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  1. 2 hours ago, Mattilacken said:

    Cool man! These ships are way cool and the history is realy interesting! 

    Here is a pic of my build rougly 22 years ago (2002). A bit rough to say the least, this was before i spraypainted. Fun fact... the sign in german behind the carrier is something my dad found way back on one of the german Destroyers found in the fjords around Narvik.

    First off, we all started from somewhere Anton. If I showed you some of my builds from 22 years ago it would be the same..... "a bit rough". But hey, we're back in this thing and learnin' along the way right? Secondly, that sign is REALLY neat. I've got a Luftwaffe Pilots Badge in my hobby room in a shadow box along with my father in laws awards and medals. 

  2. On 11/6/2024 at 5:29 AM, David G. said:

    The cowls look much more in scale now, nice work!

    David G.

    Still workin' on the engine panels Dave. I managed to get the other side looking like the one pictured above, have them both primed in the same marble fashion as the rest of the aircraft and have been working on the supercharger air intake for the last couple of bench sessions. I should have some photo worthy updates soon. 

    On 11/6/2024 at 7:24 AM, Old Buckaroo said:

    This is some really fine work, love the detail to the office and what you've done with the engine. The FW's have always been my most favorite of Axis flavor aircraft to model

    Thanks a lot Sean. They are my favorite as well and this will make my third Fw190 variant to build AND I've got two other variants in the stash. My ultimate holy grail Fw190 to build though is going to be the V-18. Such an awesome looking bird. 

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  3. 3 hours ago, David G. said:

    Thanks Joe. I'm just glad that it worked out that way. Sometimes it doesn't, as I think you may know.

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    Man I hear you there Dave. I had an Fw190D-9 that I was building about 10 years ago and I cut the nose off and replaced it with an entire engine/ nose assembly from an Aires detail set. I can't tell you HOW many times I test fit that whole nose assembly into place.....it must've been fifty times. Then, when the day of reckoning came, and it was time to adhere the whole nose module onto the completed airframe......nothing wanted to fit! What tha hay??!! I wrestled with that for around 2 hours and then all of a sudden.....everything just clicked right into place. 

  4. The last couple of days at the bench have been spent on re-working the engine cowlings. These are two piece panels that are hinged in the middle to give two folding leafs to gain more access to the engine area on both sides of the engine. Dragon has put both leafs together to make a single opening panel. What I did was cleaned up the injector pin marks on the inside of the panels and cut about 80% of the way through the join of the two panels to give the proper open look of these panels. Untouched panel on the left and the modified panel on the right.

    I started by making passes through the join line with an X-Acto knife and when I got most of the way through the panel I used the troweling tool to make a V into the plastic to where the bottom panel could be opened and glued to the top panel with a clean joint.

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  5. 6 hours ago, TransAmMike said:

    Well Joe you are doing a fantastic job on this one.  Gonna be an impressive build Buddy?

    Thanks for taggin' along Mike and for the comments pal.

    2 hours ago, rv1963 said:

    Looking good Joe, the paint effects look real good never tried that before.

    'Preciate it Rob. That's the base prep work and the color will go over this in thin coats for what's called color modulation and is supposed to replicate a worn effect in the paint. 

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