Focke-Wulf Fw 190
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Just your "bog standard" Tamiya kit with its minor wheel issues. Fw 190F-8 W.Nr. 583234. A war trophy of 511th FS/404th FG in Kitzingen. I couldn't find a photo of the aircraft so I'm relying on Karaya Decal for the info such as [...]
Granted this older Tamiya kit has some issues, but it still makes an attractive build. This also presented an opportunity to practice airbrushing camo and mottle free-hand while trying to avoid a major mishap.
Kit decals were unusable so [...]
Here I have a model that I built about 15 years ago at the beginning of my modeling career.
It is a kit from Airfix 1:72
1/32 Hasegawa/Revell/Aires/Moskit/Eduard
Fw190 D-9
Well, Fw190 D-9, what a lovely plane! I did it a few years ago, but Tamiya’s in 1/48 scale. This time I had oportunity to get Hasegawa’s Dora in Revell’s box, but with so many addons [...]
This is the newer tool Hasegawa kit. The only cockpit enhancements were a throttle lever made from plastic strip and rod and Quinta seat belts. What attracted me to do this build was the unusual paint scheme. The upper wing surfaces and [...]
I'll let Eduard explain the story...
What can be said about the Tamiya kit other than the well known wheel size issue that I let be and the upper gun cowl fit. I went over a lot of builds on different sites and saw that many modellers [...]
Prior to the whole pandemic kerfuffle I had an idea to build a dogfight diorama. I purchase the two Eduard Profi-PACK kits back in 2020 and promptly put them on the shelf until the time was right. After a little research I knew the Mustang [...]
My son Alexander picked these two kits up with his own pocket money from a well known model shop in York just below the old Roman walls.
I do the cutting out and sanding which an 11yr old would find very boring 😴 but he then does the [...]
Hi all!
I've been away for a while due work mostly, but I'm back with a freshly finished good old Tamiya Fw-190 F8 kit painted with hungarian markings.
I can't tell too much about the kit, which hasn't been told earlier by other modellers. [...]
In the never ending search for the elusive realistic and at the same time artistic weathering effects for model airplanes I subjected a FW 190 D from Tamiya to some refined techniques.
I went for the RLM 76 Lichtblau - RLM 82 Hellgruen - [...]