I’m making progress on my Albatros. I thought you’d have an interest. I had an Eduard PE set in the inventory that I’ve added to the “weekend edition”. Darn AMS. A couple more “weekends” and she’ll be done. Comments are welcome.
Now she is a really beautiful aircraft!!! Very well done so far. But In the pictures I’d seen, I never fully understood why they used that particular camoflauged pattern for the wings. Looking forward to the completed result![8D]
Shaping up nicely! …tis very compelling with a World War One paint scheme… Intense!
I can report with complete certainty the “lozenge” pattern camoflage was specifically created to present the single most difficult scheme to be recreated by future modellers. Those dirty rats!
…actually the art of camoflaging motor vehicles was in it’s infancy in World War One. Many times just breaking up the shape so the eye can’t get the visual “reference” was the goal.
HA!
I’ll give the nod to Trexx on that one. Talk about a pain in the behind to do this scheme even with the decals from Eduard (on the upper surfaces). The lower surfaces are done using Aeromaster. They are crap and you may never see the underside. Good thing judges at most contests are now refraining from picking up models.
Very nice work Donald! The lozenge lloks very good, and yes- it sure is a PITA. I recently decaled the entire wing, tail, and fuselage of a DML Fokker. Tedious work, but sure is worth it! [:D]
While I’ve always enjoyed a good conspiracy, I have to say that I can easily believe hat on both accounts!
No actually, that makes sense. And it does break up the outlines fairly well. But it does seem like a unusual pattern nonetheless, because it doesn’t really blend into any kind of foliage (at least that I can tell)
Actually I believe that the camo originates from that same region of central Europe from whence the Easter Bunny sprang!!
Thanks for the comments of the build so far. I’ll post some additional photos as I get one with the rigging.
Coincidence?!?!?!? I say “No Sir, it is not!”[:)]
Looks great so far. Keep us posted.
Regards, Rick
Very nice, DcaponeII. Very “busy” scheme…those are “fun” to model.
It’s been an ordeal I’ll have to admit. I let my wife pick out a build for me because I was stymied by my collection and I just couldn’t decide for myself. Getting that top wing to sit correctly in the Sesquiplane configuration was much more difficult for the Albatros than it was for the Nieuport I built last summer. I finally had to build a jog to hold the wing in place while I secured the cabane struts into the correct locations with some CA and then used accelerator to secure the connection. You can still see the glue mark on one of the cabanes as I have not done any touch up yet.