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Gallery Article by Murray Antill
on Aug 12 2003 |
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Yes, it's another
FW-190... I love 'em! This is my first submission to ARC, A website of
immeasurable help and inspiration. This is also my first attempt at using
resin to detail a model.
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The Kit is a Tamiya
Fw-190 D9 with an Aries detail set and Aeromaster "Operation Bodenplatte"
decals. I built the kits as per the instructions... the fit of the Tamiya
kit?... Forget about it. The resin?... Some difficulties were
encountered in fitting the gun bays, after finally sanding enough resin off to
get the starboard one to fit I decided to leave the port side for another Fw-190
(I have 5 kits waiting to go). Also, as noted elswhere by ARC'ers I
found the gun barrels didn't line up! So, I chopped 'em off and bought
myself some brass tubing. I liked the result - I'm using the tubing from
now on. Some parts of the engine had to be filed off to get it to fit
against the firewall and look out if you do one - make sure you get it square,
it doesn't look that bad until you put the wings and the cowling on.
I recently built an
F4U-A1 and I decided to use a technique I had experimented with on it - I first
painted the aircraft's surfaces with MM Metaliser Aluminium, then a coat of
future, then my Gunze-Sango Acrylic camoflage colours. Using masking tape
I began to pull away the surface paint to create chips.
A coat of Testors
Glosscote went on next. Time for decals... My first go at aftermarket
decals, I'll never go back. They are so thin! I didn't use any
setting or wetting stuff, I brush-painted Future over the decals after a
minute or so. This sealed them for weathering.
I used a wash of
Chalk pastels in water and dishwashing liquid for the panel lines and then a
coat of Testors Dullcoat. Lastly I airbrushed G-S 'Smoke' thinned quite a
bit for exhaust and gun stains.