Revell 1:72 Scale Focke Wulf 200-C

[Bustedwing]

The progress with these engines is very good, Graham, looks very promising.

On the other hand, the number of years and modeling brands from the far away Egypt is very impressive. What a good memory!
It should also be clarified that in this forum there don´t exist, nor are there any elderly people, but, we have some "ancient boys", and others of us have the "accumulated youth" ...

Saludos cordiales, amigos, colegas y contemporáneos míos.

I just consider myself " slightly chronologically challenged"

 

[Bustedwing]

Very nice work in this scale.
Ammo belts can be made fairly convincingly in this scale using thick foil, such as the lead foil found on wine bottles. Cut a strip the desired width, and lay it on a flat surface. Then, using a coin with a 'milled' edge, roll it along the strip, pressing firmly. This should leave the indentations from the 'milled' edge, looking good enough to represent the rounds in 1/72 scale, then paint as needed.

Brilliant idea ! I tried it out with a bunch of different coins, A US dollar works great !

 

[Airframes]

Good to know it worked. I've used the technique for 1/48th scale belts for the interior of B-17s, B-25s etc, and it looks good enough through the glazing.

 

[Bustedwing]

In the making it up as you go along category. The gondola or bathtub. I couldn't find any pictures of what's actually inside so I just kind of made up the interior. I also made new glazing for the front and rear. The ones in the kit were hideously thick, not very transparent and didn't fit worth a pinch. The bombs in the bomb bay are molded all in one piece as part of the floor and look kind of goofy but I used it any ways. Couldn't find enough bombs all the same size in my scrap bin to build my own, besides , when I take my readers off they don't look too goofy !

 

[Airframes]

Nicely done.

 

[Gnomey]

Good work so far!

 

[fubar57]

Nice work

 

[Tony Hill]

Looking good!

 

[Bustedwing]

Ok so now some painting. I actually added a fair bit of white to tone down the RLM73 to give a bit more contrast between the two splinter colours. The Ar196 I did a while back there is hardly any difference between them at all. I also did a lot of shading with thinned out paint which worked quite well. The picture doesn't show it much but it seems to have worked fairly convincingly. The underside is RLM 65. Behold the hinkey bombs, I wish now I had decided to make some and build my own bomb bay, no turning back at this point. I ordered a set of after market decals so that's up next. Slowly clearing up some of the dinosaur kits so I can get at some of the newer kits from the Christmas score !

 

[fubar57]

 

[Airframes]

It's looking good, and I see what you mean about the 'bombs' !
Maybe have a closed bomb bay ?

 

[Wurger]

 

[Crimea_River]

If I recall, the bomb doors don't fit very well so closing the bay up might be entertaining.

 

[Airframes]

Out with the grinder, and off with their heads !

 

[javlin]

It's looking good, and I see what you mean about the 'bombs' !
Maybe have a closed bomb bay ?

That is looking really Nice and to the bomb bay unless someone reaches in the cabinet they will never know

 

[Gnomey]

Looks good so far!

 

[SANCER]

You did a good job painting with the two upper colors and the lower part. Regarding the bombs bay, I agree with Kevin and if with closeing the doors it looks better, the best decision will be yours.
I will continue pending to the advances that you have us.

Saludos compadre
Luis Carlos

 

[Bustedwing]

Well I'm signing off on this one finally. I wish I had paid more attention to the bomb load.I thought about cutting off the goofy looking bombs and adding a torpedo but after searching found they never carried torpedoes. I saw a few pictures with two bombs in the bay but no info on what type. From what I could find typical was a load of 12 Sc50 bombs. The kit only shows 10 bombs. I didn't feel like making 12 little bombs so I just left it as it is. At any rate I have a Condor for my WW2 Luftwaffe collection and pretty pleased with how it turned out for such a meager kit.

 

[Airframes]

Turned out very nice indeed - well done.

 

[Wurger]

I agree with Terry. Well done.