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That seat looks great John. Saw you made reference to Jerry Crandall. I've got the Volume 2 book but still gotta pick up the Dora Volume 1. It's the 190D series Bible and you're right....it'd be really hard to argue with this findings and viewpoints.

It's ONE of the bibles for sure but not the only one. You also need to consider JaPo's two-volume Dora set as a critical reference for the 190D series.



While Crandall organizes the documented Doras roughly around operational fighter groups, JaPo lists the Doras based on Werk Nummer and factory of origin, which can be a significant contributor to the camo schemes that these fighters wore. Crandall's book has more personal narratives from the pilot's, while JaPo concentrates its text on the detailed analysis of probable color schemes based on factory and field conditions. It's really difficult to choose between the two because they are both so good and so different that having both is ideal.

Some work on the cockpit before I start putting the components together. Here is the Revi 16B gun sight that came with the Eagle Editions resin set. I highlighted one of the glass pieces with clear blue/green around the edges and tinted the other one with Tamiya Smoke.


The port sidewall has been glued onto the cockpit tub. After this, the throttle and the and lower instrument panel were glued into place. The foot pedals have been painted and mounted. The roof piece that the foot pedals hang down from has not been painted at all since it will be completely obscured.


The seat will receive its harnesses after I've completed assembling them.

Here's the seat with the HGW harnesses attached to it.


The seat is then slid into place along the seat rails. I added an oxygen tube per the Eagle Editions instructions.


Here we go with the cockpit disappearing act. The starboard sidewall, the forward roof and the rear deck are attached the box-like cockpit is complete.


We dry-fit the cockpit tub into the fuselage to make sure that it sits properly.


As you can see, the view into cockpit is VERY limited and the addition of the canopy parts will make it even more so.




With the cockpit complete, we can now focus some more attention on the rear engine area.

Fantastic John! You probably have plenty of resources of info to pull from but I thought I would share this website with you in case you haven't stumbled over it yet

http://fw190.hobbyvista.com/

Wow! That cockpit looks incredible!!!

Medicman71 wrote:Wow! That cockpit looks incredible!!!

That.....it does. And seeing your picture of the seat belts reminded me of something that I have to do with my own seat belts in the 262.

Thanks guys!

Handiabled wrote:Fantastic John! You probably have plenty of resources of info to pull from but I thought I would share this website with you in case you haven't stumbled over it yet

http://fw190.hobbyvista.com/

I haven't really delved into that site but references are always good to have!

I've cobbled together more of the central MG151 area using some of the resin gun bay parts and sheet styrene. This is purely fiction as I just want to fill up some space caused by the removal of the cowling gun cannisters/chutes.



The straight section of sheet styrene is stand-in as well as a form for the ammo chute. I'll fold some brass sheeting around the form for the actual chute.

Just enjoying watching your meticulous work!