Fw 190 Butcher Bird 2013 (extended to June 2014) Group Build

Thanks handi! I'm actually recapping the build to the point I left from a couple of months ago. So far this kit has been a dream!

Nice save Joe!   Looks great!

This is just after I joined the fuselage halves together with the CMK tail wheel interior installed. The whole thing turned out to be WAY too thick and required not only sanding the thickness of the interior "box" down in thickness but also sanding the inside of both sides of the fuselage in the tail area to get this thing to fit right. After that the supplied resin spring would not fit properly into place so I used a section of guitar string from a local music store painted steel and weathered for the spring. All interior was painted RLM O2 and a wash applied. I was happy!

  Herman is pleased.......

Greg:  I did'nt make my own. lol ! I used the kit part, painted it rust, applied a light wash and dry brushed with dry black pastel.  Thanks for the good word brutha!!

Chanter:I've got your beauty on the front page of the build bubba. Thank you again for contributing to this build and would like you to stick around and build another one.

Joe, that black 10 scheme looks really cool. Can't wait to watch your progress. Cockpit looking great as usual. Love your seatbelts. The seat cushion look great and made me wish I'd not have gotten in a hurry and done mine over. Too late now, though. DId you make them yourself and how?

Monty, welcome to the GB! The box scheme of your A3 is one of my favorites, will you be building to that scheme?

Chanter, really like your finish / scheme. You did a great job with it. It would be very cool if you built another! You are fun to build with.

What a neat idea, using human hair for antenna wire! And your wife is a good sport too. :)

Nice work Chanter. You captured the look of that particular bird nicely. I say build another...

There aint nuthin' wrong with that at all Chanter!!! Wow! There's just something about working with an all white scheme that scares the livin' daylights outta me! Great work! I'll definitely get this posted in the Competed builds section of the intro post soon.

As far as gong for another build.....DO IT. We are all here to cheer you on. I will say that EZ line from Bobe's Hobby House is the way to go for antenna wire. There are mixed feelings about it across the board but I use it alot. Will get you posted buddy and thank you for being a part of this GB, Joe

Well, for all intents and purposes, I'm saying done.  By far one of the most frustrating parts of this build has been trying to take a half decent picture.  Until I figure that out, either one of these will have to do.

Thanks to all of you for your kind words, tips and encouragement along the way.  Thanks to my wife for donating a hair to become the antenna. 

I'm still mulling over the idea of doing another 190; it's a great place to be.

Allen

I'll jot both of these down in the intro post Monty. I think I may have one of these down but I'll check. Good to have you in here buddy!!!

Sweet Monty! Nice pit there Joe. PE gauges look right on.

Hi Folks - Reading all the great posts, reviews, comments, and seeing all the lovely pics and progresses makes me cringe, Yikes! Well, Here goes....

Duo Butcher Birds

Hope this is nothing too ambitious, but I decided to work on these two - wishing to get them done at the same time. The goal is to build a "straight build" and put more focus on the paint job.

No-Frills

Nothing fancy in my stash so two 1/72 scale models will be the focus. Despite trying to do a OOTB, there will be only just minor modifications: the addition of seat harness and downed flaps. 

Tamiya Fw190 A3 in 1/72 scale

Academy Fw190 A6/8 in 1/72 scale

The cockpit was built up using some Eduard PE that I had in my Royal Class A-8 kit. I only used sections here and there. Seat belts are from the Eduard PE also.

Finishing photos of the cockpit. The lower one isn't that great of quality but it's what I've got at this point.

I used a razor saw myself but Doug used thread on his. I've never used that but can see where that would have some advantages. After I used the razor saw to get the areas opened up I went back with files (round and square) to clean the cuts up and then sanded down the insides of the fuselage along the edges to make them scale thickness.

The vertical fin access cut out was made by drilling holes all around the perimeter of the existing panel and then playing dot to dot with a X-acto knife and again cleaning it all up with files.

Joe,

That is very cool!  How do you carve the sections, with a razor saw, or?  I thought I saw somewhere on the forum mention of using thread to cut out sections as well, but I have no clue as to how that works...

Allen

Here's where the fun all started with the fuselage halves in one piece.( notice the partially started cockpit piece in the background. We'll get back to that.)

