One of my favorite WW I a/c is the Albatross, but I have never built one. Why? Because I have absolutely no faith in my ability to paint anything that requires simulating bare wood. The only thing I do is props, and they could use plenty of improvement. Struts aren't so bad because they were often painted or heavily stained with varnish. So here's my situation:
I just got a brand new Albatross DIII by Eduard in their Limited Edition series, and it is an absolutely beautiful kit, with masks, lots of PE parts and, best of all, a big sheet of superbly colorful decals for equally brilliantly colored schemes. However, all but one of the four options requires major parts of the fuselage to be in natural wood. (The other scheme is a really elaborately applied three-color overall mottle.)
Can someone give me pointers on how best to simulate these light-wood fuselages on the Albatrosses?
TOM