Modelkarz FW189

Given my experience when building the Hampden,each structural piece will be backed with 1/16" basswood.    

Subscribed.  Never seen a paper kit built.  Looking forward to this.

Hello!

What do you know - a Maly Modelarz paper model! First one of the Maly Modelarz appeared in Poland in 1956, and they are operating since then. It is this publication that helped turn Poland into a paper model superpower!

Reinforcing the bulkheads is important, but you don't really need basswood - heavy cardboard, not too soft and about 1mm thick would do. The trick is to cut everything out right - you usually can't use scissors in all of the tight corners, that's where you are supposed to use a sharp knife, the one with break-away segments. About 50% of the modellers who build paper models do it using white glue, the one formulated for bookbinders works best. It's the one that dries transparent and is slightly rubbery when dry. CA is also handy for soaking parts in to make them stiff. And a good sanding block is also handy to make the bulkheads fit into the fuselage segments and to make nice, smooth wings. If you need any help, please let me know and for now good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł

Thanks!I made the Modelkarz Hampden and I messed it up a little becauee I never made a paper model before and did not realize the cardboard parts needed reinforcement,still I do like it!

Philo 426 ;

 Still working on the Edmund Fitzgerald .I am adding P.E. !

Post some pics!PE for the railing?

From the same company. my first papermodel.   

Yeah !

 You know I have a problem with photos though . For the rails and ladders , Mast and Life boat Davits . 

Hey !

 Did you know you can make the interiors and clear areas on the canopies too ? I tried it with a P-40 some years back , For a friend . He got the resin interior from one of the aftermarket companies and I showed him how to do the canopy .

 Blister Pack ! You cut it to shape . Get it soft in boiling water and form it .Then glue the paper frames over it and cut the edges to fit 

Well this one has a rather complex expanse of plexiglass.Unless someone makes a 1/32 Canopy set for this aircraft.

Just wondering.  For those aircraft with huge greenhouses, could you use a scanner to copy the greenhouse areas onto those viewgraph foil sheets?  These are blank transparent plastic sheets coated to allow printing in an inkjet printer.  I know the mechanical properties of those foils is different than paper, and though it might take more effort, it might be a solution.  Of course, then you'd have to make some scratchbuilt interior details also.

Yes that might be an area worth exploring.

Struggling a bit ,as the instructions are minimal at best.I will have to try to figure out which parts comprise the main fuselage pod.Not obvious and I might have to make copies of the parts sheets to try to piece it together.

Hello Philo,

as I have the same model, too, I'll try to help you. You're right, the drawings arent best in case of this one, but the text makes up for it - which is of little use for you when you don't speak Polish. Anyhow, on page 6 there is "opis budowy" - building instructions. There it says taht the fuselage (kadlub) is made up of the parts 1,2,3,4,5 and 6. It also says there that you should decide up front if you want to build the cabin interior. Also worth mentioning is the part that you should hold the corresponding bulkheads together and sand them together to make sure they are exactly the same shape before installing them. Note that every bulkhead has a little line mark on top and on the bottom - you should always align the bulkheads by those marks. The place where the fuselage segment is glued together - the seam - usually aligns with one of the marks on the bulkhead. Otherwise there is a similar mark on the fuselage segment.

If you have other questions please write me and I'll try to help. Good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł

Thanks for the info!Even for expierenced builders,the lack of assembly drawings is perplexing.You have to guess what the designer was thinking when he produced this kit.Still,it really brings you out of your modeling comfort zone!

After much thought,careful study of the parts sheets and much internal debate I think I have found a way forward.The only way I can see to build the center fuselage pod is to attach the canopy sections to the bulkheads.Goes against my modeling instincts but I can see no other way to do it.Not sure it will work but we shall see!

Maybe I should stick to something like thus LOL!.    

Hello!

Philo - So are you doing the cabin interior or not?

Don - your idea is sound, it was standard practice in Maly Modelarz models, that had an option of equiped cabin (those were appearing from the end of the eighties) to cut out the windows and underlay a part made of stiff foil. Most of the cabins are better served with a vacuum-formed part, and a company called Gomix sells such transparent parts for most paper models that have an equipped cabin. Like here's one for the Focke-Wulf Philo is building. Would cost you whopping 3$.

https://www.flymodel.pl/akcesoria-modelarskie/328-oszklenie-kabiny-pcv-focke-wulf-fw-189.html

Philo - Good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł

Nope  this will probably be my last Modelktz paper model for the foreseeable future.I will try one of the German makers,such as Reimars.Hopefully they have decent instructionsl

Hello!

Please note it's "Modelarz" - a modelmaker in Polish. Those German kits have better instructions for sure if you speak German. As for English - it's worth chcecking out before you buy. For translations either from Polish or from German - I'd be happy to help. Have a nice day

Paweł

Hi Pawel !

Her's one for you . Got this on the Bay from Mrs.Chu In Guangdong , China ! $ 10.00 free shipping !

JSC CaT .#96 MIKROFLOTA plywajaca przetwornia ropy naftowej . PETROJARL CIDADE DE RIO DAS OTRAS .  I would send you the cover photo if I knew how and I still can't get it right !

  She's 1/400 and atypical of that company's kits .The nice part of them ? The diagrammatic instructions . Numbered steps . Sometimes hard to follow BUT , Anyone can do it if they take their time .

 I like this company Because , they do the diagrammatic instructions . I have five  of their ships done , and hope to get more .T.B.-G.J.Geracci 

Hello T.B.!

I have found it anyhow:

Cool, I haven't seen it in the shops here in Poland - but that's probably also because I don't look up ships as throughly as I do tanks and aircraft. Should you need any help with translation from Polish (you probably don't need help with translation from German, or do you?) please be sure to write me.

Have a nice day,

Paweł

They also make a paper model of the Edmund Fitzgerald! Anyhow,progress continues.I am committed now!   

Philo, I regret having to tell you, that you didn't fit the part 1 right. It should point downwards, and it's rear edge should be aligned with the front edge of part 2. And those edges should be glued along the bulkhead, too. Those babies are usually built this way that part 1 is glued on bulkhead W1, part 2 is glued to the bulkheads W2 in front and W2a on the rear, part 3 to the bulkheads W3 and W3a and so on. You usually build segments first, and then when they are done you join the segments together. I hope it helps you - good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł

Ok I will just have to modify it.I am not ripping it apart! More structure!  

Pawel,can you post pics of your completed FW189?

Philo, I don't have one - I'm just reading the instructions and I'm also using my experience building those paper models. But try looking more at the drawings, or look up the net - the pictures are there!

Like this baby from a Russian site:

Good luck with your build and have a nice day

Paweł