During a conversation with Louis Gardner on pm about present and future modeling projects he told me he had bought quite a few of Eduards latest kits but had some doubts about how sensitive (lets call that way) these kits are to assemble.
I know that the majority of my fellow modelers here have one or two Eduard kits under their belt, as I do, and perhaps the build experience was good in some and not so good in others, but for those of you never cut the plastic in some of their newer kits I though posting my ongoing Focke-Wulf 190 A-6 would be a good example to show how good I think they are.

I’ve started this kit 3 or 4 days ago and since I wasn’t planning on posting it I took no pictures of the inner parts and the assembling of the fuselage and wings.
However as long as one takes care in getting the parts clean of any remains of the sprue gate, and do some dry fit test before glue, the result is a trouble free assembling, with very little putty needed.
I prefer to use liquid glue from Tamyia or similar and aplly it in steps, assuring that each area is align before moving forward. A good exemple where this method pays off is at gluing the fuselage halves and the following step, the mating of the wings to it. These are the most problematic areas regarding getting a good fit if one rushes to it.

Here’s how it stands earlier today

and after I started blackbasing the lot .
The checkerboard nose will be fully painted because I don’t feel comfortable using decals over such unconforming surface as an aircraft nose is .
Before starting masking the white to apply the black checkers, I opted to paint the I/D 04 yellow of the lower panels. This way I will permanently mask it until the completion of all painting stages I find this the easiest method when that part comes moulded to the entire nose section.

On the other hand their “newer” 190 family in the form of the earlier versions (the short nose A-2/3/4) all come with a separate lower panel, allowing an easy way to paint them yellow, a cliche when it comes to Focke-Wulfs, thus avoiding the tedious tape masking.
Cheers!

Pedro, @holzhamer
Your Wurger is looking very good. Thank you for posting this work in progress.

I ordered some of the new tool Eduard kits this weekend, mainly because they had a 20 percent off sale going on at Sprue Brothers, and I couldn't resist it any longer... 🙂 So while I was there, I pulled the trigger on two of the 1/48 scale Modelsvit Bf-109C and D kits too, one each respectively.

I am especially looking forward to getting my hands on the "newer" Fw-109A2. It, along with some other 109's and 109's, are scheduled to arrive on December 4th. I also picked up some of the "overtrees" as I have a decent Luftwaffe decal collection stashed away, with various unit badges and numbers.

I'll keep your comments about fitting the parts and how to glue things together in mind when I crack open the box. This will most likely happen soon.

Who knows, we might just have to start a "Luftwaffe" group build in the future... 😉 That would give me the perfect opportunity to finish up the previously started ICM He-111, Dragon / DML Ju-188, and we just might get to build our Do-17's that we have talked about for a few years.

Like our good friend Spiros @fiveten
has stated, I too am looking forward to your next installment...

Your 190 looks great as it is now. It seems that Eduard has packed a lot of detail into these new tool kits. Thank you again my friend... 🙂 You have convinced me to go over to the dark side.

Sorry, I'm a bit late for this party, but now I'm strapped in. What a great sum-up of happenings - and all looks to be the usual great quality we've come to expect from you Pedro (@holzhamer).

Pedro @holzhamer, what a nice progress!
I love those landing gear bits and, of course the amazing looking propeller!
Louis, my friend @lgardner, a Luftwaffe GB, that will follow EoJ GB's footsteps would be, I risk to say, a miraculous GB!

@lgardner: Also check my reviews of these kits. You're going to have a fun time with them.

After a first failed attempt, I repainted the whole nose again and decided to do the more traditional approach to paint this scheme, meaning measure & cut the squares masks one by one... takes time but much more efficient I’d say. Here’ how the first section was masked

and after stripping the tape how it looks Some minor refinements here and there are needed but so far so good! Better order some new tape rolls just in case

@lgardner

Louis my friend, I just went back to see your P-40, one of your fantastic Iron Werks, but strangely one I don’t recall, so it was a pleasure reading the whole thread. May I ask how did you cut all those tiny squares in one piece of tape?

As you can see it’s not my method here, but then again the surfaces you painted were flat, these are not. You are right about not being a piece of job, but then it’s much more fun to paint them than to use a decal. It’s more time consuming than difficult, since I ‘m working in cowl areas one at the time

Oh boy, those checkers really stand out Pedro! Well done @holzhamer!