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Posted: September/26/2016 at 1:36pm  Quote
 
Maybe, maybe but thats a personal preference......... the model could need some weathering. It's now factory fresh.

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Posted: September/26/2016 at 3:04pm  Quote
 
Beautiful workmanship.
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Posted: September/26/2016 at 7:44pm  Quote
 
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Stunning. Fantastic detail for 1/6 scale. Sean


No qualification needed.    This model (which happens to be 1/6 scale) has vastly more detail than almost all of the larger scale DVIIs I have seen.  Actually, this is true for all of the Hammerd's WWI models.  If fact, it almost seems to me that the larger people build, the less time and effort they put into details.

...Teus being the obvious exception!

(BTW, I'd also like to see a bit of "dirty" on your stunning models, but that's a matter of personal preference.)

 
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Posted: September/27/2016 at 7:10pm  Quote
 
Peter Rake designs primarily small WWI types. He writes a monthly article for Flying Scale Models and a lot of the free plans included in the magazine are his designs. He has a website:

You can get most of his designs as short kits from:

Airspan is made by Solartex. It is unsealed and I use a product called Inkaid, applied to it, to allow printing on a desktop printer.
It's available under a different name in the US as "LW Tissue" from:

Not sure if the dirty remark was aimed at me , but the airplane is weathered and dirtied up, it just doesn't show up very well in the photos taken outside. It's subtle, but the overall impact is obvious.







 
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Posted: September/27/2016 at 7:15pm  Quote
 
You're right that the weathering wasn't showing up in the other photos.  What are you techniques for doing the subtle smudging?
 
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Posted: September/27/2016 at 7:31pm  Quote
 
This is my process for making a plane look "lived in":
I start with a thinned application of dark acrylic paint, glazing liquid, and water. I just slop it on. This is actually more to accentuate the details than weathering. It gets a good wiping, leaving the mixture in the cracks and crevices. I leave it a little heavier around normally dirtier areas, like the engine and belly. I then use the same mixture (thinned heavily and toned a little for color change), to apply runs and streaks at places they would naturally occur. Lastly, I use pastel colors to add smudges and general dirt from ground handling. This is done using my fingers. since all of my planes are electric, I don't need to seal anything, which is great because sealing the weathering tends to make it all look homogeneous and unrealistic.


 
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Posted: September/27/2016 at 9:17pm  Quote
 
Thanks!  Now that I look carefully at the outside photos, the weathering is also quite apparent.  I guess that's the measure of effective weathering, you don't notice it, until you look.  And, yes, there are some very definite advantages of electric scale modeling.
 
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Posted: September/28/2016 at 6:57am  Quote
 
Thank you for the information on the kit and designer, find myself staring at the photos of your model and wishing I had one just like it!  Beautiful build, my hat is off to you.

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