Here is my latest off the bench, the 1/72 scale Revell Fw 190A-8.
Except for replacing the rear canopy section this model was built O.O.B. Paints used were Model Master enamels, decals are a mix from Kagero and my spares box.







Matrixone

A really great job there. Got to love that 1/72 scale! Great work. Russell

Very nice Les

I just love your photography. The first picture captures the look of the (original) colour photo I know of this (or a similar JG 301 bird) very well!

Maybe it is time to bump your feature on how you did that background

all the best

Steffen

I agree with Steffen; excellent build and absolutely artful photography.

Regards;

Automaton

Thanks Siderius, Steffen, and Automaton!

Steffen,
Here are a few pics of how I painted my backdrop. The backdrop is made out of lightweight foamboard and was painted with model paints. You can get an idea of the size of it in the pics. Total work time on painting this was slightly over ten hours.

HTH





Matrixone

Thank you Les!

I thought you had a feature here on Aeroscale about your hole backdrop (no real feature, that would be in your profile, but IIRC you had a thread on this?!)

all the best

Steffen

Steffen,
The backdrop you see in this thread is a new one I painted earlier this year, over a year ago I had painted a different backdrop and there was a thread about how I painted that here on Aeroscale, the old backdrop was smaller.

Here is another pic of the new backdrop in sunlight, it works much better on sunny days.



Matrixone

..great work Les - dying to know how you do your clouds...do tell !

Thanks Neil!

There were no special techniques used in painting the clouds, but I did use five different shades of gray and added them in layers. Airbrush used was an Iwata Revolution BR.

Matrixone

Very creative, and it adds another dimension to the models you place in front of it. Great job on both the model and the backdrop

Thanks Dirk!
I already have one more piece of that large sized foam board for painting my next backdrop, I had plans to paint an airfield setting complete with the hangers in the background but as of right now I have so many kits that I have started my workbench is very crowded and I might not have time in 2010 to get around to painting the new backdrop.

Matrixone

The model itself is very fine!

I`ve got a question to the Author of "Black 8". Why the tail is such as Fw 190D has?
Sorry for my English

Thanks Aleksey!

''Black 8'' is a what-if type of model. Some of my reference books claim that very late production A-9s (and F-9s) were built with the Ta 152 style tail unit and I wanted to build a model of such a machine.
There was for sure at least one short nosed Fw 190 fitted with the big tail, a picture of it is in the first volume of Jerry Crandall's Dora book.

Matrixone

Very nice 190 Les.

I also did this model recently for the nightfighter campaign here

The background for the photography is excellent. I have a question, how did you do the mud splattering on the fuselage.

Thanks,

Mike.

Thanks for the comments Mike!

I could not get the link about your model to work, what kind of aircraft was it?

The mud splatters were easy to do, I used a fine tipped brush and ''dirt'' colored paint to add the actual splatters and then used some careful airbrush work with the same colored paint to lightly blend them together. Of course the most important thing is to have good reference photographs to look at, it would be very easy to go to far when adding mud to an airplane and its better to not have enough then to put on too much.

Matrixone