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Hello All, I'm throwing this one in as a quickie. There will be the most basic of enhancements 'cos I don't do OOB. It's the ancient Revell kit, one from my late Dad's stash of four or five plane kits, no doubt picked up from a bargain bin in a model railway shop. Mandatory box and sprue shot: I'm off to stick some bits together! Thanks for looking, Adrian

Built as part of the FW190 STGB. Knowing very little about the FW190 or German aircraft in general I found myself doing a little research and was pointed towards the aircraft in the wartime picture being G model rather than A model FW190s. A few very crude modifications then followed with this build which is finished in a faded winter camouflage scheme. I didn't get as much fun out of this build as with most other Matchbox kits for some reason. Maybe this was because the kit was a little tricky to smarten up or maybe it was because I went about building it the wrong way. Either way here it is. I feel I didn't really do a very satisfactory job on this kit but if anyone thinks they would like a go at building one of these then please be aware of the Matchbox group which needs your vote.

Afternoon all. Here is my Eduard Fw190 a-5 which I built for the FW190 GB. It's a super kit that fits well apart from the main undercarraige which is kind of vague fitting. The kit decals are excellent although I did mess up the 'tulip' decal on the cowling and had to replace it with an old Hasegawa decal. Painted with Gunze acrylics.

Submitted for your inspection is Academy's 1/72 Fw190 A6/A8 kit, done up as Ltn. Karl-Heinz Koch's well-used 'Blue 9' of JG 5 'Eismeer,' Herdla, Norway, in the spring of 1945. Build was strictly out-of-box save for cannon barrels from brass tubing and aerial wire from stretched sprue. I liked the kit quite a bit, but there were a few minor annoyances: the fuselage cannon cowling is a bit too narrow for the fuselage, and some of the molded access cover latches are too prominently raised---I'll take them down a bit next time I do one. (I have several of these in the 'pile.') Camouflage done in home-made mixes of Tamiya acrylics. Decals a mix of Print-Scale, which behaved themselves for the most part, and the Academy kit ones, which were typically miserable to try to get to lay down. I realized after the fact that the spinner spiral goes in the wrong direction, but that was the only workable decal I had to do it with. Comments, criticisms and accusations of diminished capacity cheerfully accepted. Enjoy!

While sulking about the white paint on the Romanian Gustav, I accidentally made a start on the Hungarian 190. I say accidentally, because I only took it out of the box take a look, and then whoops I'd started it. First up the obligatory box shot. Sorry still can't rotate pics on PB for some reason. Sprue shot next. As many of you may know Airfix really appeared to have dropped the ball on this kit, with a number of errors. First up, they put the tail wheel inspection door on both sides of the tail! That'll need filling. Next up the flaps are like door steps. Thinned on the right, as Airfix intended on the left! Easy to fix, but shouldn't have to be done. Then there's the fabric effect which is massively overdone, so they got a coat or two of MrSurfacer and a thorough sanding back to something a little less wrinkly as per the pic below. As you can see I've also painted the pit, here it is glossed and oil washed. And seeing as I'm doing this one wheels up, little Laszlo snug in his pit. Not sure how he is supposed to fly with his hands on his thighs? So far I'm not overly impressed with kit, what with the rookie errors, and the awful attachment points, particularly those on the armoured cowl ring which are dreadful. I'll wait for the oil wash to dry, then it'll be time for a coat of matt, and then I can attach the wings to the fuselage as Laszlo won't fit through the cockpit aperture! Karl

Good evening, folks! Here's my contribution for this GB with the FW 190-A8 from Airfix at 1/72 scale (new tooling). At first glance, the plastic is good and the details are quite satisfactory for 1/72 scale! I started the construction of the cockpit: ... and painted it with Tamiya Dark Sea Grey. The photos aren't the best, but my camera is old. Then was the wings turn

