Albatros DIII update

Wow two updates in one day! Anyway I received the decal sheet for the Albatros so I’ve masked off the model (again); It’s also given me an opportunity to fix a couple of areas that were a bit rough after the first go at painting and only showed up at the finishing stage; The tailplane

Albatros update-that’s all folks!

I attempted to put the decals on today but they broke up after being in the water; I also inadvertantly ripped off half of one of the underwing crosses while handling the model so I removed the other cross before it set.So that’s that for my attempt to finish something before the year ends as

Albatros painted

That’s the main painting done, I just need to gloss varnish the model then apply the decals; The darker green was a 1:1 mix of XF-58 and XF-26 and the red brown was XF-64 straight out of the bottle, again they were lightened to spray between the rib posts. One of the inner wing struts

Another Albatros update

I painted the undersides with a 1:1 of Tamiya XF-23 and XF-2 then masked off the wing ribs with tape cut into 1mm wide strips; I  lightened the mix again and sprayed in between the ribs then removed the tape; Hopefully it gives the effect of  fabric stretched over wing ribs (it looks better than

Albatros update (already???)

 Well I’ve made a start :o) As is typical I did’nt have the Tamiya paints in stock for this job so I mixed some Mr Hobby H312 Green and H70 RLM Grau roughly to a ratio of 2:2 and it looks as near as dammit to me, although I will give it some thought (and

With 13 days to go until 2015….

It’s become painfully obvious that I have not finished a THING this year, in fact the last model I did finish was back in November 2013 (the Spanish Civil War T-26). This has been due mainly to work being done on the house, full time employment and random bouts of apathy, so in a (quite