Pugz's Explores the Dora ***FINISHED***

[Pugz636]

Heres my take of the Airfix FW190D

[Pugz636]

well good news, I won my bid on ebay and my FW190 is on its way and unlike all previous builds the paint arrived before the kit...Thanks go to hannants their service this time was lightning quick i think from delivery to arrival was 48 hours. Amazing....

[Dirkpitt289]

Great news. Looking forward to seeing the build.

[Pugz636]

This group build is going to be like no other, even my kit has arrived before the build.....arrived this morning we are all go for tomorrow...woop woop! ( or should that be achtung achtung?)

[Pugz636]

we are under starters orders so here is the starter shot



i bought this off ebay, it didnt matter that the starter kit didnt come with brush and paints as i have ordered everything in, the box was a bit battered but as it was the kit i wanted this is it. Delivered really quick too....

[Pugz636]

hopefully but the starter box art is for jg26 schlageter, but i have ordered some decals from ebay....
heres the link from hannants...

http://www.hannants.co.uk/product/SKY72060

so im still working on a colour scheme, hopefully with the 33 different aircraft that is on this sheet will include the papagai staffel...if not i will go for a different squadron ( obviously) but i will keep the build informed once the sheet has arrived.

Pugz

[jssel]

I see Red 3 and 13 of JV44. The Brown 5 I believe would be for the wide tail version. What a beautiful sheet.

[Pugz636]

and i have bought replacement decals from the original papegai staffel just in case, so if i finish early ( well you never know) i may end up doing two.....

thx jssel i wish i had seen your post sooner, i would have saved a fiver lol....still its always good to have extras

[Pugz636]

just a quick question is the wide tail version the TA-152? whats the differences between the Fw190 d and the TA152?

[jssel]

Good data Brews and thanks. I am no expert on this but I have read that there are four confirmed uses of the big tail on the Fw190D9. Not all of the series numbers are confirmed however. Off the top of my head there was Brown 4 and a Yellow 6.

[Pugz636]

wow thats awesome thx, i had never heard of the TA152 until i put fw 190d into google....but its good to see the differences written down...

[Pugz636]

was looking for pictures of the "office" talk about cramped...have a look at this

http://www.preservedaxisaircraft.com/Lu ... ockpit.jpg

its from an f-8 but surely the differnecs between the d and F cockpits cant be that different in colour....

[Pugz636]

right i have started, its the first time that i have participated in a single kit group build and actually started on the first day...but here goes. Stage one pain inside the cockpit...done, add seat...done paint seat done , join fuselage halves done.
this is where i sort of went off on one, i constructed my wings clamped them and left em whilst i fitted the cannon section of the upper fuselage, this is a bit of a pig especially where the from canopy meets the fuselage at the front,theres a bit of a gap. Im going to leave this until i fit the canopy to see if it needs filler.

2 hours in to the build i have the fuselage joined together and the wings on, taileron on and already its starting to look like a FW190. Seams have completely vanished and its shaping up to be a good kit...from my experience of recent starter kit this could be a good accompanyment to little Johnnys Mustang....

so before i get the post is worthless without pictures tag here we go....

[Pugz636]

does that mean my tail planes are on upside down?

[Pugz636]

on a positive note my sky decals 72-060 arrived today! hurrah! what an amazing sheet..jssel was not wrong and im still goin for a papegai staffel example this time..... red 1 i think...

and i have filled the wing seam, and the seams at the end of the underside joins....

onwards and upwards....