Made a weekend of driving down from Vancouver to Everett for Luftwaffe Day at Paine Field. Beautiful Friday evening over looking the water sipping beverages, Saturday the air show, Sunday Chain Lakes Loop at Mt. Baker. Overall a super enjoyable weekend. Three planes flew, Bf 109 E-3, Fw 190 A-5 and the Fieseler Fi 156 C-2 Storch. Very impressed with the short take off and landing of the Storch, another kit on the list..... As a car guy, listening to the inverted V and Radial engines was music to the ears. Such a difference between the two, loved it. Many planes and some armor on display, lots of historical data. A very professional, clean and courteous event to attend, highly recommend.Several vintage Porsches, Bmws and Vws were on display for the day too. Building two Bf 109s at the moment and picked up some nice detail. Of particular interest was the inner wheel well of the 109 which to my surprise (not sure why) was lined with an olive coloured canvas. All the planes are restored to pristine showroom condition through the Foundation's choice (not weathered). Part of the talk on the Fw was they all leaked oil straight from the factory. Sure enough, after the flight, nice clean oil leaking out of several locations, all over the gorgeous paint. Certainly would not score you well at the collector car show. Jacques Littlefield's Hetzer is now part of the Paul Allen collection. As a bonus it drove around a gravel field and fired the canon. Would upload some photos but don't know how, will work on that. Plan to attend next year's Battle of Britain event. Overall a great value and fun for $12.00 usd.

Hi All, Something quick and simple from me for this one, As basic as it gets, I think there must be a dozen parts at the most to this. And there's six of those parts in this shot - Needs a bit of filler in places and it looks like I might have to do some remedial work to the port side front as it hasn't moulded very well.

Almost time to get started with this one. Firstly, I already know about the "shortcomings" of this kit, but I shall still build it. I can't throw kits away (just the way I am) and I also want to attempt mottling with a paint brush...so watch this space. Secondly, I will attempt to fix some of the deficiencies of the kit. However I don't plan to fix them all and make an accurate FW190, but I intend to make it more accurate than it would be OOB (leaving myself some commitment wiggle room there). I will thus focus my time on easy to fix faults. I have started this thread about a week ago since I wasn't sure about which color paints to use, and as a result I am now relatively certain what I need, and I have have my paints ready. I've also been getting familiar with this thread on another forum which attempts to fix just about all the faults of this kit. While I am using it as a reference, I won't be doing all the fixes he did as I don't have the skill/time/will to take it that far. Alright, on to the kit at hand. The box art, quite nice apart from the green color in the paint scheme which I now know is wrong. The sprue bags. The instructions, looks easy enough to follow, but time will tell. The decals. Looks quite horrible. The paint instructions. Completely wrong with the instructions giving shades of green. Not very specific either with no reference numbers at all. I will be painting it RLM 74,75 and 76 for the main colors, without the yellow eastern front marking, but with the blue fuselage band. The unbagged sprues. Can't fault the kit for the amount of detail, but I guess it's the shape of the kit once put together that's off. Do wish me luck and let's hope this ends up looking like an Fw190. Cheers Jimmy

