Hansa Brandenburg W29 1/72

[pourquoi61]

I would have loved to have brought you the Wingnut Wings kit but alas I should have paid more attention at school and got a better job.
So here is the 1/72 Eastern Express kit.



These might be fun.





Thanks for dropping by.
I might not do a post soon as I will be away on my holidays.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Cool shaped aircraft
I bet she builds up just fine

[pourquoi61]

Cool shaped aircraft
I bet she builds up just fine

Cheers and thank you for the bomber SIG it was fun.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Cool shaped aircraft
I bet she builds up just fine

Cheers and thank you for the bomber SIG it was fun.

My pleasure mate...it certainly wasn't just me.
Many behind the scenes

[pourquoi61]

So here is a post even though I thought that I would not find time to.
She looks very simple, so time to start.

Looking at the fuselage halves, two big injector pins to remove.

So I start by removing as much as I can with the cutters.

Followed by swift passes with a small, flat file followed by a skinny sanding stick.

Then on to the floats. I remove the top part and lower "boat" section and remove flash. The plastic is soft so it makes quick work.
Apply glue and wait a minute before placing both parts together.

Some more sanding and a small amount of filler wanted.


While the floats are drying I decided to improve the panel lines.

So this is where I decide to add more detail, I tape the two halves together.

Place some plaster card over the bottom and cut and sand to shape.

It had to be made a lot narrower as the plastic is thick for this scale.

This is glued in with my home-made glue/filler.

Spares box for fuel tank/seat mounting?

Time for LOTS of SANDING and CUTTING to get the wings to fit the fuselage.




Some of the engine parts are glued and painted Citadel Boltgun and the aircraft interior is painted Citadel Balor Brown.


That's all for today. I will post again after my holiday.

[Twokidsnosleep]

You asked for some tips on my thread, so.......

Good colour base for your wood, keep your layers THIN!
Now a little, and I mean almost dry brush, of Citadel Murrfand brown (or any chestnut brown) and barely paint some faint lines that will resemble grain. Faint lines, barely any paint,one direction thinking of how wood grain looks. If the base colour has brush lines in it, highlight the tops of those shapes. You can do some small v shapes and knots, but at 1/48 scale I think just light straight grain following your brush marks.

Let that set up and then overcoat with Tamiya clear orange or if you want it lighter Tamiya clear yellow. Thin layers
A coat of your favorite gloss and Bob’s Your Uncle, job done.
I brush painted everything for my build.
Capise??
Send me a PM if anything doesn’t make sense

[pourquoi61]

So back from my holiday and I continued on with my build on Monday, as soon as I got back and unpacked.
I want to thank Scott for his offer for help on doing wood grain.
My wood panels are small on this kit as it is only 1/72 scale so I found a small piece of wire and dipped the tip into the oil paint (Burnt Sienna) and made a small attempt to do wood grain just rough squiggles.


The wooden frame was then painted Citadel Ushabti Bone and the ad hoc fuel tank that the pilot's seat is attached to was painted Citadel Dawnstone.

I added a fuel/oil/water tank also.

The engine was assembled and painted Boltgun Metal and semi-gloss black.

Foot pedals and flying stick was glued in.

A red wash was applied around the frame.

Engine and rear gunner seat glued into place.

Once dry both halves are mated and glued, clamped and taped.

Thanks for dropping by.

[Nev]

Nice work fella Looking good

[Quax]

great work so far mate, its an interesting type from a manufacturer I'd never heard of so it'll be interesting to hear your thoughts at the end

Paul

[digger303]

It's a interesting aircraft to look at. best of luck

[pourquoi61]

Nice work fella Looking good

Not much will be seen once together so just a token effort.
Thank you sir.

[pourquoi61]

great work so far mate, its an interesting type from a manufacturer I'd never heard of so it'll be interesting to hear your thoughts at the end

Paul

From what I can gather they are a Russian model company who make their own models but also have the moulds from other companies such as Frog, MGD, Dakoplast, Arsenal and Toko which the mould for my Hansa Brandeburg.
The plastic is soft and so is the detail filler is needed and I have no idea what the decals are like till I use them so watch this space.
Thank you for your comments.

[pourquoi61]

It's a interesting aircraft to look at. best of luck

Thanks I think I might need it on the decals!

[pourquoi61]

Okay, with the fuselage buttoned up and left to dry overnight it is now time to glue the wing on.

Sorry for the poor photo, but you might be able to see gaps at the fuselage wing joint.
There was also a step along the lower wing fuselage connection, so I filled this by cutting a small piece of plastic card and gluing it into location.

