1914 Belgium - UD 18/12 - news re German infantry paint scheme

[Malamute]

Great stuff Steve, a fine bit of putty pushing on that pilot.

[Nysse]

Darn I've somehow managed to miss this thread completely. Hats off to you mate! Impressive terrain project.

[Eric the Shed]

- the prop is too thin (other images had misled me.... Darn it!) as it should have a wider blade tip ..... Grrrr

maybe that the reason why it ended up on the ground...

Steve your painstaking and dedicated work is an inspiration - compared to my 'slapdash approach' to terrain building   

[Silent Invader]

 

maybe that the reason why it ended up on the ground...

The edges chipped off the prop when it hit the ground!  

[Silent Invader]

The biplane and pilot are now finished.

Painting the biplane was a bit of a pain as after its first varnish I decided it was too minty clean.  Varnishing was a total pain as I kept getting ridges from overlaps. It went a bit like this: paint-varnish-rubdown varnish edges-repaint patches-varnish patches-rubdown...etc. That and handling it while the varnish was still wet leaving a finger print either side of the fuselage!   But I got there in the end  

The Sopwith Tabloid after a soft crash landing, nose down with some smoke coming from under the engine:











And with the pilot, who has disembarked and discarded his flying jacket and headgear:









And the biplane on a flying stand. I made this stand (lead poured into the bowl of a desert spoon, drilled to take a brass rod, stuck to a paper base, covered with sand) to help with painting but I'm tempted to add an undercarriage to it (the top of the stand not the bottom of the plane) so I can also fly the plane over the battlefield:



The next phase in the project will be town tile 3, the layout of which I am pondering.

Oh, and a customer service 'gold star' to 1st Corps who very kindly sent me 2 extra wheels for the Minerva - they didn't even want postage even though I'd bought the kit secondhand and not from them direct. Excellent.

[Malamute]

An absolute triumph Steve, I especially like the pilot

[pocoloco]

Excellent end product 

Curious to see yor plans for the third tile 

[Captain Blood]

Marvellous Steve. What a great bit of modelling on man and machine. He hardly looks like a C15th labourer at all now!
Epic adaptation with the old Green Stuff there, to say nothing of the aeroplane.

[Mason]

What a great result.
Brilliant building, putty pushing and finally colouring in, sir.
 

[gamer Mac]

The plane is great looks like a kit build now
The pilot has turned out well

[Dr. The Viking]

That looks great!!!!

But:

(many painted images)


Surely these are photos? Or have you started yet another hobby?! 

[von Lucky]

What a wonderful build.

[Dr DeAth]

Brilliant! 

[Constable Bertrand]

Good show old bean. She came out beautifully, and all from scratch 

You could leave the landing gear off, perhaps they departed on takeoff, hence the soft belly landing in a field.

Cheers
Matt.

[Silent Invader]

Many thanks for the comments chaps; much appreciated 

In case anyone is interested in the condensed story, I have summarised this little bit of the project on the website

http://www.silentinvader.uk/index_w_taf_index_sopwith.html

There isn't anything new there, it's just all on the one page