Roden 1/32 Albatros DIII - The Build

JohnReid · 23 July 2008, 05:27 AM

Very creative! Love the idea.

lars qvarfordt · 23 July 2008, 06:29 AM

This is very good. Just love the way with wooddecals.Let us see the finish Kofoed.
Cheers
Larsa Q

THE GREAT WALDO · 23 July 2008, 07:02 AM

Super grain figuring, maybe a little tamiya clear orange thinned over the top of the decal would help homogenize the whole look/effect.

Great work

Cheers

Andrew

guitarlute101 · 23 July 2008, 08:22 AM

Top notch!! That's some of the best wood simulation I've seen anywhere!!

More please!!

Mark

bobs_buckles · 23 July 2008, 11:41 AM

Keld,

That looks amazing. The wood effect is spot on

I got me some of that decal sheet, gonna give it a go. Just need to find me some decent pictures of wood grain

Keep up the great work.
Bob

Barmonkey · 23 July 2008, 05:45 PM

So you just took some photos of plywood and made decals? Sounds so simple...

Kofoed · 24 July 2008, 04:04 AM

Thank you so very much, guys. Most overwhelming and very much appreciated.

Yes, my son and I went to a timber store, asked if we could take some photographs of a couple of sheets of plywood. "Sure", said the young man there, shook his head and disappeared. I put a mark 1 meter in on each sheet, so I knew the scale, took some shots and we went away before the "blue wagon", which I'm certain the young man had called for, arrived.
Safely home, I made rectanglular pictures to scale. These had their colour and contrast adjusted and were put on a common picture the same size as the sheets from Expert Choise. All this I did with my Photoshop Elements. I have kept a psd-file with each picture in its own layer, so I can always use it as a base for other variants, e.g. the darker shellacked versions.

I printed on my HP Photosmart inkjet printer and sprayed two times with Mr. Metal Primer. Andrew writes an idea I thought of myself. To tone it a little down and more evenly with a layer of Tamiya clear orange. However, I lack the courage to try that now. Also, I want the colour to remain this straw-yellow.

This was the easy part.

I had the fuselage of my DIII ready, primed with a midstone and a layer of Future. The decals went on this smoothly. The difficulty level isn't that high, the things most needed are time and patience. If I got 3 panels on during an evening, this was a good one. As earlier described, I cut the panels oversize and trimmed in the panel lines. Any shine-throughs of the white base were hidden with various yellows, mid-stone or red-brown on a thin brush.

I shall post new pictures of my progress with this.

Thank you,
Kofoed

Lufbery · 24 July 2008, 06:59 AM

Kofoed,

That's truly excellent work! I did something similar in 1/72 scale for a wooden cockpit floor. It turned out well, but was much less ambitious than your project.

Well done!

Doug Baumann · 26 July 2008, 07:27 AM

THAT LOOK REAL WOW I love the dissembler panels good work!!!!

StephenLawson · 27 July 2008, 07:40 PM

greetings Kofoed;

It seems you are going for the "Vera" D.2096/17 scheme correct? the wings of this aircraft when captured are a bit different than the three colour types from the factory if my memory is good here. Maybe Dan San Abbott could chime in?