Tamiya Focke Wulf Fw190D-9 WIP

[mustang1989]

Hey everybody. Things are starting to wind down with the SBD Dauntless build. I am currently painting the ammo belts and putting the finishing touches on the rear twin .30 caliber flex guns and thought I would use the time to post a WIP here for my next build. We'll be starting with a 1/48 scale Tamiya Focke Wulf Fw190D-9 and "supersize" it with an Aires upgrade set and a CMK landing gear set (the main landing gear struts are still too short in the CMK upgrade but am going to display the tail wheel strut and retracting spring in an open panel on the vertical fin). I also have metal main landing gear struts to correct the length of the kit struts and will be using the main landing gear doors from the Eduard A-8 kit as the Tamiya doors are also too short. Finally in the line up and not pictured are the MG131 and MG151 brass gun barrels from Master Model. The Aires set has a little less than 100 parts consisting of resin and PE. A guaranteed fun build. I've got about 3 references for this thing so this will be a fairly accurate replication. Anyway here's the base line start pics with the kit, the upgrade set and the decal sheet (because the box decals suck and the paint scheme is just too cool for the aircraft I want to replicate):

Heres the kit/ upgrade set:

and here's the decal set. I'll be going with "Black 10". I'll give more history details in a post or two.

and here's whats probably the single best reference I have ever run across for these birds by Jerry Crandall. This is but volume 1 with 300+ pages. There is a volume 2 with just as many pages. Cant go wrong with ol Jerry!

Edited November 30, 2013 by mustang1989

[george 53]

Got this in Trumpeters 24th scale series. This rascal IS BIG!

[mustang1989]

Yeah those Trumpy kits are massive in the 1/24 th scale. The Bf109 K4 that I turned into a G-14, even though the 109 is a tiny aircraft in real life , was huge model to display. There's a couple of PE sets available for the 190 to include brass MG131 barrels and seat belts and a metal landing gear also. The 1/24 aircraft just take up too much room in the display category for me to continue building them, even though I loved building one. There's a story behind the 109 build but I'll get to that later.

Edited November 30, 2013 by mustang1989

[mustang1989]

Just to show the enormity of this kit: This is a pic of the DB605 engine of my 1/24 scale Bf109 next to my 1/24 scale Dodge Challenger. In short , it's enormous!

Edited November 29, 2013 by mustang1989

[mustang1989]

Well here we go. I've got some catching up here to do because this kit is already somewhat started. I'll take it from the top and slowly but surely catch up to the point that I am currently at. First off we start out with the basic fuselage halves before surgery:

and then after partial surgery:

and then after the whole bit of cutting to include the tail wheel access panel in order to display "guts" in the vertical fin.

The cockpit is just started here. I'll get back to this in the following posts.

Edited November 30, 2013 by mustang1989

[mustang1989]

A little closer look at that Aires update box so you can see what all is gonna be displayed here. This is gonna be fun!!

[mustang1989]

Today I'll get you all caught up on the cockpit. I had no in between photos to show progress up to this point but made up for it on the engine. I used alot of the PE I had left over from the Fw190 A-8/R2 that I had built earlier in the year so that made this whole operation a lot smoother. Here's the pics of the pit as it is now:

[mustang1989]

Here's the inverted Jumo 213 V-12 after a coat of paint and a light wash. Being an Aires engine its packed with detail without a single part installed on it.

after that I began assembling the accessory drive box and supercharger. Again a coat of RLM 02 with a deep wash. This part of the engine was a blast to build:

The other side:

This Aires update set was on target with lubrication lines for the supercharger, fuel filters, etc. This update set has just about ALL the details.

[Harry P.]

The black wash is perfect, it adds so much realism.

[mustang1989]

Thanks Harry!! I had a blast building this engine. I built / painted it as though it were a real one. I even got a block of wood to make a makeshift engine stand! Next I installed the accessory drive gearbox/ supercharger onto the engine assy and installed the exhausts. The exhausts started out with a coat of metallic silver followed by a thinned coat of rust to allow some of the metallic features to show through and finally coated with a dry brushing of ground up black pastel.

and the other side!

[Darren B]

Love the old FW's and I had no idea there were threads on here of planes, keep up the awesome work, just getting back into planes myself so ill be watching this one with great interest.................

[mustang1989]

Thanks Darren. Getting ready to build this in the "All the Rest" Community build coming up on 1 Feb. Right now I'm just recapping this build to where I left off which ended a couple of months ago with the engine completion.

[mustang1989]

I'll be continuing the rest of this build in the "All the Rest Community Build" on 01 Feb coming up soon! Anybody that wants to join that build just let me know and I'll get you penciled in on the roster.