One fast update all about the FW 190
The cockpit is almost done, I already used some dry brush highlight and assembled the seat.
Only need the rudder pedals and the control stick plus some bit of blue for the O2 regulator

I also scratched some dinort poles for the wings bomb load, the 4 SC50
Very soon some more updates for the Stuka and more

Very nice, Pedro.
Detailing of the interior is great.

Here’s another quick update.
Unsurprisingly the 190 just builds itself once I painted all the odds and bits that show from the insides.
A step I save for last (since I built my first Kit of this new 190 generation) is glueing the upper deck gun covers, basically because this avoids masking the MGs barrels and also because the piece simply clicks into position effortlessly.

The AB 250 bomb is almost done. I avoid using the PE for those tiny connecting rods in the bomb fins, rather went for stretched sprue glued with Cyano over the PE fins. Some retouches again using black marbling and the overlay 02 coat and some washes will wrap the bomb up

Here’s a couple of pics from the cockpit

As for the Stuka, I’ve been busy around the nose cowling, having thinned down some attachement point covers that came solid and as such very unrealistic. I like how it turned out. Some rescribing will be done where putty was needed to conform the radiator part to the overall shape.

Finally a pic from the IP- Quinta studios resin decal- great stuff

Hi Pedro, I'm just catching up with your build after a long absence (for me). Life stresses got in the way of modeling. You've made some excellent progress on the cockpit for the 190 and the Stuka details. Both look as finely detailed as - or better than - the work I have done in 1/32 on my Bf109s and Stuka. I like your weathering/highlighting approach to the RLM 66. I have gone for a darker look, but I may want to adjust this on future Luftwaffe subjects. One challenge I have had to meet is keeping the color as matching the Eduard color photo-etch - especially for the Stuka. I also really like what you are doing with photo-etch for the bomb - it will look great when everything is together.

Love your progresses made, my friend @holzhamer!
Thumbs up everywhere!

@airbum
Erik you know how the saying goes - God is in the details.
And details is something you yourself focus so well on your 109 builds 😉 matching the PE paint to your own cockpit color is not difficult to get, but often (to me at least) is as important as the remaining details you can see in it

A short de elopement concerning the use of Quinta Studios resin decal or whatever these are called

You can see the main pieces added over sanded smooth areas of the kit’s cockpit side walls.
These are applied over a base Gunze RLM 66 straight from the jar. Their tone is lighter the base so it should match my own mixed “lighten” 66 that will follow…

Erik @airbum, It does give some shadow/light effect on an otherwise too dark, too boring shade in such small size cockpits. Been using this method in all cockpits I do, German or otherwise. The hardest to achieve that contrast was on DDG of USA fighters. RLM O2 or 66 are “warm” colors easier to blend.

Anyway here’s how it looks now, prior to some washes and dry brushing

Some work made around the MG81Z and the device placed behind the cockpit who’s name eludes me at the moment. That part was too shallow in the plastic so I used one from the Aires resin set.