Halberstadt CL. II
White primer was used on the fuselage (above left) since gray does not play well with yellow. The fuse (above right) was painted with dark yellow, covered by a grainy spritz of dark green. The landing gear (below left) is carbon tube,
ply and steel wire. Also can be seen is the woodgrain finish on the undersides. The wheel (below right) is secured with scale-like tubes, washers and retaining wire. Annoying to paint.
I used painted Japanese tissue for the rib
taping, sliced on the laser and applied with Polycrylic. Using a solvent based medium was out since that would not have played well with my enamel based scheme that took me a week to do. I cut five poster board stencils and mount-
ed the tissue to a board—the plan being to simply hold the stencils over the tissue while spraying. I felt that a little under- spray would not matter much, but I really didn’t get that much after all and, in retro-
spect, this might have been a good option for the basic covering. Since the stencils were machine cut, I could rest each on two nails driven into the tissue board and then just slide them left or right to index them prop- erly. This worked beautifully and it took very little time to airbrush in once I had the process. To replicate the wood grain finish, I first basecoated the underside with flat MM acryl “Wood”. I used water based paint here after researching some techniques where the
basecoat is water based and the wood grain effect is done in enamel so that the reducers in the enamel don’t soften or distort the basecoat. I then coated the acryl with Poly- crylic which has a matte sheen and which al- lows the enamel wood grain coats to streak. I masked off each panel in succession and
wetted the surface with solvent - just a lit- tle spread out evenly. I then applied raw and burnt umber enamels with a solvent brush, streaking it back in semi-parallel lines. I kept paint thinner handy to reduce the col-
The lozenge scheme was airbrushed on silkspan (above left) through five poster board masks to provide material for the rib taping. Yes, a sheet was also
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done in the “lower” lozenge scheme. The painted wing panels (above right) before Rob noticed that the tan for the lower was incorrect.
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