Touvdal Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 (edited) This will be my first build of the super new kit from Eduard, i am looking forward to it and also happy that they have now given us the first A-5 i 1/72 I will use some old left overs from the Revell kit for the gun pods. Cheers Jes Edited August 29, 2016 by Touvdal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Ooh nice welcome to the build Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arniec Posted July 15, 2016 Share Posted July 15, 2016 Nice one. I am at the moment bussy with the 1/32 version. I am quite curious how you will interpreted the paint scheme. I am still thinking about the yellow tail band. Cheers, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touvdal Posted July 15, 2016 Author Share Posted July 15, 2016 Hondt a/c is pretty well documented, so i think it is possibel to make it cheers Jes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touvdal Posted July 17, 2016 Author Share Posted July 17, 2016 Nice one. I am at the moment bussy with the 1/32 version. I am quite curious how you will interpreted the paint scheme. I am still thinking about the yellow tail band. Cheers, I have now taken a look in Rodeike FW-190 p. 178 -180, and JG1 Vol. 1, Prien/Rodeike and Lutfwaffe fighter aces vol. 1, B. Barbas p. 69 (Hackl plane) All photoes backup that JG 11 used yellow tail bands at the period. Also clearly showes in Hondts plane very dark because of the film used. I will also say the it has yellow under engine cover and probaly yellow spinner or i could be red as 2. staffel color was red and it differs quite a lot to to the yellow under cover but is more like the red band on side fuselage and also the color for 2. staffel. , defenedly not black or RLM 70. ref. FW-190, p. 180. cheers Jes 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalkeEins Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 All photoes backup that JG 11 used yellow tail bands at the period. Also clearly showes in Hondts plane very dark because of the film used. hi Jes . it does look like there might be something there but.....have you read that passage in Prien's JG 1 & JG 11 history; there is a letter from Hondt to his parents describing how "colourful" his aircraft was - painted with the red 'V', the white tail etc - but no mention of a yellow fuselage band at all IIRC. That's not conclusive by any means, far from it. Hondt was shot down and the aircraft lost on 8 October 1943 - this is before fuselage bands were introduced though. See Peter Rodeike's small article in Jet & Prop 3/12 - he is also of the opinion that there was no yellow band at this time. I posted a nice clear print of this machine on Arniec's thread - the 'brighter' and 'clearer' the picture the less obvious is any change of colour towards the rear fuselage.. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touvdal Posted July 31, 2016 Author Share Posted July 31, 2016 Hello Neil I have looked at your photo and the J/P article by Rodieke and Hondt letter. So i will agree that there are no yellow band and i also think that if he had a red spinner it would have been mentioned in the letter, so black it is. Cheers Jes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arniec Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 (edited) I have just looked at a Dutch book about the air war in WW 2 and there is a bit about Erich Hondt. There is a statement that his airplane was polished just before his last flight to get a few extra miles out of it. Cheers, Edited August 7, 2016 by Arniec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touvdal Posted August 5, 2016 Author Share Posted August 5, 2016 Well i got started on this one, super kit i love it I has been worth the many years of waiting to get a A-5 . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dazdot Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Looking forward to seeing this progress Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touvdal Posted August 21, 2016 Author Share Posted August 21, 2016 A little work done Cheers Jes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FalkeEins Posted August 22, 2016 Share Posted August 22, 2016 ...given that you could build a Fw 190 in your sleep Jes, how is it actually going together ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touvdal Posted August 24, 2016 Author Share Posted August 24, 2016 ...given that you could build a Fw 190 in your sleep Jes, how is it actually going together ? Like a hand in a glowe, very nicely very little filler need, glad that i got overtrees for 20 pcs. from eduard. cheers Jes 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touvdal Posted August 29, 2016 Author Share Posted August 29, 2016 Was ready for paint job and i had already painted the tail white when i then try fitted the gunpod they where to short, they came from an old Revell set. They have to extend all the way back to the flap edge, so have to wait for others to issue correct gunpods. So now it will be a regular A-5, chose a JG54 a/c flown by Trautloft with interesting camo. Cheers Jes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Touvdal Posted October 16, 2016 Author Share Posted October 16, 2016 So managed to get this one finisheh after change of plan Cheers Jes 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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