modelcrazy> That was at Aerodrome '92 held at Lake Guntersville, Alabama. Frank Ryder had a WWI museum there in the early 90s. It’s gone now. This thread over at the aerodrome will explain a bit better.
Yes, go and take pictures. You never can tell when this aircraft will disappear. [:S]
And while looking for information, I ran across this video from 1992 of the show!If you’ve got time (it’s over an hour long) you might find it interesting. I’m going to have to peruse it carefully as my friends and I are probably in it somewhere! [H]
I tried my hand at the prop, however it didn’t dry and the oil paint is showing cracks. I started with a base of MM wood enamel, then a coat of thinned Brunt Siena followed (a few days) with an application of Burnt Umber (I may have those reversed). Last night, after a few days, the prop was still sticky and the oil paint was cracked. I removed the paint and started over. If I can’t get this right, I may just send it to you after all. What am I doing wrong? I started to take a picture but changed my mind.
Laminations painted with craft acrylic burnt umber paint
A day or two later began brushing washes of artist oil burnt umber as filters and using a hair dryer to speed up drying in between wash coats. I did about 3-4 light wash filter coats a day until I liked the effect.
Prop was set aside to cure for a few days then given a brush coat of Future for the varnished effect followed by the Axial logo decals.
Carefully use some thinner and a soft brush to remove all the oil paint and start again as I described.
The bird Steve is referring to is a replica and it is one of those displays that may indeed not be there one day, because they do rotate the displays from time to time. I have no idea how long it will be there, so get over there Steve.
I went OK I guess, not supper blown out of my seat amazed by it, but I will do. I was planning on working a little on the cockpit tonight, now that I received Tom’s PE set.
Ok, it’s been a little while since I posted anything on this, but I’ve been building other commitments, but have slowly been working a little and there on the Fokker. So here it is so far.
BTW. Imageshack is down at the moment so my (and PJ’s) pics are not working right now, I am reluctantly using Photobucket.
Looking good MC. Crazy how Photobucket went kaput for a couple of days but came back on last night. They had some type of major malfunction in their system.
I remember this kit from the seventies. I built the Ruckenbacker SPAD, too. I was younger and never knew about or bothered with rigging. I don’t know that I’d be keen to try.
Your work is looking good so far! Can’t wait to see more.
Woodgrain is easy once you have a few under your belt, thanks to PJ’s tutelage.
PJ,
I have been studding the guns on your build. Did you use the original parts of the gun (except the barrel) and build up the PE around them with a piece of sprue for the barrel, or did you build them from scratch?
I used the receiver and muzzle assembly from the kit. Then I used some of the pe parts along with plastic scratch built details on the receiver, cocking handles and a barrel. I also made the ammo box out of sheet plastic.
