Larsa,
In all of my years using milliput I have never heard of freezing the leftover! What a great tip!! Thanks,
RAGIII
PS< You don't know how many sand bags, cannon balls etc. I have made that I will never use just trying not to waste the leftover

Hi
The seat is sanded to shape, the last I did was to polish the Mp with superfine steel wool to get a nice and smooth surface. The final piece is the pad for the aviator to sit on. This was made from thin plasticard and wargamer putty. This putty is a whole lot of another stuff to use; no talcumpowder is needed, just kneed the putty to an even green colour and press a little pee into the plasticard. With a wet finger any fingerprints are removed and some details was added with a knife blade. The pad was set aside to dry out.





Larsa

Ooooh,
Lookin' good there Larsa.

Cheers,

Hugh

Looking really good! Nice work on the seat and padding!
RAGIII

Thanks guys
Small steps here, but progress.
The seat got its paint on. I used Humbrol flesh and leather in a fifty-fifty mix. This would be the basecolour. Adding a few drops of black to the mix and carefully fixed the inside was done wile the basecolour still was wet. Tomorrow I’ll install the belts.
Fueltank and ammo is painted up and drying so that does will be installed after the seat section. I will carefully measure the distance for the gun mount. On the DIII kit the mount was just 2mm of. This discovery was done late in the build off many modellers.






ps Tha Pfalz is not part off this build, so ignore that, I used it just to hold up the fuselage off the Albie. The Palz is just another story

Cheers
Larsa

Two stunning builds, side by side. And you want us to ignore one of them. Hmmmm someone is building a 1/32 Pfalz D.III and teasing us with the progress.

Here is the first thread on the subject at Aeroscale.
Click Here.

Instead for Tv-dinner, this is just a sideproject The whole build is just a big fun. When the Pfalz is ready you guys will have the pics and the story.......

cheers
Larsa

Hi
Now the fun part start, putting things together and get scared about how things looking together. You guys who sharp-eyed can see that there’s two different colours off wood inside the fuselage. That’s an experiment from me. I wanted to have that “reddish” tone in the woodgraining on the outside off the fuselage, so I had too test on something. The “reddish2 tone is done with some tiny clear Crimson red from Humbrol, just a drop off red got into the jar with clear varnish and out came this candy like finish.








So from here there is just Rock and roll I think, now we can get some progress.
Cheers guys

Larsa Q

Awesome Lars ! I like how the two tone for the wood stands out . Adds depth to it . and shows the different types of wood used to good effect !
Looking forward to the rest .

Cheers

Excellent Larsa! Which scheme will you go with and are you aware that the early production D.I types had a different header tank above the motor?

It's gorgeous, Lars!

Besides the wood, I really really like that seat.

Regards
Steve

Larsa, Nicely done so far, great looking interior.

Stephen, You have my attention! I have been looking over my Albatros Fighters Data file and have not run into this! Please enlighten at least me?????
RAGIII

These were seen on the earliest production airframes Alb. D.381/16 - 392/16. Check out images and compare.

Hi Folks
The version I am going for is the only one with the unpainted wooden fuselgae. Thats Lt. Walter Höhne 390/16, thats make me into the same bush as RAGIII I guess. Going thrue my datafiles last nigth and cant find those images, so if you can stephen help is needed!!!!



Larsa Q

Greetings all;

The good thing is that if Larsa is doing D. 390/16 (Höne's machine) it did have the triangular expansion header tank. But Several of the earliest in the series (like the machine flown by Ltn. Colling and the Crown Prince Karl Friedrich) employed the expansion header tank infront of the first cylinder. For images see p.26, 33, 35 & 65 especially in Osprey's Aviation Elite Units #26 Jagdstaffel 2.



Also see "Aviation Awards of Imperial Germany in WWI by Neal O'Connor"
Vol. V Pp.209-210 & Vol. VI p.319.

#26 review
#26 thread

Thank´s Stephen
Just ordered that book.So now it´s more Rock and Roll for me.

Larsa

Hi Folks
This is the last pics before gluing the fuselage halves together. I did not go all the way with all cables and wires, some final details will be inserted after the halves are together. There’s still plenty off workspace in this big opening. The lover wing have not a good fit to the body so there will be some materials grinding away from the centre off the wing. When the wing sit perfect some new woodgrains will be added to cover up.










Larsa Q

Great looking interior! This one seems to be coming together nicely. Just out of curiosity, are you finding it easier to build the D1 with your experience from your DIII build?
RAGIII

I must say with the DIII still in some kind off memory this one is fairly easy build, atleast what I have done yet.There´s still some building ahead

Larsa Q

Outstanding!

Regards
Steve

Thanks Steve
There´s still some bits to go on this before we can open the beercans

Larsa Q

I already opened the beer cans for mine. Needed the beer can itself, so of course had to EMPTY it.

Regards
Steve

Lars , this one is coming along rather nicely . Excecllent work !

If you need the empty can then it´s okey to have the beer.I love this hobby. Thanks Terri,There´s more to come
Larsa Q

Hi
Too get the lower wing to fit properly I had too grind away some plastic on the centre off the inside. The bulkheads from the engine and the seat going to low and will interfere with the centre off the wing. This was an easy fix with the dremel.


Just more dry testing the bits and peices

Larsa Q