Edward FW190A8 1\48

[HAWKERHUNTER]

Hey Martin. Hope you get this sorted out. sometimes when things start to go bad I put all my tools down and take a breather. I have often found that when I panick and rush in to correct something I make more of a mess. sometimes trying to rub down paint that isnt properly cured just leads to it peeling off and can cause more damage. Im more in danger of getting "Go Fever" and making mistakes as the model nears completion.Good luck with your repair. We have all been there.

Steve

[Guest]

Thanks guys

Gonna take a few days off modeling,as like you said making too many mistakes now, need too chill oh and paint the garden furniture as ordered by SWMBO :nurse:

can't get that wrong i hope.

Be back in a few days,Again thank you all for the advice

Cheers

Martin

[stona]

I've just caught up with this thread on a connection on which I can see your piccies. Minor disaster aside it's looking good. As others have said,we've all been there. Taking a breather is good advice,trying to rush to fix something almost invariably leads to even more trials and tribulations.

Don't overdo the chipping. These Luftwaffe aircraft were well looked after and,frankly,towards the end of the war didn't last long enough to become worn.

It's hard to explain just how short the life of a Luftwaffe fighter aircraft could be,even in the hands of an expert. Take Lt Georg-Peter Eder,a very capable pilot,as an example. He is remarkable first of all because unlike many of his contemporaries he survived the war. He flew 572 combat missions and was shot down SEVENTEEN times! He bailed out NINE times. He was wounded or injured on FOURTEEN ocassions. These numbers are inconceivable to an allied pilot. That's a lot of aircraft lost by one expert pilot and there are others with similar tallies. I have countless group photographs of Luftwaffe pilots and rarely did more than two or three in any given photo survive the war,sometimes none. They were not rotated out of combat like allied pilots. Most literally fought until they were injured or killed.

A typical late war month,May 1944. The Luftwaffe losses this month were 487 fighters and more importantly 276 fighter pilots.At the end of the month roughly half the aircraft on strength were replacements,less than a month old. This went on month after month. In reality you would be hard pushed to find any Luftwaffe front line fighter more than a few weeks old in 1944.

It's fighter pilot losses for the year so far (Jan-May) were 2,262 which equates to almost exactly 100% of its establishment.

In May 1944 the Luftwaffe fighter arm theoretically had 2,283 pilots available but their training was lacking and they were qualitatively inferior to their allied adversaries. Many Luftwaffe units had pilots "on the books" who were not deemed capable of flying combat missions and mercifully they were generally not allowed to.

I didn't mean to give a history lesson,sorry! I think a bit of context for a model is a good thing though and I do believe it is important to remember the immense sacrifice made by these young men,flying and losing their version of the BoB.

I'm looking forward to seeing your progress,whenever you get back to it.

Cheers

Steve

[Guest]

Thanks for the intell steve much appreciated takes a bit of presure off. Roman's been giving me lots of ideas to help sort out my plane, been using SWMBO's nail pollish remover and it works a treat and that took a large weight off, All back to bare plastic now back to it tommorow.

Thanks eveyone

Martin

[Guest]

Righto nail polish remover also removes airplane paint so did it and washed it all off and just resprayed with primer.

Just give that a few hours to dry then first coat of paint, I hope.

Cheers

Martin

[Guest]

Just keep up a good work Martin and all in the end will turn out good

Roman

[InFlames]

wish you all the luck! Fw-190A series are my favorite WW2 fighters and have the same kit in my stash

[Guest]

Just a quicky, first coats.

Cheers for now.

Martin

[Guest]

great paintjob

just great

Roman

[Guest]

Hey i'm back,

Right took all your very helpfull comments and nice words, have resprayed total nose as couldn't get it right also took me baals of bluetack off and wasn't really happy might respray that yet . Practiced freehanding and resprayed the nose all freehand which i think came out really well and try'd to do a bit of freehand on the flanks to touch it up looks not bad.

Thanks for looking

Martin

[colin m]

Looking very nice Martin.

[Guest]

great job so far, keep it up and after decaling and wash this will look fantastic

Roman

[Guest]

Nice save Martin and the paint is looking awesome!

[Guest]

this is starting to look amazing

mobear

[Guest]

Righto I resrayed the sides think they look beter, almost finishedj just need advice on washes have got burnt syena wash oil brown stain and carbon pigment. advice if i need more gladely recieved.

Thanks for all the support and guidance from all of you.:tulip:

Cheers

Martin