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As stated yesterday I took more (and better) photos today... with our better camera.





































Thanks for looking, comments and critiques are welcome...

What a bird! I'm still intimidated in even attempting rigging on a Stearman kit I have in my stash. I've got my eye on a 1/32 WWI bi-plane kit I'm itching to order but I have to wait til my new card comes in. I got a phone call from my credit union yesterday notifying me that my card had been compromised recently.

Thank you Black Sheep. Rigging is time consuming, but not as hard as it looks. At least not with wire like I did here.

Beautiful Albatross Stik !

I like the nuance of the camo, reflecting somehow the conditions of WW I.
I associate immediately it to mud, rain, all in all poor conditions, even on the Eastern front where Mr Navratil flew this bird (I love wikipedia!)

Very much going back 100 years while watching this beautiful plane!

Great!

- Kari

Very nice Stik! Count me as a fan of your paint job!! Care to share the techniques used there?
Gary

Thank you guys.

KSaarni wrote:Beautiful Albatross Stik !

I like the nuance of the camo, reflecting somehow the conditions of WW I.
I associate immediately it to mud, rain, all in all poor conditions, even on the Eastern front where Mr Navratil flew this bird (I love wikipedia!)

Very much going back 100 years while watching this beautiful plane!

Great!

- Kari

Kari, when I finished the basic camo paint scheme, I was very surprised at how effective that the look worked. And yes it is very evocative of the conditions of the time. My understanding is that Mr Navratil flew on both the Eastern Front against the Russians, and also on the Italian Front against the Italians and RFC.

Texgunner wrote:Very nice Stik! Count me as a fan of your paint job!! Care to share the techniques used there?
Gary

Gary, the technique for painting the scheme was simplicity in itself- I painted the base color first, in this case Humbrol Linen for the fabric areas and Humbrol Oak for the wood areas, as well as Humbrol Aluminum for the bare metal of the cowl areas. Once those had time to dry and cure I replicated the actual camo application manner in miniature. In reality it was daubed on by hand using sea sponges. So I tore off a small bit of a make up sponge and super glued it to a tooth pick, rough side out, in what I imagined a 1/48 size sponge would be. Then I dipped it Olive Green paint, dabbed it on a index card until I got the initial heavy paint off until the sponge was leaving the spottier lighter blotches, and went to town. I will use this technique again on some BF-109 builds, as the schemes for those particular builds had the RLM-02 side mottling applied in the same manner by the ground crews.

Wow! I gotta try that! Thanks for the instructions Carlos, it does seem like a simple yet effective method. I had even considered much the same technique for painting a camo scheme on a rifle of mine. I had never thought about using it for a scale model! Yep, gotta try that!

it is very simple and effective. If I was still camoing up gear for hiding myself and stuff, I would use it. Sounds perfect for a hunting rifle. Or there is the old standby of wrapping it in strips of various colors of frayed burlap...