THE DRAGON: Who’s he that seeks the Dragon’s blood, And calls so angry, and so loud? That English dog, will he before me stand? I’ll cut him down with my courageous hand. With my long teeth, and scurvy jaw, Of such I’d break up half a score, And stay my stomach, till I’d more. -- Christmas Play of St. George and the Dragon, as collected by William Sandys, F.S.A., in Christmas-tide - its History, Festivities and Carols, 1852 This shall bestride the sea and ride the sky. Thus shall he fly, and beat above your nation The clashing pinions of Apocalypse, Ye shall be deep-sea fish in pale prostration Under the sky-foam of his flying ships. When terror above your cities, dropping doom, Shall shut all England in a lampless tomb, Your widows and your orphans now forlorn Shall be no safer than the dead they mourn. When all their lights grow dark, their lives grow grey, What will those widows and those orphans say? -- G K Chesterton, The Turkey and the Turk,1925 Only Hope was left within her unbreakable house, she remained under the lip of the jar, and did not fly away. -- Hesiod, Works and Days "A cross-Channel invasion was not, as it happened, how I had visualized the war would be won... If anything, I had imagined some gigantic, climactic duel of aircraft, in which Spitfires without number would have overwhelmed the Germans first in the sky and them on the ground. But if a cross-Channel invasion it was to be, that was an end to it... They were going to win. The Germans were going to lose." -- John Keegan, Six Armies in Normandy From 1941 to possibly as late as 1943, the Luftwaffe's dragon, their butcher bird, their Würger (shrike), the Focke-Wulf 190 was the terror of Europe's skies. You don't need me to tell you that. If you're here, you already knew. Small, fast, heavily-armed and armored, it was a formidable foe for Allied fighter pilots and bombers alike. In a head-on attack, the Fw190A-8 brought four 20mm cannon and two 13mm heavy machineguns to bear; the eighteen-year-old nose gunner of a B-24 (like the one flown by my great-uncle on D-Day) could reply with two 0.50in machineguns to defend not only his own life, but the lives of his ten crewmates. For a horrible year and a few months beyond, the Fw190 seemed to have finally ended the Spitfire's ascendancy, but of course, as it ultimately proved, and as anyone who knows birds could tell you, the merlin is larger, more beautiful, and more deadly than the harsh-voiced shrike. The aircraft I'm building is Werknummer 170393/Yellow 11 of 6./JG1, flow by Fw. Alfred Bindseil, who had five victory claims (B-17, Spitfire, two P-51s, and a B-24), including a P-51 whose tail he severed with his prop. Bindseil survived the destruction of Yellow 11 when he force-landed it after encountering marauding P-47s on 31 May 1944, but met his destiny near St. Lo on 20 June 1944 in Werknummer 731091/Yellow 4, or SO I THOUGHT. Eduard has Bindseil's death as 20 June, so I pulled the combat reports for that date from the National Archives, only to discover he was killed in action on 20 JULY, probably in combat with Spitfires of 441 and 602 Squadrons (among them the great J E "Johnnie" Johnson, my boyhood hero, a dragonslayer for the 20th century and a man who I regard, without a trace of irony, as a great man and a genuine hero). 20 July was a bad day for JG1; though a total of three Spitfires were awarded to Oblt. von Kirchmayr (two) and Obfw Flecks (one), bringing their scores to 20 and 14, respectively. Let me emphasize here: no Spitfires were lost. However, ten JG1 Fw190s were destroyed and seven pilots were killed in combat with British and Canadian Spitfires on this day.. Now, all this being said, I did some archival research on 20 June , and it would be a pity for it to go to waste. On 20 June a low altitude patrol of Spitfires from 317 (Polish) Squadron, operating with 131 Wing, encountered Fw190s, possibly part of a Frie Jagd from I and II/JG1. On this date and in this place, Wing Commander Julian Kowalski (a Battle of Britain veteran of 302 Squadron) claimed a probable Fw190 as did Flight Sergeant Longin Winski, though the latter's claim was upgraded to a confirmed victory based on eyewitness testimony from a USAAF Lt. Gamble (possibly P-47D pilot Richard C. Gamble). Kowalski settled in Britain after the war and died in 1986; Winski appears to have died in May of 1946, apparently in the crash of P-47D 44-20867 in Austria; he was twenty-five. "I noticed a FW.190 breaking cloud on my port and flying East to West. I attacked and the e/a then turned South. I was then astern and at 200 yards: [sic] from him. I fired two long bursts from all armament from dead astern and level with the FW.190 and he started to burn. I saw black smoke coming from him and gave him two more long bursts. Then another Spitfire got between the e/a and myself. I was forced to break off the engagement. A moment later I saw the e/a turn on his port wing and dive vertically apparently out of control. The height of combat was 2,500 feet. The e/a dived into clouds which were at 2,000 feet, leaving a heavy trail of black smoke behind him. I did not follow him owing to low base of cloud...I CLAIM 1 F.W.190 PROBABLY DESTROYED." -- W/CDR Julian Kowalski, AIR 50/127/13 "I then looked around and saw another FW.190 on my port, I was flying south at the time, and I followed him in and out of cloud. I got in a long burst of cannon and m/g from 5-10 degs: from 250 to 200 yards: I saw hits along the wings and fuselage and he began to emit black smoke. He again dived into cloud and I followed. When he came out again I gave him another long burst from all armament and still more black smoke came from him. He turned left towards No. 3 landing strip (USA) and I lost sight of him in cloud." -- F/Sgt Longin Winski, AIR 50/127/34 It would have been nice if Eduard had given me the proper date, since each combat report PDF from the National Archives in Kew costs about $5 US, but it was still very satisfying to read about Fw190s getting shot down. I'm using the Eduard 1/72 kit, from their Royal boxing -- it has a confusing set of sprues to enable you to model different types of Fw190A-8, but some careful reading has what I need ready to go. I should be starting pretty soon, I hope.

