FW-190 Reich Defender III 5/10-2/11

Bondo that looks wonderful, very well done. 

Krow your progress is looking superb.

Mike well done on an excellent bit of modeling, great save!!

Cheers...

Chaps I've a little more progress to show you,

First off I've got the fuselage half's together along with the pit inside,

And I've been busy doing the wheel wells.

Soon be time to get the wings attached which should be fun looking at others previous experience

All comments welcome,

Cheers...

Spike-Bondo-Epting -- Very nice WIP pics.  I am looking forward to seeing the finished birds.

Krow-Fantastic engine.  Love the textures.  That's a 1:24 scale power plant, right?

I forgot who built the little Turk Fw but I enjoyed the history lesson.

Clebode

Spike-Bondo-Epting -- Very nice WIP pics.  I am looking forward to seeing the finished birds.

Krow-Fantastic engine.  Love the textures.  That's a 1:24 scale power plant, right?

I forgot who built the little Turk Fw but I enjoyed the history lesson.

1/24- yes thank you .I'm kinda teasin' you guys ,please check the wip in the  aircraft forum ,I'm starting to move very quickly on it.

Hey Spike,

Nice job! I am sure you will have less fit issues than me- mine started from the beginning, so chances are yours will be just fine.

Rob

Guys guys!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thought you would like to know there will be for the first time an FW 190 racing at Reno this week in the unlimited class.

Sorry about the double post guys,,,,, well not really. Here's a picture of the FW-190 that arrived at Reno lastnight.

Piloted by John Maloney, looks to be race #14 but I am not too sure about that yet.

Now to see if I can find streaming video so I can watch the races.

I'll see if I can get pictures of it up close in the pits...

Bondoman that would be great and lucky you being able to go to the races, after all one has not been to a race until you have been to the Reno Air Races. There will be a number of interesting planes racing this year along with the 190. A P-51A, 2 Yak-3's, among a few others. They have already broken 3 speed records in qualifying so far, tis gonna be a great race.

Great work guys all round

Randy, i never knew they raced them, very cool

Frank, my D-9 is in the paintshop, pics soon ok

Vetteman,

Is this one of the Flug Werk 190's? I know of two that have crashed in the last few months, I didn't know there was another one flying in the US.

Rob

Julez72 I knew they raced a 109 way back when, but this is a first as far as I know about a 190 racing, I could be very wrong though as I know little about them. For a time I was thinking of building a what if FW-190 racer, now I have a couple of pictures of one

Maxfax I have no idea buddy, one of the other guys here may very well know. I was just blown away when I saw this one is racing in Reno and this group was the second thought for posting the picture I found of it. First thought was how can I get me to Reno this weekend to see the goings on there. I did find a site where I can listen to the race announcer but still havent found a live video site yet, havent given up the search though.

I do have a better picture of Race # 14 if you guys want me to post it I will.

Bondoman cant thank you enough, I would love to see any pictures you are willing to post. In fact if you want to email any of them to me I will PM you with my email addy.

.......................check my wip...........................

Very nice Krow, lots of detail in there...

Wow, I would love to see that Wulf racing at Reno!  Bill- I'll be looking forward to those pics.  If you get any good ones of the Super Corsair (race 57) I would love to see those too!

vetteman42

Sorry about the double post guys,,,,, well not really. Here's a picture of the FW-190 that arrived at Reno lastnight.

Piloted by John Maloney, looks to be race #14 but I am not too sure about that yet.

Now to see if I can find streaming video so I can watch the races.

Nice!

Just got back, dumped the gear in the front yard, took a shower and uploaded the various cameras. What a great weekend. The FW 190 is owned by Frasca Aviation, they of the trainer industry. It was a joy to see, alas not much of a flyer. On Wednesday when she flew in she locked up a wheel and burned out a tire, spent the weekend on jacks and didn't fly until this morning, once and out. But an item of interest. I took my father in law over to see it. Before we went, he wanted to know if she was a radial or inline. Said the inlines were the ones gave him heck for. His fighter victory was a 109. Shot down lots of italian transports.

And one for Frank- a R2800 in an airframe where it belongs.

Awesome pics Bill!!! Yes, as been said, we will drool over whatever pics you post of the races!!!

Great pics Bill, thanks for sharing them!  Mmmmm... CORSAIR...

Thanks bondoman for the pics! Did you happen to find out if that FW was one of the Flug Werk ones?

