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In addition to completing my Ohka this afternoon, I also made some progress on my D.III.

I airbrushed on a Future gloss coat







Then an hour or two later I applied the decals







on the homestretch now...

so...on the real plane did they paint the camo , and then add the markings? or was the camo paint applied around the markings?

There are only a couple photos of the real plane that I was able to find, and none show the whole thing. The personal markings were definitely applied over the camo. As far as the national insignia goes, I have a 50% chance of being correct here...

Well I found this photo of the real plane last night that I had not come across before. Looks to me like the insignia was painted over the camo

Well I started rigging it today with some fine steel wire. So far so good. It looks the part, better than thread, but a tad too think for scale. I should be done tomorrow. Wish me luck.

Well, I do wish you luck on the steel wire rigging. Being new here, I just found this. It looks really good to me.
Well done.

Thank you 59. And welcome to our merry little forum. I hope that you like it here!

Well here is the result of two sessions at the bench today and yesterday, roughly 30 minutes each, adding in pre measured & cut .015 gauge steel wire for the rigging. I would really like to find some .010 wire, but I have yet to come across it in any stores or shops here. Anyways I think it looks the part, although a tad bit too thick. But hey, its my first rigging job on a biplane in nearly 40 years since I tried thread on some old Aurora and Monogram biplane kits back in the day...















and yes, the silvering did go away on the upper wing crosses...



almost done... all ready for flat coat tomorrow...

Spectacular work Carlos! That really came together well. Very nice work on the rigging too.

Thanks Mark. This should wrap up my year of builds tomorrow. This is turning out better than I had hoped for the most part. I will bring it to January IPMS.

My goodness that is a beauty! Rigging is superb. Knocked it out of he park.