A pair of lockdown FW 190's

[nimrod54]

When the UK lockdown came into force I was told I had to shield for at least 12 weeks, and fellow Britmodeller and good modelling buddy @Hockeyboy76 sent me a Mark 1 boxing of a pair 1/144 FW 190's. With my shielding period almost at an end (1st August), the models have made a nice fill in project between other builds, and I completed them earlier today. I decided to build one more or less out of the box and the other I made a couple of changes to, hopefully for the better. Both were brush painted with Polly Scale Acrylic and Xtracrylix RLM colours, and the wing armament was replaced with brass tubing.

 

This is how things turned out.

 

Focke-Wulf  FW 190 A-8

IV./JG54, Luftwaffe

Berlin area, Germany. May 1945

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

Focke-Wulf  FW 190 A-8

Hans Dortenmann, 2./JG54, Luftwaffe

Vélizy-Villacoublay AB, France

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

by John L, on Flickr

 

I would just like to say thank you to @Hockeyboy76 for sending the kits, and for the phone calls and keeping in touch during my enforced isolation. Cheers matey, it helped a lot.

[Hockeyboy76]

They have come out great dude, glad you enjoyed them. I’m still fitting the resin cockpits to mine. I shall disappear off to the man cave tomorrow and get a shift on, in between “jobs” in Little H’s bedroom. 

[nimrod54]

Cheers buddy. Here they are on the shelf with my other WW2 Luftwaffe types, and I have straightened the prop blade, don't know how I am going to get the Ju88 in though. 

 

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[Walter]

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