Congratulations, guys! You both deserved victory!
Sven, is Mimi going to be present at Prague?
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Congratulations, guys! You both deserved victory!
Sven, is Mimi going to be present at Prague?
Yes. We will see this beauty during Operation Michael. ;)
Congratulations Bob :thumbsup:
No matter how you made the diagonal stripes - it must be really hard work to get such a accurate result. :hatsoff:
Congrats Sven and Bob! Such beautiful work! :clap:
Another great paint job Sven. :thumbsup:
:thumbsup::clap::clap::clap: Hearty Congratulations to both Bob & Sven!:sAprvd:
With only one vote between them it just shows that both those aircraft were really superb examples of painting.
I must admit that I voted for both in the first round but voted for Mimmi in the final vote off.;)
Congratulations to both of you. Great job and so close!
Well done Bob. A very close race . To all who entered well done, and may the next contest be as well entered
now thats what i call a close vote!!!! better start checking for hanging chads lol:eek: grats to the winner and 2nd place!!!!!!
Congratulations to both of you on the closest vote we have had yet. I hope the next contest has as many entries as this one and is another close one.
I agree with the sentiments expressed above - truly wonderful work! Congratualtions, Bob and Sven - your work is an inspiration to all of us.
All the best,
Matt
Well done Bob. :clap:
And Sven..... Next time, must try harder ;) (actually out of the two this was my favourite)
Thank you comrades. :salute:
The decal set was a Reviresco one.
Beside this I had a lot of work to separate the landing gear, wings and tail section. Then to straighten the structures on the rudder and the wings and to arrange the decals, besides this the Reviresco model seems to be a little bit more slim then the Ares Games version.
The decision for this decal set was simple: The availability, I have a Nexus Games plane card for the model & I thought that Mimmi looks so cude! ;)
If you judge only the craftsmanship I think Mimmi scored more votes then I expected. :eek:
Will post Sunday when back in town. Way off the grid atm....
Thank you my friend.
I think is was a 4 hour job with breakes for drying the paint and the decal fix.
All the more Kudos to you dear chap.
Rob.
Congratulations Bob, (I actually voted the other way - but both were outstanding) - have to say though the presentation on yours with the hanger etc was simply brilliant. Where did you get the hanger from?
Congratulations Bob on a real close win :medal:
Also well done to Sven for taking the runner up position :pint:
Both planes are wonderful. Thanks for the info on where the decal set came from Sven. I ordered one! Soon there will be a Mimmi in my hangar.
Bob, how did you do your plane? Decal? Airbrush? Great work!
Back from my road trip - here's the brief on the build. Will post full story on D.VII repaint thread this week.
Kit - Valom D.VII
Wing decals - Top wing - Valom kit decals for the Paul Wolf / Jasta 13 pattern
Lower wing - 1/144 Direct / Mehusla lower wing Pattern A / Harvest
Fuselage - filled, sanded, primed, painted modelmasters insignia white, masked with thin strips of Parafilm to match the original photos and sprayed modelmasters gloss black.
National Insignia by 1/144 Direct
Oversprayed Testor's Acrylic clear flat (was not happy with it - more on that later) to blend everything together. Remaining fuselage and "bits" painted by hand as in photos.
Photographed on a base originally prepared for miniatures battles, on a cold winter's early morning outdoors, with a cardstock hangar as a prop.
Yes it was cold out and I had a hard time getting a good angle, but you can't beat early morning for contrast and cool shadows.
BB401 Out.
You got a spiffing result! :clap:
I look forward to the "whole nine yards" on the DVII thread.
Yeah, it's old, but I thought I ask nontheless
How did you (in case you didn't, who did?) do the card? I mean the actual printing? I want to create my own cards but I struggle to find a proper solution for printing or letting it print... espacially the size.
The card is an official 'Wings of War' card, from the "Top Fighters" booster pack.
I print cards using a Word document emailed to me by someone (I can't remember who!).
The cards printed just fine on my old printer, but when I got a new one they printed too large!
Now I resize them in "Paint" to 98% and print, and that seems OK.
I can't create the cards myself, though - I have to rely on OldGuy59, Guntruck and others for that :(
The card size should be easy. Currently, I import the images of cards into MS Word (Yup, I actually do), set the image size to the size of the graphic (if single-sided: 44x68mm). Using Epson Premium Matt paper (coated for high ink usage, but not allowing absorption) and a photo quality printer, the cards come out near commercial quality.
I sometimes have to print a few times (in draft or text mode to save ink) to ensure the size is right.
For conventions, I print 9 double-sided cards on an 8.5x11" letter-sized page.
That moment you gave credit to someone for creating a perfect card :D ... but hey, the plane matches the card perfectly.
That was the way I did it, too. I will look out for better paper, and I have a card cutter for the "corners". I think this should do the trick. Thanks a lot :thumbsup:
If you using word you should be able to r click on the image of the card, then go to size and put in the dimentions of the card
I have a Mimmi model but could never get the Mimmi decal correct, any pointers ?
I have made a template for gimp which holds 4 cards. The template has the standard photo format 10. I print them with the printing service of the local drug store. The result is production like and cheap: about 1,20€ per deck. Then I cut the cards out and use a corner puncher to get round corners.