Hi all- Haven't posted on Britmodeller for a while- this is my third build of the year, Airfix's Fw190 A-8. A great little kit (though not without it's challenges..) After seeing some great Fw190's on here I also decided to check out the excellent Eduard 190 A-8, posting soon. Thanks for looking, all the best- Dave.

Heelo, I have bought a correction set for Revell's 1/72 Fw-190A-8 (Quickboost set No. 72161) I have compared it to the kit forward cowling ring (which has received some criticism for its shape), and there is no discernible difference (?) Even the radius of the opening is almost the same (the difference is less than 0.5mm) Img Source: Quickboost So, given that there is no difference between the two (visible to the naked eye), my question is - what does this replacement actually correct?

Afternoon chaps, Heres my take on Revell's excellent new tool Fw 190 F-8, built OOB with kit decals and painted with Xtracrylix, it goes together brilliantly, detail is nothing short of spectacular for a kit that cost me £20 and most importantly, it looks like an Fw 190 Might have to get another one of these and do a different scheme...

I finished the new Eduard Fw190A-8 at the start of last week and just wanted to share my thoughts on the build and the model itself. First of all, I'm not going to say if it's accurate or not as I'm not the sort of person that measures model kits or checks them against drawings etc, suffice to say I can't see anything obviously wrong with it (like you can with the Airfix kit!) and it looks and sits like an Fw190, so that will do for me. Next point is the detailing, it's easily the best 1/72 Fw190 in terms of detailing. It's the only Fw190A or F out there with the front of the engine modelled (not that you can really see it!) and the exhausts are separately moulded too. It's also got the best moulded wheelbay of any Fw190A kit too. The cockpit like the Hasegawa kit, is very simple, you have the option of flat instrument panels with the details provided by decals, or you can use the Colour Zoom Etch (which I did). The Colour Zoom etch parts, as you would expect include seatbelts, which if nothing else should be used, as you can see these easily, even when the canopy is closed. There's optional standard and Blown canopies, which can be modelled open or closed. The kit is easily the most complicated Fw190A kit to build as the wheelbay needs to be built up and as mentioned the engine front and exhausts are all separate parts, so it will need a bit more care and attention than say the Tamiya Fw190A-3 or Hasegawa Fw190A-8. That said the kit builds really well except for a couple of areas which need extra attention. First of all, as a lot of people know, the Fw190's instrument panel had 2 halves, upper and lower. If you use Zoom etch parts in the kit the upper instrument panel will not fit in the pre cut slots in the inner fuselage halves, without modification. Presumably when the Weekend edition comes out, this will not be an issue. The next area for concern is the nose machine gun decking, on my kit at least, it didn't fit very well to start with, so it needs a bit of sanding, super gluing and clamping to get it to fit. The last bit is that there is a large gap when the front cowling ring is fitted, there should be a little gap (as on the real thing) but the gap on the model just looks a bit too big, so a touch of filler makes it look better. Apart from the issues mentioned it went together really well, I only need to use filler on the front cowling ring gap, it has the best wing/fuselage kit I've seen on a model. I have to say it builds up much better than the well received MiG-15 kits, almost as well as their Hellcat kits. The decals also are quite nice, they behaved quite well for me, going on easily, not sticking too fast, giving you the chance to adjust the positioning. They have also dried on well, conforming to the surfaces and panel lines without silvering. Apart from a few minor niggles fitting some parts (as mentioned) the kit is excellent and I would highly recommend that anyone who likes the Fw190 should get one! There are some pitfalls as I discovered when building the model. The Profipack edition can only really be built as a standard A-8. I found this out as I wanted to do Priller's 'Black 13'. From pictures it can be seen that this aircraft had no outer 20mm cannons in the wings and as a result, no bulges behind the cannons on the upper wing. On the Eduard kit the bulges are moulded on the wings, so to make anything else, you need to file these off and there really isn't a point in doing this as I will explain. According to Eduard, if I understand correctly, in the Royal Class boxing will give you the parts and decals to do 2 standard Fw190A-8's, an A nightfighter and a A-8/R8 Sturmbock (although they insist in incorrectly calling it an R2). One of the standard A-8's will be Priller's A-8 and for this you will get a set of wings without the bulges on top. With the wings without the bulges, it will also allow you to make an F-8 and possibly be correct for an A-5 to A-7 (new fuselage halves with be needed). It's also interesting to note that you get the larger fatter bladed prop from the A-9/F-9, inner landing gear doors for the A-5/A-6,upper nose decking for the A-5/A-6, so there are hints Eduard will release many boxings. As I said I was going to do Priller's 'Black 13' but realised I couldn't easily do this from this kit. I had already filed down the little bulges on the wing leading edge, where the outer cannon barrels protrude. However, I decided after looking at all my spare decals, that the best option that would require the least change to the mostly complete paint scheme was to do the JG10 option from a Hasegawa double set (the one with the snake down the sides). Despite a couple of small errors, it's turned out quite well and I'm happy with it, I guess I'll need to provide pics at some point! So final thoughts now. After building this I can really only recommend this kit and the Hasegawa last Fw190A/F series of kits. The Hasegawa kit is a much more simple and fun build, and is essentially accurate and fits pretty much perfectly together. They also have done loads of the weird and less common armament options (like BT400's) that I bet Eduard won't do, get it for a good price and you'll be very happy you did. If you want a more detailed and challenging build, then get the Eduard kit but remember it can only be built as an A-8 easily oob. If you want another version, wait for Eduard to release it or hunt down the OOP Hasegawa kit! Hope this helps and makes sense! thank Mike

