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Seen in the Schipol LHS homepage, Revell is to release in March 2015 a new tool 1/32nd Focke-Wulf Fw.190F-8 kit - ref. 04869. Source: http://www.aviationmegastore.com/focke-wulf-fw190f-8-expected-march-2015-04869-revell-4009803048697-scale-modelling/product/?shopid=LM531e5342352dd6461291318c68&action=prodinfo&parent_id=212&art=125099 That said Revell had already a 1/32nd Fw.190F-8 kit in its catalogue - ref.04716. So new tool (or new parts) or not, that's the question. Revell has the answer. http://www.scalemates.com/products/product.php?id=155520 V.P.

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

New Kora Models (http://www.lfmodels.com/) combi is a 1/72nd Siebel Mistel glider bomb in resin combined with a Focke-Wulf Ta-152H-1 injected kit ( http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234968117-172-focke-wulf-ta-152v-3v-5h-0-h-1-by-kora-models-released/?p=1748374 & http://www.lfmodels.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1789 ). - ref. 72200 - Siebel Mistel Halle with Ta-152H-1 Plastic Ta 152H-1 + resin Siebel mistel glider bomb with photo-ethed parts and decals Source: http://www.lfmodels.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1884 Box art V.P.

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!

After the D-9 ( http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234930559-148th-focke-wulf-fw190d-9-by-hobbyboss-release-february-2013-sprues-pics), the D-10 ( http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234944110-148th-focke-wulf-fw190d-10-by-hobbyboss-release-september-2013-sprues-pics ) and the D-11 ( http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234946466-148-focke-wulf-fw190d-11-by-hobby-boss-released/ ) next HobbyBoss 1/48th F***-Woulf will be a Fw.190D-12 with catalogue reference 81719 Source: http://www.1999.co.jp/eng/10300160 1:48 Focke-Wulf FW190D-12 ITEM No.: 81719 V.P.

Source: http://www.zoukeimura.co.jp/en/sentiment/otr_ipmsRepo2_03.html V.P.

Zoukei-Mura research team was observed at the Udvar-Hazy working in and around the museum's Fw.190 F-8/R1 (http://airandspace.s...id=A19600318000) Source: http://www.zoukeimur...tml#Ipms1211Lst A future Super Wing Series kit in view. V.P.