"GERMAN ARROWS" - OFFICIAL DO-335 GB

SchattenSpartan

Just kidding! I won't order me any 190s untill all 5 in my stash are built...

John

or maybe the piles on my bench aren't high enough.

I should get some updated photo's of the current 190A-8 I'm doing this weekend,  trying to finish up the decals.

Just kidding! I won't order me any 190s untill all 5 in my stash are built...

SchattenSpartan

Matt: I put ya on the list.

Tony: Entry changed!

Doug: I guess I'm kinda special...

John: You can't keep up with me! As soon as you start another 190, I'll order 2 Fw-190F-8s!!!!

  I do have a friend at the IPMS Nationals right now, maybe I can tell him to find me a deal on multiple 190's!  Muhahahahaha!  I'll quit my job! lock myself in the basement! I can do it! oh wait no i can't, no one will feed me not even the dog.

you win.   I bow to the greater force of 190's

John

Matt: I put ya on the list.

Tony: Entry changed!

Doug: I guess I'm kinda special...

John: You can't keep up with me! As soon as you start another 190, I'll order 2 Fw-190F-8s!!!!

Hi Clemens,

I've bought a Hobby Boss 1/72 Do 335A, so I don't have to go through the pain of building the old Dragon one. Could you change my entry please.

Thanks

Tony

Clemens,

You can count me in!! Will be building the Tamiya 1/48 335 a.  Just got on evil bay for a not to bad price.

Rigidrider

Still collecting info and parts to do my build, I found a cool looking camo scheme I may try to do, but will likely be imaginative and will surely take many "artistic liberties" with this one, since so few actually made it into service. Thanks to Bish I was able to track down some pictures of the "blister' dome for the radar/weapons operator. This will have to be scratch built being I can find no source for the 48th scale kits. Getting close to having all I need to begin, just need to finish my Eduards D-9 for the Butcher Bird GB. We cant all be Clemens and have 5 GBs and builds all going at the same time! (ha) Just kidding bud!

Maybe when I'm retired I will build a larger bench, and have a lazy susan fixture where I can just spin it from one build to the next!(LOL)

Take care my friends!

Doug

I will be watching to see what you come up with for that dome. I have an Me 264 I want to add a couple of domes to and no idea how. Was thinking about vac u forming, but that seems a lot to go through for a kit or two. And I know the feeling. I am really have to make sure I build in the right order to get all my GB's done in time. I have lost count of how many I am in, let alone running.

I wish my exhausts would come from my LHS!    Would love to get the fuselage glued together. wait wait wait,  Oh wait I suppose i could start another Fw190!!!    Just trying to keep up with Clemen's!

John

Still collecting info and parts to do my build, I found a cool looking camo scheme I may try to do, but will likely be imaginative and will surely take many "artistic liberties" with this one, since so few actually made it into service. Thanks to Bish I was able to track down some pictures of the "blister' dome for the radar/weapons operator. This will have to be scratch built being I can find no source for the 48th scale kits. Getting close to having all I need to begin, just need to finish my Eduards D-9 for the Butcher Bird GB. We cant all be Clemens and have 5 GBs and builds all going at the same time! (ha) Just kidding bud!

Maybe when I'm retired I will build a larger bench, and have a lazy susan fixture where I can just spin it from one build to the next!(LOL)

Take care my friends!

Doug

Nice work!

It seems like that Monogram kit has a better fit than most of the more recent kits...

Looking good.

Hi everyone,

Bit more progress.  Have the majority of the kit rescribed, so I mocked it up real quick.   Fit is pretty good! May have to do some cleanup at the wing roots, but nothing too major.

No worries, mate!

Not right now Clemens ol buddy! I will be peeping in on this from time to time though.

Bish, Wayne: It's nice to have you guys in here! I put both of you on the list.

Joe: Do you want me to list you as undecided? It doesn't matter if you can't finish your build in time. The goal of ths GB is to have fun anyway!

Man if I didn't have another 190 to do I'd DEFINITELY be in here  building! I've got a Tamiya two seater in the stash with just about everything thats made resin and PE wise for it. Hell I even have a little 1/48 BMW R75 motorcycle I bought to go with it at the time. Currently I don't really know if the motorcycle was used around the Pfeil  much though!

I hope someone here has shares in the Tamiya kit. That makes 4.

O what the hell, I can't leave Tony to be the only one doing this in the one true scale.

Doug is doing a Nightfigther if I recall. So stick me down for the 72nd dragon B-4 recon.

might as well join this one too since i already put it down on my GB list and i haven't done a plane this year. will do the tamiya 1/48 and maybe also the revell as a 2-seater night fighter.

i use adobe photoshop and illustrator to create badges but i'm a technical illustrator with some 3D in real life so they are some of the tools of the trade.

John: I like what I see. RLM 66 it is indeed.

Marty: Nice to have you in here as well! Willkommen im Pfeil GB! I added you to the list.

Clemens:

I'm having too much fun in your other GB not to join here. Tough decision.... Ich bauen ein Pfeil!  Tamiya 1/48 A model.

Bish,

  Thanks for the info.  I'll be repainting!

John

66. 02 was only really used in early cockpits.

Well I started mine last night, Didn't do to much.  But I all of a sudden I'm not sure what color the cockpit is painted? is it RLM02 or RLM66?

John

Thanks for the tutorial! I have to get me a scribing tool now...

Right, does the Nightfigther have the stepped canopy as on the trainer, or a small domwed second canopy.

Bish, the kit does come with both options and allows a choice. May have a go at the night fighter after this one!

Schatten: Thanks! I've found the scribing tool itself is super important. On this model I'm using the Rb productions Scrib-R. I'm also using the Rivet-R from them as well. I've also used the Trumpeter tool, which works ok.

As far as process, first I'll take some 220 grit and "take the edge off" the panel lines, so to speak. If done right, you still should be able to see where the panel lines were. 

Then I'll take a small metal ruler, and scribe the straight lines with that. I normally do 3 passes. This leaves fine panel lines that also hold up to a bit more sanding. For straight lines that go over a curved surface. I'll use a razor saw as well, sometimes. The real tricky ones are the curved ones that go over a curved surface. I haven't found a good way to do those yet.

After all the panel lines have scribed, I'll take some 800 grit and smooth everything out. Finally, I'll use the Rivit-R to add in some rivets where necessary.

Any mistakes are corrected with white-out (pen correction fluid). Dries quick and sands well.

Hope that helps!

Nice start shept. You say you are doing the single seat version. Does the kit come with the option of building either version, or do they do a separate kit.

Clemens, that makes of us, I have been putting off re scribing panel lines, but would like to try it.

No problem Clemens. It's got color photos (detailed ones) and all.

Thanks for the tip, Joe!