Anyway Theres a turn in the tale of this here Albatros. Anyone who followed or even remembers this build might remember my few reworkings of varioau areas.
Here was the original blog.
Now after WNW's release of their splendid DV & DVa kits kornbeef got to measuring, fitting tinkering as he is one to do. Not having the nerve to send off for a ste of replacement wings he hatched a cunning plan to build a DVa in a state of dissasembly for shiping maybe..and free a set of wings up for the D.III.
First reports shwed little variation in shape and dimensions between the two kits, which just goes to show how good both are.
Okay Shut up Mr Beef and on with the pics.
One Roden heavily worked DIII (OAW) with WNW tail surfaces. As I said quite pleasing to find apart from trimming the locating tabs down, little else needed doing to get a nice fit (Till several coats of paint were applied to the fuselage.)
Decals are WNW Albatros werkes decals, Fuselage crosses from the LVG and tail crosses from the D.Va Stropp markings...guess where the wing crosses are coming from?
Datum lines are the dividing lines on the WNW decal sheet..Never throw nowt away.
drainage grommets added after scouring pics with a magnifier looking for the elusive cartidge ejection point.
Still have the fasteners to add to the cowls, suprisingly they are different to std DIII cowls, actually a little longer behind the rear cabane strut. Thers a lot of subtle differences in the structure, I should have took pics before paint as I intended but got the urge as you do and it was too late before I remembered.
Took an age to sand the spinner down to try to acheive the gap between it and the cowlings.
Cockpit, hard to see the differences between this and what Roden passed off as a D.III cockpit, I had much help from Doug Bauman and Koloman's replica build D.III and I have to thank both for their input, along with all the other fine souls with a wealth of knowledge here on Aeroscale.
So I decided to go for a fairly fresh look I dont want to cover much wood with paint. I didnt go for a grain as much as to give the impression of wood instead, Even at 1/32 I'm not wholly convinced graining is to scale..*not an excuse cos it went wrong...laughs...honest..it isnt..Oh you don't believe me?"
I was fancying Jasta 28, I think the yellow tail with black stripes would set the wood off, the other markings I'm not sure theres a pic in Ospreys Albatros Aces pt2 shows anDIII OAW at the end of the line, fuselage bands in what maybe red/white/red but I cant see from that image if the wings are camoed or lozzed. Anyone have any info on thi or another fairly simple scheme it woould be really welcome. If not then it just going to be a bit of a *well I like it look* but I would rather have a authentic profile of course.
Cheers for looking anyways and as always all comments, good bad, or advice always welcome.
Keith
