Kov1985 Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Hello everyone. once upon a time I stumbled on this image. I decided I had to get involved and allowed it to torment my mortal soul. So finally I bought Eduard’a new tool 190 in A4 plus a few extra goodies such as bronze legs and a resin engine. this was going to be a mission. the kit came to together very well and is evidently very well engineered. A credit to Eduard. The resin engine put up a little more fight, but inevitably succumbed to my mad skills. I highly recommend the bronze legs as well. So now it came time to painting. Obviously this one was a whole new ball game. So I poured over some old photos… I kept reading that these fighters had green and brown camos to start with, had winter white for winter and in spring had the white partially removed to reveal the green and brown beneath. This theory is crap. Obviously they arrive at the front standard 74/75/76, cop with white in winter, and in spring the ground crew come along with green and brown, blast it on as quickly and unlovingly as possible, and that’s the result. So that’s what I did with the process. now the actual colours. Requires test mules. I don’t buy that they were captured Russian colours. Luftwaffe airfields hosted bombers and fighters, and crews to service both. They had repair paints to service everything, and I doubt the ruskies left paint for them to use against them. So I narrowed the options down to rlm 70,71,02 or 70,71,79 sand gelb. I chose the latter. And got to work. 74,75,76, hairspray, white, chipping work, then the extra colours. for this I tore bits of paper (not cut, tear) in all sorts of shapes for masks. I looped little bits of masking tape to hold the mask a couple mm above the surface to achieve the slightly feathered demarcation. happy with that, I proceeded to weather it, final assemble and build a simple base out of a bamboo cutting board, balsa planks, static grass and tamiya fake snow. I gave the diorama a quick shoot of flat white to make it look a little frosty, and I’m done. I added a few lead wires into the engine bay. Inspiration from plasmos YouTube vids full credit. a few splatter marks with a stiff brush and oil paints. That and a few other things and I’m done 👍 42 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mick Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 great work 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhutchi Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Awesome build 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roberto Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Beautiful, great painting, I love it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Great build, paint and dio. Your story of the build was interesting too. Good all the way! 11/10 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Great build, love the camouflage , but don’t exclude the use of captured paints, they used plenty of captured tanks ! Wulfman 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Holzhamer Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Lovely build, the extra Brassin just enhanced a bit more. i think you hit the nail regarding the camouflage. One thing you can see in your first original photo, the “pilots monument” bad landing 190 white 4, looking at the port wing cross, we can see that it has a plain white outline balkenkreuz because the factory original 74/75 is very visible within it. I guess I need to build an A-4 soon now 😉 thanks for sharing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djos Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Very effective camouflage and beautifully executed. Overall great looking FW regards Djordje 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Farmerboy Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Great research, such an unusual scheme, and a superb build, what’s not to like, good job! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Giampiero Piva Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Intresting research and very nice result. Bravo ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMCS Posted November 13, 2021 Share Posted November 13, 2021 Superb 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Dyck Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Perfect! Your choice of this unusual camouflage pays off. Very rare too see. And your implementation is 100%. Especially like the weathering on the underside. Heavy , but not intrusive. As the complete model. That’s how 190 may had been looking in the Russian spring. At least in my imaginations. Very good work and research! Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norman Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Excellent ! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bertie McBoatface Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Great build, paint and dio. Your story of the build was interesting too. Good all the way! 11/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murewa Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 What a cool scheme! And that engine ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ForestFan Posted November 14, 2021 Share Posted November 14, 2021 Lovely Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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