I bought this model during the recent sale:
http://www.motionrc.com/freewing-foc...p/#description
Freewing's model depicts Hans Dortenmann's "Red 1" of JG 54, with its iconic double snake stretching across the entire fuselage. It's a nice looking livery, but I decided to repaint mine into Heinz Bar's "Red 13" of JG 1. JG1's nose insignia always stood out to me, and Heinz Bar amassed over 200 aerial victories, as the wreath on his rudder shows.
FW-190s are often seen with layers of weathering, and the best weathering jobs give the model a gritty look without looking unkempt. Subtlety is important, so I first traced all the panel lines with a dark brown layer. This "preshades" the panel lines, which gives them added depth after the top coats are added. Then I shot the three base coat colors, right over the stock paintjob (I didn't remove the decals since they're so thin anyway). Then the fun begins. I added drops of white, gray, yellow, and olive into the airbrush cup in small increments, and sprayed on additional layers and highlights. One drop of one color, mix, spray some highlight. One drop of another color, mix, spray another highlight. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Within 90 minutes after work last night the entire plane was painted as you see here. There are about 10 shades of green, 12 shades of gray, and 15 shades of brown/oil/black/silver. The camera doesn't pick them all up, but it's a nice effect in sunlight in person. The wing root area is my favorite, with three colors of metal chipping to show age and wear. The idea with this sort of layered weathering is to simulate the fading, chipping, smudging, and other factors which aged these aircraft out in the field.
Callie from the amazing Callie-Graphics.com nailed the decal set here. Great quality, as always. Thanks, Callie! The decals went on in about 15 minutes and included more than I needed, even down to the text panels on the struts themselves.
The model itself assembles very quickly with just four screws, which means so far I'm only two hours into the build. I'll detail the canopy further and dirty up the drop tank, then call it done. For quick projects like this I try to limit the work to 3 hours, maximum. Too many other things to do and not a lot of free time.
Have any of you repainted your FW-190s? There are so many color schemes out there, I'd love to see more of what others here have done!
http://www.motionrc.com/freewing-foc...p/#description
Freewing's model depicts Hans Dortenmann's "Red 1" of JG 54, with its iconic double snake stretching across the entire fuselage. It's a nice looking livery, but I decided to repaint mine into Heinz Bar's "Red 13" of JG 1. JG1's nose insignia always stood out to me, and Heinz Bar amassed over 200 aerial victories, as the wreath on his rudder shows.
FW-190s are often seen with layers of weathering, and the best weathering jobs give the model a gritty look without looking unkempt. Subtlety is important, so I first traced all the panel lines with a dark brown layer. This "preshades" the panel lines, which gives them added depth after the top coats are added. Then I shot the three base coat colors, right over the stock paintjob (I didn't remove the decals since they're so thin anyway). Then the fun begins. I added drops of white, gray, yellow, and olive into the airbrush cup in small increments, and sprayed on additional layers and highlights. One drop of one color, mix, spray some highlight. One drop of another color, mix, spray another highlight. Repeat, repeat, repeat. Within 90 minutes after work last night the entire plane was painted as you see here. There are about 10 shades of green, 12 shades of gray, and 15 shades of brown/oil/black/silver. The camera doesn't pick them all up, but it's a nice effect in sunlight in person. The wing root area is my favorite, with three colors of metal chipping to show age and wear. The idea with this sort of layered weathering is to simulate the fading, chipping, smudging, and other factors which aged these aircraft out in the field.
Callie from the amazing Callie-Graphics.com nailed the decal set here. Great quality, as always. Thanks, Callie! The decals went on in about 15 minutes and included more than I needed, even down to the text panels on the struts themselves.
The model itself assembles very quickly with just four screws, which means so far I'm only two hours into the build. I'll detail the canopy further and dirty up the drop tank, then call it done. For quick projects like this I try to limit the work to 3 hours, maximum. Too many other things to do and not a lot of free time.
Have any of you repainted your FW-190s? There are so many color schemes out there, I'd love to see more of what others here have done!
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