Shahar Levi

Hello all! :) As I'm planning on building Eduards 1:48 Fw-190D9, I came across Eagle-cal set #48108 and one of the aircraft caught me eye. I began looking for photos of aircraft Schwarz I> W.Nr.210119, but didn't find even one single photo in the web. Eagle-cal set is based upon Jerry crandall's book Fw 190 Dora vol 1, and I guess there's at least one photo in there. I can't obtain the book at the moment, and I wonder if someone can direct me to a photo somewhere in the web. I would really want to build this specific aircraft, and I would like to have at least one photograph as a refer

Beautiful paint work! May I ask about your highlight/shadows technique? How do you do it? Thanks.

Beautiful job!!! I love the detailing work! I'll keep watching.

Really?!?! Oh my god! That really sucks! Where should I upload the photos then? Photobucket any good?

Paint job. Part 1 NMF. Since I don't have Alclads or SNJs in my stash, and I normally not a big fan of NMF (motteling is my thing :lol: ) I had to make do with what I have. So after the black color preparation, I sprayed Humbrol 27002 (polished Aluminum) on the entire model. It's suppose to be a buff-able color, so I waited for about 48 hours and tried to buff it. With a soft cotton swab I managed to reach the black underneath. So I resprayed, and waited for about a week. I than top coated the model with Model master Enamel Gloss coat to make sure the next step of (many) masking strips an

Incredible fine job! Simply stunning!! If I may ask, how did you make the pitot tube movable?

Beautiful spit!

Wonderful! Thanks!

Looks great! But dude, you gota' give us bigger pictures! 800X600 preferred.

Beautiful job :) Just browsed the whole thread, and I really like what you did through out! Outstanding!

Thanks a lot Tempestwulf and Darwin :) This is a rather good kit. It doesn't have the wonderful Revell rivet details. but overall it is the best PFM out there. I'm looking forward to build the Bis version as well. I will keep the postings!

Laurent and Grizzly, thank you so much for the kind words. I encountered the nose problem when reading Yufei Mao's, Mig-21 MF Lancer article at hyperscale. I attempted to do the same thing. Here is a picture of the original part, and the modified one. In the picture you may be able to see the needle (inside the plastic Evergreen tube). Like Mao, I cut the tip and glued the needle inside. I used an Evergreen tube as a chuck to go into the "Dremel-like" tool I have. I began rotating slowly and cleaned the excess with a scalpel. I over did it a bit, so I used some putty and reshaped the w

Just opened the building log at the "In progress pics" forum. Click

Closing the fuselage halves together and... "Me not paying attention..." Zvezda forgot to add a rear bulkhead and they left a nice hole to the back of the ejection seat, and I missed it... Built my own from scratch, and added the rails for the KM-1 seat. (see the little holes at the side? I will fix it later. I added the wings to fuselage, and added the rings to the under wing antennas. Yeap! They are overscale! The main landing gear was added with some hydraulic lines, and the anti skid "thingy". The rear landing gear was given some extra work. I think the "Scissors" mechanism

Hello guys. In my local LHS there was a sale on Zvezda models. I bought both PFM and Bis moedels for a rather low price. When I opened the box I was surprised with the amount of the details. The Bis model is a bit better then the PFM detail wise. So, I began with a bit of scratch work. First I added details to the After burner. Because of the scale I decided on my masking tape. Next was the KM-1 ejection seat. At the time, to my eyes..., the seat head was too steep, and too tall, so I trimmed it off. In retrospect, I removed a bit too much. I kept adding the seat belts and some bits

:D Merci beaucoup Grizzly!!!! Fantastic! Thank you so much!! Now, not only that this aircraft existed, I can see how the mottles were done. Will open a building log on the proper forum.

Yes, exactly this one. :blink: If you could find a picture of it, I would truly appreciate it. Thanks.

Hello guys I've been looking for a picture of NVA Mig-21 5066 aircraft for a long time, but without success. In the book "Mig-21 units of the Vietnam war" by István Toperczer, Osprey publishing, on page 36, there is a profile of aircraft number 5066 with a green "Streak-mottle" camouflage over NMF. I'm looking for a picture to prove this profile, since in the book, on pages 23, 29 and page 50 there are clear pictures of this aircraft, however only in NMF. Also, in Yefim Gordon's and Keith Dexter's "Russian aircraft Mig-21" book, on page 684 there's a profile of this aircraft again with th

And finally the top wing parts were glued in place. Hopefully I made the 7 degree angle... After attaching the upper wing parts some more PE parts could be added to the wheel wells. So far for the lower wing.

After slowly glueing each side: After some dry fittings, the top side of the spar was to large, so I trimmed it down. After the spar was done, I gave smoe attention to the cannons. I wasn't happy with the plastic ones, and I decided to use brass tubes instead. I also made small housings for the brss tubes, so it would be easier for me to place them after painting. I tried to make the cannons look a bit like in this picture. This picture was taken from a site I can't remember it's name, after browsing in google. This is the final in-wing assembly To take some time off the win

Wings! :) So after finishing the first part of the cockpit, it was time to tackle the wing. And boy.... what a tackle! This one was NOT easy. To begin with I had to form the Canvas covers inside the wheel wells. Some more details... In it's basice form the wing hlaves are ready However the lower wing part is bent in it's wingtips, and the dihedral angle is allmost straight. According to drawings, the wing dihedral angle on the E model, was 7.1 degrees. So I decided on building a Spar. On a 1mm Evergreen plate I drew the spar (after many measurings). And cut carefully out

Cockpit continues... Since my last posts I got the Eduard PE set. However since I allready built a few parts from scratch inside the cockpit, and was pleased with the results, I didn't replace them, but used just one so far. However there was this PE part that adds some more details to the back of the cockpit. To protect the allready painted cockpit, I used a plastic bag. The lower cockpit consoule was made from the PE. I didn't repaint them. The two handles were too thin to my taste. So, I made a small groove in a oothpick. and glued them with tiny drops of Super Glue. In order

Nice work so far. Since I love the 190's family, I'll be following this one :D What is the difference between the D9 and D12 wheel well panel? Good luck!

Hello Jennings :lol: This isn't the first time I receive an educated answer from you, and once again you help to set things straight! Thank you so much!!! I truly appreciate it. I will check the serial number against my reference book, "F-40 Flugzeuge Der Budeswehr 1. Republic F84F Thunderstreak" There is a list of all BundesLofteaffe F84F's that served their. Thanks! S

Thanks Ken! If the airplane later in it's life had Dark Gull Grey color, that does make sense, since it was the standard in F-104's that served the new Luftwaffe. However in photos it does seem a bit lighter. Maybe I should just go with DGG, only a bit lighter...