Mikester

Really nice work!

The zimmerit will probably look OK under some paint, a little stark now but with some weathering and all that should help.

Well the IPMS Nationals in Phoenix are getting dangerously close so I figured time to get off my arse and possibly complete something to take to the show. I'm going to do "Black 11" a Fw 190F-8 of an unknown unit of Luftflotte 4. I'll be using the Hasegawa 1/32 kit since I know it well and the fit is superb. I've got the cockpit and engine done, OOB with the exception of some HGW seatbelts and Airscale data placards. So far so good!

Nice work, love SCW aircraft!

Level of detail is just superb for injection molding!

Looking forward to this one, usually not a fan of "WHIFS" but have a couple of ideas for this one that would really look cool.

Jimbo I think inadvertently deleted one your posts when trying to clean up Steve's duplicates. Doh!

Thanks, Steve!

Any LSMers planning on attending? I'll be staying at the Hyatt across the street from the convention center.

Way back when SPAR was still up someone did a review of a resin replacement belly panel for the Hasegawa 1/32 190A-5 (The one just aft of the wing). The Hasegawa kit comes with the panel that was introduced later in the A-7. Anyone remember who it was and if they're still in business? Also what about smooth panels for the MG FF delete on the outboard wings? Or did they just leave the panels in the with the bulge for the ammo drum?

Kudos on the perseverance, Rob! Turned out great!

Got some work done on the cockpits, the detail is rather simplified so didn't go real overboard, some Airscale LW placards on the sidewalls was about it. The seatbelts are HGW and Eduard, can't finish fully installing them until the cockpits goes in and the fuselage halves are joined.

Damn! That looks absolutely amazing!

Interesting effect, looking good!

Tail squiggles? Like so?

I'm going to keep the cockpits relatively simple, just a couple of add ons before the RLM 66 goes on.

Next is taking care of the wheel wells which are basically just gaping holes in the lower wing. I was able to salvage the nicely detailed strut bays from the trashed Revell kits and graft them in with the aid of some Tamiya Light Curing Putty. The upper portion of the wheel wells has been spruced up with some plastic stock. I'll fabricate the inner canvas liners from some lead foil later down the road. I've also cut off the landing and radiator flaps so they can posed deployed with replacement parts.

So first order of business is getting the fuselage sorted out. All extraneous panels have been filled in and missing details have been scribed. The solid fresh air scoops on the cowl have removed and will be replaced with resin parts.

Well sometimes you find yourself stumped and go off on a tangent, so here I go. I've been trying to repair some of the collection that was damaged in my move but several models were complete write-offs. This left me with a rather large collection of parts salvaged from the damaged 109 kits that in most cases I didn't want to use on a new kit but didn't want to toss either. So thinking to myself, "Mike, you've got a bunch of those 21st Century Toys 109s on the shelf, here's a great way to put those parts to use". So I set off with a fresh blade in the Tamiya hobby knife and a cold six pack of Mike's Hard Lemonade in the fridge. If you're familiar with the 1/32 21st CT 109s you know they're a little light on detail and a little clunky in some areas. For these builds I'm limiting myself to parts from spares bin or aftermarket parts from the stash that have been rendered obsolete that I probably wouldn't have used anyways. So these were marketed as Friedrichs but they're actually closer to Gustavs so I'm going to do them as G-2s. I'll be doing Hermann Graf's "Yellow 1" from 9./JG 52 and Hannes Trautloft's "<<-+-" from Stab/JG 54:

Gorgeous!

Really nice work!

Have this in the stash and can second Jimbo's assessment, very nice conversion set. Hope to to use it soon!

Well there goes, $50, curse you man!

Looks great, really wish they could be prodded into upscaling their 109s to 1/32.