Albatros W4

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Small Parts wooden colour
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Small Parts wooden colour
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First Metal parts
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Engine first steps
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First paint and removed parts
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One of two
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Do not fit well, so it has to be modified
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Aluminium tube 0.8 mm
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All fits
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September 6, 2013
Angle is right.
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September 6, 2013
The resin saw was still at the bench so i use it
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September 15, 2013
A lot of putty and sanding is needed
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September 15, 2013
Scribing for this serial number is needed
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Bottom Side
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First wood colour
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Base colours for next step with oils
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Tools to made buckles
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Buckles made in 10 minutes
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2 mm leghth 0,5 mm brass tube
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Elastic threat for rigging 1 euro
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first Weathering
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September 18, 2013
left with weathering right without. More Weathering will be applied
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Top with bottom without weathering
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September 19, 2013
Leather painting
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Lozzenge and RLM02 is applied
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Buckles on bottom Wing
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Buckles on floats
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Painted with Brush and Acrylics
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Painted with Brush and Acrylics
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Comments

3 30 May 2013, 16:15

Mike Kryza
Hi Ricci - das erste Bild weckt ja schon mal mein ungeteiltes Interesse. Hope you will give us a workshop in the rigging.

30 May 2013, 16:33

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Hi Mike, be sure of that 🙂 I´ll try my best.

30 May 2013, 16:37

Shahriar Khalvati
cant wait to see the final!

5 September 2013, 20:51

Shahriar Khalvati
how can i color my model parts like wood?

6 September 2013, 19:27

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Hi shahriar, well this is really easy. I will show it painting the wooden fuselage.
At first paint the wooden parts with a base color i use sail colour or light orange, light brown or yellow and orange colours. It depends on the wood colour you will get later. You can mix all this colours using a different one on each wooden panel, or paint all panels in the same colour. It depends on the look off the original Plane. Use matt colours and let the base colours matt. After that the wooden colour and woodgrain will be painted with Artist oil paint. I use normally burnt umber and similar colours. I appli the oil colour with a peace off sponge. Its more difficult to Explain then to do it. I will explain it step by Step with pictures. A nice guide for this can be find at the WingNut Wings page: wingnutwings.com/ww/hintsandtips

6 September 2013, 20:51

Shahriar Khalvati
thanks

6 September 2013, 22:17

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
The fuselage is prepared with acrylic colours for apply the oil paint. I Use 2 different colours. The Bottom of the Fuselage and the front part is painted Sail colour from Gunze. all the rest is painted with yellow from gunze. the panellines are darkned with sail colur and in the middle of the panels i brushed small lines with sail colour. next step will be apply the Oil paint.

15 September 2013, 21:09

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
The first oil color is aplied with the sponge and brush. I Use burnt siena and burnt umber. After drying one day i will brush again with a diluyent wet pencil to get a lighter colour

16 September 2013, 22:08

Roy McKenzie
It looks fantastic. The wood effect is very good. I like what you did with the wings, the metal pins.

16 September 2013, 23:01

Martin
great wood work

17 September 2013, 06:08

Es-haq Khosravi
Excellent job!

17 September 2013, 06:17

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Thank you guys. Now i Hope the Decals will fit after the softener do their job. The Decals are Horrible. They are extremly thin, and they broke at the moment they get wet with water. I hope it will be not visible.

17 September 2013, 06:26

Burkhard D
Watching this is like reading a good book. Very enjoyable. 👍👍👍

17 September 2013, 07:49

Christian Bruer
I'll second Burkhards comment. Nice step by step presentation - well done and informative! Thanx and High Five!

17 September 2013, 17:32

stefan natus
I like the wood great work.

17 September 2013, 18:15

Mike Kryza
I'm astonished - see the plane in FN??

17 September 2013, 19:56

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Thanks,
yes Mike it is for our Groupbuild this year. I also had at the bench a Starfighter and a Friedrichshafen FF33- I will Show Pictures later.

17 September 2013, 19:58

Christian Meyerhoff
Excellent work so far. The wooden parts look perfect.

17 September 2013, 20:03

Philip De Keyser
Looks great so far Ricardo, looking forward to the end result 👍

18 September 2013, 08:21

Martien Lourens
From this photo, s I can learn a lot.
I just started to build. WW1 aircraft
Looks great so far
I follow it with great intrest 👍

18 September 2013, 09:17

Zimmermaniac
absolutely stunning work on those woodeffects ( and on the rest of the build ofcourse 🙂 )

18 September 2013, 09:55

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Thank you. At next i Will start preparing the Rigging while the oil colour is drying. I will use self made turnbuckles, brass tube and elastic thread. I made the Turnbuckles yesterday. This evening i will try to make some pics. and explain how i did it.

18 September 2013, 10:53

Christian Lehmann
👍

18 September 2013, 14:59

Alexander Aristides Cronvall
Beautiful work 👍

18 September 2013, 16:23

Dirk Heyer
Hi Ricardo,
thx for sharing your step by step building report!
As what I can see for now, this great Albatros W.4 will end absolutely fine.
You did a lot of nice features and I will stay tuned!

18 September 2013, 17:09

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Thank you. I added the Step by Step pictures for building buckles. I Hope the pictures will explain by itself.

18 September 2013, 22:07

Roy McKenzie
You pics showing how to do the buckles are great. Easy to follow and replicate.

18 September 2013, 23:35

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Thank you Roy. After 2 days the wood colour is dry, so the leather around the cocpit can be painted before apply the lozzenge decals.

19 September 2013, 15:26

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Next steps are done.

24 September 2013, 21:23

Zimmermaniac
a joy to follow, and lovely results

24 September 2013, 22:06

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Next little Update.

29 September 2013, 14:37

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Rigging work is mostly done. Last rigging will be applied after adding the floats

12 October 2013, 20:00

Ricardo Gonzalez Ramos
Rigging Work is now completed. Only a few little thinks to do like Spinner and Metall Parts on the Prop.

13 October 2013, 10:26

Christian Bruer
Very nice work and interesting to look at!