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I present my completed effort for the G/B.
As you know the kit was bad so I didn't attempt to do a detailed job, 'cos there wasn't any!
So off I goes on a tangent...
I had intended to do a simple diorama showing Gern's 190 being restored in a hanger with all the control surfaces on a bench being fettled, but I couldn't find any suitable 1/48 figures....Stumped!!
It was after I had finished painting the thing with still no idea what to do to hide the lack of detail, I came across a picture of what turned out to be my subject...
In 1989( I think) an Fw190 was found in a forest nr. St. Petersburg.
Research showed it had engine failure whilst attacking Russian targets in July 1943 and crash landed. The pilot survived but was taken prisoner by the Russians.
When the engine was stripped down during restoration, bits of rag where found in the oilways, so one of the slave labourers did his bit for the war effort!!!
Using a bit of 'Licence' and the picture I found, I have tried to capture how it looked.
Why so little damage? Where the aircraft crash landed there were no trees, but 40 odd years later there were!!
I hope you like the pictures.
Ron
Sorry people I didn't realise how many pickies there are, and I don't know how to delete some!!!!!
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As you know the kit was bad so I didn't attempt to do a detailed job, 'cos there wasn't any!
So off I goes on a tangent...
I had intended to do a simple diorama showing Gern's 190 being restored in a hanger with all the control surfaces on a bench being fettled, but I couldn't find any suitable 1/48 figures....Stumped!!
It was after I had finished painting the thing with still no idea what to do to hide the lack of detail, I came across a picture of what turned out to be my subject...
In 1989( I think) an Fw190 was found in a forest nr. St. Petersburg.
Research showed it had engine failure whilst attacking Russian targets in July 1943 and crash landed. The pilot survived but was taken prisoner by the Russians.
When the engine was stripped down during restoration, bits of rag where found in the oilways, so one of the slave labourers did his bit for the war effort!!!
Using a bit of 'Licence' and the picture I found, I have tried to capture how it looked.
Why so little damage? Where the aircraft crash landed there were no trees, but 40 odd years later there were!!
I hope you like the pictures.
Ron
Sorry people I didn't realise how many pickies there are, and I don't know how to delete some!!!!!
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