Revell/Hasegawa Focke Wulf FW 190 D9

by Christian Kirchhoff

This is my FW 190 D9

I built this plane out of the box without other features. This isn't my best plane, but the first that is looking good after starting with airbrush.

There is not much to say, the parts fits very good, the details are nice and the Revell decals are near to perfect. You can choose between three versions.

1/JG 26 from May 1945
4/JG 26 from January 1945 Operation "Bodenplatte" Pilot Ogfr. K.-H. Braunert
3/JG Richthofen from May 1945

Last version I decided to build because it´s the most colorful plane.

These three pics are the back of the engine, turbocharger and some electric. I think the pro´s will detail it a bit more, but you can´t see much of these part after finishing the model.

The cockpit

I miss a few throttle and mixture handles, but ok...

The painting

First I airbrushed the interior color on the masked canopy because it shines through. Do you see my cool airbrush in the background? Cool, huh? I think its 10 or more years old, but it works!! A gift from my Grandpa, who´s building flyable planes.

After that I sprayed the fuselage with the ground color in RLM 76 and then the wings in RLM 70. Notice, the RLM colors are mixed from Revell colors, but my next plane I´ll spray with the "real" RLM colors from Gunze!

The camouflage is complete.

A yellow strip for the "Richthofen" JG.

And here with decals.

The number of building is on both sides of the ruder. Not like Messerschmitt only on left side. FINISHED!! Yes ok, I´m not a great background fan...

I hope you enjoyed my plane. Perhaps we´ll see us again soon. My next plane (Messerschmitt Bf 109 G6) I will be finishing in a few weeks.

Nice greetings from Germany!

© Christian Kirchhoff 2004