chrish Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Hot on the heels (or what falls for hot on the heels of anything around here) of the Su 27... Bought used from a club swap sale it came with an arm load of aftermarket pe. resin and decals, hardly any of which was used. I think I may have gotten the colors wrong once again...striving as I do for mediocrity Thanks for looking ivanmoe, tucohoward, Tnarg and 18 others 21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark P Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Nice! We dont see lots of these built. Where did the decals come from? Mark Proulx chrish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted April 2, 2022 Author Share Posted April 2, 2022 6 minutes ago, Mark P said: Nice! We dont see lots of these built. Where did the decals come from? Mark Proulx Kit decals, Eagle strike Swastikas Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark P Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 I grabbed the Nautilus Models wing spar reinforcement set for this kit. Any others "problem areas" to be concerned with here? Mark Proulx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted April 2, 2022 Author Share Posted April 2, 2022 15 minutes ago, Mark P said: I grabbed the Nautilus Models wing spar reinforcement set for this kit. Any others "problem areas" to be concerned with here? Mark Proulx I had no trouble at all with the kit although, reading build logs of others it became apparent the wing to fuselage joint was trouble. I glued the top wing halves to the fuselage, then the bottom centre section to the belly then joined the wing half top to bottom, thusly: as you can see here the fit came out not bad, I did have to stuff a shim between the floor edge and fuselage side to "widen" the fuselage not much more of the thin smear of Tamiya filler at the wing root than at the leading edge seam. Otherwise fit is as close to perfect as dammit to swearing LSP_Kevin, chukw, scvrobeson and 5 others 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RBrown Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 That is very impressive! As far as the colors go, recent evidence indicates that early Fw 200s may have been painted with the standard Luftwaffe 70/71 greens before the switch to 72/73. D.B. Andrus, Mark P and chrish 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted April 2, 2022 Author Share Posted April 2, 2022 2 minutes ago, RBrown said: That is very impressive! As far as the colors go, recent evidence indicates that early Fw 200s may have been painted with the standard Luftwaffe 70/71 greens before the switch to 72/73. funny how in my pictures the greens look brown when pics shot in the hobby room...I've had blues look violet in here too. I wonder whats up with all that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark P Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 1 hour ago, RBrown said: That is very impressive! As far as the colors go, recent evidence indicates that early Fw 200s may have been painted with the standard Luftwaffe 70/71 greens before the switch to 72/73. Yes, apparently those prior to W.Nr. 0024 in the early war greens of RLM 70/71. Mark Proulx D.B. Andrus and LSP_K2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_Kevin Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Excellent work, Chris! I've recently purchased this kit myself (and would love to find the MPM He 177 kit, too). What aftermarket leftovers do you have? I might be interested in them... Kev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark P Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 (edited) Now, if only someone would offer up accurate 1/48th scale decals As well, some nice resin aftermarket goodies. Wheels and control surfaces come to mind. Mark Proulx Edited April 2, 2022 by Mark P chrish 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Madhatter Posted April 2, 2022 Share Posted April 2, 2022 Wow, you don't see many of these built these days. Very cool. I've always thought the Condor was a graceful looking bird but the tail fin looks way to short to be effective. Obviously it was but it doesn't look like it would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Viper_Crewdawg Posted April 10, 2022 Share Posted April 10, 2022 Very nice! I always thought that the Condor was ahead of its time. Pretty airframe. Nice job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrish Posted April 10, 2022 Author Share Posted April 10, 2022 Thanks for looking and commenting! Looking at the images again now and thinking how the landing gear looks like an aircraft sitting on a trestle bridge. Ungainly but I guess it worked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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