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1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 9:07 am
by Fermis
I will be building this one as the plane on the boxart....with a little help from Eduard!
Starting with the pit...
Overall construction is pretty simple...it is a 1/72 190! Only real problem is the nose/engine face overlaps the fuselage and needs to be sanded down. Wing/fuse join just aft of the wing root needs some filler and sanding as well.
I got ahead of myself and glued the wings up, making it impossible to use the PE flaps. Ordered another kit to swap out parts. While waiting on the new kit, I reworked the main gears(too long as provided)....however, this was less than good, so I broke out some aluminum and brass tubing, Tamiya tape and some CA and scratched a new pair. (Bottom one is unmodified kit piece, next up is modified, and the others are mine)
New kit arrived yesterday, so I got the wings done. Had to remove a LOT more plastic than the instructions indicated to get the flap parts to fit. Also drilled out some brass rod to replace the gun barrels and made a new pitot tube from brass rod.
The right tools make things easy...and in the long run, probably cheaper than buying a/m pitot tubes!
Re: 1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 9:13 am
by LyleW
Makes me want to break out the Binford 9000 dual turbo, super-charged electron microscope with 5x diopter!
Looks might fine, fermis.
Re: 1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:10 am
by Thomas_M
More and more like Airfix´s new box art! Thought this was it. Man, I was wrong! Look at those LG legs!
Re: 1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 5:32 pm
by Fermis
Thanks guys!
Did some painting today....
White camo will go on later...after the markings.
Re: 1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Fri Apr 11, 2014 10:49 pm
by pzl66
Ooh such fine detail! Cant wait for the white paint!
Re: 1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 2:33 am
by Thomas_M
This camo looks already finished! Beautiful! What colours did you use?
Re: 1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 2:35 am
by AIRFIXER
Stunning work so far.
Keep it up!
Re: 1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:23 am
by Fermis
Thanks guys!
Thomas_M wrote:This camo looks already finished! Beautiful! What colours did you use?
MM enamels....RLM 74/75/76 w/ white added to each for fading effect.
Did some more painting...decided to add some mottling, to give a little more contrast after the white squiggles are done.
Re: 1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:27 am
by LyleW
Probably good you don't do a lot of 1/32...they would probably just fly off. Another one, very well done.
Re: 1/72 Airfix FW-190F-8
Posted: Sat Apr 12, 2014 7:28 am
by Paul
Krazy, man.