GB-68 1/48 Fw-190A-8 - We all build Fw 190

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Thanks all.

After a lot of dry-fitting and figuring out how the gun bay is supposed to look I glued the fuselage halves together this morning.



I figured out, no thanks to the instructions, that there is supposed to be a gap between the fuselage wall and the gun bay shelf - it's the only way the firewall will properly fit. EDIT: NOT TRUE! SEE MY NEXT POST DOWNTHREAD. The gun bay will be closed to view anyway once I glue the cover in place.

Next it will be on to the wings. I glued the spar and rib pieces to the lower half and shot some RLM02 on it in a previous life.



This got me wondering though. Did some late production 190's omit the 02 paint in the wheel wells in favour of leaving bare aluminum? Wurger do you know?
 
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Not sure if this will help, or hinder Andy.
This is the A-8 at RAFM Cosford, when our forum member Rodd was working on the tail wheel retract cable (after I had told him of it's existence , ahem!).
This example was part of a "Mistel" combination captured in Denmark in 1945, and the internal paintwork is original. The wheel bays and gear legs, along with the STC carrier, are RLM 76, and most wartime pics show what is most likely this colour. (looks darker in these shots due to lighting conditions.)
I don't recall seeing any evidence of RLM 02 wheel bays, in general, on either FW190s or Bf109s (after the E model), or any post late 1940/early 1941 Luftwaffe types, although there could be, of course, exceptions (deliberately planned by the RLM to f*ck up modellers long after the fall of the Reich !).

 

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