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Hello all, I finished this yesterday: Eduard's 2008 Weekend Edition 1/48 Fw.190A-5 as a French SNCAC NC.900 from 1946. The kit is pretty stock except for seat belts and a pitot and pilot's step both made from Albion Alloys brass tube. The decals are from PT Decal, and unfortunately designed as the black text on the rudder is integrated into the tricolore...which is sized for the Tamiya kit This kit has a reputation, but I found it went together perfectly fine *except* for the gun bay doors on the wingroots and nose. Eduard really don't want you to fit these closed, and doing so is a nightmare. Still, aside from that, no big issues. No one really knows what colour these were. Mine is based around darkened Olive Drab with some mottling in RLM71. The wing roundels are too small, paint got into the starboard side of the canopy and so is misted on the inner surface, and I wish I'd put more contrast into the weathering of the prop. Still, it was a fun build. Thanks for looking and comments welcome, Jon
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Please let me present my latest completed build, the 1/72 Eduard Fw190A-5 flown by Hptm. Walter Nowotny. This is my first Eduard kit and it won't be the last, it went to together beautifully. Paints are airbrushed Mr Color and Tamiya acrylics and it was built pretty much out of the box except for the aerial wire and a few extra bits and pieces added to the undercarriage. I went to town with the weathering and tried a bunch of new techniques - the wing root and intake cowling wear was done with the hairspray chipping technique while the rest of the chips were painted with a fine brush. Exhaust stains and general muckiness were applied by airbrushing thinned oil paints, the streaky bits were achieved with brush painted unthinned oils and the splattering underneath and on the undercarriage was done by flicking paint off a brush. There's a WIP here: thanks to everyone who dropped by to take a look. Overall I'm really pleased with how this turned out so I took loads of photos, hope you enjoy! Sam
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This is my completed 1/48 Hasegawa Fw 190A-5, of Walter Nowotny when in JG54 'Grunhertz'. I used the Hasegawa 'Priller' A-5 kit and some of the decals from the Eduard ProfiPack to make Nowotny's mount. I used a combination of Humbrol, Xtracolour and White Ensign Models enamels, some Eduard seatbelts and Master Brass gunbarrels. I drilled out the spar behind the armour headrest to run the antenna wire down (not as convincingly as Mal's Sturmbock build!) and used a strand of hair for the antenna wire (reacts well to CA and is flexible). I also added the 'gear down' indicators above the wing, made from some toothbrush bristles cut down and painted red. On to the pictures. Need to fill the antenna hole in the yellow theatre band... Wing cross (port ) looks off centre, it's just the camera.
