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FW 190D9 Dora Red 1 of the JV44, Munchen-Riem, May 1945

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  • Member since
    January 2005
  • From: Washington
FW 190D9 Dora Red 1 of the JV44, Munchen-Riem, May 1945
Posted by uproar on Sunday, May 7, 2006 5:15 PM

Greetings!  Here is my FW-190D9 Dora Red 1 of the JV44, on its finished base, about as it appeared prior to capture at Munchen-Riem in May, 1945, following its abandonment--it's the Tamiya kit, 1/48 with EagleCal decals, Aires cockpit, Eagle Editions resin prop, gun cover, cowling, wheels, Eduard PE landing flaps, Cutting Edge control surfaces, brass tubing for the wing and fuselage gun barrels, Model Design Construction resin wheelbay/engine set (with solder wire for hoses and plumbing), Moskit exhausts, painted with Color of Eagles RLM acrylic colors, weathered with Tamiya Smoke acrylic, Van Gogh oil paints, and Tamiya weathering powders....antenna wire is fishing line, threaded through tiny .0078" drilled holes and CA glued. I also used brass wire for brake lines, wrapped with thin strips of styrene. The original Red 1 shows some substantial fire damage of the windscreen (essentially blackened), as well as the starboard fuselage, just forward of the cockpit, in all known photographs of this portion of the aircraft following capture--this I have attempted to recreate, as well as the splinter damage to the propeller blade and the overpainted white spiral on black on the propeller hub. Apparently, the fire may have been deliberately set in an attempt to destroy the craft to keep it out of Allied hands. The chipped paint was done with Tamiya and Prismacolor silver fine paint markers. The starter cart is Verlinden, painted with Color of Eagles RLM02 and weathered with Tamiya and Bragdon weathering pastels to give the appearance of extended neglect, and the oil drums and jerry cans are Tamiya.  The base is the Just Plane Stuff Luftwaffe Hardstand, painted with Model Master Wood color acrylic and then washed with various shades of Umber oils, weathered with pastels, and liberally stained with Gunze "oil" and streaked with pastels to represent tire marks.  Various shades of Poly-Scale acrylic dirt and mud color, as well as Woodland Scenics foliage, were used on the earthen portions of the base.  I wanted to include some figures--American GI's, hanging around and posing for photos, but was unable to find any appropriate figures that were well detailed.

What do you think? Any critique is welcome...Thank you!


  • Member since
    July 2003
  • From: Cincinnati, Ohio
Posted by ridleusmc on Monday, May 8, 2006 1:52 AM

That's Awesome.  I don't know very much about FW190's, but I can say that the weathering on the aircraft, base and equipment is masterfully done.  The starter cart looks like something that has been sitting in a neglected barn since WWII.  Great Work.  Great Weathering

Chris

  • Member since
    November 2005
  • From: Somewhere over the rainbow
Posted by m1garand on Monday, May 8, 2006 7:35 AM

Very nice! 

  • Member since
    January 2005
  • From: Washington
Posted by uproar on Monday, May 8, 2006 9:20 AM

From what I have read, Munchen-Riem field had only been abandoned for less than a month or so before it was captured, but it was a particularly wet spring--I believe it had actually snowed (unseasonably) in the area the day before it was captured, so I figured things would rust pretty quickly.  The fire damage on the starboard side of the actual plane has been assumed to have been due to a deliberately set cockpit fire--although there are photographs of American GI's posing for photos while sitting in the cockpit of the Red 1, and I doubt that too many people would want to sit in a nasty, burned out cockpit, so I'm a bit doubtful that it was a cockpit fire, but I could be wrong. 

Thanks for the kind words.  This is the first model I've build since high school, about 27 years. 

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