Hello
to all. Here it is, my FW-190 D-11 in 1/48 scale from Hobby Boss.
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The kit
was a real pleasure to build, almost no filler was needed and the kit parts
joints were almost perfect. It came with some tiny photoetched parts for the
canopy, to improve the detail on it. The decals performed just as good as the
kit parts, no problem with them. I applied Micro Set and Micro Sol and that was
enough. However the kit did have a flaw. The D-11 has two bulges on the upper
surface of the wing, beside the 2 on the wing roots, which the kit hasn´t
provide. The solution, in my case was simple, I have a FW-190 A-5 light fighter
from Eduard, that has that 2 bulges as a surplus, so I grabbed them and
installed them on the kit. I think that HB mistake is due to the fact that they
use the same basic wing for all their Doras kits, so, if you build a D-9 or a
D-13 the wing would be right, but not for the D-11 as I had 2 wing cannons per
wing.
It was painted with
Vallejo, AK-Interactive, Sicko and K-4 acrilic paints which performed in an
excellent way. This was the first time I made the final varnish coat in a flat
finish, and I´m very satisfied with the final result. Weathering was made using
chalk pastels, the hard ones.
Juan
Carlos Gómez Y Sarzotti
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