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    Very nice indeed Ezekiel - like that a lot

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gallo Rojo View Post
    I finally did an easy and straight forward repaint!

    Ltn. Fritz Rumey - Jasta 5

    Model: Ares Original Albatros D.Va (Baumar)
    Painting: Tamiya Acrilics
    Double-Coil: home made decals taylored after FMC's


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    Albatros D.Va JASTA 37


    White Chevron: ObrLnt Ernst Udet
    White 1: Karl Haustein
    White 7: Unknown Pilot
    White 9: Unknown Pilot

    Circa Late 1917

    I was lucky recently and could grab a lot of old WoW Neux Udet's Albatros D.Va at bargain price ($8 each). Some of them had an altitude peg pasted to the plane, some had broken propellers, some had re-painting attempts. I cleared, fixed, and re-painting and here I have a JASTA 37 flight -- I still have three more that I could add to this Jasta or probably turn into Jasta 26

    All Jasta and personal markings are home-printed decals
    German Crosses are from an eBay retailer
    All planes had their engines re-painted on gunmetal -- instead of the original silver


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    Ernst Udet's Albatros D.Va is almost 'out of the box'. Only modifications are repainting engine in gun-metal, adding the large white "U" in the left under-wing, and painting the section of the fuselage that goes between the lower wings in black

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    Karl Haustein's White 1 used a five star as personal marking. Wings are over-painted (origianal losenge cammo wasn't removed)

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    White No 7. Unknown Pilot. Nice fallingstar as personal marking. I completelly removed upper and lower wings painting and repainted from zero

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    White No 9. Unknown Pilot. It had an interesting alternative since it had upper wings paited on standard dark-green and mauve color, but lower wing surfaces had lossenge cammo

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    Your Albatros are fantastic. I love seeing Jastas being put together and you did a gorgeous job with this one. It is truly top notch.


    Here's to them what are like us. Damn few and they're all dead.

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    I agree with Jim it's nice to see planes from a single unit and you've done a grand job with these.

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    Great Work, Ezekiel!

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    Lovely "Black Beauties" Ezekiel!
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Helmut View Post
    Lovely "Black Beauties" Ezekiel!
    ^^^

    What he said. Looking really sharp.

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    Otto Kissenberth. Jasta 16b. Mid 1917

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    Default My first repaint

    Because I had two of the same planes I tried to give one of them some different look.
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    And a very fine job you have made of them Holger.
    Good at any standard, never mind a first effort.
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    You tried? No you succeeded rather well. Great job.

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    Did you remove the wings when you repainted?

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    Well done Holger! Very nice job.

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    Nice looking aircraft. Well done.

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    Wonderful work, Holger - keep it up!

    All the best,
    Matt

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    Great work. Now that you have the repainting bug there is no stopping you.


    Here's to them what are like us. Damn few and they're all dead.

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    Excellent painting and colour scheme, a very fine job you've done.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baxter View Post
    Did you remove the wings when you repainted?
    No, I still let the model in one piece.

    Thanks for the approval of my work by the veterans.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rhodie80 View Post
    Great work. Now that you have the repainting bug there is no stopping you.
    Next time I want do a repaint of a SPAD XIII for a Guynemer color scheme. But, since it was hard to do draw Hippel's arrow accurate that's why I want to use decals next time. But I can't find the appropriate here in europe to buy. Saw this at ebay https://www.ebay.de/itm/1-144-Decals...53.m1438.l2649 but the the guy seems to be offline since a while. Also I found it difficult to get the right color because even in the reference photos they differ a lot. For example at some the arrow was black at the other it was red.

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    Two Valom Albatros DVa - Joachim von Hippel, Jasta 5 (in his aeroplane and not Richard Flashar's) and an unknown pilot from Jasta 18 (Raben's Ravens).

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    Very well executed renderings Paul.
    Rob.
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    Nice job Paul. Good looking planes.

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    Thanks, Rob and Dave.

    I'm getting the hang of homemade decals. On my first go I was afraid, from all the fear on line about homemade decals, that they disintegrate easily, but that's not the case at all. The Jasta 18 was a test run on making lozenge decals. These are not too apparent as they're under the wing. The real test is going to be my Friedrichshafen G.III from RAF - Scuplteo which will have them on the upper wing surfaces and the fuselage. I've got a lozenge pattern created in Corel draw where I can change colours as I want and create the however much lozenge I need....except I'm going to need white numbers, cross outlines, etc. on top of the lozenge, so I will have to create templates in Corel Draw and put the numbers and crosses on top of the lozenge patterns which will then print out appropriately.

    A small mishap with the Albatros lozenge. I did the top wing which was good then when I had a bottom wing decal in the water I realized I hadn't prepped the bottom wing (in white). Argh! So I ended up overpainting the decal so top and bottom would match. The top wing decal on white was good - didn't need over-painting but it did to match the bottom. Sigh. Every model is a learning opportunity. Hahaha.

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    Ltn. Wilhem Gürke, Jasta 5

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    JASTA 78b: Vfw Michael Sigmann (Big S) & Vfw Karl Kallmunzer (K)

    Bavarian JASTA 78b wasn't among the most famous of successful (it seems it didn't have any ace in its ranks and its top-gun was Offizier-Stellvertreter Eduard Prime credited with 3 kills), but it sure had some eye-catching squadron markings for its Albatross: front fuselage was natural polished wood, and rear fuselage and tails displayed a dark-night like color spotted with white stars -- it was probably black, but I've chosen a deep blue for better contrast with wood yellow ochre.