After my first RFI here comes my first WIP.One of the two last kits from the Revell stash(the other one being the F15E in 1/144) The kit itself dates back to 1997 and has been re-released in 2008. Its a good kit indeed,panel lines are recessed and very sharp.Detail is great for the scale.And the cockpit is also very well made with all of the gauges/switches moulded instead of using decals(which I hate). The only downsides are 1.The canopy,its so bad that it probably couldn't be any worse.I must give Revell credit for supplying us with two different canopies to choose from but I'd rather have one good canopy than two bad ones...2.You can't position the canopy in an open position, which is a shame considering how nice the cockpit is. Allright,enough talking about the kit let's get to building... (a picture of all the parts) Cockpit is assembled (I apologise for the bad picture quality,I couldn't wait to take some shots of it in the morning... Everything went together smoothly without any problems A+ for Revell here! A shot of the instrument panel,which I didn't want to make super fancy looking since its mostly hidden anyways... Most of the kit's main parts are guled together.The fit isn't the best Started painting some other parts...(the bomb is too shiny! I'll get it fixed! Parts fit very well and there's no need for too much filler. BS! This one is filler hungry! That would be it for now. More pics coming up tomorrow! (and yes,the rear whell broke off on the last picture)

I've decided to do my new Eduard Fw190A-8 Profipack as Priller's Black 13 that he flew on D-day. I have the Skymodels decals for Fw190A's and it has the relevant Black 13 etc on the sheet. I just have a few things to clear up. Looking at pics of it I'd say it had the earlier style canopy rather than the Blown canopy. Also I've noticed the centreline drop tank is not on the normal rack, it looks more like the sort of rack used to hang the drop tanks off the wings of Bf110's and Fw190's. Any thoughts on these matters? Next is regards to the armament. Hasegawa's kit of Priller's Black 13 tell you not to put the outer wing barrels in and I've seen it labelled elsewhere, as an A-8/R2, which if it's true, it should have 30mm cannons in the outer wings with short barrels. Does anyone know what if any guns did it have in the outer wings? thanks Mike

Just completed Airfix's new FW190 OOB Great kit , really enjoyed building it , and was pleased with the result.

