Hello

I chosed Eduards old kit of the Albatross W.4 for this campaign . I started working on this one almost at the startday so the progress is a bit slow



Some of the parts prepared for paint




Some pics of the fuselage , lower wing and floats






The interior of the fuselage is one of the things i do like most , this Eduardkits are really god in detailes









And here everything is glued in place and ready to get closed up





It´s a bit sad so little of the interior beeing visible when the fuselage is glued together





Stabelizer and top wing finished






At the moment i´m waiting for the woodgrain to dry and here is a bad picture of the fuselage



More progress and more pictures to come when the "wood" is dry enough


Rogga

Hi Roger

Beautiful work on the interior and fabric effect! I think I can see a Frontpage model in the making!

All the best

Rowan

Thank´s Rowan

Yes , this might be a model for the better places in the shelf
I have a good feeling for this one and hopefully the rest of the work will turn out in the same way as it has done so far .

Very impressive Roger.

Excellent work, absolutely stunning really.

VERY nice Roger!. I like the woodgrain, and the shadow effect on the wings ..well done and subtle.

Thank you

I´m glad you like it

VERY IMPRESSIVE WORK ROGGA!good job man its coming out really clean.love the interior.




Build On,
Justin

Very nice job, Roger! It looks very good. I have this kit in my stash and originally planned to use it for this campaign. However, looking at your kit I am glad I changed to the Dornier 18. My kit would not look good next to yours.

Excellent job so far!

Thank´s

It´s a bit hard to wait for the paint to dry , i really like this kit , i´m very eager to se it finished . Don´t hasetate to build your one Jesper , it´s a very fun build.

Here are a couple of in-progress photos of the Amodel Russian Hydroplane SPL that I am building for this campaign.





I still have quite a bit of work to do. I should be able to post more photos soon.

Thanks,

HARV

Thats a great looking wee plane HARV. One of those would make getting to th ski slopes a doddle in Scotland
at the moment.

I finally got started on this Sunderland. Cut out the aeroclub canopy fits perfectly and lovely and thin and clear. Need to do some repairs to the cockpit though. Also tried out the rub'n'buff sliver wax for the metallic finish. It is not bad but I need to make the plastic smoother and redo some panel lines, this NMF is pretty unforgiving, but you get the idea.
It would need sealed as I doubt it is the most robust finish. But really easy to apply. I think it gives a good scale effect. What you folks think?

This is the kind of finish I'm aiming for. Not much shiny alu there.



I'd based my assumption on this photo



However just this morning I found this




50 winters of frost and wind removes paint pretty cleanly

Darn! Back to camo! At least the silver wax should come off pretty easy

hi jaypee,

what rub'n'buff silver wax did you use,as i'm after that effect.

cheers paul

rub n buff silver leaf. You can get pewter too. Easy and not messy to apply. only a few quid too.

nice one cheers,can you seal it with an acrylic clear?

rrrrr.. I think I'm going take this damn Ar 95 and make a crashed airplane diorama out of it.

*sigh*

actually I'm about done with fighting with the plastic. I started preshading it last night. Hopefully I'll be done in a week or two depending on how much modeling time I can get in.

I hope so. I've not yet tried that. The wax may well make a mess of spraying or painting on future that so test it first with scrap.

I think I need to source that stuff and try it JP..I bet its PERFECT for the burnt paint effect I was looking for in the exhaust areas on my Mavis...I tried using paints and botched it, so I abandoned the idea...gotta get some ..

ok ta.


paulo

Hi Jim, you can get all kinds or shades, copper bronze. It is nothing new. I got the tip from a Shep Paine book printed circa 1984. Its metal leaf in canuba wax and is used for antiquing.

Range of colours is here. (you can find it cheaper than £4.25 though)
http://www.fredaldous.co.uk/shop-online/rub-n-buff-metallic-wax.htm

ok, the weather got above 0 degrees for about 20mins yesterday so i decided to do some priming,it needs a bit more sanding on a couple of areas but its basically ready for the topcoat.

paul

Looking good there Paul....

First off, nice work. Gotta love the seaplanes. I'm still debating on joining this one...my first campaign. I'll have to wait to see how real life plays out before I commit to anything. Regardless, I'll be keeping an eye on this one.

Roger, very nice wood grain detail.

Herman, my own choice...if I do join...is a Goose as well. I have the old Lindberg OA-9 Goose. The thing has absolutely zilch for interior. Good to see what the interior is suppose to look like. Your build helped me see some details that I needed for the scratchbuilt aspects. My plan is to make it into a private commuter plane with a customized interior.

Hello All,
I have seen some great builds going on here and some great tips being shared. Thank you for all that all of you have done for this campaign.
I have been medically cleared to do what ever I wish to do, So no more sneaking to the workbench or net. Thank all of you for your well wishes and thoughts, They mean alot to me.
@ GAB,
Welcome to the campaign. I have not started my build, so you are not alone about waiting for everything to calm down.
This campaign has a while to go, So when you are ready to join I am sure that you will have enough time to do your build.
Cheers,
Bruce

Here is my completed 1/72 Amodel Russian Hydroplane SPL.





Aircraft kits are an area that I haven't spent much time in. I figured this campaign would be a good place to start being more active with aircraft kits. This one didn't turn out the best but I figured it was a decent start. I should have started out with an easier kit but this is the one I chose due to its unique history.

I built the kit straight out of the box. The only thing I added was the support for the pitot tube. There isn't one supplied with the kit. I made it from stretched sprue. You only get one choice for the color and the decals. I built the base with a peanut butter jar lid and dry wall mud. The support was made with a piece of clear sprue that I had. That was about it.

Thank you for yet another cool campaign Bruce. I will be taking part in your Civilian Planes Only campaign as well.

Thanks,

HARV