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Mexican FW190s - two quick builds (hopefully!)

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nev

May 07, 2008, 12:01:25 PM
These 2 Butcher Birds have lain in Deep Storage for about 8 years, at the "almost complete" stage.

I've got a few long-term projects on the go atm and I feel the need for some quick and easy satisfaction (!)  So its time to pull these babies out of the spares box and spruce 'em up.

Ya see, Mrs Nev is away till Monday  :cheers: so I figured I could bang em out as quick builds - simple schemes, paint em with spray cans...that's the plan anyway  :ph34r:

They will both be Mexican to fit in with Narses Alt History of a right wing Nationalist government in Mexico - think Franco's Spain - being supplied by Nazi Germany.





Plan by end of day1/Wednesday (today) is to have them all buttoned up and ready for a coat of primer tomorrow....
Between almost-true and completely-crazy, there is a rainbow of nice shades - Tophe


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nev

#1
May 08, 2008, 09:24:41 AM
Quote from: The Wooksta! on May 08, 2008, 03:09:49 AM
In addition, I'd also cut away the solid canopy sections on the fuselage. 

Too late!
Between almost-true and completely-crazy, there is a rainbow of nice shades - Tophe


Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result - James May

nev

#2
May 12, 2008, 09:55:03 AM
OK, work progressing well on these.

Number 1 - has had another sand coat, now for the earth disruptive pattern...



Number 2 has also had another coat of Halfords aluminium, although its a bit orange-peely :(

Between almost-true and completely-crazy, there is a rainbow of nice shades - Tophe


Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result - James May

ysi_maniac

#3
May 12, 2008, 11:08:13 AM
NMF looks particularly well :thumbsup:
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Brian da Basher

#4
May 12, 2008, 02:34:14 PM
Nice progress, Nev! I'm really going to enjoy watching you complete these beauties!

Brian da Basher

matrixone

#5
May 12, 2008, 07:03:19 PM
I also like the NMF Fw 190.

What kits are these made from? They look pretty good!


Matrixone

John Howling Mouse

#6
May 12, 2008, 07:08:03 PM
It's fun to see your in-progress painting stages as I have no idea yet what the finished scheme will look like.   :smiley:
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nev

#7
May 13, 2008, 12:38:24 AM
Quote from: matrixone on May 12, 2008, 07:03:19 PM
I also like the NMF Fw 190.

What kits are these made from? They look pretty good!


Matrixone

Thanks, Revell 1/72.
Between almost-true and completely-crazy, there is a rainbow of nice shades - Tophe


Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result - James May

Ian the Kiwi Herder

#8
May 13, 2008, 01:13:03 PM
Looking good, my friend. If that silver is a wee bit 'orange peely' just take a very fine grade wet'n dry to it, don't be too timid, you can always hit it with a second thin coat of Aluminium.

Ian
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Patrick H

#9
May 13, 2008, 01:20:14 PM
Looking good Nev, especialy the silver one. Very special.

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nev

#10
May 23, 2008, 01:21:25 AM
Desert camo one has surged ahead...NMF bird needs an anti-glare panel spraying  :mellow:

Between almost-true and completely-crazy, there is a rainbow of nice shades - Tophe


Sales of Airfix kits plummeted in the 1980s, and GCSEs had to be made easier as a result - James May

Howard of Effingham

#11
May 23, 2008, 03:50:13 AM
i do like the desert mexican one, nev!  :wub:
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Mossie

#12
May 23, 2008, 04:14:13 AM
That looks nice Nev!  With the silver one, I guess the rattle can is a bit cold?  If you're going to stip it & attack it again, I've found putting it in the airing cubpoard or near the central heating boiler for about fifteen to twenty minutes warms the can up nicely.  Don't let it get too hot though!
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#13
May 23, 2008, 06:03:48 AM
Very nice, low contrast between the two browns certainly suit it   :thumbsup:

Ian
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....it's time to tidy the workbench"

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NARSES2

#14
May 23, 2008, 11:15:01 AM
Comeing on nicely Nev
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