Then I carved up the left side in anticipation for the engine display:

Then both sides for the engine and the vertical fin access panel to display the tail wheel "guts":(interior is coming along a little bit in this one and I cut the fire wall from the resin block)

Nathan T

What do you think?

Sweet work going on here. Great camo lines Doug!

Mustang- Good to have you resuming your work here. Hold the canopy thoughts! I'd reccomend the Tamiya one for blown option. Its much better shaped than the Eduard one, which is too flat. What do you think?

Jester75

Even before reading your post, I looked at that sheet and thought to myself, I would build black 10. Kinda cool the way the green on the tail is painted around the gray bar. I have got to add a bare metal lower winged 190 to my collection.

Even before reading your post, I looked at that sheet and thought to myself, I would build black 10. Kinda cool the way the green on the tail is painted around the gray bar. I have got to add a bare metal lower winged 190 to my collection.

Almost forgot. I'll be building "Black 10" / W. Nr. 500618 that operated out of Celle airfield in May of 1945 with JG 26. It was surrendered at Flensburg and was selected for shipment back to the U.S. for evaluation but was left behind. I will be representing this airframe just before the surrender. The vertical bar applied to the fuselage designated it as part of III Gruppe of JG 26 but was crudely painted over when transferring to I Gruppe of JG 26 just before surrender. 

  It will be painted in the 75/82/83/76 color scheme with a yellow tail to signify that the aircraft belonged to a Staffel leader. The undersurfaces of the wing will be RLM 75 at the front half of the wing and bare metal for the back half of the wing with RLM 76 on the bottom of the ailerons.

By the way Joe, Thats a nice kit, and with the goodies you have to add to it will really be sweet!I think I have 1 left in stash, having built 1 already.

Well... Thanks Joe, Sometimes it just takes me a minute or two to get my memory cells fired up and functional! (Thay say thats the first thing to go) Ha!

Thanks Allan, So far so good, I shoulf finish up this weekend, I hope.

Hey guys! I hope everybody here had a very Merry Christmas this year and got at least one model kit, model kit AM part/ kit or modeling tool they wanted/ needed! 

 Ok I started my Tamiya Fw190 D-9 about three months ago and stopped working on it due to the fact that I needed to finish my Monogram SBD Dauntless up from last year and I took a small break this month for the holidays. So with that I will re cap what I've already done to catch up and then I'll take off from that point on 2 January.

First off this is what I'll be working with. A 1/48 Tamiya Fw190 D-9 with a "double throw down" Aires update kit, CMK undercarraige set, Aeromaster decals and Master Models gun barrels. Also there will be ALOT  of help from my Eduard Royal Class kit in the areas of a total main landing gear replacment(this is due to the poor representation of the main landing gear in this kit), sliding canopy section and various PE parts that were in the Eduard box.

Here's where we start off from:

That's a fantastic paint job Doug; what a beaut!

Allen

You know Doug I just knew you were gonna be the guy to help out!! LOL. You always know where to dig stuff up like that. Good goin !

I found it! ...There is a very good book titled Focke Wulf FW190 in North Africa by Andrew Arathy that gives a fair amoult of info on all types and variants of the FW190 service in Africa.

Black Dog... Yes they did... Not as numerous as the 109 but still they flew there, Try maybe checking Jg27, also try SG4 ...wasnt Africa but it was the Med.

Jugjunkie. Welcome abord.

Rigidrider.  That is some aaaaaawesome work!

Well now that the holiday is past I can get some bench time in.

I seen in one of the books I received for xmas there was a pic of a 190 in Africa I was going to ask if they flew there. It dosent seem that there's many pics of them in africa.

What I usually do to start my build starts well before I have the box on the bench. Usually I'm thinking of the next project as I'm nearing the end of the present one. Shoot, I have a 1/24 scale Fw190 I've been "pondering" on now for atleast 2 years! (grin) Just havent decided yet what to do with it.

So what I do is get an idea from a book, or maybe just search on the computer usually by typing in something like 3/jg26, or Luftwaffe Fw190 and look through the images that come up. From there I start to refine a single aircraft, staffle or some such thing, until I find what I want to try.

As I said, it gets a bit confusing but usually you can sort through the mess till you decide.

Doug