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Teus Lifetime Site Supporter
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Joined: December/09/2006 Netherlands Posts: 3639 IP Logged
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Posted: September/26/2016 at 1:36pm |
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Maybe, maybe but thats a personal preference......... the model could need some weathering. It's now factory fresh.
__________________ Teus
Building board:
Nieuport-11 + rotary engine
Flying:
1/4 Proctor Fokker E.III
1/3rd Fokker D-VII
1/3rd Nieuport-11
In maintenance:
a 1982 Busa build 1/3rd Sopwith Pup
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Flatsguide Basic Member
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Joined: August/11/2009 United States Posts: 1723 IP Logged
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Posted: September/26/2016 at 3:04pm |
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Beautiful workmanship.
Regards, Richard
__________________ Richard. Greeneville TN
I wish I could build as fast as I can buy stuff to build.
Building, Glenn Torrance Fok D.VII
Flying, BUSA 1/3 Pup
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abufletcher Site Supporter
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Posted: September/26/2016 at 7:44pm |
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Quote: flartz 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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hammerd Site Supporter
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Posted: September/27/2016 at 7:10pm |
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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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abufletcher Site Supporter
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Posted: September/27/2016 at 7:15pm |
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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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hammerd Site Supporter
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Posted: September/27/2016 at 7:31pm |
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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 |
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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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Daywalker Lifetime Site Supporter
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Posted: September/28/2016 at 6:57am |
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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.
__________________ Frank
Building-
1/4 Proctor Nieuport 28
1/4 BUSA Fokker D.VII
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