Here is my entry for The Battle For Germany GB. A Trumpeter Fw 190 D-9 “Big Tail” conversion in 1/24 scale.
Verlinden resin/PE cockit and detail set, fuselage markings are homemade, various scratch builts details and improvements over some of the kit deatial, that was either lacking or just dead wrong. Model Master enamels, pastels wash and some pastel post shading.
Hope you like it.
More pics here
She is a beauty, I noticed you didn’t photo the wheel wells, how was the detail in there? I just finished the Hasegawa 1/32nd so I know this baby must be huge!
Good work!
Steve
Yeah…c’mon Marc, let’s see those wheel wells. I believe that’s one of your best my man. !/24th WOW!! where you gonna display it? Again great job. you gotta love them D9’s.
Jerry
Very nice - and what a monster - man, 1/24 scale…I’d have to build a display case to house that thing.
Cockpit looks great from what we can see - nice paint and weathering as well.
Steve, Jerry, LeeTree Thanks vm for the compliments And I don’t know where I am going to put it. It is on the piano now but I think the wife is going to put the kibosh on that. May have to do the ceiling thing but I have never been a big fan of that.
Finished
During construction
Very nice indeed!!
I was sorry I paid money for this kit myself. BEAUTIFUL BIULD BY THE WAY.
I was lured by a the Image of a “Sexy” Dora Large scale and Detailed out like and Airfix 1/24 Scale Stuka of FW190? THose Kits were so large and the details so big they build almost like real ACFT. I was fooled. Lulled in to a sense of complancy and let me suspicious guard down. THinking of all the ground breaking 1/32 WWII Kits Trump has accomplished making one wanna throw away any lump of plastic revell ones one might have. BUT I WAS FOOLED this Kit is like a Giant Revell DORA with the wheel well upside down and buried up in there about the only Dora Detail in the Bird.
Verlinden finally put out a little Canopy Rail Correction and some radio/Battery compartment detail. (VERY NICE BTW) But that is IT? I breifly saw a Resin Cockpit Kit for this KIT on sale thru a European web site, BUT Whewwwww it was priced and damm well just of NINETY Euros and Holmes if you haven’t checked thats near over a $130.00 !!! Heck the whole Kit didn’t cost that ! ANyways today I regret I didn’t get it? I tried to look it up again and its gone no longer listed. Just as well considering its cost and my temptation to get it borne out of the frustration of haveing suckered myslef into ordering and paying for this Huge Scale Hollow giant Hunk of ABS.
And If you think I am wrong I refer you to the Unbeleivable, I’ll need a Airframe and Powerplant Licsence to Install Aries 1/32 Resin Jumo Engine and Cowling Split open Dora Engine for the Hasegawa End of the Rieich special edition version I have?
Yours Truely Mike
great build Marc
but tell us you stated areas that lacked detail or outright wrong what were they
and i see MG was not happy with the kit either
Thanks 13b20.
Mike - I think you are holding back a little…let it all out. Just kidding. My first reaction to the kit was not unlike yours. The inaccuracies are what they are but I do think that for that price, and size, it should have been better. After fixing these problems I am very happy with the way it turned out and it builds up into a nice Dora. The cockpit and interior details I used are the Verlinden resin and PE set. Not to bad. There is another company, Contact Resine, http://www.contact-resine.com/cat_en_24.html that makes a cockpit and tires. Sadly the wheels do not included a tail wheel which was pretty bad in the Trumpeter kit. The Jumo is real nice and with a little work details up nicely. No way to see it though without some surgery and I was just not in the mood. The lack of any after market decals is a drawback. Hobby Decal of Korea has a dry transfer sheet of stencils and they are great.
Joe – the major problem areas were the tail wheel having no hub or detail at all, a curved hinge on the engine cowl, cowl flaps that were undersized, too thick and big gaps between. Also the LG door interiors had a rib pattern that looks as if they just made it up as they went along. After I fixed that I had to redo them since I got it wrong too but hey… I don’t do this for a living like they do. The detail on the flaps was bad as well with ejector pin marks between all the ribs and a rough texture in the plastic like they are gouges in the molds. The link at the bottom of the post has the pics of the fixes I made along the way.
Superb!..Marc, your D9 is a real beauty. A very well done job indeed and I must say very authenic looking too. Regards, Darren.
Great looking Dora Marc, and [censored] that thing is huge!!!
Love the subtle weathering that you did, and your antenna looks great too!!!
Matt
That is a beautiful model.The possibilities a kit of that size holds are incredible.I was wondering about the defense band on the fuselage,I’ve never seen that configuration before.
Great looking aircraft. You did an excellent job on it. Just one question. I always was led to believe the upper antenna was attached to the canopy deck by a spring loaded roller that kept the antenna wire tight. Can someone verify this?
Darren, Matt, Allen, Berny - Thank you for the compliments.
Matt - Nothing beats real wire. In this scale I was able to use a single strand of copper from a lamp cord and made it dark with Blacken-It. Wait 'til my wife realizes that lamp doesn’t work any more[:-^]
Allen - It is believed to be from KG(J) 27. The color of the karoband is documented but it’s usage for this unit is suggested more by a process of elimination than anything else. Click here for a site that has some info on that.
Berny – Hey man… how ya feeling? The D’s did not have the tensioner and was slack when the canopy was open. I need to cut mine down…a bit too long.
Marc
Thanks for the info, CK Resins that was it. Their site seems as if its under construction but I finally got an Email address out of it to ask them how much fo rthe Cockpit Kit for it. I bet ya its going to come in awefully High, But I’ll see?
I have the Verlinden Kit for this bird I didn’t specificlly recall any Dashboard or othe up front office details, Mostly in the Aft behind the Cockpit seat. I certainly didn’t recall this kit Haveing an Engine? I think that is what got me so Torqued Off at this kit when I opened the box, because thats exactly what I expected for sucha large scale was a complete interior engine compartment?
I didn’t miss anything did I? Were you refering to the Jumo Eng Kit I mentioned which is for it’s Little Brother 1/32 Scale Kit?
Yours Mike
Mike
I want to say I recall something aboutthis kit having had a somechanges made to it but i am not sure. In your other post you mentioned something about the wheel wells being closed. This was the thing I thought I read that was corrected… maybe they added an engine as well. They must have changed the Verlinden set too as it has a full cockpit.
I will Definately pull that box back out and TAKE A MUCH CLoser Inventory and look. That is great. I might see from the little Jumo how to trick (Detail out) this beast of an engine that IS Obvisouly in there. My Badd. Iam gonna reach home this Tommarow Nite and Look. If So I won’t mind building it after all? By the Wheel Wells being Closed I meant that I thought you could’t see any of the engine except what you might catch looking up thru the wheel wells at it form the Back. I would say I was embarassingly wrong but I will be too Happy to be wrong to go home and find an Engine in the Kit and more Up Front Cocpit details in the Verlindin Set.
SOmetimes this stuff arrives and I don’t have as much time as I would like to Drool over it before I have to run and Hide the Shipping Boxes from Wifey Less she finds out the UPS Man stopped by the front of the House Again !
Yours Mike
i am confused[%-)] those r 2 diff engines which is what[?]
Hay Wing_nut is this the same plane you had a landing gear issue with? It is a great lookin plane now you have to find someplace to put that monster them 1/24 kits are big.
Yup thats the one. The LG barely holds it up. One more coat of flat and I think it will collapse.