**** DONE: 1/48 FW190A-7 'Red 13', Major Heinz Bar, II./JG1 Germany 1944

[Peebs]

User Name: Peebs
Name: Peter
Catagory: 2, Intermediate
Scale: 1/48
Kit Manfacturer: Hasegawa
Model: FW190A-7

OOB

I wasn't going to enter this build as I'm flat out at the moment, was going to wait until Build#11, but I couldn't resist! lol

Heinz Bar is credited with 221 victories, ranking 8th All time amongst Luftwaffe Aces, 16 of these victories were in an Me 266, ranking him 3rd among WWII Luftwaffe Jet Aces.
Bar was killed in a flying accident on July 28 1957

 

[Peebs]

The Kit...

 

[Peebs]

oops! I forgot to put ME/FW GB in my title, if one of the mods would be so kind as to fix, thanx

 

[Airframes]

Good one peter. I think Eric will be watching this one closely ........

 

[Crimea_River]

Nice one Peter!

 

[Njaco]

Love to see you do this crate! If it helps, I did a thread on his machines...

http://www.ww2aircraft.net/forum/aircraft-pictures/heinz-baer-his-machines-27846.html

 

[imalko]

Nice choice.

 

[Lucky13]

Looks like a great one!

 

[rochie]

great subject

 

[Vic Balshaw]

190 number 6 and a number 13 to boot, welcome aboard the GB Peter a nice selection to an accomplished flyer.

 

[Wurger]

oops! I forgot to put ME/FW GB in my title, if one of the mods would be so kind as to fix, thanx

Done. But sorry I have had to change the title a little bit...

 

[Wayne Little]

Excellent kit, great subject!

 

[ozhawk40]

Very good choice Pete, should look great when done.

Cheers

Peter

 

[T Bolt]

Should be a good one Pete.

 

[Peebs]

Away to a good start....

cockpit instrument pannels etc all painted RLM66

The instructions say to 'flatten' out all the instrument cluster details before placing decals. The detail is really good as you can see, so I thought it would be a shame to cut/sand it flat and loose all the detail, so I got the scapel blade out and cut all the dials etc and individually placed them, I think the 3D detail really adds to it as apposed to flat decal.
From the 'Macro' shot I see a couple of the dials are a little off centre but its not decerable to the naked eye, so I'm really pleased with the result.

 

[lostinhull]

Sweet work there

 

[Wayne Little]

Well done Peter, the decal dials look good mate!

 

[T Bolt]

Agree! Great job on those instrument decals.

 

[rochie]

looks great

 

[Crimea_River]

Beautiful!