ZM FW 190 A-4

[BlrwestSiR]

Rob, the Revell kit doesn't look that bad. I haven't tried building it yet so that'll be the real test. I also have some Eduard resin sets for it. 

[BlrwestSiR]

I finally spent some time at the bench working on the FW.  

Continuing with the wings, I used the alternate lower panels as <|| doesn't have outer wing guns. 

Once dry, I filled the seam lines around the panels. 

I then glued the upper wings in place on the inner structure.

One nice thing compared to their 109 kit is that the wing is in fewer parts. 

 

[BlrwestSiR]

Next up was the tail wheel. Again, a fair bit of internal details that much of which won't be seen. 

Installed into the separate tail.

What you'll see when done. 

It's almost tempting to do another one with the panels opened up for a contrasting appearance. 

 

[BlrwestSiR]

I decided to try an experiment in painting the exhausts. Instead of my usual approach and airbrushing them with Alclad or Xtreme Metal, I dry brushed them with Ammo Drybrush paint. 

It seems to have worked out okay. 

Next time I might try it over a black base coat. 

[Martinnfb]

Exhaust looks great. Looks like everything fits together as it should.

Cheers

Martin

[BlrwestSiR]

Martin, the exhausts were a perfect fit and lined up as if on autopilot. 

 

 

[BlrwestSiR]

I finally found my bottle of RLM 02. It was back on the paint rack. Go figure. Anyways, that mean I could finally get some paintwork done and move the build forward. 

Whoops, wrong FW kit. I decided to paint that one since I had the paint loaded in the airbrush.  Let's try again. 

 

[DocRob]

Nice Carl, interesting, how lighting can change everything. On the "wrong" 190, the RLM 02 looks to dark, albeit it´s the same.

Cheers Rob

[JohnB]

This will be a nice one for sure Paul. I look forward to following along. 🙂