Albatross D.iii, 1/72

[BorgR3mc0]

Nicely done Miss OWL
A tip (dangerous!!) if you want to tense the loose wiring as you used stretched sprue... pick a piece of sprue , flame it, blow out the flame and gently move it near the wiring , about 3/4 millimeter and waith till the wire going on right tension repeat the flaming/blow out till the wires are all correct

I use a heated nail or screw for the same technique.

[CallSignOWL]

I wrapped hair around the posts...a tiny dab of super glue held things in place

[BsYamato]

Nope... Hair will not work with this tip

[CallSignOWL]

Lol, probably not!

[KSaarni]

Nicely done Miss OWL
A tip (dangerous!!) if you want to tense the loose wiring as you used stretched sprue... pick a piece of sprue , flame it, blow out the flame and gently move it near the wiring , about 3/4 millimeter and waith till the wire going on right tension repeat the flaming/blow out till the wires are all correct

Tx BsY, that's a good tip, to heat the streched sprue carefully !

- Kari

[BsYamato]

I used the sistem on the polikarpovs, but the best way IMHO is to use fishing wires and glue them under tension wheres possible

[CallSignOWL]

Hair? Really? You're pretty industrious. It looks great. I think you should do more bipes. They are fun!

yes hair, I have a lot of it too!

and yeah, I might just pick up a couple more bipes

[lawman56]

Ok. Now I'm just jealous. First you build tiny airplanes that make my eyes cross. Then you build a tiny biplane?????

I have a 1/32 Wingnut Albatros D.v on my shelf because it started driving me bonkers. And that was 1/32!!!!!

Very impressive work, especially the internal rib structure to the cockpit

I never will be able to pull off the melted sprue thing. I either set it on fire or burn the snot out of my fingers.

Excellent work

[CallSignOWL]

sooo, we a had a couple of contests this past month; one just for the club meeting, and another where we traveled down to Leavenworth, Kansas.

MY LITTLE BIRDIE WON AWARDS!! Holy cow!

First up, was a monthly contest for the IPMS meeting: Remembering the Great War. I entered both my tank/trench dio and the biplane. Anonymous judging was used, and I took home both first and second places! How cool is that??


Then I headed down to KS with some other club members, and entered in my albatross among stiff competition. Wonderful models in all the categories! With a dozen or so other biplanes on display, I didnt think my little Albatross would stand a chance...

apparently the look on my face was PRICELESS. Whaaa?

I officially have an award-winning model!