My problem wasn't with the colors so much as the textrure. If scaled up to full size the wood grain would have been 1/2-inch deep, which is as thick as the plywood paneling itself. After my post last night it was bothering me so much that I sanded it down and repainted the fuselage. While I was doing that I reshaped the nose to match a photograph I have of an early one with the 160-hp Benz engine. Over the four years of the war and after the Hansa-Brandenburg was modified with successively larger engines, both more powerful and physically larger. Late models have an entirely different shape to the nose.
Today I got the top wing mounted. I had some plastic strut stock I bought a long time ago, but I've used up everything I had that was the right size, and you just can't find it anymore. I took some of the thicker pieces and sanded them down until I was satisfied they were close. As with the Fokker B.II, the Hansa's struts slope not only forward but inward as well.
Next is the radiator, then the markings, gun and rigging.
