The background of the plane and a look at the kit is in the preview.

Again, these are all easy modifications to make and should take only a few minutes to do. Though I crammed all the mods into one paragraph, I hope you realize that you must open up those holes in the wing before you glue the upper and lower wing parts together!

While all the filler was drying for the wings, the cockpit interior was glued together and those parts that needed painted RLM 66 had that done. Hasegawa correctly provides a two piece instrument panel. The lower section glues to the tub and the upper section under the anti-glare panel. Make sure you properly align the upper panel part. You can do that by gluing it to only one side and then holding the fuselage halves together while it dries. Once the paint had dried, the instrument decals were applied, the interior drybrushed with some aluminum paint and then glued into the fuselage. The fuselage was then cemented together and left to dry. Naturally, some filler was used, but darn little compared to many kits I build.

When the fuselage was dry and sanded, the lower wing was glued in place. Fit is quite good, though filler was needed in the rear wing/fuselage join. Then the tailplanes were glued on. Returning to the front, the upper machine gun cowling was glued on. This part fit surprisingly well and no filler was needed on it at all. You do have to be careful and adjust it while the glue is drying to get a good fit. As you can see from the photo at the top of the page, this plane had no cowl guns and the gun ports and gun troughs were smoothed out. Hasegawa doesn't mention anything about this, but it is plain from the image that there were no cowl guns. I duly sanded and filled to match the photo. Don't forget to remove the little nubbins on the top of the gun cowl.

Nothing really spectacular about the paint scheme on this on. It is the usual boring RLM 74/75/76 that FW-190s were painted until later in the war when the schemes started to get really interesting! The first thing I did was to paint the underside RLM 76 blue-grey. For all the camo colors I used my dwindling supply of Aeromaster enamel paints. Next the canopy area was painted RLM 66 black-grey. When dry, the rest of the airframe was painted with RLM 75 grey. The kit was then taken back to the model room and had the RLM 75 masked for the painting of RLM 74 grey. Once the 74 was sprayed on and dry, there was a bit of back and forth with the RLM 76 and some 74 was also mottled on the fin. I noticed that Aeromaster's RLM 74 isn't as light as I had thought the color to be. Very little contrast between the two colors. After that had dried, it was back to the work bench to have some other stuff glued on.