Hello All, I managed to get some half-decent pictures of my speed-build 1/72 Airfix Fw190D today. I made a few tiny improvements but it was mainly OOB with the kit's own decals. The decals performed flawlessly, much to my surprise! The fuselage slogan decal as supplied looks a bit like some wobbly white lines and blobs, so I added a few touches of paint to make it look like lettering. Still illegible, but it looks a lot better. All brush painted with Humbrol Acrylics, using the new RLM colours as appropriate. W-a-y not perfect (and where did that pitot tube go??) but great fun to do. Thanks for looking! Adrian

Hello All, After finishing my 1 1/2 Strutter I didn't fancy resuming any of my in-progress models, so I thought I would have a quick "no frills" build. So on Saturday lunchtime (12:30) this came out of the stash: From a Hobbycraft sale bin a couple of years ago, can't remember how much it cost..... So the aim of the game is a quick build, no improvements, right?? OK, just two - cannon barrels across the undercarriage bay courtesy of Airfix Sturmovik rocket launcher rails, and two card side consoles for the cockpit. I haven't decided whether to add a pilot, so I haven't added any seat belts yet. I've also plugged the fuel tank pylon holes, although I suppose I should have cut the tank off the pylon and added the it to the fuselage. Hey ho. The main components were stuck together before a rather late lunch: I used a little Perfect Plastic Putty under the wings, and in the upper wing root and lower wing to fuselage joins, otherwise it wasn't too bad. The panel over the fuselage guns comes up a little short, so I added some thin strip to the back edge of the recess for it just in front of the canopy, and sanded it to blend it in. The kit has a cover in the wheel section of the undercarriage bay. I have chosen to leave it like that rather than cutting it away and showing scratch built internals in the fuselage. And I've painted the bay RLM02 in defiance of the instructions, which say aluminium. My decision not to go overboard with interior detailing seems to be justified: I was keen to try out my Airfix acrylics for RLM76/82/83: All painting is with a brush. All painting finished before dinner time. Mottling was accomplished with a brush from a Revell starter set, cut down to 2-3mm, with the brush wiped clean of paint before dabbing to get the mottle. The RLM82 (Hu 252) needed a good shake and careful dilution, otherwise you get a strange pale chalky effect that you can see on the left wing and right aileron - these will need a repaint. The red undersides needed three coats to get decent coverage. I realised that where I was painting over the green overspill on the wings and under the roots was going to be persistently darker, so I painted over those areas in light grey to get the same colour as the plastic before resuming. The red paint was slightly silky. The underside decals performed flawlessly, much to my surprise! All decals applied directly over paint with lashings of Humbrol decal softener above and below. This eliminates silvering, even on my mottling, which is matt and quite rough to the touch. The only changes I made to the decals were to add two extra strips to lengthen the white stripes on the cowling and to cut out two white underlays to give a white outline to the "1" on the fuselage. I cut up the white fuselage band from the other option to get this. When I'd finished all this it was definitely time for bed! Quite a lot of progress for 13 hours, with a break for cooking supper too! So tonight I hope to: Paint the guns and ejector chutes Paint and add the undercarriage (doors are done already as part of the striping Paint the exhausts Add seat belts and/or pilot Add and paint cockpit Touch up the RLM82 Apply some swaffelstickers Add exhaust staining and weather it Matt varnish Hopefully in RFI some time tomorrow! Thanks for looking, Adrian

Tamiya Fock-Wulf Fw190 A3. 1/48 Scale. Aircraft represented - III/JG2 Commander Hptm. Hans Hahn. Built out of the box apart from scratch built lead wire seat belts. Paint. RLM 75 Grey/Violet by Xtracrylix XA1207. RLM 74 Grey/Green by Xtracrylix XA1206. RLM 76 Light blue, Mix of Tamiya 7 parts XF23 Light Blue + 7 parts XF82 Ocean Grey 2 (RAF) + 2 parts XF2 white. Primed with Vallejo Light grey polyurethane surface primer. 74601. Timberland gloss floor varnish. Xtracrylix XAFF Flat varnish thinned with Vallejo 71.161 thinner Photographed in studio with stiil life curve base and overhead studio flash and soft box. Canon 1Dx with Canon 90mm f2.8 TS-E tilt shift lens. 1/125 sec @ f32. 160 iso Colour profiled and white balanced with X-Rite Colour Passport. Edited in Adobe Lightroom 6CC. Hope you like it

Morning folks.here,s my take on Academy,s old FW190A.I know nothing of the accuracy of this kit personally to me the kit sit,s too high but it looks like a 190 to me and for £3:50 I,m happy enough,it was just another practice kit this time for the mottling which with my very basic airbrush which I tried on 1 bar.I have had a bit more practice on an old kit on 3bar and got a better result which I hope to try on an Italian based machine in green over sand.Many thanks for looking.

