1/48 HobbyBoss FW190D-9

[Avgas]

Next on the chopping board is this D-9 which I will be doing in the colours of one Fahnrich Hagen Forster of 7/JG 301 in April 1945.

Here is our friend Wiki with some info

General characteristics

Crew: 1
Length: 10.20 m (33 ft 5½ in)
Wingspan: 10.50 m (34 ft 5 in)
Height: 3.35 m (11 ft 0 in)
Wing area: 18.30 m² (196.99 ft²)
Empty weight: 3,490 kg (7,694 lb)
Loaded weight: 4,270 kg (9,413 lb)
Max. takeoff weight: 4,840 kg (10,670 lb)
Powerplant: 1 × Junkers Jumo 213A 12-cylinder inverted-Vee piston engine, 1,287 kW (1,750 PS, 1,726 hp) or 1,508 kW (2,050 PS, 2,022 hp) with boost (model 213E)

Performance

Maximum speed: 685 km/h (426 mph) at 6,600 m (21,655 ft), 710 km/h (440 mph) at 11,000 m (36,000 ft)
Range: 835 km (519 mi)
Service ceiling: 12,000 m (39,370 ft)
Rate of climb: 17 m/s (3,300 ft/min)
Wing loading: 233 kg/m² (47.7 lb/ft²)
Power/mass: 0.30–0.35 kW/kg (0.18–0.22 hp/lb)

Armament

Guns: (all synchronized to fire through propeller arc)
2 × 13 mm (.51 in) MG 131 machine guns with 475 rpg
2 × 20 mm MG 151 cannons with 250 rpg in the wing root
Bombs: 1 × 500 kg (1,102 lb) SC 500 bomb (optional)





8 individual sprue bags. very nice.



Bit of PE, masks bought by me and the nice colour scheme sheet that HobbyBoss do.

[mick]

look forward to your build

[Avgas]

Thanks Mick, I'm strictly amateur you ought to know!

Pit more or less made up. This is now known as the Prosecco 190 due to the fact I had it on the kitchen table after spraying it and the wife bullied me into opening a bottle of Pro, I didn't want to obviously. It was a bit lively and when I popped the cork liberal amounts of it baptised the kit.



RLM 66'd.



Instrument panel decals on, I sanded these parts flat as you could have dry brushed the detail if you wanted but I decided to go for the decals.



How I make Tam seat belts. Use some 6 mil Tam tape and divide it into four. This gives a scale width of 64 mil which is about seat belt width.



Slap some seat belt paint of your choice on.



Put a bit of ali paint on the ends for the buckles.



And bung them in with a bit of CA. Dont have them lying flat, they look a bit better when they lay away from the seat.



My muckying up wash of choice. Some lamp black and odourless turps. Pit dry brushed in field gray and picked out with a bit of black and red. Bit of artistic licence there as I haven't a clue what a D-9 pit looks like.



A little bit of the red stuff for the cockpit floor.



And there she blows. Still a bit damp but it will dry off nice.

[mick]

good work on the pit

[Willem]

Oh I do like a 190,.especially a Dora.Looks a nice kit too.

Nice work so far, Dave.

[Avgas]

Thanks chaps, it is going together very well, lovely kit.

[Avgas]

A little more progress.

Engine bits which I assume will be seen through the wheel wells.





Fuselage buttoned up.









Tailplane, rudder, engine cowl and exhausts fitted.


Wheel wells are a separate piece which is nice. Assembled pre paint.



And after RLM02 and some Mig black pin wash.

[demarcation]

Great work so far mate, love the pit!

[Avgas]

Thanks Anders, it's a lovely kit. Got it quite cheap as well, it was £8.16.

[mick]

good progress

[GarethCrossland]

Looking good!

[Avgas]

Thanks. Some more bits done. The wings were put together and fitted to the fuselage. The fit was almost perfect at the fuselage joins.





Just a smidge of filler needed in the gaps underneath.



And filled



Ready for some primer next.

[Avgas]

So it is primed and given an overall coat of RLM 76. I then did the RLM 83 top surfaces which are quite sharply defined, so I used Tam bendy masking tape. There was a little bleed through on the panel lines as perhaps you can see in the fourth photo.









Then it was on to the RLM 70 for the prop and spinner and RLM 75 for the upper wings and tailplane surfaces. I'll let it dry for a day or so then get the RLM 83 on the wings and tailplane. It should then be ready for a gloss coat. Primer was gray Ultimate and all other paints unthinned Vallejo Air.



RLM 83 applied.

[Avgas]

There is a decal to go round the rear fuselage but experience has told me that those wrap around ones rarely work, you spend ages trying to line things up, then you break the decal etc etc so I decided to paint the bands on.



Mask up for the yellow band first.



XF-3 applied.



Didn't come out too bad, little bit of bleed.



Mask up for the XF-7.



Paint and unmask. Didn't come out too badly. Realised the yellow band was supposed to be before the hole in the fuselage instead of just covering it but we'll keep quiet about that.