Albatros biplanes
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Youtube has another neat film short done in Germany during the Great War. Showing some very involved manufacture of Albatros aircraft...from wood stock selection to final finish.
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Here are a few pics of my WNW Albatros, recently refurbished.
GasPatch turnbuckles and Spandaus.
Maybe I should have titled this submission "Avon Sabre begets Albatros BII". To explain:
In mid-2016 I travelled to the Australian Model Expo in Melbourne, where highly gifted modeller Eric Galliers unveiled his superb 1/32 [...]
Some times ago I've published some images about interiors: (link)
There is likely no fighter airplane better known in the world than that flown by “The Bloody Red Baron of Germany,” as the song “Snoopy and the Red Baron” has it. People who know nothing about airplanes know the all-red Fokker [...]
My first post, I hope you like my work:
The Albatros, my first Wingnut Wings kit, was built straight from the box but includes some additional cockpit wiring, fish line wing rigging with scratch-built turnbuckles and two laminated wood [...]
Started back in 2010 and finally off the shelf and finished.
Cockpit detailed with different gauge wire, etc.
added detail to the Mercedes engine include scratch built spark plugs, valve springs, spark plug wires, and assorted [...]
Hello! My new project is in the style of an EggPlan.
Enjoyable and fun viewing! Sincerely, Vlad.
My contribution to the Water Wings group build is this ancient Monogram kit introduced in 1957. Props that rotate, gear that retracts,and a little life boat with downed crew. What kid wouldn't want to build this. Grumman built over 400 [...]
This is my firts 1/32 scale project, the Wingnut Wings Albatros D.V.
The Wingnut Wings kits are beautiful.
It was a real pleasure to build this kit. I painted it Testors and Humbrol enamels.
I used EZ Line for the rigging.
The figures are [...]