Model Airplane International – August 2019

WEEKEND WÜRGER

Issue 169 - http://www.modelairplaneinternational.com 47

1:48

SKILL LEVEL:

Intermediate

SPECIFICATION:

Eduard 1/48 Fw190A-4 Weekend edition

Kit No. 84121

Materials: IM

Availability: http://www.eduard.com

Price £19.20

BEFORE STARTING:

Tamiya Extra Thin Cement

Tamiya Extra Thin Cement Quick setting

EMA Plastic Weld

Tamiya masking Tape

Swann-Morton Scalpel No.3 handle with no.11 blades

Wilder pointed tweezers

ponge sanders

Deluxe materials Perfect Plastic Putty

Micro drill and bits

Roket Rapid Super glue

Roket Blaster

Tamiya Fine White primer

AIRBRUSH:

Iwata Revolution CR

PAINTS USED:

Mr. Hobby Acrylics

H11Flat White

H12 Flat Black

H65 RLM70 BlackGreen

H68 RLM74 Grey

H69 RLM75 Grey

H70 RLM02 Grey

H77 Tire Black

H416 RLM66 Black Grey

Mr. Color Lacquers

C113 RLM04

C117 RLM6

and paints so they were to hand and set to

work.

Saturday 09:30 -12:00

Firstly there are a lot of multiple parts for

the myriad variants of Fw190A that can

be built from the base kit, the parts not for

use being ‘greyed out’ on the parts map in

the instructions and so were identifi ed and

removed from their runners to save confusion

later in the build.

There were then two sections that can

be concentrated on: the cockpit/fuselage

assembly and the wings/undercarriage bays.

The bulk of the cockpit is painted RLM66

Black Grey so all associated parts were

assembled as far as possible and readied for

painting en masse, only the seat pad being

separately painted a leather brown shade The

undercarriage bays were also assembled as

far as practicable and readied for their base

coat of RLM02 Grey.

All the internals were given a wash using

Klear, water and a drop of matt black Tamiya

acrylic. This was liberally applied around the

cockpit and undercarriage bays before being

set aside to dry whilst I had lunch with my wife

and kids.

Saturday 14:00 – 17:00

With the cockpit wash dry, the details were

picked out with various Vallejo acrylics and

a little drybrushing using Medium Sea Grey

enamel to lift the details further. I keep a set of

generic Luftwaffe WW2 fi ghter seat belts for

such builds which were added and painted.

The fuselage could now be closed up at the

tail end leaving the front section unglued, thus

allowing the cockpit ‘tub’ to be slipped in from

H77 Tire Black