**** DONE: Fw 189 A1 v7+1H - Me/ Fw Group Build

[T Bolt]

Thanks for the comments guys!

Nice model kit, post up some pictures when you finish it, I have the real engine cover from a FW 189 so I may want to paint it in the same camo colors as your finished model for display.

That sounds cool Danny. Where on earth did you find that?

After work tonight I finished the masking and sprayed the 189 RLM 71, along with an old Airfix Typhoon model I'll be using for testing out the winter camo.

 

[woody]

Looking good Glenn.

 

[Wayne Little]

Coming alive Glenn!!

 

[rochie]

very nice

 

[Gerry]

Looking sharp!

 

[Airframes]

Nice finish in the paint work Glenn.

 

[Crimea_River]

 

[T Bolt]

Thanks guys. I love it when a build gets to this stage.

A lot more work tonight. I spent a few hours masking for the RLM 70 camo. It took so long because I wanted the line between the RLM 70 and RLM 71 to be just slightly soft, so I tried out a new method I came up with that left the edge of the tape just barely above the surface by setting it on several layers of tape cut into a strip that was under and just behind the covering layer of tape. It worked out well, but was a lot more time consuming than I thought it would be. Two and a half hours of masking and ten minutes with the air brush.

Picture 1) After the masking was complete

Picture 2) A close up of the edge of the masking. The tape you see is held up by a hidden strip of four layers of tape

Picture 3) After spraying the RLM 70

Pictures 4 5) the model after removal of the masking

 

[Crimea_River]

Really coming to life now Glenn. Home stretch!

 

[Vic Balshaw]

All that taping, but well worth the effort Glenn.

 

[Gerry]

Very sharp paintwork, Glenn. Looking forward to the canopy unmask.

 

[Airframes]

Beautiful job Glenn. For future reference, when doing spaced masks, it's a lot easier to use thin card, such as from greetings/Xmas cards, or heavy paper stock, for example cartridge drawing paper, for the spacers. Cut the card to the required shape, on strips narrower than the tape used, along with the lengths of tape, and stick this to the tape, just inboard of the desired paint line. Then lay them on the model and fasten down with the remaining tape.
The principal is the same, but it saves a lot of time - and tape - and is much easier to apply.

 

[FlexiBull]

Lovely job. Think she will be a beauty when those transfers go on. BTW may have missed this but what paint are you using, it seems to give a very smooth finish.

Flexi

 

[Wurger]

Beautiful .

 

[Gnomey]

Coming along nicely!

 

[T Bolt]

Beautiful job Glenn. For future reference, when doing spaced masks, it's a lot easier to use thin card, such as from greetings/Xmas cards, or heavy paper stock, for example cartridge drawing paper, for the spacers. Cut the card to the required shape, on strips narrower than the tape used, along with the lengths of tape, and stick this to the tape, just inboard of the desired paint line. Then lay them on the model and fasten down with the remaining tape.
The principal is the same, but it saves a lot of time - and tape - and is much easier to apply.

Thanks Terry, I'll have to try that way. I thought I'd save some time by making up the spacers from tape so they would stick by themselves, but it ended up taking much longer even if the results were pretty good.

........BTW may have missed this but what paint are you using, it seems to give a very smooth finish.

Flexi

I probably didn't say as I almost always use the same. Testors Model Master enamels.

 

[rochie]

wow Glenn, looks amazing

 

[Wayne Little]

Nice work Glenn!

 

[javlin]

That looks good there Glenn.I never in a million years would of thought of folding over the leading edge of the mask,smart.I like the effect.

 

[T Bolt]

That looks good there Glenn.I never in a million years would of thought of folding over the leading edge of the mask,smart.I like the effect.

The leading edge of the tape wasn't folded over Kevin. A spacer made of 4 layers of tape, one on top of the other was placed on the models surface 1/16" back from the paint edge and the tape you see in the picture laid on top of that keeping it the thickness of the 4 layers of tape off the surface. Kind of hard to describe, I guess I should have taken a picture.

Latest Work:
I usually spray any colored bands on first, but this time I screwed up and forgot, so it took a lot of extra masking to get the yellow markings on tonight.