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Albatros D XI


The business end. The vacu-formed cowl (above left) is tight around the Peck built-up engine and looks good. Cutting off the front of the plastic crankcase will form a good, strong, stable base for the thrust button and any adjustments. Covered (above right) and first layer of paint sprayed on. Next time Dave plans to make it easy on himself and have Rob Wells print the whole thing. Purple


camouflage (below left) sprayed on the fuselage and rudder. Only the black crosses and lettering decal to go. Note the two tones of 5-color lozenge patterns for bottom and top of aircraft. Ready for assembly (below right). Tell us those guns don’t look real—don’t get in front of them. The cowl sides are .005 plastic sheet, painted flat aluminum and attached after the fuselage is painted.


but my 6-year-old son is very impressed by it when I am winding. He makes engine sounds. You will need the weight there anyway. You can use a 2-bladed prop, and it will probably work fine, but other builders and women will flock to you when they see the 4- blader. It really fits the lines of the model perfectly, and is scale. This prop was built up using two Peck 43


⁄4 -inch props with scraped down blades. The center hole is


drilled out to accept a 1


⁄16


-inch aluminum


tube for smoother running. I would go into further detail, but the prop was actually built for me by my friend, Dave Chappell, and I think he used epoxy and a prop jig. It is beautifully made and balanced and moves the airplane along smooth and stable. Two other items really set off the model and, in this case, actually save time. One is the great printed lozenge tissue produced by


Robert Wells. He can print on Esaki or Gampi tissue in any scale and in any of the lozenge patterns used during the war. The Esaki prints do not run under application of water or dope. I have used his tissue on sev- eral models and highly recommend it.


I


chose to use the lozenge print and do the markings with airbrush and decal, but he can print the whole thing for you. You can reach him at plasticjungle@verizon.net.


So ugly that it’s cute. The stab and rudder (above left) are scale. Looking through the cockpit, you can see the fuselage bottom, covered with the light


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lozenge tissue. Wait a minute, the guns and the engine detail (above right) are all covered up. Don’t worry, your friends will look close. Maybe the judges will too.


FEBRUARY 2014


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