Jerry Crandall Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Super Dora and thanks for using our products!! Cheers, Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wurzacher Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Such a wonderful build! Wished it was mine! Simply perfect, a pleasure to study your pictures!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Now that I've seen the work you've put in, I'm even more impressed! Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alain11 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 hi one of the best Dora I ever seen . very good job !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Alain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X15 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Absolutely fantastic !!! all is great, color scheme, painting, weathering, pics !! I love it !! Thanks for sharing your work !! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swan-neck Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Incredible build!!!!!! I love Dora, and Your one is stunning. Ciao Lu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wouter Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Wow! Excellent build and a stunning paintjob. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr scale32 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 One awesome build! I really like this one. Paintjob outstanding! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted June 7, 2016 Author Share Posted June 7, 2016 Thanks for all of the positive comments! My normal scale is 1/48 but I really admire the work of the many great builders here at LSP. I'm a big Dora fan and I liked the Hasegawa kit (Rudel boxing) so much that I recently snatched up the Late Version (Big Tail) for a future build. There are lots of little niggling things that I missed on this build that I would like to address next time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IJ001 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Beautifully done. Ian. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BiggTim Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 Just OUTSTANDING!!! Love the top notch weathering!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dsahling1 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 That's a real work of art, those FW-190s have such nice camouflage schemes applied to them. Beautiful airbrushing work on the mottling, especially on the tail, can you talk a little more about how you did it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted June 9, 2016 Author Share Posted June 9, 2016 That's a real work of art, those FW-190s have such nice camouflage schemes applied to them. Beautiful airbrushing work on the mottling, especially on the tail, can you talk a little more about how you did it? Thank you very much. I went back and forth on the rudder mottling. Based on archive photos, I noticed that Dora rudders often don't match the rest of the tail. Similar to what I see on late war 109G's and K's. Perhaps they were manufactured/painted separately? Photos of Yellow 11 seem to support this notion (or at least didn't disprove it). So I hard-masked the rudder off from the rest of the tail and applied a mottle pattern of RLM 75/83 on top of the base RLM 76. I wasn't getting the desired contrast between the rudder and the rest of the tail so I kept re-doing it. I even tried it with a base of RLM 83 and then mottling 75 and 76 over it but that came out too dark. I must've tried 4-5 times before settling on a mottle using a lighter green (RLM 82) and 75 over 76. The mottling pattern was kept intentionally diffuse. Tried to keep the mottles "wispy" as opposed to "blocky" if that makes any sense. I use mostly Tamiya and Gunze acrylics thinned with 90% iso alcohol at about a 1:4 ratio shot through an Iwata HP-C Plus. The final effect is hard to discern in the photographs but I use my own form of pre-shading using a random squiggle pattern. Inspired by Doog's black-basing but putting my own spin on it. alain11, LSP_Kevin and Uncarina 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joe Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
francky Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Hi John, what a fantastic model you have done,really really nice !!!! well done,all the best Franck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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