WIP Junkers D.I

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June 21, 2020
A of PE set
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June 21, 2020
Sheet B
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June 21, 2020
Each formers consists of 3 etched parts. I soldered them together.
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June 21, 2020
This allows a very interesting construction with space between the outer parts, as seen on original aircraft.
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June 21, 2020
Here some of the prepared formers, from one side ...
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June 21, 2020
... and from the other. I like the corrugated metal!
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June 21, 2020
Or should I use the kit parts? 😉
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June 21, 2020
The next step was the connection to the side frames. Some stabilizing is needed, especially the side frames are very fragile.
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June 21, 2020
The result with some more parts.
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June 21, 2020
The construction is fantastic, for example fits the floor frame into recesses (soldered from below).
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June 21, 2020
Sometimes the manual sheet is not very clear so good references helps. Here was not clear, which side is the front. This picture of a crashed aircraft helps, so the firewall seems to be plain.
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June 21, 2020
The nice profile of the side frames seems to be correct too.
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June 21, 2020
Then I washed the frame with alcohol and tinned it.
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June 21, 2020
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June 21, 2020
Now a important question!
Roden offers two kits, with a long and short fuselage. This tkit is the long one.
Parts says only "for Junkers D.I Roden kit". But the fit seems to be strange? May be the kit is for the short one?
Does anybody own both and could compare?
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June 23, 2020
The "trick" is also to solder from a side, which is not visible later. I forgot pics of that, here from below ...
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June 23, 2020
and from back.
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June 23, 2020
I removed the moulded framing and created corrugated sheet metal with aluminum foil and a toothpick on the underside of the wings. I tried to glue it with white glue, to have some filling in the back. I'm not sure, if it works as expected.
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June 23, 2020
But I like the look, and there is enough space for it, at least I think so.
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June 23, 2020
One of the next task is to create a AXIAL airscrew, a task which I really like! There is already a block of seven veneer layers.
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June 28, 2020
The fuselage is plated as needed. I tried also CA, but this don't work. So back to first idea wood glue. It only needs a while to dry, because the moisture can only diffuse out of the sides.
The joints are not visible later.
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June 28, 2020
The next thing was a bit tricky and time consuming ...
The Junkers has wooden footbridge made from wooden stripes in the corrugations.