    Blue-Nose and big "S" was VZfw. Michael Sigmann plane. Vzfw Sigmann was severely WIA on early September 1918 over Lunčville fighting enemy two-seaters and died from wounds later in October '18

    Small "k" was the plane of Vzfw Karl Kallmunzer who scored two aerial victories against a SPAD XII and a D.H.9, before being killed in action on August 1918,

    Source: The Jasta Pilots and Die Königlich Bayerische Fliegertruppe 1914-1918, a good friend had passed me the data

    Re-painting:

    Both Albatross are Ares WoG ones. I completely disassembled and unpainted them by submerging in pure alcohol prior to re-painting.
    Then primmed in white.

    Front-fuselage wood-grain was done using yellow ochre oil applied with a flat brush.

    Rear-fuselage "starry sky" JASTA marking is a home-made and printed decal

    Pilot's personal insignias are homemade decals too

    Stigmann's blue-nose is a mix of Tamiya sea-blue and model master flat blue

    Lozenge decals are from Aviatik -- which are good quality and easy to handle, but printed on a very light ink so you need to apply them over a white area or under-painted color will be visible

    German late-crosses are from my decals box and impossible to tack from which supplier they did come from

    U ndercarriages are from Kampfflieger (you can buy them at Shapeways)

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    Super planes Ezekiel. Where did you get the schemes for the J78b birds? I love the Jastas that get no exposure!

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    Another cracking pair of aircraft Ezekiel.
    Do you have any information on the pilots?
    Rob.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Teaticket View Post
    Super planes Ezekiel. Where did you get the schemes for the J78b birds? I love the Jastas that get no exposure!
    Cheers Pete!
    I got them surfing the web of course!
    Specific sources are a decal's sheet by Pheon and Wingnut

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Officer Kyte View Post
    Another cracking pair of aircraft Ezekiel.
    Do you have any information on the pilots?
    Rob.
    Thanks Rob!

    VZfw. Michael Sigmann was severely WIA on early September 1918 over Lunčville fighting enemy two-seaters, and died from wounds (EOW?) in October '18
    Vzfw Karl Kallmunzer was KIA in August 1918, he had scored two aerial victories -- to an SPAD 12 (?) and a D.H.9

    (Source: The Jasta Pilots and Die Königlich Bayerische Fliegertruppe 1914-1918, a good friend had passed me the data)

    Jasta 78 wasn't the most successful and it seems it didn't have any ace in its ranks (top-gun was Offizier-Stellvertreter Eduard Prime credited with 3 kills)... but it sure had some very cool painting work on its Albatross tails

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    Beautiful work, Ezekiel! You have captured the colorfulness of these two planes - I love the blue and yellow/orange combination, particularly.

    All the best,
    Matt

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    Excellent Albatri!

    Are those your new Kampfflieger Shapeways undercarriage replacements?
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    Nice work, Ezekiel.
    Voilŕ le soleil d'Austerlitz!

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    Quote Originally Posted by matt56 View Post
    Beautiful work, Ezekiel! You have captured the colorfulness of these two planes - I love the blue and yellow/orange combination, particularly.

    All the best,
    Matt
    thanks Matt! The night-like color on the tail and rear-fuselage was most likely black... I decided to go for a dark blue one to contrast with polished wood yellow-ochre of front fuselage

    Blue also matched Sigmann's plane blue nose

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Helmut View Post
    Are those your new Kampfflieger Shapeways undercarriage replacements?
    Yes they are!
    All my 25 Ares' Albatros D.V have or will have them after re-painting

    My Neux's will keep their original one though

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    Quote Originally Posted by OldGuy59 View Post
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    Thanks so much for the card Mike!

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    Two more airplanes from the Aeronaut book - Royal Prussian Jagdstaffel 30: Lt Otto Fuchs (verdigris fuselage with decal of the fox chasing the rooster) and Lt Hans-Georg van der Marwitz (wine red fuselage). The fox and rooster decal is homemade.

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    I‘ve recently finished two Valom D.V - Könnecke and Hippel of Jagdstaffel 5 - as always in the WGF style:

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    A comparison shot between the WGF and Valom D.Vs - the WGF ones miss the elegant shape of the original, at all.

    The Albatros was the easiest Valom Kit, so far. The single part underwing and the combined struts help to achive a fast result. Only the engine had to be sanded to fit in the correct place. Furthermore there was a gap between the fuselage and the elevator to be filled. I also made a mistake on the decal for Hippels‘ arrow: it should be nearer to the front and should pointing a littlebit higher.
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    Very nice Florian

    "He is wise who watches"

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    Beautiful!

    Just look how sleek and shark-like the Valom's are, compared to the awful tall, chubby, 'blocky' Ares monstrosities!
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    love all of your historical knowledge. Now understand the 50 - 60+ model collection

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Helmut View Post
    Beautiful!

    Just look how sleek and shark-like the Valom's are, compared to the awful tall, chubby, 'blocky' Ares monstrosities!
    Agree 100%
    Wish they would redo the DVa

    I would buy 'em all again and condemn the originals to crash marker status.

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    I don't have any Ares ones, much prefer the WoW ones even with their errors, nine's enough isn't it ...?

    "He is wise who watches"

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    Quote Originally Posted by flash View Post
    ............ nine's enough isn't it ...?
    'Course not!
    I laugh in the face of danger - then I hide until it goes away!

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    Quote Originally Posted by flash View Post
    I don't have any Ares ones, much prefer the WoW ones even with their errors, nine's enough isn't it ...?
    This piqued my interest.
    Did a quick check of my Excel file and found I have 14 Ares and 7 Nexus.
    Pulled a few out to compare.
    I wish it was the other way 'round ....

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    Nexus on the left, Ares on the right.

    If these are from the same mold, why the difference?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flying Helmut View Post
    Beautiful!

    Just look how sleek and shark-like the Valom's are, compared to the awful tall, chubby, 'blocky' Ares monstrosities!


    well, you have to remember theyre game pieces, not models. they would be of much use if they broke after 3 uses.

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