DocRob

2 hours ago, Danstream said:

Rob, I find this build fantastic. Close-up pictures as well as wide shot pictures are great and reveal a lot of details to be seen. I also learnt a couple of things that I will unashamedly copy in future.

Thank you Dan, I copy so much of build logs, books and wherever I can get hold of inspirations. It´s relatively rare that you develop new techniques by yourself, isn´t it.

I´m a week off for now, enjoying a week in the Spanish seafood Mekka of Galicia, hopefully without too much rain ,but lots of good wine and delicious food and possibly some maritime inspirations.

Cheers Rob

Thank you wefalk, you may be right about the watch and the moustache. Possibly airfields for strategic bombing were a bitt off the frontline and therefore not so much at risk, concerning gas attacks. Like you, I doubt, that a mechanic owns a wristwatch in 1917 or 1918.

I store my finished models in a cramped shelf in my cave. With most of my built models, I loose interest after I finished them and store them away. Sometimes, I give models away as a present to friends.
The only exception might be the Duchess of Kingston, which might end up presented somewhere in our living rooms, when at last finished.

Cheers Rob

13 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

Stunning  work,  dont beat yourself  up over the  figure painting  -  its  far harder  to  paint figures  to look   life like  especially  at smaller  scales.

12 hours ago, king derelict said:

The figures make a great scene and take it beyond being just a model. A very beautiful model even so

Wonderful

11 hours ago, chadwijm6 said:

Can only agree with everyone else. Fantastic build log, beautiful plane

9 hours ago, GrandpaPhil said:

Incredible work!  Congratulations!

Muchas gracias Señhores, finishing this kit brought a nice feeling of satisfaction, albeit in the end the little glitches add up and yes, finally figure painting.
I like to choose figures for many of my builds, which tell a story, but when it comes to painting these, I sometimes shy back. It´s a steep learning curve and still a lot to master, but wat is modeling without a challenge?

Cheers Rob

16 hours ago, CDW said:

A great log and a super model. I thoroughly enjoyed it all.

13 hours ago, Egilman said:

One of the most beautiful model airplanes I've ever seen, any era...

16 hours ago, ccoyle said:

Thank you for the praise Gentlemen, I enjoyed the build as much and am lucky to have pulled through, even with my shaky figure painting skills.

Cheers Rob

The big bat is finished now, that I found the courage to paint the figures. The young boy with the broken toy plane is exclusively painted with Scale 75 acrylics. I had to strip the oil colors off his skin, because they never cured and I couldn´t touch the figure for further painting.

Thank you all again for participating in this log, which helped me a lot in form of encouragement and practical information.

Cheers Rob

4 hours ago, chadwijm6 said:

Your mechanic looks great Rob. That moustache is fabulous! 

Thank you James, I still need a lot of experience to develop my figure painting skills. I´m not able to blend the colors to my liking, specially with acrylics. With oils, it´s much easier, but they dry forever, sometimes not at all, that´s why I had to strip my second figure, featured in the next post.

Cheers Rob

Well, here are my feeble attempts in figure painting. I try to do one or two figures per build, but often shy away, because painting these is always like a burde for me. Nonetheless, i try to improve my skills and sometimes force myself to finish the figures.

The mechanic is painted with acrylic colors from Scale75, except for the skin, which was painted with oil colors.


 

Cheers Rob

All right Craig, this will be interesting. Some years ago, I built the AMK MIG-31 and liked the kit a lot, except for ill scaled bang seats. The plastic was fantastic to work with and engineering was very good. I also have a -D in stash, but from Tamiya, which will remain there for some time, because of STENCILLING .
I´m masoistic enough to do it right, but need more than a push to start a jet kit soon, after building the said MIG and a Japanese KAI Phantom.

Cheers Rob
 

Your Lobster came out fantastic, Dave. Congratulations for this vivid looking model and that you have mastered the British rigging. It´s always a WNW moment, when the upper wing falls in place without much effort.

Cheers Rob

32 minutes ago, Canute said:

Another beautiful job, Rob.Thank you for sharing your techniques. 👍

Thank you Ken, I learned so many things, during my first wooden ship build here on MSW, it is a pleasure to give something back, where I´m in my comfort zone.

3 hours ago, ccoyle said:

Guilty! I needed to pump up our stats -- at least, that's the excuse I'm going to use! 😳

No harm done, Chris. With my expertise in figure painting you may did me a favor, but I will try anyhow .

Cheers Rob

19 minutes ago, Baker said:

A very beautiful model.
it was great to follow this build.

Thank you Patrick, the ´Finished´ in the header was sneaked in by a moderator, but I have to continue to paint the planned figures, which are only started now. That my take a while, as I´m out of my comfort zone.
Anyway, it was great to have all of you around with likes, encouragement and input.

Cheers Rob 

For the Corsair you can also use the Eduard Brassin engine. I built it many years ago and liked the detail. I think, I substituted the PE wiring harness with my own interpretation made from lead wire.
The best, you get some side cowlings made from ultra thin resin as well.