How to do it on the model? Wood looks like wood 😉
So I sanded down a piece of veneer down to 0,3mm, cut into small stripes and glued seven (according to the Datafile) vertically into the corrugations. Then I sanded it down and varnished it.
Left done, right in raw state.
The plan is to sand the airbrushed paint away later.
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March 10, 2023
This picture was made 2020! I made a bearing for the airscrew and glued the halves of the engine together. I also removed the cast-on pipes for the ignitions wires, but then the project converted into a shelf queen.
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March 10, 2023
Instead starting a new project I give this looong running project another try and finished the engine! Some PE from the PART set was added. The pipe for the ignition wires is stretched sprue. Valve springs, wires and spark plugs added and a lot of painting.
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March 10, 2023
A more top view shows more scratch work, see the brass on the carburetor and between intake pipes and cylinders.
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March 10, 2023
On the other side the same ignition story.
The exhaust gaskets are punched from brown paper.
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March 10, 2023
Please note the metal clamps, which hold the red tube 😉
The cylinders 2 and 5 has holes ...
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March 10, 2023
... to take the brass pins of the exhaust which is plugged on. The engine sits here at its future workplace.
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March 10, 2023
And the last picture shows the Mercedes D.IIIa with a roughly shaped AXIAL airscrew.
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March 12, 2023
Long ago I scratched two pumps.
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March 12, 2023
Mounted on the right side.
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March 12, 2023
All the dials ans switches are provided by the PART set.
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March 12, 2023
The control stick from Roden, with some PE added.
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March 12, 2023
Painted, also the pedals.
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March 12, 2023
Painted stick in better view.
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March 12, 2023
The seat is soldered from the PART set, with Eduard/HGW fabric seat belts. I added a cushion.
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March 12, 2023
All prepared parts are mounted inside the cockpit now.
By far not as original as the WNW kit but ok for the smaller scale.
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March 12, 2023
The engine control on the left side also provided by PART. Very nicely done in comparison to the reference in the background!
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March 15, 2023
For the two Spandau MGs I prefer the barrels from Master, but I need a back part. The kit parts are very slim, so I used again some great Eduard Brassin ones.
There are even different variants with different resin inserts possible! The upper one has it inserted.
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March 15, 2023
Each one is made from 3 resin parts plus 4 PE parts. Here in comparison to the grey Roden parts.
What does the TV chef always say? I have already prepared something. Mee too: long ago I prepared some Master Spandau sets.
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March 15, 2023
The back parts are painted Alclad Steel and gun metal followed by a light dry brush.
Stored safely for later mount.
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March 15, 2023
The WNW manual shows a header tank between engine and firewall. My model was a bit empty there so I soldered a fake tank.
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March 15, 2023
The nice side.
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March 15, 2023
The fuselage was closed and primed black.
For easier mounting of the rudder I added a brass tube into the big kit hole.
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March 15, 2023
The rudder gut a brass pin and can mounted later in a clean way.
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March 15, 2023
There are some handles, but I do not like the 1mm thick plastic parts so I glued 0.5mm tubes to the sockets on the fuselage and added thin metal stripes on top.
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March 15, 2023
The same for the handle on the other side and a foot step.
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March 15, 2023
The tail skid looks different on each drawing, but I made a brass one according to a latest drawing.
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March 15, 2023
I cut the fragile kit one and drilled a hole into the socket and opened it with a little file to take the skid.
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March 15, 2023
For the undercarriage I soldered a new axle.
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March 16, 2023
THE Mercedes engine.
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March 16, 2023
THE Spandau MG.
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March 16, 2023
As I have no decals with following the WNW manual I masked the bands (at first wider to have also white below the red).
Masking this corrugated metal is terrible!
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March 22, 2023
The wings are painted now and only plugged on for test here.
After white primer the lower surface is painted with Drooling Bulldog "Pale Blue"
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March 22, 2023
The upper side. I painted it finally Drooling Bulldog "Pale Green", applied masks (cut following Wingnut Wing as guide) and painted Drooling Bulldog "Mauve". I added a bit of white, but may be not enough as I wanted to have it more bright.
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March 22, 2023
The wooden treads are sanded partly free again.
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March 23, 2023
Masked the crosses with a huge amount of stripes the manual way.
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March 23, 2023
Prepared for white paint
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March 23, 2023
At first a white paint, then Insignia White as it covers not very well.
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March 23, 2023
Here murphy at work.
That is the problem with too many references. I used the first Windsock drawings but realized later with check of WNW manual and photo of original D.I that it used bigger crosses here. Removed the masks completely and started again.
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March 23, 2023
Prepared for black paint.
The tail plane is masked. On the wing crosses I inserted fresh masking tape inside. To prevent black from bleeding through, I covered the seam with used tape (looks dark from rib tapes).
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March 23, 2023
The result on top side.
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March 23, 2023
The result on lower surface.
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March 23, 2023
The tail plane was also primed white and painted with MRP Insignia White, which is a off white.
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March 23, 2023
The cross from the other side.
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March 24, 2023
I carefully masked the fuselage again for painting the crosses.
