Focke-Wulf Fw190-A8, Airfix, 1/72

Started by John vd Biggelaar · 122 · 8 months ago
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    Felix said 9 months ago:

    John @johnb, the strangler looks gorgeous. May i ask what airbrush / needle you used for the mottling?

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    John vd Biggelaar said 9 months ago:

    @fxrob, thank you, Felix. Painting, including the mottling, was done with a Fengda BD-180 using a 0.3mm tip. A cheap airbrush for beginners but till now it does the job well for me.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 9 months ago:

    Fuel tank attached and weathered.

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 9 months ago:

    Looks excellent, my friend @johnb!

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    Carl Smoot said 9 months ago:

    Very nice work John (@johnb). Those mottled Luftwaffe paint schemes are challenging to do, especially in smaller scales.

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    John vd Biggelaar said 9 months ago:

    @fiveten, thanks a lot, Spiros
    @clipper, thank you, Carl.

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    Felix said 9 months ago:

    @johnb love the subtle weathering on the wheels bay! The fuel tank is a nice detail.
    As for using a cheap airbrush (i do the same:): You know what they say about expensive cameras- in the end it’s always about the person behind the lens, not about the gear. Same can be said for airbrushing i guess. Your build is very beautiful!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 8 months, 4 weeks ago:

    @fxrob, thanks a lot, Felix. You are right, even a perfect race car will not win with a bad driver.

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    Louis Gardner said 8 months, 4 weeks ago:

    John vd Biggelaar (@johnb)
    This is looking fantastic !

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    John vd Biggelaar said 8 months, 4 weeks ago:

    @lgardner, thanks a lot, Louis

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    John vd Biggelaar said 8 months, 4 weeks ago:

    Three out of four canons are back on after I knocked them off at the beginning of the build. Fuselage ladder mounted as well. The kit does not provide the FuG16 antenna underneath the port wing so I want to scratch build that next.

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    Jay Mitchell said 8 months, 4 weeks ago:

    This looks very nice! It’s difficult to do such nice mottling paint work on such a small subject …

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    Eric Berg said 8 months, 4 weeks ago:

    It does look fantastic like Louis said. Terrific work, John @johnb. Is this a recent Airfix new tool?

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    Spiros Pendedekas said 8 months, 4 weeks ago:

    Excellent job so far, my friend @johnb!

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    John vd Biggelaar said 8 months, 3 weeks ago:

    @ssgt, thanks a lot, Jay
    @eb801, thank you, Eric. This is the 2013 tooling, so I think it is the new one indeed.
    @fiveten, thanks a lot, Spiros