**** DONE: 1/32 Fw 190D-9 - Allied Advance and Defense of the Reich WWII.

[Airframes]

Just had another look, and some of the images are now there, whilst others are still just the small icons.
I stand by my comment of up-loading direct though - 'Photobucket' and similar image-hosting sites are a pain when they don't work, and can disappear after a certain amount of time and are, quite honestly, unnecessary, when pics can be up-loaded direct.

 

[Wurger]

Yes you are right. The Photobucket hosting is a pain. Also the site makes loading of pages slower , especially if images are large.

 

[Airframes]

Yep, that's probably what happened here, as I've just been back for a third look, and this time, all of the images are there.

 

[fubar57]

Some great work and lessons, John.


Geo

 

[Gnomey]

Great work so far John!

 

[Night Fighter Nut]

That is just so realistic its scary.

 

[destrozas]

wow well job john well job thanks to delight my eyes with your work

 

[JKim]

Thanks guys! Still working on the wing/fuse joint and other minor putty work but we are getting closer and closer to the camo painting!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks for the tutorial John.

 

[JKim]

Just a tiny update on the Dora. I've dipped my canopy pieces into Future and masked them manually using Tamiya Tape. The windscreen was glued into place after I replaced the gun sight reflector glass. The sliding canopy was just placed to check fit. Haven't decided on whether to position the canopy open or closed. I really prefer the look of my planes with everything buttoned up. And I don't like the look of the slack aerial drooping all over the rear fuselage so I'm leaning towards a closed canopy but we'll see...

 

[Wurger]

 

[Airframes]

Looking good John. Although I mainly model canopies in the open position, there are times when it can look better closed, and with that 'droopy' antenna wire, I agree, it looks untidy and, to the uninitiated, can be mistaken for a fault or error, so I can see your logic in having a closed canopy.

 

[Gnomey]

Looks great so far John!

 

[Crimea_River]

The other advantage of leaving it closed on the 190 is that you don't have to deal with the tapered track. Eduard supplies 2 canopies in their kits: one for closed and a "squeezed" one for he open position.

 

[Airframes]

Good point Andy. I've seen umpteen models that have been slightly spoiled by having that gap around the open canopy, and as far as I know, it's only the Eduard 1/48th scale kits that offer the optional canopy. I normally add runners, made form plastic strip, to try to disguise the gaps at least a little.

 

[Catch22]

Looks fantastic John.

 

[T Bolt]

Very nice work there John

 

[Wayne Little]

Sweet work John.

 

[JKim]

A short update on the big Dora... I've started the painting process. But first, a few more rivets were added to the fuselage joint area after cleanup.

The canopy was secured into place and the frames were painted dark grey.

The preshading was done for the first portion of the wing bottoms. I'm going to go front to back on the wing bottoms.

While I've got black in the airbrush cup, I've added a coat of it at the wing roots and fuselage around the cockpit. I am planning to do some hairspray chipping in this area.

Alclad Airframe Aluminum was used to serve as the chip coat.

Oh... and if you haven't noticed. I've ripped off the Eagle Editions radiator cowl and replaced it with the kit cowl. I just didn't like the fit gap.

 

[Wurger]