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March 24, 2023
The result is ok, right side.
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March 24, 2023
Left side.
Again something is wrong here. In real the cross should end in front of the panel. I guess the step (and so the bands) should be more towards the front and the engraved panel more backwards. But I can live with that error.
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March 24, 2023
I painted the front part along with the fuselage after removing the plastic grille. So now I could carefully glue the new PE grille from the PART set.
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March 24, 2023
But inside it is empty?
The WNW adds a extra kit part inside, but I could not check the pics there as the WNW web site is gone now 🙁
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March 24, 2023
So I added a plastic strip in the middle, painted the lower half alu and the upper radiator part black. That was closed then with a little piece of wire mesh. I don't know how the real radiator looks inside but this is better than nothing.
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March 24, 2023
The engine is not yet fixed, but inserted. So I could dry fit the finished front part. I don't know how much of the mesh is visible later, but it looks ok now.
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March 25, 2023
Next step was mounting the engine then the exhaust. After adding a little water filler turned from brass on top of the radiator the front was fixed to the fuselage.
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March 25, 2023
The kit contains two blast channels for the Spandau MGs, see on the right. But they are very thick and wider then needed according to the drawing so they will hide the details below more than necessary. Strange, but the PART PE set do not offer a replacement.
My solution: I used two brass strips cut from Eduard PE framing and bend them to a half tube.
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March 25, 2023
Both blast channels are mounted on top. I dry fitted the Spandau MGs but do not mounted them yet because I fear to damage the filigree target crosses.
Wedding - the wings are attached to the fuselage!
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March 25, 2023
Last week I made a metal undercarriage, but I do not like it. Airscrew and undercarriage are only plugged on.
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March 25, 2023
There is still work in front of me on top of the cockpit, The kit framing is not very scale and so it conflicts with my replaced Spandau MGs.
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March 29, 2023
The undercarriage is prepared fro painting. For the little "wing" I made real corrugated sheet metal from alu foil.
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March 29, 2023
After painting I connected the axle with the suspension which needs to hold the whole (and somehow heavy) model.
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March 29, 2023
Here my new black undercarriage in comparison to the real one in Brussels. Above the kit wing with corrugations only on lower surface.
On top of the suspension you see a steel rope which is the travel limiter. Added those with wires, but forgot a picture.
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March 29, 2023
The undercarriage is mounted and wheels plugged on. You can see a limited rope.
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March 29, 2023
A little teaser 😉
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March 29, 2023
The complete rigging is done!
Luckily only two wires on the whole bird. Used Gaspatch turnbuckles. The tabs in the middle are an etched part from the PART set.
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March 29, 2023
Four PE parts on each side are managing the aileron control now.
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March 29, 2023
The wheels was masked and painted. The tires are in real in lighter grey as in this picture.
The rims are painted with metal (a oil wash will tone it down) and I added brass bushes as bearing.
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March 29, 2023
The wheels are fixed in final position.
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March 29, 2023
The wooden airscrew was finally sanded, primed and painted.
On back side I glued a brass disc (from my spare), drilled 8 little 0.2mm holes to add bolts from wire.
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March 29, 2023
On the front you can see the AXIAL logos and the wonderful hub from the PART set. The crown nut are 3 damn little PE parts!
Of course here also 8 new holes and 8 "bolts" added.
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March 29, 2023
I had to shorten the axle a little bit and mounted the airscrew.
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March 29, 2023
In the side view you can see the bolts. The airscrew is as close as possible.
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March 29, 2023
Now towards the cockpit. A rollover bar is needed.
The plastic one is from the Roden kit. PART provides a replacement, but even back on back it looks flimsy.
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March 29, 2023
I soldered a new one from brass wires, pipe and stripe according to newer drawings and WNW information.
The main bar is 9.8mm squeezed brass pipe on 0.4mm wire. So I can mount it with the pins cleanly.
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March 29, 2023
Drilled matching holes on the back. The rollover bar fits and can be mounted after painting.
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March 30, 2023
Found another detail in the WNW manual and the Windsock Mini about the Spandau MGs - the sync cables. I wound thin tinned copper wire around a black 0.15mm wire. It looks like the connection could be rotated according mounting position.
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March 30, 2023
The Spandaus are mounted. The rollover bar is painted and now fix on its position.
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March 30, 2023
From top you can see the sync cables from engine to the MGs.
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March 30, 2023
Houston, we have a problem! Or as the North German comic character Werner said: "Work begets work!"
The cockpit framing do not fit anymore due to my changes with in scale Spandau MGs. I expected that, so I do not glue it earlier in place.
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March 30, 2023
At least in the newer drawings you can see that the frame is only a thin tube on top of the cockpit. My solution: cut the ears mount them, drill two holes and add a 0.7mm brass wire.
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March 30, 2023
Here I used milliput for a cushion around the cockpit for multiple reasons. Hide the wire, get more realistic round shape and hide the flat and thick fuselage walls and get rid of the step from the resin back.
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March 30, 2023
A figure builder could perhaps do better, but I am satisfied so far. You can work on the compound for a while and smooth it out with water.
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March 30, 2023
I painted the smooth new sheet metal inside alu and black outside with a brush, and after hardening the cushion with leather.
A small slightly modified kit plate was added between the MGs as last part, at least I think so.
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March 30, 2023
This Junkers D.I is finished after a loooong time 👍
A weathering will follow.

