Hello

I have started with a realy beautiful aircraft , the Pfalz D.III



It has been a lot of work on this one , many bits and pices that should go in betwene the fuselagehalfs.and here are the most of them








And the fuselagehalfs and the bottomwing








Now it looks like it is time to glue the pices together

Finaly a question , in Parts instructionsheet in picture G there are two handels that shold be mounted at the left fuselageside , i have not been able to find anything about them in my limited referensematerial , anyone who knowes if they should be there or not ?



More to come

Hi Roger , I'm looking at the Windsock data file of the Pfalz D.III and on page ten it really doesn't show those intems all that well . One would be the throttle lever the other one not so sure . it really doesn't say . it only shows the one .

I'm glad you ask this question cause I would like to know myself now .

I checked more of my refs and it's states some thing different but no name for it . I'll do some more digging .

Hm
nice Rogga. I like to see this one when it´s finished..
good work


Larsa Q

It toke some days to get the parts together but here are the "sections " of the interior











And here they are just lied in place without any glue yet





Now the scary things are to come , try to get everything together

Comments and tips are welcome

Regards
Rogga

Hey Rogga,
Looks very nice, I especially like your engine and wooden parts. How do you paint those wooden parts?

Very , very nice Roger . The wood grain is excellect ! The guns are a little to much on the silver side . They should be black then lighty dry brushed silver to bring out the details .

In all Roger , you have done one fantastic job on the build so far . Your attention to the details and painting is top notch . That engine is super !!!! Looking forward to the next run of progress pics .

Looking Good, Rogga! your "wood effect" is really nice but Terri is right about the guns: All Spandau and Parabellum machine guns left the factory covered with a baked on black enamel paint.

Cheers,

Claudio

beautiful work, I eye your woodwork with great envy

looks wonderful already, tempting to buy one but I still have acute albifever at the moment.

Keith.

Hello Tuomas

Glad you like my work , about the wooden parts then .
I have tryed to immitate two different types of wood , one at the fuselagesides and one for the rest. In both cases i have sprayed Gunzes collors at first , fuselage H67 and the rest is H37 then a spray of gloss coat , when dried i used Winton artistoils , the fuselage is burnt sienna and the rest is yellow ochre . Put a layer of artistoil at the surfess and brush of paint with a quite used brush until desired result . After that has dried another spray with gloss coat , then some weathering and last a layer matt varnish.

Hope this can be to some help

Thank´s Lasse , Terri , Claudio and Kieth for your kind cheerings , it makes it easier and funnier to continue with the model
About the mashineguns i just have som odd and highly individual feeling that a mashinegun has to have a mettalic look , i really know it´s not right but i can´t help myself painting them this way , but it´s not to late to change yet , i might drybrush som black on them later

What markings are you going with for this build ?

Yes , what marking will it be ? , to be hounest i´m not so sure now. When i started this one out i was 100% dessided i would do the red and blue mashin on the boxart , paint for it is already bought ,but now i´m not that convinced anymore
The number 2 mashine among Rodens verssions , the alu-yellow-black one from jasta 10 looks also really good , one of the things i really like with this ww1-airplanes are their collorful paintshemes .
To make things even more comfusing for myself i opend the Eduard combobox to se what paintalternetives was there and ofcourse i found two more nice ones from jasta 10




With some cutting in Rodens decalshett the aircraftnumbers will be able to get right .
It would be really fun to do a mashin that´s not from the kit itself so the one with green tail is higest on the list , for the moment , i guess

Maybe it would be some of you fellow modellers out ther who will make the dessision because i have another question now

If there is someone who have and can upload or tell me where to find a authentic photo of some of these four mashines , i have a idé for my shelf to have a photo from that time of the planes i build.
I managed to find one for my Fokker i reasently made and it became this way



I know it might be to much to wish for , but it would be realy nice i think.

More progresspictures to come

Tack, det var bra ! (Did this go right?)

In other words, thanks for info!

Roger , I'll go through my books and see what I can turn up for you . Just might be able to help out a bit .

I like the red and white stripe tail . It stands out very well , but then again I have a thing for stripes !

Varsågod Tuomas , ja det blev helt rätt

In outher words , Yes it did go right

How goes the build Roger ?

The build goes slow , very slow
Not that my inspirattion are low , i really would love to do some work on the mashine , but there is not time enoughe at the moment . I´m moving from my appartment in the town to a house a bit outside the town and that house is in some need of repairs before i will copleatly move and start to live there . Also that has to be done before the last of June , that´s when i have to be away from my apartment.
So just now that has to be number one priorety but every little time there are some minutes over i do some small steps foreward on my build

this is good news for me, I have my work in the garden for the moment so I have time to wait for you´r next update Rogga.
Cheers
Larsa Q

Roger,

Excellent work so far, I really like your wood grain method. Outstanding work. Good luck on your new place, I have quite a bit of Spring clean up myself, but at least I don't need a snow shovel like Stephen might!

Looking forward to more of your work, Dwayne

Thank you Dwayne

Glad you like my work , by now i have closed the fuselage up and also glued the bottomwing in place , and at the moment trying to get all those pe-parts in place on the outeside of the fuselage and the wings , so some more pictures will probebly come soon.

can´t wait too see this one live my friend



Larsa Q

Well Lasse , sad to say you have to wait , my plan was to have this one finished to the competition in Motala in July but it doesn´t look like it would happen i´m afraid .

Hello

The progress is not fast now but it is not a complete standstill , the fuselage has been glued together and here are some last pictures before that. As you can see there are quite a lot of sanding to bee done around the engine to bee able to get things together.




A bit moor work done , the bottomwing in place , filler and sanding done , new hings to the controllsurfaces ( they really was not good original ) and all the pe-parts in place.

Excellent work so far Roger, such attention to detail.....alll those control wires look good. I think this is going to look A class once the paint is on.


Keith