Nearing completion with lots of little steps. The lower wings got attached with their struts, The machine guns got painted / burnished, pigmented and the front one was mounted. The Spandau in front got a metal barrel and jacket from Aber, the Parabellum received a Master barrel and jacket, which to me is superior to the Aber metal parts. These needed some work, like drilling the holes a little wider for the barrel, ..., but in the end, both look good. I always burnish the brass parts, because it's not like a thick coat of colour, instead it looks naturally blackened. The difficulty is to paint the plastic parts to fit. I therefore use a base of Lifecolours 'Deep Cockpit' and use 'Black Smoke' Pigments from Mig for toning down and matting the plastic parts matching. Some dabs with Uschis Iron pigments and done. Then i added the windscreen and demasked all clear parts. Finally I touched up the leather padding around the cockpit with oils and added the wing compass. Cheers Rob

Gaz, I feel your pain with the Macchi. You should have seen my face, when I discovered, that nearly nothing of my streaky applied grime wash got wiped away, when trying to clean it up with a moistened paper towel . I'm really thankful, that I applied a strong coat of primer onto the fuselage, otherwise my harsh treatments would have ruined the Kamel completely. Luckily the Kamel was never supposed to look clean, but now it's a little over board and I hope I can finish the build with a coherent look. I'm using clay washes since some month, so my experiences are limited with these. Every time I used them, they were trouble free and did not alter the surface and were easy to wipe away. Next time I use them on oils, I will seal the previous work. The reason, I changed from other mostly enamel based washes and panel liners was their aggressive reactions with my Pledge based varnishes. Cheers Rob

Thank you Hubert, it got a little wild lately, but I hope for a happy end. Cheers Rob

Honestly, I'm not very good at airbrushing freehanded. When I see the great work of others with the airbrush I have to raise my hat. I think the preshading on the Kamel's wings could have been made with a 0,35 mm needle too, it's a simple task. With a larger needle you have to work a little closer to the object with the AB. Cheers Rob

Thanks Phil, do you now the song by 'The Reverend Horton Heat', which is called 'It's Martini Time', this will be more like it Muchas gracias Mike, I use a Harder & Steenbeck Infinity with a 0,2 mm needle for the pre shading using diluted Tamiya Smoke. For other purposes, I switch to a 0,35 mm needle for the Infinity or H&S Ultra. I have another two long out of production Rotring Airbrushes with 0,2 mm and 0,4 mm needles and am asking myself, why I haven't use the 0,2 mm version for the preshading, because the Rotring's being one and a half action, are better suited for spraying fine lines with equal width. When you think about fine needles, you should take into account, that they clog more frequent with pigmented colours. Sometime it's better to adjust air pressure and/or grade of thinning. Cheers Rob

Thanks Jeff, I would have said the build is fun only, but today was a bad day for my nerves, I think I need some drinks in the evening to reduce the shivering. I applied grime clay wash onto all surfaces, which I tested without problems on a piece of cowling and an aileron before. When it came to removing the wash from the fuselage, there happened nearly nothing. I purposely applied the wash uneven which looked horrible now. I cursed, I rubbed, I dabbed, I watered, I grinded softly, cursed again, used a lot of different brushes and swabs from soft to stiff and even managed to break the number and Balkenkreuz decal on both sides of the fuselage. After two hours netto (in total four hours with all the cursing and arising horror) I declared the fuselage as usable, where I thought of using it as a lawn dart. The wings and other parts were as easy to clean as I expected for the whole plane. Lesson learned, don't use clay wash directly on oils. I surely was expecting a kind of 'interaction', but that blew mew off. Cheers Rob That's how it looks now, a bit too worn for what I was hoping, but I will continue. Sylt in the wintertime is a really harsh environment .

