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    1/48 Eduard Fw190 A8/R2

    in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures

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    Thanks Lee and Fred! I'm really liking this Dora for sure. Its basically the same plane as the A/F series of 190 from the engine firewall back except for lengthening the fuselage about 8" to offset the weight/ length of the modified nose for a V-12 but it just looks friggin cool, they are bad "A" and the color schemes for the D's were just crazy! The germans upon the first D series arriving to the units in late 1944 deemed them "Focke Mustangs". Fast and able to roll on a dime coupled with a nasty surprise in the armament department, they were a force to be reckoned with in the hands of a skilled pilot (which was far and few between by wars end).

    31 yr old Monogram Challenger

    in WIP: Model Cars

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    Well I gave it to him in a case but that went south when it got knocked off of the shelf. The only reason I even knew anything happened to it was because when my wife and I went to visit I noticed the car just sitting on the bed headboard with no case or cover over it. You know that doesn't make him a bad guy. The fact is he's a one heck of a good guy. Just models aint his thing ya know? I cant get on here and have a bashing session over my brother and didn't mean to sound like I was. The point is that I was disappointed a little I guess. But the good news is that the car is safe and sound right now.

    31 yr old Monogram Challenger

    in WIP: Model Cars

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    Just to qualify myself for the Model Car forum I have a Monogram Challenger that I built 31 years ago when I was about 14 or so that is in the middle of repairs. I built it for my little brother back then and then as years went by and he moved from home, got married and had his own family it stayed at my parents house. I took it from my parents house and cleaned it up a bit and glued some parts that fell off over the years back on and gave it back to my brother around 5 years ago as a Christmas present. Long story short it ended up in the bedroom closet covered up by clothes and other stuff and got knocked off of the top shelf by my nephew. We ended up finding the hood and a wheel/tire assy that was lost for a little bit out of the fall and I pieced it back together. It's still missing the hood scoop from the hood and the rear spoiler but I managed to glue everything back on and repair everything else that was damaged during the fall. I bought another kit in which to replace the missing parts with. I am going to put this thing back to its unmodified original condition but here she sits proudly once again. This time it aint going to be given away. Anyways I didn't paint it with anything more than a gloss coat when I originally built it and aside from the decals wrinkling a little the finish came out PERFECT! The gloss coat was applied from a can for cryin' out loud! One of my only regrets is how the decals all came out. The interior was detailed great for a 14 year old. All you have to do is put a visor on and you can read the gauges. Of course I didn't need glasses or a dang visor when I originally built it. LOL.

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    1/48 Eduard Fw190 A8/R2

    in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures

    Posted · Edited by mustang1989

    I started building an Fw190 D-9 as mentioned above. I have a lot of fun in the engine compartments of aircraft and this one was no exception. This engine was a total blast to build! It was like I was building a real engine except this one is in 1/48 scale. At times I had to sit back and think to myself," Did I just build that?" Here's a shot or two of that:

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    1/48 Eduard Fw190 A8/R2

    in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures

    Posted · Edited by mustang1989

    Thank you all for your kind words. I am working my way into an automotive build sometime within the next year. I've been building scale model aircraft, usually Luftwaffe stuff, since about February of last year. I am in the middle of an SBD Dauntless right now, an Fw190 D-9(in which I already have the nose section/ engine build up completed) starting on 01 Jan 14 for a Group Build I'm running and then a Stuka around the May time frame for another Group Build. I'm planning on building the Revell Mustang LX after that and I'm really looking forward to that. At this point my main weakness is applying a realistic shiny gloss coat.

    1/48 Eduard Fw190 A8/R2

    in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures

    Posted

    Being employed by a state law enforcement agency which handles sensitive and or covert investigations, means we have firewalls for firewalls and nanny programs from Hades.

    It backfires every now and then though. None of us could even read the online local newspapers or trade papers last year.

    The bosses believe we are akin to the Men in Black for goodness sakes.

    Well, we are close to Area 51................................. B)

    G

    LOL! LOL!

    1/48 Eduard Fw190 A8/R2

    in WIP: All The Rest: Motorcycles, Aviation, Military, Sci-Fi, Figures

    Posted · Edited by mustang1989

    Just finished this puppy up after 8-1/2 months. Lots of trials here with this kit but Eduard stuff is friggin awesome when you get done. I decided to open all the panels up. The engine has around 70+ parts of PE and plastic(more than what shows through the open panels). The cock pit I lost count on the parts in that area. Paint was completed with Vallejo acrylics. The Royal Class kits (which this is one) come with 4 sheets of PE in the box. I added a set of Ultracast wheels, Master Models brass cowl gun barrels, 20mm wing root gun barrels and 30mm outer wing gun barrels. Aerial antenna is stretched sprue painted black.

    The pictures are a little dark due to the type of camera that I have coupled with my lighting. Please forgive me on that. Thanks for looking , Joe

    A speical thanks to Harry for lightening these pics up so that you can actually see the build.

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    Basement find!

    in WIP: Model Cars

    Posted · Edited by mustang1989

    gr8 find! the third gen falcon is interesting as I have NEVER seen a model of one!

    my father has a basement...... I do not like goin down there!

    Hey geemoney , Trumpeter has released a couple of falcon models. Check either Sprue Brothers or Squadron. I believe they just got released last year.

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