Comments

56 21 June 2020, 20:35

bughunter
Before I remove the internal structure I want to be sure, that it fits! Otherwise I have to search for the short fuselage kit. Please see pic 15.
Thanks for your help!

21 June 2020, 20:42

Christoph Kunz
OH MANN, so kurz vorm schlafengeh'n bringst Du meinen Puls nochmal auf Hochtouren.😉

21 June 2020, 22:15

bughunter
Oh, entschuldige bitte! War vorher nicht fertig mit dem Bilder bearbeiten ...

22 June 2020, 19:12

Slavo Hazucha
For me, there really is a special aura to your builds... like "I don't really want to do this, but it's extremely pleasing and calming to watch..."😉

23 June 2020, 19:41

bughunter
Thank you Slavo, that means a lot for me! Nice that you found the next parallel build. I hope that I'm not getting confused and put corrugated metal on the Sopwith Triplane😉

23 June 2020, 20:11

Alec K
I was just thinking: where the hell does this guy find the TIME??! I mean, does he BUY IT? No, he must MAKE IT... 😄 😄 😄

All lame jokes aside, this is awesome. That corrugated look is super. Looking at pic 19, I wonder if 5 min epoxy may have been a good gap-filling choice? Did the white glue work good?

27 June 2020, 15:21

bughunter
Thank you Alec! I try to spend every day some time on the bench, this allows constant progress.
Since I own two IKEA KVISSLE I have to much running projects, I should finish some.

27 June 2020, 16:49

René "Lord Bilbo" Bartholemy
I really feel like Slavo. Plus the sheer awe...

27 June 2020, 17:05

bughunter
All needed foils are glued to fuselage, and I experimented with real wood foodbridges on the wings.

28 June 2020, 17:57

Marcel Klemmer
Very interesting Bughunter

28 June 2020, 18:13

Alec K
On pic 21: wondering if you considered using epoxy?

28 June 2020, 21:48

bughunter
Yes, but if it failed with wood glue it is easier to remove😉 And it worked surprisingly well. And this is only inside.

29 June 2020, 14:01

Alec K
Good point 👍

29 June 2020, 15:51

MoJo
👍 top

29 June 2020, 15:54

bughunter
The last action on this project was done 2020 (the frames of the fuselage was soldered already 2016). It ends up as shelf queen 🙁
After the end of the F.K.8 project I decided to give it another try. Not sure it I finish it this time in one go, but at least the Mercedes D.IIIa engine is now finished - Hooray!
I'm happy with the outcome. Fill it with fuel and oil and it runs! The Roden engines gives a good base and are not that much undersized as others in this scale (often done for fit into the fuselage).

10 March 2023, 22:14

Christoph Kunz
Weird plane. The upper wing is missing...
Combat damage? 🤔

10 March 2023, 22:38

bughunter
And also nearly NO rigging!

10 March 2023, 22:45

Michael Kohl
Another very fine build

13 March 2023, 12:13

bughunter
Welcome to the show Michael! It will not on the level of the previous F.K.8 project but I hope to finish it this time.

13 March 2023, 18:07

Robert Podkoński
Can I watch this talent show too? 😉

13 March 2023, 18:25

bughunter
Of course Robert 👍 A warm welcome to you as strong supporter!

13 March 2023, 19:18

Slavo Hazucha
Hey, this is still on? Wow - I do not feel so old anymore! 😉 Will be more than happy to continue watching where this journey goes! (we kinda know where... to a model which aircraft-builders & restorators could take as a reference for a 1:1 replica...) I am pretty sure the cockpit dials are working and will show different values in some of the following pictures... 😉

14 March 2023, 18:06

Ludvík Kružík
I'm joining the audience. It would be a shame to miss your next masterful "concert" . I will watch it with great interest and pleasure.

14 March 2023, 20:41

bughunter
Oh Slavo, I have missed your wonderful comments! It looks like the project was paused as long as you were away 🙂 But I have worked on many other projects in between.
There was some trouble and I could not decide for a marking. In the meantime, I switched to another kit when I caught Roden's other kit variant with the short fuselage. Now I can rely on the WNW research and can build a black or brown aircraft. This way I can avoid the Roden decal in corrugated metal. The work done already is not lost.
Welcome Ludvík! This time it looks promising to come to an end!

