Mates, Here is a Hasegawa 1/72 Fw 190 D9 which I hope you will like representing a plane of Oskar Römm of JG 3 in 1945 in typical camo pattern. Again it is painted with rough edged masking techniques. I tried my best to reproduce the spot pattern of the only photo of Römm’s plane that I had at the time, of the starboard side. The view of the port side was unknown to me so I had to ‘wing it’. Any time the paint was less than smooth I wet sanded the affected area with 10000 grit sanding film. Cockpit details such as head armour, seat belts made of tin foil with detail set buckles, instrument panel with dials, throttle levers etc. were added. Also included were a DF loop and antenna of thin wire and cannons of small steel tubing. The machine guns and little scoop on the cowl were hollowed out with a hand drill. Other than that, the plane
is *out of the box*.
If I were to do it again there are a number of things I would change. It is now known the spot pattern on the tail indicates the plane was a 210xxx or 211xxx series aircraft originally built by Focke-Wulf. The mottle spots were most likely dark brown 81 and leaf green 82. A port side photo of the plane has been published so it would fun to try to replicate its pattern as seen in the photo. The shade atop the fuselage and wings looks light enough to have been solid grey 75, although maybe a light version of green 82 was used as well. There looks to be an unknown darker colour covering the wing root area and perhaps the wing tips. Swatstikas should be smaller and the chevrons perhaps narrower. The underside of the wings I painted solid 76, but we know now that usually only the front part of the underwing , as well as the control surfaces were painted with 76 or maybe greenblue. The rest was left bare metal. Also the top colour of the wing was wrapped over the front edge of the wings and wing tips. Lastly, I think a thin vacu-formed rear canopy would look more realistic. Next time!
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is *out of the box*.
If I were to do it again there are a number of things I would change. It is now known the spot pattern on the tail indicates the plane was a 210xxx or 211xxx series aircraft originally built by Focke-Wulf. The mottle spots were most likely dark brown 81 and leaf green 82. A port side photo of the plane has been published so it would fun to try to replicate its pattern as seen in the photo. The shade atop the fuselage and wings looks light enough to have been solid grey 75, although maybe a light version of green 82 was used as well. There looks to be an unknown darker colour covering the wing root area and perhaps the wing tips. Swatstikas should be smaller and the chevrons perhaps narrower. The underside of the wings I painted solid 76, but we know now that usually only the front part of the underwing , as well as the control surfaces were painted with 76 or maybe greenblue. The rest was left bare metal. Also the top colour of the wing was wrapped over the front edge of the wings and wing tips. Lastly, I think a thin vacu-formed rear canopy would look more realistic. Next time!
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