Before and after

These are some shots of FW190 during the painting process. The first picture is after urge first coat of paint by brush and the second when its all finished with the airbrush.

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About time too

I have managed to finish the Tamiya FW190 F9 at last. I made a few mistakes on the way but it looks good to me and that's all that counts. Amongst the few problems were, The mottle went wrong (my fault for not following people's advice), gear retraction arms put on upside down (my fault for not looking at instruction's properly) and whilst cutting off the final part from the sprue(the step) it snapped in half and was lost forever on the floor (not my fault). I did enjoy this one , well i must of because i wanted to keep going back to it which is more than could be said for the Xtrakit spitfire XII. I keep looking at it and it just doesn't seem right, the gear doors are either too short or I've put them on wrong (quite possible), anyway it has just been put back on the shelf for another day.

That's more like it.

Ok, the Hurricane has been worked on for a couple of days now and it looks a bit better, i got a coat of 'klear' on it last night so i can hopefully get the decals on tonight. The Fw190 has just had the undersides and sides sprayed with RLM 65 because that's what the instructions said. I have gone back to one of my books and it says that RLM 76 was the underside colour for most of the 190's, I'll be honest and admit that i can't really tell the difference apart from RLM65 looks slightly more 'blueish' than RLM 76. Oh Well !

I only have these two on the table at the minute so i have been starting to look at my next model it's going to be either the 1/72 Me262 or 1/72 Bf109 G6 both from Academy, in fact i have started to get all the bits that are RLM 66 painted up. At the moment I'm swinging towards the 109 only because there is an article in one of this months magazines.

That'll teach me

I was trying to rush painting the Hurricane and it's all gone horribly wrong. I tried spraying the final colour without fully masking it up, and boy what a mess !

On the plus side it got me started on the 1/48 tamiya Fw190 F8/9, i can't believe how good a fit everything has been so far. Last week i had painted all the bits i could whilst they were still on the sprues, so it was just a case of dropping it all together.

For this project i am going to try and replace the gun barrels with some brass tubing and see what it looks like.