My last one for 2010 finished!

[matrixone]

Just finished today, my Tamiya Fw 190F-8. These are not very good pictures but the best I could do under todays conditions.











And this pic is to show just how dirty the engine cowling can get on a well used Fw 190!


Matrixone

[Gondor]

These are not very good pictures

So you say 

As usual they are of a standard that most of us can only hope to achieve 

Gondor

[beowulf]

outstanding work 

[Taiidantomcat]

Brilliant! And radials don't leak, they hemorrhage! 

[ChernayaAkula]

Waidaminit, if it's Tamiya it's 1/48.  I really thought I was looking at one of your 1/32 builds again! Amazing craftsmanship!

[matrixone]

Thanks guys!

I had a little trouble getting good pics because of the poor lighting conditions at my home this time of year, my house sets in an area that only gets sunlight for a limited amount of time, the rest of the time it is in the shade which is bad for getting good model pics. Also it was freezing cold today which is why I only set up one third of the photobase and just took only a few snaps of the model, maybe next year when its warmer I will get the type of pics I really wanted to take.

Matrixone

[NARSES2]

They are seriously good. I love that really dirty drop tank 

The real photo just hi-lites how good your work is 

[GTX]

Put the appropriate border on this one and you will be able to fool people into thinking it is a real colour photo taken in the war.

Would love to see a step by step weathering tutorial by you.

Regards,

Greg

[matrixone]

Thanks NARSES2 and Greg!
I had to put up the picture of the full size 190, otherwise everybody would think I over stated the weathering effects on the model!
BTW, the oil streaks on the drop tank are actually shiny. I coated the oil stains with future to give them a wet look but it does not show very well in my pics.

This model was great weathering practice on my next model which will be ''blue 12'' W.Nr. 500570, that aircraft was heavily stained with dirt and mud when it was flown to Furth Germany to surrender to U.S. forces.

But before I can build anything else I must clean off my work table, it will be a big job because I built five models in a row without cleaning it off....its a huge mess.

Matrixone

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Simply outstanding.

Ian

[matrixone]

Thanks once again Ian!


Matrixone

[lancer]

Without doubt the best I've seen in 2010 Matrix. If I didn't know it was one of your builds I'd have thought it was the real thing. That leaking from the cowling ring is superb. Dirty buggers in real life weren't thet??

[matrixone]

Thank you lancer!

Yes the German engines were rather messy but thats a good thing because they make it a lot of fun building models of those aircraft, imagine if they were 100% clean running, they would make for bland looking models.

Not sure if this was my best for the past year but it was by far the quickest I have ever finished a model since I was in grade school.

2011 is not off to a very good start, I am building two 1/32 scale Fw 190D-9's and found out I am missing the seat from one of them, its my own fault because I opened up these kits years ago and sprayed all the cockpit parts RLM 66 when I had some extra paint left in the airbrush color cup, I was trying to save both paint and time but thats not how it turned out. Trying to build models on an assembly line is not always the quickest way to finish them.

Matrixone

[GTX]

Yes the German engines were rather messy

Reminds me of a comment I read years ago from one of the German designers (can't remember which), when he saw a captured R2800 and the fact that it was so clean and leak free (when compared to German engines), he knew they didn't have a hope of winning when the enemy could put such 'works of art' in a combat aircraft.

Regards,

Greg

[Allan]

Hi Matrix

As usual your modelling is wonderful, illustrative , instructional and jaw-droppingly enviable!!!!

I particularly like the deft way you manage to toss off those yellow nose rings and rudders---just magical!!!

with my warmest regards for 2011!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Allan in Canberra