Rob

Just checked on the net, and it is a Flug Werk plane, but uses an R2800 instead of the Russian/Chinese radial 

"Meanwhile, at Chino, California, USA, Rudy Frasca's Flug Werk FW 190 flew on May 13 with Steve Hinton at the controls. Unlike the other Flug Werk '190s, it is powered by a Pratt & Whitney R-2800. Oil cooling problems were initially encountered, but the machine is due to make its debut at Oshkosh in July before flying to Frasca's base at Champaign, Illinois. "

Bondoman thanks for the pictures buddy Anymore pictures you want to send my way wouldn't brake my heart I can tell ya.

Now to see if I can find more info about it on the net, there seems to be very little. I had talked of doing an FW 190 racer a while back and now we have one. Hopefully they will have the bugs worked out for next year. Seems to me it did quite well considering it had only first flown back in May, well white 14 anyway.

I took a picture of the destroyed tire. Looked to me like the brake seized and It got the "loaded" treatment we all do with a sanding stick... Could have been a bad scene. You know, color me jaded but the a/c didn't rock my boat. It's actually pretty ugly as airplanes go, kind of relies on being such a venomous looking little machine.

Great to see one fly though, even if pulled around by Hartford's best.

Thanks Bondo for the very nice pictures, looks like you had a good time.

Rob I'm glad I'm following a few others building the Eduard 190 as it has certainly given me a few pointers as what to look out for, even so I'm having to wrestle with the engine but I've decided to close up all the cowls etc so all will be ok. Hope to get some pictures up soon.

Cheers...

simpilot34

Awesome pics Bill!!! Yes, as been said, we will drool over whatever pics you post of the races!!!

very cool!

Man October sure sneaks up on you fast...got an armor show this weekend, then it's back to the a/c! The wrap up of my 190 is first up on the docket!

Besides, if I don't finish this one, Frank won't let me into that sweet-sounding "Hornet's Nest" GB.

during the last weekend I started putting on the decals, I have most of them on, but still have a few left. after that its just weathering and then I should be done

Edit: Is there anything I can do to tone down the paint job so the plane doesnt look like it just rolled off the factory line

Progress -- I get the feeling I need travelling music when I post...

The Tamiya F-8 is finally masked and into the paintshop. I think I was putting off masking the wheelwells all this time... When I was a teenager I used to say "filling and sanding is the cross modellers bear," but I think I've changed my mind. I think it's masking! That said, some kit will probably turn round and bite me on fit in the near future...

Okay, 12 areas masked with tape, tissue and rubber solution, here she is:

I moved on promptly to painting. The markings will be Green Double Chevron of SG2, March '45, so it really is among "the last of the last," and the 74/75/76 scheme is accented with SG2's yellow rudder and cowl band. I'm doing this whole job in acrylics so I mixed the RLM 04. To begin with, Tamiya XF-3 Yellow to XF-7 Red (9: 1), though 5% would probably have been enough to warm the shade sufficiently. Then this mix was lightened with XF-2 at 1:1, though it could probably have gone lighter still, XF-3 is a surprisingly powerful tinting shade. 25% X-22 Clear Gloss was then added to the overall mix to bring up the lustre, as seen in the MM enamel equivalents.

Thinned 50%, I laid it on with my Paasche VL (which could have done with a tip clean, there are a few specks and spots here to deal with), like so:

The nose and tail bands are supplied as decals in the kit but if I was mixing the rudder shade I figured it was far better to paint the bands then struggle with decals, which are not guaranteed to match the colour of the rudder anyway. I mixed more paint than needed and ended up laying it on in several coats (also on the rudder of the Academy A-8 I started for this build), and will let the paint dry overnight before doing another round of masking.

The main camo I'll soft-mask. The division between the 76 flanks and the 74/75 upper surfaces is a straight line in the plans, and I'm not sure this is correct, after about 1940 and the time of hard-masking, the straight line divisions were replaced with wavy lines freehanded with the spraygun IIRC. Anyone have any thoughts on this???

Cheers, guys, fabulous work all round and I hope I can get at least this bird into the hangar on time!

Mike/TB379

Today for me the airbrushing gods were co cooperating weather wise and time wise so I was able to get the interior base colors down- RLM 02 in the cowling, wheel wells and RLM 66 in the cockpit, as well as Metallic Gray on the engine cylinders. All colors used are Tamiya.