**** DONE: GB-36 1/48 FW190A-5 - Axis Manufactured Aircraft of WWII

[fubar57]

I remember years ago a company released a navigation light making template that looked like a photo etch sheet with small holes shaped like various lights cut out. You did as Andy did with the candle, pressed it into selected hole, cut from the clear sprue, final shaping and glue. You think I can find it now.....nope

 

[Crimea_River]

Interesting idea though.

 

[fubar57]

Found this but I don't think its the one I'm thinking of

Antrvm Ratvs - Tips on making aircraft and vehicle lights - Part III

 

[Gnomey]

Great work so far Andy!

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks Hugh.

Link doesn't work Geo.

 

[fubar57]

Weird, I just tried it and it worked. Glitchy

 

[JKim]

Link worked for me. I have a few Eduard photoetch frets that have those small openings. Never knew what they were for until I saw something similar to that tutorial.

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

Just now:

 

[JKim]

Something on your end, Andy?

 

[Vic Balshaw]

I know I've been out of circulation for some time Andy, but how gratifying it is to come back and see such clever modelling and to learn something new, I also never released what those frets were on the edge of the PE plates.

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks very much Vic. A pleasure to have you take a gander at what I've been up to.

The model is in a holding pattern right now pending receipt of the Brassin wheels from Eduard. Once received, I expect this week, it will be one session at the bench to tidy this build up and chuck it on the shelf.

 

[mikewint]

Andy, very inpressive work to say the very least

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks Mike. Appreciate it.

 

[Crimea_River]

The Brassin resin wheels finally arrived this week so I was able to work on my punch list of fiddly bits. The first thing was to get the wheels prepped, painted, and installed. The wheels are beautifully cast and may yet turn out to be the nicest part of this model!

Eduard was nice enough to provide masks to allow painting of the tires first and the hubs last. The tires were shot with Tamiya Tire Black and the hubs were then done with gloss black.

The running surfaces were sprayed a light grey and the wheels were then given a wash of a muddy colour. The finishing touch was to paint on the red indicator tapes.

The finished tires were flattened with a file and glued to the model. Sorry for the stark lighting.

With the wheels no on, I proceeded to add the tiny bits that would have been lost in handling the model. Below can be seen the red gear-down indicator bar and the cable that retracts the tail wheel which has been attached to the landing gear retraction arm.

The antenna was added. For this I used nylon invisible mending thread. The spring on the antenna post was simulated by attaching a short length of stretched sprue. The intermediate wire is stretched sprue which is easier to cut and attach. After all this was set. I ran a dab of Alclad Steel along all the cables.

The last thing I need to check is whether or not I need to add a gun camera fairing on the leading edge (methinks yes but I need to verify) and then do a last once over of the model before declaring victory. Should be done with this one in the next couple of days ad I;ll post up the last few steps soon.

 

[fubar57]

Nice

 

[Crimea_River]

Thanks Geo. I hit the "post" button too soon so the edit should be up now.

 

[fubar57]

Much better

 

[turbo]

Sweet Andy

 

[Wurger]