Junkers D.I - completed

Looks good.

Sharp looking warbird. Thanks for sharing

Looks good, dj ! That must have been a difficult build - corrugated skin on a vac kit. How difficult was clean up on the leading edges ? And aligning the ridges & troughs ! Being 1/72, its gotta be TINY ! Really like those wheels - nice touch. Did you laminate a wooden prop ? It looks authentic if its just paint ! GOOD WORK !

you are right, Pixilater, it was not the easiest of projects. I have to say that the kit had been well designed and that I actually had very little trouble aligning the ridges, even on the top of the fuselage. The trick was to get the trailing edges of the parts really thin enough... I only used 7 vacuformed parts: the fuselage halves, the radiator's front, the bottom part of the wings, the top parts of the wings and the stabiliser. The fin was scratch and so were countless little other bits in this model. The engine and its exhaust came from Aeroclub (white metal bits). The propeller was another Aeroclub item, and yes, it's just paint.

Love the prop. I´ve got a 1:48 WWI plane waiting in the wings (no pun intended) which also needs an authentic wooden prop.. Howdya do it?

Mmmm... Was a loooong time ago, you know..! Think I started with a 'sand' colour all over, then used a 'chocolate brown' and a fine brush to paint the 'stripes' from one tip to the other tip, making sure to go over the hub. Each 'stripe' will start on one side of one blade and end up on the opposite side of the opposite blade. Next, using a stiff flat brush I applied some darker brown. You just want to lightly 'streak' the 'sand' and the 'chocolate brown' so that only a few extremely thin darker lines appear, fairly randomly, but in the direction of the wood's grain, in a few locations. Next I painted over the propeller's manufacturer logos, then appled a couple of coats of Future to give the whole thing some shine...