I added the elevators to the tail, filled the gaps with plastic putty and wiped the excess off with a cotton bud.
This was also done at the wing roots.



The panel lines will be cleaned out also.
The plastic card was sanded into shape.

As the floats have already been glued and sanded I removed some of the struts, cleaned them up and then glued it into location.

Time to fix the water radiator to the plane, but this part was far too big!

Because I did not want to lose radiator detail, I took out a small saw and cut from just above the prop shaft in and then cut down to the lower cut.

Popped into location and glued, a small amount of filler and shaping needs to be done but that is all for today.

Thanks for dropping by.

[digger303]

making it work for you

[Kevthemodeller]

She's looking good mate

[Tomcat64]

That's an unusual looking plane - great work so far mate

[pourquoi61]

On with the build and as the floats have dried with part of the frame in place I drill out the two holes for the front spars.

The next photo shows cross bars that have to be fitted and as you can see they have locating pins on each end.
The only down side is no locating pin holes.


I remove the pins and attached the cross bars at one side only, give them a little time to fix and then turn and fix the bars at the bottom.

I then attach the wing spars to the wing wait for a while so the spars are fixed at one end but can be manipulated.

The floats are glued on to the fuselage with super glue and the then the wing spars are located to the floats, but they do not reach the location pin holes. I glue them any way and fill the gap with hollow plastic rod with the bottom third removed buy that I make the hollow rod into a tiny piece of guttering.
In the next photo you can see the left section no covered and the right one covered and glued.
I think it looks passable.

That's all for today and thanks for dropping by.

[Twokidsnosleep]

I love what you are doing here....dealing with it
Ton of shortcomings and issues and you just access them, plan out your action and do it
No bitching and moaning and whining about the kit (ahem, like I do) you just solve the problem and move on
Very much impressed

[pourquoi61]

Hello I am back, and so, on with the build.
This is the tubing that I am using to fill the gaps.

Now that the gaps have been filled I choose a colour to spray the underside of the aircraft.

Yes what a cheat but I had it around and I think that it would look good on the plane, so on it went.
All over.

I covered the engine with Airfix Maskol, I will not be doing that again


Once the paintwork had dried I masked the underside of the wing with masking tape and Maskol.

For the upper paintwork I chose Dark Sea Grey by Mister Hobby. H 75.
This was sprayed on.



Once the paint was dry, off came the masking.

I waited a day before the application of the decals, looking at the picture one can only see two colours.
There are three but one is very faint and they were going on.

Some trimming was needed to get them to fit.

As you can see on this photo.

I got a fine point pencil, held the decal to the part and marked out the out line.

Cut around the line then stuck them on.
This is where I am as of tonight.

Thanks for dropping by.

[pourquoi61]

Time to start work on a base, I hunted around for an old picture frame and I found one.

Pulled off the card stand from the back, took out the glass and replaced the card.

I cut some balsa wood that I had to make a dockside base.

Placed it in the frame.

I bought a granite cobble set from my local train/model store.

Measured and cut the sheets to fit.

Then cut smaller strips to make the dock wall.

Glued them in place, all the gluing has been done with PVA glue.

I roughly paint the sea with Citadel Regal Blue.

The brickwork is painted with Citadel Dheneb Stone.

I wanted a jetty so I used the rest of the balsa to make posts and supports for the walkway.

Small strips of wood were cut into post size lengths and cut down height-wise to fit the aircraft.

A walkway was then cut to the right length and it was all glued together.

I picked out a few stones in a different colour, Citadel Dawnstone.

Two more blues were painted on to give depth to the ocean. Citadel's Mordian Blue and Alaitoc Blue.

The walkway was painted brown and glued on the base.

To add some interest I purchased a yard crane.

I started assembly straight away.


The frame was assembled and brush painted Tamiya X-33 Bronze.

The jib was painted gloss black with a red pulley, wheel housing and hook. The other parts? painted Citadel Ironbreaker.
Oh, I am going to place it on a small platform, so for that I will be using an exhaust cover from a MiG-29 that I had built for the cold war sig.

The crane frame with cotton thread which was dipped in thin wood glue to give it some rigidity (the cotton thread).

The next picture is the crane 90% built.

While waiting for the glue to dry on the crane I gave the cobbles a Citadel wash of Agrax Earthshade. Brown to you and me.

Once dry the crane had the winch wheels glued on and the base added.

Well that's all for today and thanks for dropping by.

