Hasegawa 1/48 Fw 190A-8, JG 54 Robert “Bazi” Weiss
My first Hase 190. Strong points are a nice overall shape, excellent very fine panel lines and, OMG, if you simply assemble the landing gear struts, everything lines up! (Are you listening Bunny boys?) Weak points of the Hase Wurger are wing/fuse joints that require a good bit of work to get right, a somewhat fiddly 5 piece cowl, and, OMG, the stupid flex-version wing gun access panels & outer gun plugs! (Gotta say Ed did the right thing here by molding different wings for each version.)
Paints a motley assortment of Gunze, Tamiya, MM & W.E.M. Post shading done with my trusty Iwata & the Tamiya black/red-brown elixir thinned to the point of no longer being paint- more like dirty (lacquer) thinner, followed by a pin wash with artists oils. Marking decals for this A/C are EagleCals but stencils and some Balkenkreutz were from the Hase kit (believe it or not they were actually pretty good- my previous experiences with Hase decals were unpleasant at best). So, why bother using a color P-E set when doing a closed canopy?... could having a bit of OCD have anything to do with it?
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Magnus Fridsell said on June 15, 2013
A beautiful F-W Stan! Nice colours, interesting markings, simply beautiful!
Regards
Magnus
bob mack said on June 15, 2013
that is awesome sir
Bill Koppos said on June 15, 2013
Another immaculately mottled Luftbird from the Traas stable. Beautiful!
jorge rivas krause said on June 15, 2013
What a beauty!...I agree about the scheme colour...very interesting and you did a great job...Plus I love the FW!
cheers
George Williams said on June 15, 2013
These planes are very popular, probably because they look so good, and yours is one of the best!
Tom Cleaver said on June 16, 2013
And another modeler finds modeler heaven with a Hasegawa Fw-190. Really nice work on this one, the paint job is particularly good.
Craig Abrahamson said on June 16, 2013
Outstanding, sir...the weathering, detail and paint scheme is excellent.
Ulrich Schütt said on June 16, 2013
Just what Craig said... EXCELLENT!
Gary Brantley said on June 19, 2013
Beautiful work there!
Gary
Stan Traas said on June 21, 2013
Many thanks for the compliments guys!