1/24 FW-190 WIP- THE MUMMY

Nice photos of the primed parts, though I had to pause a moment when I saw a hand reaching up out of the parts.

Seeing the Jumo 213 makes me wish someone would just do a series of large scale aircraft engines in the same way Testors issues their auto engine series

But then, we'd want to scratch build ......the rest of the plane.

That is some prime work...

Thanks for the compliments ,the hand is from a Vampiress...............

Krow... looking good so far.   I've built this kit and the LG is a problem.  That soft vinyl like plastic will barely support the weight of the ting.  It has been a while so I can';t remember of the LG struts are hollow.  If so I advised inserting some wire in there.  The only way I could get the LG glued in was to use some gap filling CA and accelerator to harden it fast.  Set it on the LG and the weight would crack the glue because of the play in the fit.  I Kept doing this until the "gap" was filled with hardened CA glue.  If it is not hollow you maybe can drill it out from the top down enough to put some wire in to help and then work the wire into gluing the hole affair in place.

You can see my build here... http://wingnutmodels.com/Fw%20190D-9_trumpeter.html

Good luck.

Wnut Thanks I am toying with building from scratch  out of metal,but I will check your build

The base in progress , 3/4" medite cut to shape & routed edge ,sprayed with stone spackle spray paint ,clear coated. Clay groundwork.

And yet more base ,at least I will have some where to put these wips when I am done .Primered clay first.This one measures 30" x 30" /Washes on and some spackle to break up the flat ground work. Some small rises to be covered in grass.

Cut lines in to hold the spackle.

Washes for color.

Then white glue thinned and brushed on for sanding. More color to come and grass on the grassy knolls.

At last! The base is done ,some simple cleanup later and  maybe a little dbrushing ,I will put it away and try to get to the actual model now.I do have somewhere to put this kit when its done. Some blending is nessecary as well .The final here was color washes , edge blend , grass tufts from Woodland Scenics superglued in place and noched after . Base is 30" x 30" plane sits in the middle.Name plate to finish.

Got some werk done on this- pix to follow...................

And so here we go on the big bird ,todays werk consisted of blacks and greys and silvers abrushed on these parts..............

...................all questions welcome regarding this build. And I will be posting my usual dumba$$ headlines ,you may have noticed.........

Looking great, what's the length on this bad boy? I still don't know how to figure out the conversions.

HH- Thanks for the comment. Length of the model or length of the real plane?

Updating here ,the engine in wash's of light grey and smoke .Gear bay 1/2 done in smoke to see the contrast.

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And now to fry my brain................

Not as bad as I thought. 1.5 hours to layer the guages..........

Ip werk tonight ..............

Its really coming along nicely. I really like the engine.

Jmodeler -Thank you

My entire life ended this weekend .Why? My computor went down.I have a dozen hammers ,if one breaks I grab another,not so easy on the computor side of things.Here is an update for this wip,moving things along nicely.

Landing gear in RLM 02...

tail wheel with at least 5-6 extra parts on the main assy.........

Cockpit comin' along.............

And landing gear cover with properly located mounting holes,these did not concur with the gear leg bolts....

Ip werk ,includes Eduard placards ,wiring , windshield cleaner fuel line , a Grandt rivit , a Tichy bolt , Verlinden p/e , adding up to a busy ip.

Your CP looks great so far.

Jmod Thank you .I would like some opinions on the ammo counter .This is the Waldron 1/24 set ,it is quite larger than the Eduard counter in the p/e placard set.I'm gonna leave it for now but may have to remove/replace later.

More work on the ip and cpit .Seat and stick in ,detail painting.

Great start! a expensive build, I know the kit was over $200.00 and after market over $100.00 so I passed, Hmmm now I'm envious.

Be looking to following the build.

Berkut : Thanks ,I got the kit with 5 other 1/24's on ebay for $300.00 All the am came from ebay as well.

Landing gear covers in gloss black. Too cool not to put up - one day soon there will be a gloss black FW 190 D9 on here.

Some paint work and assy goin' on......................

Progress today..............

Spinner work ,I buggered the decal up so I scanned the sheet and traced the spinner decal converting it to a vector file and cut masks on my vinyl cutter.

Sprayed with MM Camo grey with a little white.Testors Dull coat to finish.

Nice job so far. The spinner and the engine look great.

Nice work there.  Did you redo the LG door interiors? Or did Trumpeter fix them?  That looks like the Verlinden resin cockpit.  The landing gear really needs to be beefed up.  That cockpit is like a brick.  i think if a fly landed on mine the thing would collapse.