1/72 Academy Fw-190D9

by David Shen

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The Fw190D9, "Schwarz 12"  was one of the very few Fw-190D-9's photographed in color.

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I built the "Schwarz 12" with the 1/72 kit from Academy.  This kit turned into a pretty painless build. There were no real problems with it other than the large attachment points inside the canopy, which I removed with a sharp-edged scalpel.

The fuselage was painted in a scheme of RLM81 Braunviolet, RLM82 Hellgrun and the "spuriously designated" Grunblau 84. The upper surface and tailplane were done with RLM77 Lichtgrau and RLM75 Grauviolet.  The fuselage underside, except for the engine cowl, has been left unpainted natural metal. The bare metal has oxidised and consequently tarnished considerably and appears quite dark in colour.
The lower wing was also painted in RLM84 with RLM77 on the starboard wingtips, possibly as a result of a repair job.  Some of the panel lines were filled with a dark-red primer, possibly  RLM99 Gelbgrun.  The spinner was painted RLM22 Schwarz with a RLM21 Weiss spiral, the propeller RLM70 and the landing gears RLM02.
Academy's decals were too hard to use, so I painted all the 6 Balkenkreuzs and 2 Hakenkreuzs on the tail fin.  The black digital "1"and"2"were from Dragan's Me1101.

I hope you like my Dora, together with the East Express La-3 in my photos.
Happy modeling!!
 

David 

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Photos and text © by David Shen