[Twokidsnosleep]

Oh cool, love the diorama scene, that is coming up a treat
Clear home centre silicone works well for water as well..lots of videos on using it in modelling
I used as top layer in my swamp dio with a painted base underneath

[Timplastic]

Like your idea for displaying the kit
Good work so far

[pourquoi61]

Oh cool, love the diorama scene, that is coming up a treat
Clear home centre silicone works well for water as well..lots of videos on using it in modelling
I used as top layer in my swamp dio with a painted base underneath

Thank you, I have done a sea diorama with silicone before and it worked a treat. I have some Woodland Scenics Realistic Water that I want to try out.
Not sure how the Brandenburg would have tied up on a jetty as I have not seen any pictures of it in that location.
I found the silicon great for a sea diorama but I am going for a lake/canal effect so I will be going for a calmer water look.
That's the plan.

[pourquoi61]

Like your idea for displaying the kit
Good work so far

Thank you sir.

[pourquoi61]

My little crane is now done and glued on the diorama.

I have also done a little bit more decaling on the old aircraft.



The kit came with a dolly and stand I painted Tamiya XF-60 Desert Yellow.

The parts were given a wash of Citadel's Baal Red and the wheel rims painted gun metal.

To add a little more interest to the diorama I have bought this.

I will put in a street light.

So I cut out the 4 parts that go together to make the street light.

Glued and then painted the light Citadel Waaagh! Flesh.

Well that's all for today.
Thanks for dropping by.

[digger303]

I'm keeping up with this. Are you going to place the crane on a truck or a rail cart ?

[pourquoi61]

I'm keeping up with this. Are you going to place the crane on a truck or a rail cart ?

No it will be going on the dock side for unloading small boats and lifting flying boats out of the water.
Love the idea of a train or truck at the dock side, but alas no.
Thank you.

[pourquoi61]

On went the German crosses on the under wing.

The rear gun and mounting ring were painted and glued on.
Ring mount was painted black and the machine gun was painted Citadel Boltgun.

The spinner was painted Tamiya XF-60 Dark Yellow and once dry thin lines of Citadel Bestial Brown were painted on by hand brushing.
Once dry a wash of Citadel Baal Red was applied.

Then attached to the plane.

The street lamp and two bollards where glued in place on the diorama, I just placed the wheeled dolly and stand on also.

It will soon be done.
Thanks for dropping by.

[Quax]

its looking superb pourquoi, I'm loving all the little touches that make it a believable picture

Paul

[Tomcat64]

Great work on both the plane and the dio - like Quax said the little details you're adding to this are all bringing it together superbly!

[pourquoi61]

its looking superb pourquoi, I'm loving all the little touches that make it a believable picture

Paul

Thanks Paul I am having trouble finding ww1 German figures to fit the diorama, I will find something I think.

[pourquoi61]

Great work on both the plane and the dio - like Quax said the little details you're adding to this are all bringing it together superbly!

Many thanks.

[Panzergrau]

@pourquoi61 : I just caught up with your build. I loved it! And once tied to the dry dock will look just awesome. I'll try and follow more consistenly from now on, since it is very interesting!

Cheers!
Gabriel

[pourquoi61]

@pourquoi61 : I just caught up with your build. I loved it! And once tied to the dry dock will look just awesome. I'll try and follow more consistenly from now on, since it is very interesting!

Cheers!
Gabriel

Thank you, I have been working on another project so she has been left behind a little. This will be put right soon.

[digger303]

its looking superb pourquoi, I'm loving all the little touches that make it a believable picture

Paul

Thanks Paul I am having trouble finding ww1 German figures to fit the diorama, I will find something I think.

https://www.zinnfigur.com/en/Round-Figu ... 14-18.html

[pourquoi61]

So the guns are on and the exhaust pipes are on and painted, technically the plane is done but I may do a little weathering.
The diorama needs to be completed so more to follow.






Thanks for dropping by.

[pourquoi61]

Sorry for the late posting but I lost my mojo on this one. Raced to get it done and forgot to take pictures.
Here we go, I had some realistic water from Woodland Scenics and I was going to give it a go.

This is what she looked like glued to the board.

Added some clear green to my first pour.

Not enough green and the realistic water was starting to pull paint away from the floats.

For the next pour I used Tamiya Blue X-4.


I wanted a deep relatively fast moving current so each time the water had dried I would pour a lighter colour and not enough to completely cover the first application.

Once everything was dry and set I added a WW1 German Field Wagon from Hat, the plastic is more like rubber to cut with lots of flash and poor moulds.
I also added two figures from Airfix WW1 German Infantry again the same applies as to the Hat Wagon.
Sorry no pics taken until the final reveal.
Thanks for dropping by.