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Really nice work! Thanks for sharing your build with us!
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Fred, Scissors, Tim and YankeeBoy, thank you for the compliments!
YankeeBoy, thanks for the further info and input. I had no idea there were all these versions at eCardmodels. The other info is very useful as well. Some photos I've seen seem to show a somewhat mottled pattern on the metal, that's why I suggest that. Maybe not the swirl/hammered look of the E.III but something other than perfectly smooth. I enjoy documenting the builds. It's cathartic for me and also keeps me from rushing and makes you consider the next moves. I wish I could offer more tips and advice but where I'm a casual builder, I don't have that experience to pass on. As I said a few posts back, it looks like my next build will stretch my capabilities, maybe something there will be an epiphany for me and offer something for others. I see Aaron Murphy is having a build contest. I'd love to compete in that but I know, with my schedule, I would never make the deadline, and his HE-59 is still in beta build anyway. Oh well. Thanks to evetyone for checking in and following along. Your support means a lot. JoeG
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I very much enjoy seeing other peoples builds, as much in not more than the finished model. JoeG
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Follow-Up to "textured" metal Surfaces
My thoughts on "texturing" the metal surfaces is prompted by this photo.
Clearly the metal surfaces in this photo have a texture or pattern to them. This is not caused by the quality of the photo as that's pretty good. JoeG
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Beautiful neat job on this model, and the rigging turned out very well. The texture on the metal was the result of buffing with a circular brush. Depending on the method used, the effect could appear very uniform like overlapping scales, or random like this:
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I stand corrected. The cowling definitely has a finish similar to the Fokkers. That photo is reproduced in the Datafile but is of lower quality with the texture barely visible. The aircraft is s/n 8341/17, the second production machine photographed at the Siemens airfield. It was sent to Jage III on 16 Mar 1918. Early D.III identifiers are the full cowling, large spinner and smaller, curved leading edge on the rudder. Like all D.IIIs, it was returned to the factory in May 1918 and received a number of modifications including a cutaway cowl, larger, squared off LE to the rudder, changes in aileron and elevator shapes, shortened wing span and smaller spinner. It is a real challenge to identify and model the D.III (and the D.IV that followed) due to the continuous tweaks done at the factory and in the field. I look forward to your future build(s) of this little fighter.
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Just so the metal isn't just a flat shade. Despite the Udet version not being exactly correct, as YankeeBoy pointed out, that one has also caught my eye, as well as two others with blue fuselages. The blue on these fuselages is very bright. Too bright I think. I'd have to change the tone.
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YankeeBoy, you are an amazing wealth of information.
Yes, the endless tweaking to the design makes identification difficult. This kind of interesting and important information is part of what makes this group so great! Thanks, JoeG
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LOL - no, just a disturbingly large number of years collecting books, decals, models and illustrations of aircraft, especially WWI. I agree with you about the blue on the D.III repaints. I redid them in Corel Draw to more closely match the colors in the Pheon decal set. I did the same with the red on Ziegesar's plane. Here are the RGB values I used if you want to play with Photoshop or a similar program:
Blue (Ziegesar and Greven) - 57-94-148 Red (Ziegesar) - 207-48-41 Pheon Decals shows Beckhart's color to be black, instead of green, with the swastikas being in golden yellow (RGB 208-174-61.) These colors match two other D.IIIs in Kest 5. For what it is worth, the late Dan San Abbott (WWI colors guru) maintained that Udet's ended up with the wings in red to match the fuselage. To my knowledge there is no photographic evidence but Dan knew his business and I did a recolor (unpublished) in that scheme - quite striking! Have fun!
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Very nice build Joe! My compliments!
Marco
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