14 March 2023, 20:57

Spanjaard
Looking great, as usual 😉

14 March 2023, 21:05

gorby
Sorry teacher. Looks like I'm late for the lesson….again. 😉
I'll take a seat at the back.
Oh, started 2020! Looks like I'm very late for this lesson. 😄

15 March 2023, 13:08

Ben M
🥸

15 March 2023, 13:36

Andy Ball
If there was a modelling class of wizards- you'd be a 6th Dan….superb superb superb!

15 March 2023, 15:25

bughunter
Thank you mates!
@gorby The date inserted in the pics of the soldered framework goes back to 2016! 7 years in shelf is enough!
@Andy Wow, now I need a red face smiley!!! Yes, it has some nice parts it will be definitely not my best model! For example I don't like the seams on the fuselage of the corrugated sheet metal, but there is nothing what you can do about. Any try to use something like putty or sand it will make it more worse. .... give me the strength to accept things I cannot change with serenity....

15 March 2023, 22:34

Ludvík Kružík
My friend has another saying in these cases, "don't worry about perfection, you won't achieve it anyway" 🙂

15 March 2023, 22:46

Andy Ball
My prescription is -7.5 for contact lenses, makes me pretty short sighted, but a gift for 72nd scale models….however I could not get to those levels of intricacy. Could you share your secret?!

15 March 2023, 23:35

Alexander Grivonev
seriously man, where did you get that dinner plate sized 1 cent coin?

16 March 2023, 00:15

bughunter
Thanks for you feedback mates!

@Andy I'm also short sighted, but not that much (-2,5 I think) and work without glasses. The Quarter scale is a good compromise for me: the parts are bigger as in 1:72, but the finished models not as big as the WNW birds in 1:32. I try to work without paint (wood and metal) and as I hate CA sometime I try to create form-fit connections, which need not much glue.

@Alexander Especially for you I made new pictures with that coin, as you requested.

16 March 2023, 17:58

Alexander Grivonev
Picture #51

Wow, speechless

16 March 2023, 18:14

Bernhard Schrock
Once again: great "movie" 🙂.
Pic53: Womit hast du Wellblech maskiert für weiß und rot? Sieht makellos aus!

16 March 2023, 18:48

bughunter
Thanks - That is the nice side 😉
I used slim Tamiya tape and put it with a toothpick carefully into the grooves, groove by groove. On top I added other tape to cover the rest. Need to do this again for the crosses, later also on the wings and rudder. My normal Oramask foil used to cut masks do not work here.

16 March 2023, 19:24

Lothar Linke
oooh Yess!! nice paint during this build

16 March 2023, 19:29

Slavo Hazucha
wow - progress! 🙂 Looks as stunning as ever and I see even the European Central Bank has noticed and supplies fresh & immaculate 1-Cent coins for the background/comparison... 😄

It´s always fascinating here - I´ve seen builders (me navigating these waters as well) who create/increase detail and scale impression by smart painting, smoke-&-mirrors effect and weathering... You do that through "actual details" and it truly works (without even the need of the above mentioned techniques) - truly fascinating... 👍

16 March 2023, 22:09

bughunter
Thank you mates, but this project the devil has seen! Murphy is in top form! What can go wrong also goes wrong.
There's a reason this has dragged on since 2016, and it's about to end up in the corner again 🙁
I have just removed all paint from the wings ...

22 March 2023, 10:08

Ludvík Kružík
I know it very well. Some kits are said to be cursed and can only be built at certain times. That's exactly how I built Bucker 131 a while back. I carelessly knocked it off the table the first time right after finishing the rigging. After a week, I returned to the Bucker and gradually removed the effects of the accident. And when I was tensioning the last rigging line, one wrong move and I tore off the whole upper wing with struts and rigging. The bucker ended up in a box in the closet and I didn't get back to finishing it until a year later. And surprisingly, even with this attempt, the work to repair and finish the model went smoothly and without any problems.
The way I see it, the time for your Junkers has not yet come. But believe me, that time will surely come. And maybe sooner than you expect. 😉