Bei mir isset Schlachtensee, aber jelebt in meena Berlina Zeit hab ick die letzten Jahre in Moabit und Schöneberg. Aba det is Jeschichte, jetze lebe ick uff die Kanren . Cheers Rob Off topic end, sorry was about heritage

Nice choice and quite a task with all the AM. I'm not an expert and didn't quite catch which ridge you mean, but found some belly pics of a FM-2, I took in NASM Pensacola some years ago. May these help. Sorry for the bad quality of the pics, but light was very sparse in that section of the museum.. Cheers Rob

Looking phreakin' phantastic, never build a kit with a screw in it, except for noseweight. Gus you ph*cked up royally, by now it's a FIVE letter word, it's ophphicial . Cheers Rob

Hehe, guilty as charged . I've seen that epic build in your picture and even if I would be able to do something like this, my plans are slightly different. My Kamel should look well used and worn, maybe with no time to pull it out of the water for some time, being exposed to the harsh conditions on the island of Sylt. I was thinking about a dio with the plane floating near a beach of the Königshafen in the north of Sylt with a plank leading to one of the floats occupied bey either the CSM crew or the fascinated boy, which I originally bought to accompany my WNW AEG. But in all the dio is a maybe, I want to train on acrylic water with my 1/48 Walrus. Cheers Rob

I'm interested in this one too. When I had probs with a bended needle, I straightened it and honed it with a Japanese grind stone for knifes with a final go with the 6000 grit side and some oil on it. Cheers Rob

Good luck Harv and afterwards you are eagle eyed again, maybe a 1/144 WIP for a change . Cheers Rob

Hello Mike, first of all, good to see you making it to our little place in the web, which is biased heavily towards large scale, but luckily not dogmatic about it . With the kits you show, you haven't chosen the easiest path into modelling it seems. Nice job with all that rigging and antennas and the engines seemed to have received some wiring too. Should you do a WIP, absolutely. From my own experience a WIP-log is helping others as much as it helps yourself, getting feedback, experiences and reference from other members. WIP-ing is a win-win thing, though and bread and butter of the forum. Cheers Rob

Some more adventures from oil colour land. I finished the fuselage and modulated a bit more while knocking back the colours a bit. I went to the floats then, which received light grey oils for salt and olive green for algae. Tomorrow I will decide, if the fuselage will get some clay wash applied and the Lozenge has to be oiled.

I love these oil colours more and more, you can remove them, you can dab and articulate them and they apply absolutely thin, so you get the colour without loosing detail. It's like painting and using a wash at the same time and you can emphasize lots of effects like streaking or blending. Cheers Rob Thanks Phil, I will try to keep Dudeism up . Cheers Rob

Working with oils is pure fun, so I went a little overboard with it, or maybe not. I used different light grey, blue and olive green oils to modulate the fuselage. Generally I like the effect, but am not decided, If I take a little bit away from that (that's the best with oils, you can always remove everything), or I use a neutral clay wash, which will roughly cleaned in the way of the airflow. The oils were applied as to emphasize different panels and then were partly removed with a spirit dampened saw brush using it in the direction of the airflow and up and down. Cheers Rob The still untreated side

Thanks Gaz, like the Dude said in 'The Big Lebowski', 'That rug really tied the room together' ! Cheers Rob

Entirely not my cup of tea anymore, but entertaining to watch. Since my Wild Willy Jeep got lost as a teen, I'm out of RC stuff, but had lot of fun, mostly with boats and self constructed ice gliders at the time. Cheers Rob

Today some long awaited oil colours arrived, so what better than trying them out. The Aviattic linen decals were a little bit on the cold side for my liking colourwise, which led me to warm and wear them with light yellow and faded yellow (a light orange tone in fact). The white underlying the Balkenkreuze recieved some light grey oil treatment. The oils were applied randomly with a sawbrush working right to left. Then I worked the oils in with a little thinner in the direction of the airflow, while modulating the colours with cleaning the brush more and more between the strokes. In the end, I got what I wanted. The wings look weather beaten and have an enhanced colour richness and reduced contrast between colours. I love to work with oils and will continue after drying with the fuselage and Lozenge upper sides. Cheers Rob Before and after All done

Nice, always a big step and some Fly fuselages are not the easiest to close. Cheers Rob

Under mottling, I would have called it . It will look good with a translucent paint job on top. Cheers Rob

Looking good Gaz. I like the metal skirts a lot, easy said, I haven't done any. All my skirted subjects are safe and sound in my stash, including a Jagdpanzer IV with mesh skirts. I would have considered soldering, but that leaves the problem of slightly misaligned joins. Cheers Rob