Well, I've "sort of" started on two other models prior to this, but this is going to be my first complete build in close to 20 years. I started amassing tools and paint again a few weeks back and it all started to arrive Monday. A trip to a local hobby store yielded a pot of Testor's Model Master British Green Metallic (for my Tamiya Morris Mini) and ... an Eduard FW190-A5! "$8!," I exclaimed as I saw the box bearing the Eduard logo in a forgotten corner of this very old shop. "Sold!" It wasn't until after I got home I realized it was not, in fact, a 1/72 scale model but ... a 1/144. Not to worry! I decided since it was such a simple model that I would make myself finish it before the weekend, when I wanted to move on to something larger (maybe my Airfix 1/48 BF109E, maybe a 1/72 Su-25 that I plan to do in Iraqi markings, maybe the Morris Mini). It's mostly built now. I'm hoping for advice from you guys on painting it. I've got a fair number of Tamiya paints, a larger number of Liquitex and Delta Ceramcoat acrylics, and a few pots of Model Master. I'm also itching to try out my Iwata Neo airbrush but this model is tiny. The canopy is miniscule (they gave you two in the box, luckily) so I'm not going to try masking it. I will probably try to hand paint the frame onto it, and if that fails, I'll use the other one. I've got it glued together for the most part. I was going to scribe the panel lines but they're actually thinner than the width of any of my scribers. I think a wash will bring them out decently, though. Fuselage, wings, and tailplane are all cemented together with Extra Thin. Between that and the Berna clamps it did a beautiful job welding everything together, leaving it ready for sanding. All sanding is done (except maybe one spot). All parts have been flashed where necessary. I'm not sure yet if I'm insane enough to try using putty on a couple spots on a model that's about 2" long. I'll update the post in the morning with the current state of it, but it's almost 0100 now so I'm going to watch an episode of "The Arthur Haynes Show" from 1963 and then I'm going to sleep!

Well folks....here it finally is. If anyone has followed the WIP you'll know how ridiculous this build has been! Things I tried.. Freehand camo RLM colours from Testors Aftermarket decals (spinner spiral OMG!) Metal tubing to replace the plastic guns I am really thankful for the kind and supportive suggestions during the WIP from many many contributors... Even if sometimes the support was just comedic relief! LOL So here you go ... Not perfect ...the spinner spiral does not belong on the build but it was the last of four attempts available on the decal sheet! Stuffed the angle on the internal canopy back plate thingy......should slope forward with the canopy in the closed position Couple of marks on the model have shown up on the images but I'll clean those up no big deal so....I present the Dopey Dora!!! spinner spiral number 4 finally worked Cheers!

Finally (after a bit of a slog) finished my Fw190. Weekend Edition? There's no way I'd be able to buildthis kit in a weekend! There are some work-in-progress shots here Built OOB except for the Lion Roar PE belts. Construction was a challenge at times, the tolerances are very fine especially when putting together things like the engine area. It looks lovely built up though, and I wouldn't mind building another one as I've learned a lot building this one. I didn't do anything in the way of detailing, as the kit detail is nice enough. I did add a couple of tubes to the drop tank, as it looked a bit 'detached' otherwise. Painted with Tamiya acrylics, the colours are various mixtures made up using guidelines found online, until they looked about right. Oils & pastels for weathering, sating coat from flattened Klear. Oleo strut done with self adhesive aluminium tape, much easier than the foil & PVA I have used before. Antenna wire courtesy of SWMBO's head Looking at these photo's I've realised I'm missing a pitot tube. Half a job Heeley strikes again! Thanks for looking! Chris

Hi All, My FW190 A-3; this was my first effort at the Luftwaffe mottling, which I think went ok, looking forward to trying it on another very soon! Thanks for looking