Special Wingdings GB - April 2012 ~ Sept 2013

Nice little cockpit you've sorta scratchbuilded out there Bish!
Griffin, you can always post your progress around here, Allready sorted out what markings you're gonna use?
Thanks BSYamato! 

With regards, Ninetalis 

Great little work Nine  i like the mudded Dr1

Bish little good cockpit!

Thanks TREY. The rescribe isn't to bad, its just that i have never done any scribeing before. I don't have a proper tool at the moment so an just useing a scalpel blade. It seems to be looking of.

Ninetails great looking DR1 I like the mud splatter too!

Bish sweet looking office! I'm looking forward to the next update and do'nt envy you the rescribe job!;)

Ninetalis

Griffin, Thanks did it work out with your kit because I remember that you had some trouble with ebay and such?

What kit do you have now? And you can allways post some pic's to make us happy with progress!

You have my entry correct on the front page.  I ended up getting a full refund on the kit on ebay and I got to keep the model.

I've only got a couple pieces glued together - no paint yet. I'll try to get some pics up soon.

As promised, some progress pics. I started the build about 2 weeks ago, but its been slow going due to one thing and another. Finally got the pit finished to day.

The seat is a resin Pavla one desgined for the He 162. And the controls are from an Eduard PE set for the Me 262. They have been trimmed down and put in different places.

I have now put the front fuselage together. As someone else has mentioned, you can't see very much in there. I now have quite a bit of sanding and a little rescribing to do. 

Nice looking build Nine, go on, give the rigging a bash.

I now have my bench set up at home. I have got started on the Triebflugel last week, but its been a bit slow, but should pick up now. I should have some cockpit pics up this weekend.

Okay Handiabeld,and thanks! Hope that your bench will be in place again soon!
I'll be looking forward for your contribution.

Griffin, Thanks did it work out with your kit because I remember that you had some trouble with ebay and such?
What kit do you have now? And you can allways post some pic's to make us happy with progress!

Taxtp, Thanks, I really like that mud pen, thought that I might have bouth something useless
since it wasn't all that pricey, but the results are so easy to apply and so beautifull, If I would be building alot of armor models I would buy tons of those!
I still want to apply the rigging if it would still be possible, since I glued the whole thing in place allready, but indeed, there isn't that much and the wires that are there were indeed used to control the rudders and elevators.

With regards, Ninetalis.

Looks good Ninetalis. The mud is a good variation on it, I think. I have one sans mud in the back of the cabinet somewhere, a bit like this but I think with the straight crosses.

Don't worry about the rigging, The DR1 had very little of it, I think only on the control surfaces from memory.

Great finish Ninetalis!

I've started my Tomcat but progress is S-L-O-W while I'm trying to finish another GB project.

                           Looks Awesome Boss!!          I may start my build any day now ,,, house is for sale so been avoiding  ,, but ,,,,,   

Thank you very much Griffin!
I finished the Fokker yesterday, she's 99% done, 
just need to put some more subtle accent details on it.

Sadly enough, I don't have any progress pic's of this project, my camera's battery died so while it was reloading I finished this little guy.
Some big issue that I had was that I had used the wrong part for the struts on the main landing gear, those parts were to be placed between the main fuselage and the upper wing...
After a lot of sweat, swearing, cutting and glueing I fixed the darn thing! yeehaw! 

I was thinking to rig the model, but I have no idea how, and I found a few good explanations (I think) but I don't have the right wire laying around. I will stop by the store some time and rig it, but for the time beeing, it is done. Also, any sites explaining how to rig stuff are still welcome!
There are also a lot of firsts on this one, 
first complete airbrush, first non-WWII, first WWI, first time I used my 'Tamiya mud pen', first wood grain prop...
I'm really proud about the wooden prop! But no more blabla, here are the pic's.

With regards, Ninetalis.

Nice progress so far Ninetalis!

Okay guys,
I have decided to train my airbrushing skills with a easy model,
So I found this Red Baron Fokker Dr. I from Revell, which is a Eduard rebox
And since it's a triplane which you won't see that often, it fits with this Group Build.
(Don't worry, I will still finish my Corsair)
Now I have worked on this thingie and decided that it's time to show you guys my progress.

 the box

I started by painting the inside, this is the first time I tried to make a wood grain, didn't really get what I wanted but yeah.

Cheers for that ninetails. Its a really complicated setup. The pilot actually sat between the drive shafts.

The one thing im not clear on is the assembly of the canopy. All the drawings i can see show aluminium framing, or no framing at all. The photos show aged glue marks, which makes me think the canopy was glued together.

Another interesting note, the pilots forward vision was through a small hole in the dash. The restoration job having in the airventure museum has this covered over.

Hey Scorpiomikey,

Since you're building that bugatti, here are some pic's I found that might help you out,

Look at the engine in the back, the engine is not lined straight with the fuselage itself.
also not the lack of a tail wheel 
An amazing aircraft, with beautifull lines, kinda jealous of your kit actually... 

With regards, Ninetalis.

Well, you don't really need to, but it would be more fun if you did so when we all put our pictures together  to see all these special planes, but its's okay, you can do it like that or build your YF16 or both (;

With regards, Ninetalis.

Hi Ninetalis,

Wasn't going to fold them, do I need to to join this build ?

I am toying with buying a YF16 CCV instead, will let you know if  I decide to change.

Cheers

Tony

The forum change was the biggest reason why I was gone so long, as I allready told Scorpio, I hate all the extra scrolling I need to do, and it's not so easy to see what threads have new posts, and is it me or did they change this whole backspace thing now?

In case anyone hasn't seen the kit, this is it

The pit is pretty bare. Ok, very bare. I will be adding some Me 262 PE and either a seat from the spares box, or failing i have a decent one, a resin He 162 seat.

Glad to see you back, we did wounder if you had gone due to the forum change.

My Chinook is now finished, so going to make a start on the Triebflugel.

Hey guys, I was gone for a while, but I'm back now,
Taxtp, you can join, you gonna put the wings into a folded position?

Hey scorpio, it's okay, I'll change your entry.

With regards, Ninetalis.

Hey Ninetails. Can i change my entry to the Planet Models 1:48 Bugatti 100 Raceplane? (I dont think there will be a problem since its the aircraft depicted in one of the badges lol)

I'd like to join with the Hobby Boss 1/72 F9F Panther please.

Cheers

Tony

                  In the middle selling our house and was called to do a replica for a Brig General so my Trump F4 Corsair is grounded in it's box,,, if nothing changes in the distant future I'm gonna break it out and start ,,,, mabye pics soon,,,, I hope,,,,,

Thanks for the kind words Fellas!

handiabled

 

 

                                    Awesome

great pictures too!!! 

                                    Awesome

Nice work Trey, thing is HUGE,
I'll put it on the first page as finished, together with theuns Me 163!

Krakan, how is your Berkut coming along?

With regards, Ninetalis.

p38jl

ha... love the paint outfit... and the sandals...

looking good !

p38jl thanks trying to make a fasion statement lol

Bsyamato lol yes ;)

Bish Yep 1/72 scale its 2'8" long!

This thing is done!

Connor helped out too

Thanks for all the great positive support,cheers Trey