Starting assembly of cockpit interior

Third catchup post, end of November.
Assembly of cockpit interior.


Compartment wall between pilot and observer, map table, floor window for observer and window between pilot and observer,


Added rigging line to the table. Dry fit in the fuselage, -looks good.


Map storage and pilot's seat..


Camera is done!


And there are the seats and seatbelts complete!

Detailing interior parts

Sorry, this post again is delayed, belongs mid November

Dials are handpainted, BOSH magneto is to the right.

The steering column comes with photoetched rigging cables.

Painting and weathering of tanks and details.

Detailing the foldable seat and the map table

Adding decals to instrument panel and map table

Metalizing inside of engine panel

Painting observer floor window frame.

Working on some cockpit detail

Sorry for the delay in updating, I have been a bit lazy,

The following picture are actually from the beginning of November:

Document folder, painting before detailing

Observer camera, painting before detailing

Instrument panel, wood effect (same as the rest of the cockpit interior)

Painted the leather seat as well, nearly time for cockpit interior assembly

Hansa-Brandenburg fuselage interior wood finish

Some ejector pin marks here, normally this wouldn't show, but there's an observation window below, so I'm sanding these..

 Usual base coat for wood finish:

Wooden interior done:

Oil colours brushed on. Varying mixes of Umber and Sienna.

Painting the fuel tank and some other interior detail grey

Painting wood finish, interior cockpit framing

Painted base for wood finish

Added oils

Starting on the Hansa-Brandenburg W.12

 As usual, nice box art. This box is much bigger and heavier than the Roland.

-And it's full of sprues.. (about nine of them..)

Starting with this one as it contains the parts for the cockpit interior,

Floor with petrol tank. The pilot sits on top of the petrol tank (!)

Framing. Oil tank in the engine compartment showing.

Partition with window between pilot and observer.

Dryfit cockpit framing. Below, map table and camera.
All fits perfectly. A bit more cleanup required, then painting time.

Roland D.VIa finished

Landing gear and wooden propeller painting

Landing gear

Putty, sanding and woodfinish applied to center section

Nearly done.
Landing gear attached, some other bits left to do lying in front.

Side view

Exhaust added and weathered.
Metal cover panels weathered

Propeller got a coat of desert sand colour, masking for wood layers

Masked, front

Masked, rear

Side view to show wood layer masking

Brown for every second wood layer

Same, rear view.

Oil paint streaks

Decalled, varnsished and ready.