F4U-1 engine 1/32 - Eduard Store

Cheers Rob

Nice result Craig and thanks for showing another, at least to me, unfamiliar vehicle, which looked great in the end.

Cheers Rob

Would have been cool, to find out about a family member through the kit. It seems to be a nice kit and will look terrific with you doing your magic.
 

Cheers Rob

15 hours ago, mtaylor said:

Great looking build of an interesting aircraft.  The infant industry really produced some interesting aircraft (and sometimes really bizarre looking) in the early days of flight.

Thank you Mark, quirky as the AEG looks, it was a successful design, meaning, I saw stranger things flying, like pancakes (Chance Vought V-173) or the like. I can only admire the courage it must have taken to fly with these wood/tube/cloth/string crates with relatively unreliable engines in the dark of the night.

Cheers Rob

On 5/6/2024 at 9:52 PM, king derelict said:

Absolutely spectacular. Congratulations on a wonderful creation. I thoroughly enjoyed the build log and it has been a great teaching opportunity. I learnt a lot of techniques that I hope I will be brave enough to try in the future. 

Thank you Alan, glad you enjoyed the log. I benefitted so much of forum input myself, it´s a pleasure to give back a little. It´s not completely altruistic though, as it helps me to keep track of my builds and enhance learned techniques for myself as well.
If you are about to enter the WWI plane building universe, I can tell you, it´s quite rewarding and not as complicated as it first looks. Kits of WNW quality help a lot due to thorough design. If you haven´t started exploring these kind of builds, it might be best to start with a German WWI fighter. Less rigging and colorful liveries do help.

Cheers Rob

54 minutes ago, gsdpic said:

Wonderful result!  All the details and minor weathering look great.   But it really is a strange looking bird, or should I say bat.  Long wings, stubby fuselage, big engines, short propellers, cartoonish tires.  I assume it is an accurate representation of the prototype, but it still looks odd.

Thank you Gary, I like the look of the AEG somehow, but I have a soft spot for quirky designs. The really interesting fact is, how advanced this plane was, about a dozen years after the Wright Flyer. 
From a modelers standpoint you couldn´t ask for more, the wide fuselage allows for equally wide cockpits, which show a lot of detail. The engines were often flown without the cowlings, again a possibility to show a lot of detail work.

Cheers Rob

The Tamiya Corsairs are absolutely fantastic kits. If you are willing to spend the money, you shouldn´t hesitate. I built two so far, a Birdcage was my re enter the hobby kit many years ago and recently I built the -1A variant,  of which the log can be found in my signature.
I´m eager to see your progress with the B-25 dio. I have the Gun nose variant and would have started the build as a Navy PBJ version, if another member of Large Scale Modeler hadn´t started the same build in our recent twins group build over there. That´s why I build the WWI AEG bomber instead.

Cheers Rob

A strange looking vehicle, Craig, but you make it look beautiful.

Cheers Rob

18 hours ago, chadwijm6 said:

Fantastic model Rob. And a fascinating build log, I learnt a lot! 👍🏻

16 hours ago, RGL said:

Absolutely marvellous mate! 

Thank you James and Greg, I learned a lot too through that build. I really like to replay the work I´ve done and write it down in a halfway structured form. This way, I can think about the used techniques and try to do better next time, when I reference at my build logs. 
I learned so many things through build logs, it´s a pleasure to give back in form of some lessons learned posts. I live a bit isolated, so no model shows, hobby shop talk or even fellow modelers around, which leaves the internet as my only connection to the modeling world.

Cheers Rob

19 hours ago, Egilman said:

Stubby sucker wasn't she? All wing, no wonder they had a habit of nose diving on landing....

 

Beautiful model Brother.... Absolutely outstanding....

Thank you Egilman.
He he, indeed, the design is a bit strange. The commander normally left the front cockpit through a crawling tunnel for start and landing, to not get smashed, when nose diving. In general, I read, that the AEG was superior to the more famous Gotha.
I have a soft spot for lozenged planes and consider buying the early day bomber variant as well.

Cheers Rob

Done so far, phew. I have to continue to paint the figures and to clean up my bench, which I guess will take longer than the build itself .



















Cheers Rob

Final steps ahead, luckily. The huge airframe and the delicate details make working on the big bat more and more difficult. The issues fixed to parts torn loose ratio turns worse .

I assembled the elevators and the rudder and added steering cables for the rudder. the fittings were made from split brass rod to add some more detail.



Finally, I reassembled the guns, the worst part of the build and installed them into the gun mounts onto the gun rings.





There will be a lot of final touch ups and then the big bat is finished.

Cheers Rob

1 hour ago, wefalck said:

You have the propeller-makers decals - I was about to ask 

Yes wefalck, port is a Behrend prop, starbord is a Wolff prop, the latter rotating counter clockwise.

Cheers Rob