1/48 Eduard Fw-190A-5 Weekend kit

Gallery Article by Colin Latta, IPMS Winnipeg on Feb 26 2013

 

 

This is Eduard's 1/48 FW-190a-5 "weekend" kit in the markings of Hauptmann Emil "Bully" Lang of 5/JG 54, November 3,1943.  On this day, Lang scored 18 confirmed victories in the Kiev region.  Lang was credited with 173 victories when he was shot down by a Spitfire flown by Flt/Lt Terry Spencer of 41 Sqdn, on September 3, 1944.

 

Click on images below to see larger images

The Eduard kit is beautifully detailed, and the main components assemble with almost no filler required. The fun begins if you decide to close it up, however.  Almost every panel and hatch requires trimming, fitting, routing out, filling, sanding, voodoo and witchcraft. (not to mention, several trips to the "shelf of doom").

The kit was built using Eduard's "Zoom" photoetch for the "weekend" kit, and I deviated from the assembly steps several times, in order to build a closed up version (the aft bulkhead with the machine gun cowl hinge was cut in half and the hinge cemented to the cowl, for example), drilled out the exhaust stacks (cut down to stubs and cemented to the fuselage) and machine guns, replaced the pitot and cannon with hypodermic tubing, wrapped fine wire around a #80 drill bit for the antennae tensioning spring, and painted with custom mix Tamiya acrylics. Decals are from the kit and Aeromaster's stencil set. Weathering is with oils, pastelchalk and prisma color pencils.

All in all, challenging, but fun.  Enjoy.

Colin Latta, IPMS Winnipeg

Click on images below to see larger images

      

Photos and text © by Colin Latta, IPMS Winnipeg