Tail-Dragon Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 (edited) This is Otaki's 1/48 FW-190A-8 that I originally started as just a 'paint mule' to try out a paint mix. One thing lead to another and, well, here you are. I added details to the cockpit, belts from aluminum tape and solder, and a scratch built gunsight. Bulged canopy is a spare from Hobbyboss, with scratchbuilt headrest and bulkheads. For the gear, I added a strip to the landing gear doors to widen them, shortened the legs and added brakelines, spare wheels from and Eduard kit, cut out the make believe gear well and added a spare 'dimpled' panel from Eduard's, and scratch built the rest of the well. Tailwheel is an Eduard's spare. Outboard lower canon breaches are spare bombs with plasticard shell chutes, and canon's are brass tube. Drop tank and mount are also Eduard's spares. Decals are spare Hobbyboss, old letraset applied to clear decal paper (to get close to the proper style, I had to use the top half of a '2' and the bottom half of a capitol 'L'), and the werke numbers are actually decal sheet item numbers made into decals by painting them with Microscale liquid decal film. Paints are Tamiya acrylics RLM 74 is XF 24:3, XF 27:1, and the RLM 75 is XF 75:8, XF 07:1 - the whole reason for the build! Applied over Tamiya Titanium silver and haispray, and then chipped with water and a toothpick. Hope you like. Just for comparison, here's Eduard's FW-190A-5, and the Otaki kit from the 1970's ... … and the 'Wulf' pack! Edited June 27, 2019 by Tail-Dragon PHOTO ADDED 28 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny_Sokko Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Those Otaki kits really aren't so bad. Great work! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Callahan Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Really great FW 190, well done mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reini78 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 good job there, and nice collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Very good looking 190, and an inspiring tale of working small wonders with what you happen to have available. Real modelling, that! Kind regards, Joachim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevej60 Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Excellent! Despite their age most of the old Otaki kits still scrub up well.Great collection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert_ Posted June 27, 2019 Share Posted June 27, 2019 Awesome. Just love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iggy86 Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 One of the best 190 i've seen, plus the fact of being a vintage kit brought up to today standards proves the hand of a true great modeler. Very ingenius solutions... The letraset blew my mind, the 22 is outstanding. Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 great work Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
F-32 Posted June 28, 2019 Share Posted June 28, 2019 Lovely work and a great collection! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parabat Posted June 29, 2019 Share Posted June 29, 2019 Superb work and great Wulf Pack, love the 190. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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