22 March 2023, 18:21

bughunter
Thank you Ludvík for your great help! But I'm not bowing to Murphy that quickly yet.
I wanted the paint more bright, so I tried to mask for the green, mask the opposite to paint the Mauve also more light on the white primer. But that do not work as I was not able to mask exactly the opposite. So I end up with white lines and more worse dark stripes where the paint was on top of the green.
So I removed the paint and painted the whole surface in a light green. The masked again and painted the Drooling Bulldog Mauve. So no masking problems but the Mauve comes out darker.
I have also another violet shade from Drooling Bulldog called "German Purpur". This looks more like the paint on the Roden box. But according to Wingnut Wing Mauve is correct and this looks like the WNW profiles.

22 March 2023, 19:06

Lothar Linke
very nice progress bravo

23 March 2023, 04:41

Kyle DeHart
Jumping on board late as usual. I hope to see you conquer this devil to your satisfaction.

23 March 2023, 04:45

bughunter
Thank you mates!
Since I expected that I would not be able to press the stubborn decals into the corrugated metal, I looked around for alternatives.
My self cut ORAMASK will not conform to this surface too. Other decals in my spare album ( I use a stamp album) were too small.

So I decided to go the hard way and mask the crosses by hand with Tamiya masking tape, the same way used for the fuselage band.
That was a lot of work but I'm happy with the result as nearly no color was going below the masks 👍 It is may be not perfectly as using decals, but as this was hand painted in brings in some little variation here and there.
Looks so unspectacular now, after handling hundreds of little pieces of tape ...

Kyle, the devil looked only once around the corner, but I noticed early enough to fix it. See pic description.

23 March 2023, 21:39

Kyle DeHart
Wonderful work on the markings. Also I always enjoy flipping through your albums to see your excellent descriptions of the work as it goes along. Most enjoyable.

23 March 2023, 22:38

Ludvík Kružík
As you can see from the photos, the pitfalls of corrugated iron have been overcome.👍

24 March 2023, 06:11

David Taylor
Back in.

24 March 2023, 06:35

Guy Rump
Looking good. 👍

24 March 2023, 07:24

Spanjaard
Beautiful crosses. I think masking and painting is more realistic than decals. I doubt planes painted on the field were as "perfect"as decals are 😉

24 March 2023, 10:40

bughunter
Thank you very much mates!
@Kyle Please tell me my mistakes as English is not my native language and often I do not know the exact technical term.
@David Welcome! I haven't seen you in a long time.
@Spanjaard Not only in field, also during production. The famous 8cm wide brushes of Fokker painting 😉
That work on the details brings up the kit errors, e.g. the direction of the corrugations on the ailerons is wrong. I can't fix it so I will let such errors as they are.
Now the crosses on the fuselage, which are only four white angles due to the black fuselage.

24 March 2023, 13:53

Alec K
This continues to be fun to follow, hand painted insignia and all 👍 🙂

24 March 2023, 18:54

bughunter
Thank you Alec!
With the masking and painting of the fuselage crosses the risky parts of the paint job are done! Now I can continue to bring all prepared parts together. Next step will be mounting of engine and adding the front.

24 March 2023, 21:01

Ben M
I wonder if a cricut would have worked to cut the tape

24 March 2023, 22:23

bughunter
In principle it would (I own a Silhouette cutter), but ...
- usually I use ORAMASK 810, but this is to thick to work on the corrugations
- it do not work to apply the Tamiya tape and press it then into the corrugations => it gets to short and moves back into straight
That's why I use slim tape and apply it step by step by pressing with a tooth pick into the corrugations. Even after removing the tape it has still the funny shape. So the marking is in one direction longer as in the other.

24 March 2023, 22:33

Ben M
The corrugations make everything interesting!

25 March 2023, 12:30

bughunter
... and more painful! From masking to cleaning of seams and much more.
That will not be a contest model but at least at looks like an aircraft now 😉

25 March 2023, 17:57

bughunter
More steps towards the finish 🙂 The rigging is done completely!

29 March 2023, 20:33

Ludvík Kružík
Top-notch detail work!

29 March 2023, 20:45

Dave
Incredible details in your build. Watching to see what you will accept as a finished look.

