Tamiya 1/48 FW-190D-9
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KIT # |
61041 |
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PRICE: |
R$69.90 |
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DECALS: |
See Review |
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REVIEW : |
Rodrigo Santos de Oliveira |
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NOTES: |
EagleCals #10 and Eduard seat belts used |
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HISTORY |
The 190´s history has already been pretty well covered, so I won’t bother you with something already known.
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THE KIT |
Tamiya has provided us with some excellent fitting, flash free parts, with both cockpit and fuselage decently detailed. What more can one ask for in a mainstream kit, you say. Well, accuracy! As most know, Tamiya used as a starting point the 190 D at the Air Force Museum. For some strange reason (I think no one paid much attention to that) this Dora had a D-9 fuselage, but with D-13 wings. Also, the landing gear legs are too short, and the wheels are too small. Not a very good combination! Lastly, the propellers and spinners are out of shape. But these inaccuracies are small enough FOR ME, so I won’t hassle the Trimaster-Dragon-Hasegawa-Italeri (am I forgetting any?) kits.
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CONSTRUCTION |
Yes! Yet another 190
review! What can I do? I love those German late-war aircraft! Just for a change,
I began with the cockpit. Noting much to say, except that I used some Eduard
etched seat belts. I love these things and use them all the time. I went on and
closed the fuselage, glued the wings, etc. No real problems. Just one thing, I
think that those 20mm cannon should be separated pieces. I broke them both on
construction! I also dropped the elevators, a fairly simple operation, and
really add realism to the model!
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PAINT & MARKINGS |
For this kit I decided to use a very nice set of decals from EagleCals, depicting a very late war aircraft, “White 1” from JG 26. The decals demand that this aircraft should have the R4M rocket racks, but as these were a field modification, I decided to ignore them. I used Gunze paints for all the colors, Mr. Color for the RLM 83 and Aqueous for all others. For the “RLM 84”, I used the RAF sky, and the RLM 82 I mixed up from several Aqueous shades. Too bad I didn’t wrote down the mix, as I liked the result! The EagleCals decals went on like a dream, but I managed to screw up 3 (!!!) sets of upper wing crosses. So, I ran out of those. Weathering was done with pastels.
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CONSTRUCTION CONTINUES |
Here
is the problem. If you know this aircraft, you have probably noticed that I used
the standard canopy for this plane, but this is incorrect. All because I managed
to step right on the correct late canopy. I
don’t feel like buying a Squadron canopy and fixing this kit. I’ll just try to
do it right the next time.
I also lost that little loop antenna, so I made it from copper wire. The brake lines were also made from copper wire. General unpainted stretched sprue (gray) was used for the aerials, as I found this was even less visible then clear plastic. Looks perfect to me!
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CONCLUSIONS |
This model went on nicely. Some difficulties, But I’m not nit-picking, you know! This was the first model I tried to do mottling (My 8th “serious” model), and I loved the results!! As this model is really easy to build, I recommend it to all skills (even beginners like me!). I also want to thank Othniel, Sidney and Paulo that gave me the decals to this plane.
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