ChuckD Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 (edited) Hi, everyone. Here's my latest project. After slogging through a couple long complex builds, I wanted to do something quick, fun, and easy. So, I grabbed the Revell of German FW-190F-8 kit off the shelf and this is what came out. I'm making no pretenses whatsoever to be perfectly historically accurate, but the general idea is to convey a forgotten and abandoned FW-190 that was stuffed under some low trees and covered with tarps for camouflage from roving allied fighter bombers. I found the "Yellow K" paint scheme referenced in a 1/48 Eduard kit and decided to do up some masks on my Silhouette cutter to match. Pretty much everything else is straight out of the box. The kit itself is really nice, especially for the cost. It went from "in the box" to "mostly built" in about 7 hours. That includes painting, decaling, and weathering the cockpit. The cowling was the only finicky part, but a lot of tape and liquid superglue had it coming out pretty nicely. The exhaust stacks where they meet with the cylinder heads were short-shot in one area, but since I was going with a closed cowling, it wasn't a big deal. It would've been a deal breaker on a cowl-open build though. Paints were MRP and weathering was done with oils, Mig washes, and pigments. The trees are twisted wire covered with plaster and woodland scenics foliage. Tarp is tissue paper laid down with white glue and water, then painted in situ. Ground work is still a skill I'm working to improve, but I'm reasonably happy with how everything turned out. On to the pics. Hope you enjoy. If you've made it this far, you may have noticed that I forgot to put on the lenses for the wingtip and rudder lights. My bad. I've since fixed that, but I *really* didn't want to drag the photography set out again just to take updated pics. :p Edited November 26, 2020 by ChuckD Dpgsbody55, mywifehatesmodels, blackbetty and 15 others 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rockie Yarwood Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 Beautiful model and setting! Congratulations, Chuck! ChuckD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeC Posted November 26, 2020 Share Posted November 26, 2020 Great finish and excellent presentation. Rockie Yarwood and ChuckD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thunnus Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Great little diorama! Rockie Yarwood and ChuckD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Out2gtcha Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Looks great! Rockie Yarwood and ChuckD 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dpgsbody55 Posted November 27, 2020 Share Posted November 27, 2020 Excellent diorama. Cheers, Michael ChuckD and Rockie Yarwood 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Wimmer Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Well done! Would love to find something like this on a sunday afternoon walk... ChuckD 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greif8 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Very nice diorama and build Chuck. It looks outstanding! Ernest ChuckD and Rockie Yarwood 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckD Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 Thanks for the compliments, guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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