Engine Cowl area of kit cut off to use to vacuform new cowls, in thickness closer to scale. I have very old Mattel(sp) vacuform machine purchased in 1967.
Jerry Rutman wheel well set. Kit wings insides has to be thinned a great deal.
port side interior, propeller to the right: Verlinden resin tank piece.
Starboard interior, propeller to the left; Verlinden PE set/resin parts, copper wire, sprue
PE Engine cowl flaps from old old Hasegawa kit, vanila card stock used to make pattern to see if parts would all fit together in engine compartment and then those parts were fashioned; took several tries on the yellow reservoir atop entine; coolant reservoirs carved from bass wood and wooden dowl rods w/ styrene bits.
No decals were used on model. Insignias, numbers were airguned with hand made templates so they would look faded. Paint scheme came from Squadron Signal FW 190D-9 Walk Around soft cover book. Studied pictures a great deal.
Tailcode numbers from Archer Dry Transfers
Solder was used for hoses since it doesn't kink like steel and other metal wire; then painted dark gray. Forgot to mention that pilot shoulder harness belts were not added until right before attaching the sliding blown canopy hood, as they had to be attached to a Verlinden PE part just aft of the cockpit.
Spent 9 months on this model, taking breaks from time to time, built for a local IPMS contest. Thought quite a while whether to start project by taking off rivets and raised panel lines first, or not to do so. Decided not to . . . and that should have been done. Hope not to make that mistake again.