29 March 2023, 22:40

Ethan Flory
Love your builds, It's like watching a master class in model making!

29 March 2023, 23:18

bughunter
Thank you very much mates for such nice feedback!
Yes Ethan, if I want to take part in contests in the Master class (as I have done last year) with a chance of winning it I have to build in this level. But much more important this detail work is pure fun for me 😉

30 March 2023, 17:58

bughunter
I think all parts are in place now and this Junkers D.I is finished!
Roden and PART provides clear windshields, but the original photos I have seen do not show one. The WNW manual of this serial 5185 in November 1918 also not, so I will not mount one.
I will do a light weathering and wait for better weather for some outdoor pictures.
That is really a great feeling to finish this beast after so many tries since 2016!

30 March 2023, 19:35

Alec K
Beautifully done! Congrats on finishing this shelf queen, she deserved it. I love the camo on this bird, something you would expect to find in a graphic novel but not on real aircraft 👍

31 March 2023, 11:30

bughunter
Thank you Alec, yes I'm happy too!
The mauve/green was ordered after brown and green caused mistaken identity with enemy aircraft. I think violet was ordered, so beside mauve also a darker violet was used, e.g. on Albatros. That is called "German Purpur" in the Drooling Bulldog range.
Here ar my WNW templates, fuselage:
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Wings as on this one:
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31 March 2023, 12:01

bughunter
I have done a light weathering mainly with oil paints (some white on the mauve was very successful) and smoke for exhausts stains.
In between the cloudbursts there was some nice weather, so that I could take the final outdoor pictures 😉
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31 March 2023, 15:56

Alexander Grivonev
These are some gorgeous colors overall, a true eye candy!

31 March 2023, 17:40

Michael Kohl
I am particularly impressed be the clean borders you achieved with masking the corrugated parts. Maybe I missed it, but can you specify which masking material you use for that purpose?

1 April 2023, 00:34

bughunter
Thank you mates!
@Alexander As the colors looks still a bit dark I modified it with white oil paint and like it more now. I hope the difference is noticeable in the final album, see link above.
@Michael That used the lovely and famous Tamiya tape, see pic57 and following. Because of the corrugations I don't use masks cut by my plotter for the markings (only used them for the mauve on wings).

1 April 2023, 12:14

Michael Kohl
Ok. Good ol Tamiya tape and a lot of meticulous work, I suppose. 🙂

1 April 2023, 12:37

bughunter
Yes, and a wooden tooth pick as main tool here, I forgot 🙂

1 April 2023, 12:39

Slavo Hazucha
You actually built a whole plane around that cockpit-engine combination that would make a jaw-dropping standalone model on their own... 😉

I am not sure if I should praise the completed model or mourn the loss of (now) invisible details inside... But I am sure it was a lot of fun and satisfaction completing this one, so I can only congratulate on the result... 👍 Just take care & keep it clean so the machine guns will not jam 😉

5 April 2023, 13:26

bughunter
Thank you Slavo for your kind words! It is always a pleasure to find a comment form you below my builds 👍
This corrugated aluminium is tricky to handle, it is hard or impossible to fix or change some things, hard to clean up seems, hard to mask .... but it makes me happy to see the outdoor pictures of the final result! May be I merge the remaining parts with the long fuselage into a NMF bird one day in the far future 🙂

14 April 2023, 19:55

Boris B
Amazing build, as usual! I had earmarked it a while back when it was stalled and pick it up now, glad to see it gloriously completed.
It's a pleasure to watch, and now I know I won't be building this corrugated monoplane beast any time soon: too much fussing with toothpicks needed (tempting as the challenge may be). Perhaps I'll finish the decals on my son's civilian Ju 52 first. At any rate, I feel like I've built this model just by looking at your build. Thanks for sharing your ever-reconfirmed expertise!

15 April 2023, 10:01

bughunter
Thank you Boris! Such nice comments encourage further reporting 😉 Don't miss the final album!

15 April 2023, 11:34

Album info

This kit was a prize of a Memorial Group Build some time ago.
Added some additional parts and references, as usual 🙂

Junkers D.I - Short fuselage

119 images

1:48

Completed

1:48 German WW I machine gun Spandau LMG 08/15 (Master AM-48-035)

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