NMF for "Luft '46" Aircraft??

[pyro-manic]

Just picked up an Academy Fw190D-9 to get the NMF treatment.

[sequoiaranger]

>Just picked up an Academy Fw190D-9 to get the NMF treatment.<

Go for it!!    Probably black-outline Balkenkruez, "showy" staffel markings/heraldry?? Can't wait!

[jcf]

Don't forget to do the fabric covered bits in an aluminum dope to contrast with the metal skinning.
Or perhaps RLM 02 grey-green or similar, with full documentation of course.   

[The Wooksta!]

There was a decal sheet for 190s that had one option in largely NMF  with red doped tail control surfaces.  IIRC it was by Eagle Strike.

[Flitzer]

I've done a few Luft 46 models in all metal finish. Or mostly metal. There are a couple of Focke Wulf jets in my gallery if you need to see.

Many thanks
P

[pyro-manic]

Here's the finished Fw190, if anyone missed it: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,36470.0.html

[matrixone]

In the fall of 1944 there were some experiments done by the Germans to use etching as a way of coloring metal to reduce the need for painting aircraft in camouflage colors, little is known about these tests except that dark gray-black and brown were deemed to be the easiest colors to produce using the metal etching method. There were no known aircraft constructed with the etched pre-colored metal sheets as there was not enough time to do proper testing of how durable the etched metal was.

As it was in late 1944 Focke-Wulf Fw 190's were starting to be produced with only the front half of the wings given camo paint, the rear half was bare metal. As the war neared its end Bf 109's and Me 262's were starting to be produced with only the topsides painted in camouflage colors with the undersurfaces left unpainted, Me 262's produced by the ''waldwerk'' factories continued to have camouflage paint applied to them in a simple scheme on the topsides of overall RLM 83 but often the paint was so highly thinned the putty used to smooth out the panel joins could clearly be seen. Some of the waldwerk factories that were building the Me 262 did not have paint so the aircraft built were without any camo paint (W.Nr.500711 is a good example) and the only paint they had on them were the black national markings and on the parts that were prepainted by the subcontractors.

Due to shoratages of paint there were some Fw 190F's built by Arado that were in NMF and were photographed after the factory was captured...how many of these NMF Focke-Wulfs were built or delivered to frontline units is anybodys guess.


Matrixone