Stratoliner

Roland Sachsenhofer
Two pictures at the beginning of a small but, I hope, fine project. The clear parts are all shown with decals as in my other 144 projects. In my opinion Roden exaggerated the depth of the engravings, so the all the panel lines were sanded a bit to size.

Ben M
Watching

Roland Sachsenhofer
Feel welcome!

Nathan Dempsey
Another interesting subject Roland. I'm going to tag along too.

Clifford Keesler
I'm in.

Łukasz Gliński
Joining

Slavo Hazucha
Cool topic & project (again!) - looking forward to the mirror-polished finish!😉 Will be quite a lookier with all that promising looking panel lines & co 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
That motivates me, thank you! Slavo, indeed I am looking forward to this highly polished surface!

Roland Sachsenhofer
I chose Alclad's "Polished Aluminum" as surface colour to match the beautiful polished shimmer of the original. Soon I can start applying the decals!

Clifford Keesler
It is looking very nice.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Clifford!

Nathan Dempsey
Lovely silvery wings 🙂 Are you using the markings in the kit?

Roland Sachsenhofer
Nathan, thank you! No, I did not even touch them 🙂 What you can see are markings from "Vintage Flyer Decals", quite lovely to work with.
Just a few steps to get this dwarf finished- but these are not without challenges for me: Realizing the de-icer areas on the propeller blades and attaching an appropriate brake line wiring to the landing gear legs!

Clifford Keesler
Looking very nice Roland.

Sebastian Meyner
Something a little different....I love it! Nicely done so far Roland 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Clifford and Sebastian for your words!

Nathan Dempsey
Yes Roland I like working with the Vintage Flyer decals too.

Roland Sachsenhofer
I did not know that brand until now, but I can follow your recommendation!

Roland Sachsenhofer
This small but nice kit is now finished to my delight. Accuracy of fit is very average not to say bad, but you can improvise a lot 🙂
The decals from Roden look already brittle and unkind printed, so they were only taken out of the plastic packaging to be able to separate rubbish correctly.
As written above, the decals of the TWA machine are from Vintage Flyer Decals.
I thank you for your interest and the motivating comments- hope you like the result!

Łukasz Gliński
that was quick, but the result is very neat as always 👍

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thank you Lukasz!

Juergen Klinglhuber
As always - it looks great. On a first look you hardly recoginze the tiny scale. great model and pictures 👍

Nathan Dempsey
That's a lovely finish Roland. I agree with Juergen, as you can hardly tell it's 144 scale.

Roland Sachsenhofer
This is really a big praise, thank you both, Jürgen and Nathan!

Clifford Keesler
Outstanding model Roland, very well done.

Neuling
I agree with Clifford. Very beautiful!

Erik Off
Beautiful airplane! Well done!

Treehugger
Suggestion: If having the finished model photos together with the work-in-progress photos, all the photos inside the same album, but having those final photos at the end of the album, I think it is a good idea to change the forum photo, to the first photo of the finished model, which would be photo 13. That makes it easier to browse through your photoss of the finished model.

Roland Sachsenhofer
Thanks to all of you for your feedback and comments! Your suggestion, Treehugger, I was happy to implement.