1/72 Eduard FW-190's (Finished)

Three gorgeous looking "Butcher Birds"....the engine detail for that scale is insane....too small for my aging poor eye-sight!

Cheers

Thanks again guys!

Mike...the exhausts are first painted flat black, then drybrushed with "rubber" and then again with "rust" (Testors). At the end, after dull coating everything, I'll brush on a bit of black, then brown pastels. The exhaust shmootz down the side of the plane is just pastels.

Excellent finish on the exhuast stacks.  What method did you use?

Sorry to here about photo bucket mine is so bad I quit joining builds its the first and only one I learnd to use. I nead to find another.

Your build are verynice. I'm not sure about trying that smaller scale. Your details is amazing.

Ah ....that my 1/48th's might look so good.

Really fine workmanship.

hanks again guys!

Much appreciated!

These are real gems! Your builds are truly inspirational and I've learned a bit from this WIP - thank you!

I'm currently trying to help someone in the ships forum post pictures but PB has been down all day for "maintenance". I sure hope they get their act together soon. I mention this because you seem to have had some problems with them in the last day or two as well but you were able to get the URL's for these magnificent models eventually. Thank goodness - yours is just flat out gorgeous work!!

Mike

Excellent work! Id have a hard time simultaneously building 3 models as great looking as yours. You pulled it off!

Oustanding, Fermis!  I saw the beginning - missed out on seeing the middle - and then "poof."  Out pop three gorgeous '190's.  Beautiful work!

Good grief!! I feel like I should have to pay something to view this awesomeness.   Magazine worthy and then some.                             gk

...and...

P/B finally got around to doin what it's supposed to do!

Finally!!!

White 10...

Black 8...

Jester75

Nice finish fermis! The detail under the hood is amazing for that scale. I think I am a bit partial to white 10 personally. Something about the white cowl ring and the two tone theatre bands.

 

That does set it apart, and I love it for the same reasons. I really dig Black 8 as well, for the red outline and yellow spinner stripe....and then there's the opened up one!

Nice finish fermis! The detail under the hood is amazing for that scale. I think I am a bit partial to white 10 personally. Something about the white cowl ring and the two tone theatre bands.

Got this batch all wrapped up.

I'll get the rest of the pics posted, if and when photobucket decides to quit being a total B!T@#...nothing but problems there lately.

Anyway...until then...

Thanks again dudes!

All decals are done, as well as a wash. They're all on their feet and getting the rest of their fiddly bits.

A yupper, that's a trio of nice looking 190's

Beautiful work, fermis. Wow. Can't wait to see them finished!

TF

Thanks again dudes!

I did the specific to airframe decals last night. When I sat down to the bench this afternoon, I was not happy with what I had...finish wise. The white was weak, the black was way off from the black decals, and the shades of grey showed very little demarcation between them.

 So, I masked off what needed to be masked and sprayed a lighter shade of grey(RLM75).

"White 10" has been done and unmasked, "Black 8" is done...a much closer match to "Blue 13". I peeled the masking off the wingtip of the one above the rest, just to show the "before".

After that, I masked and sprayed a bit more white on the tail bands and nose of White 10. Then masked the borders of the (whatever they be) black decals, behind the exhausts, cowls and wing roots and sprayed them all the same. Another coat of gloss. Much happier now! (aside from the delay of getting the decals all done)

Thanks a ton for the engine pic and info Fermis. it's a real help.

Damned nice work fermis. The mottling on those looks super sharp and in 72nd to boot! 

I very much appreciate the tutorial on your painting methods. I'm working on masking my Tamiya 1/48 Fw 190 F-8 now and your WIP details are quite helpful.

I still don't understand how you can get the styrene parts of a 1/72 kit to look like the real thing! You have extraordinary skill in this hobby!

Mike

Wow, its impressive that you can line 3 kits up and get fantastic results from each. Niice!

I still am in awe that you're building these aircraft with this much detail in 1:72!  Fantastic!

Toshi

I like the effect, I'm going to try this with the Spitfire I'm building.

Alright, alright....painting time!!!

Gonna go through the whole process here, step by step.

I'm sure it's not the "be all end all" to painting, but it's what I do and I like it!

Step 1. Ducks in a row! Everything not to be painted is masked...fiddley bits CAed to some scrap sprue...ready to sling paint!

2. Hit the canopies with the interior color.

3. All black...or in this case, a very dark grey.

4. Marbling/mottling in white...this is when I also do tail bands and "prime" for other splashes of color (such as rudders or yellow chins...not in this case though).

5. Tail Band and cowls painted.

6. Bands and cowls masked off...time for color. RLM76 first. I thin the color coats way down, beyond 50/50...to a point where you really can't see any color with one pass. Build it up slowly! When you think you've almost gone too far, it's time to stop!

7. Lightest top camo color...RLM75. Along with a little bit of mottling.

8. Final color, RLM74.

9. Any other color that needs to be painted. In this case, the black wing roots were easier to mask and paint after the other stuff.

Same is true for the flap area. Since I had the RLM02 out and loaded, I hit the landing gear parts as well.

All are nice and shiney right now, waiting on decals!

Thanks everybody, much appreciated!

Jay Jay

Man that engine is fantastic.

I am just starting an Accurate Miniatures 1/48 TBF-1C Avenger I bought at an IPMS show.  Included in the box was a Verlinden resin engine Marked for the Avenger but it looks VERY similar to your 190.  I am going to attempt to build it similar to yours in appearence with of course American colors.  I just hafta find some referance pics somewhere but I don't know exactly what the engine brand/number would be.

Any suggestions ?

 

I believe you'd want to look for a Wright R2600 Cyclone.

I LOVE that kit. It was a game changer for me! Prior to building that kit, all I knew was the old Revellogram stuff. I called a shop, listed in the back of FSM looking for a TBF to build for my Grampa (he was a radio op/gunner on the TBF). WOW!!!! What a kit! I have since built another, and have another pair in the stash.