Revell 1/32 FW190A-8/R2 'Yellow 2', Fw Hubert Engst, 6/JG300, Löbnitz, Dec 1944 **Finished**

[Marklo]

5 hours ago, Stew Dapple said:

the blue is a bit more saturated than I imagined it would be and rather brighter than the EagleCals profile,

Colour isn’t a fixed thing it  depends on the lighting the paint and the observer. Also the factory the mix the number of coats the environment the age etc etc..

 

This is why I maintain there is no such thing as accurate colour unless you’re modelling a specific airframe at a specific time in its life in a specific location at a specific time of day !!!  

 

What I always strive for is plausible and or pleasing colour. Puts soapbox away  

[81-er]

I think your mottling looks great, Stew, as does the fuselage band. Marklo's hit the nail on the head about colours too

 

James

[Stew Dapple]

21 hours ago, Marklo said:

Looks good. I think it’s a very good match for the scheme.  I think once you get the exhaust stains and marking on it’ll look amazing.

 

Thanks Mark, I think it's about as good as I could have done it  Not weathering it though.

 

21 hours ago, 81-er said:

I think your mottling looks great, Stew, as does the fuselage band. Marklo's hit the nail on the head about colours too

 

James

 

Thanks James, yes I think I was pretty lucky with the mottling, could have been a little more sparing with it but otherwise one of my better efforts  

 

I was working from home yesterday but had a couple of breaks and got the (presumably) heat-resistant painted panels to the rear of the exhuasts masked and painted:

 

 

 

I think today I will mostly be fiddling with landing gear, maybe some application of transfers later  

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

[AdrianMF]

Looks super Stew.
 

And thanks for (inadvertently) providing a cockpit reference for my FROG build!

Shame about the engine - it's wonderfully moulded and you painted it up a treat - but we know it's there.

 

Regards,

Adrian

[Stew Dapple]

11 hours ago, AdrianMF said:

... thanks for (inadvertently) providing a cockpit reference for my FROG build!

Shame about the engine - it's wonderfully moulded and you painted it up a treat - but we know it's there...

 

Happy to help mate  Yes it's a bit of a shame about the engine but really it took me less than a day to paint and assemble it, which I could maybe have cut down to half a day if I'd only painted the bits that might be seen at the end, so it wasn't like months of toil for nothing  I'm just glad that after going to all the trouble of researching, designing and moulding the engine parts that Revell still allowed you the option of not having the cowlings open to display the engine  

 

I didn't get any transfer application done over the weekend, but did spend a fair bit of time fiddling with the landing gear. The main covers and legs were started:

 

 

... and their ancilliaries cleaned up ready for painting:

 

 

Wheels and tyres were assembled and the colours roughly blocked in:

 

 

I know it looks like I've got one 'ribbed' tyre and one smooth but in fact they're both ribbed, just one is more out of focus than the other as the auto-focus seemed fixated on the plastic packing stuff that I jammed the cocktail sticks into   

 

Finally the undercarriage bits got a coat of RLM02:

 

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

 

[Stew Dapple]

Whoops, I missed the stage where I completed and fitted the landing gear assembly, but trust me, I did, as can be seen below. I applied all the transfers that I had decided to apply which included very few of the stencils (even though the EagleCal instructions note that this aircraft apparently carried a full set of stencil markings). Yes I know, but I'm getting too old, impatient and shortsighted to spend a day adding tiny text decals and since I don't have to, I decided I wouldn't.

The decals I did use (EagleCal decals are printed by Cartograph) were absolutely top-quality and a pleasure to apply and probably deserved a more conscientious modeller than me, but them's the breaks.

 

 

Once they had time to bed down, I applied a coat of AK satin varnish which I bought after the debacle involving the Citadel varnish and the FW190D. I didn't have any application issues but the end result was a little more at the shiny end of the 'Satin' scale than I was expecting, it doesn't matter enough to me to do it again but I think next time I will add a bit of matt varnish to the mix just to take the albedo down a bit.

 

 

 

So, just a last few bits to be added and some detail painting to be done, and this will be done; I hope to get it finished over the weekend  

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

[81-er]

It's looking very nice, Stew

 

James

[franky boy]

That’s looking great Stew. Very tidy work on the mottling. 
 

James

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Well done Fw

[Stew Dapple]

... and I'm done  

 

 

 

I did the 'glamour' shots this morning; I posted the two pictures above because the colour came out much nicer than the gallery shots using a dark grey background:

 

 

But still, in the great scheme of things it doesn't really register  

 

The Revell FW190 is a really nice kit, a bit fussy in places but you can see why they did it in the case of things like the engine and undercarriage which both came out quite nicely even if, in my case regarding the engine, it will only ever be seen again if the model is broken up  Anyway it's a relatively reasonable price for a kit of this scale and as far as I know quite an accurate one, a pretty easy build and a pleasing result  

 

More pics in the Gallery.

 

Cheers,

 

Stew

 

 

[Marklo]

A great result Stew, really looks the part.

[Walter]

Well done, looks great.

[81-er]

That looks fantastic, Stew, well done!

 

James

[franky boy]

Great work Stew. 
 

She’ll look very nice next to your Dora. 
 

James