Building the Airfix 1/72 scale Focke Wulf FW190A-8 with ridiculous amounts of photoetch
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Today at Badgerworks, we take on a fairly complicated build. A simple enough kit, the Airfix FW190 starter kit, but with not one but two photoetch sets!
We also try out some new tools and techniques, so stick around for quite possibly the longest video on a 1/72 scale plane ever...
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Really enjoyed this build video, as I’ve made a couple of these kits myself and know how tricky the fit is, re fuselage, interiors and nose cowlings, etc!
Part of the joy of this kit though, is overcoming the need to sand, fettle and dry fit, because once you do get over those obstacles, you’ve got yourself a good little model which only requires a decent paint job....🤪
I was amazed at the PE job......it might have ended up with the “fist of death” at this desk, so hats off for doing such a good job of it! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I can’t wait till my starter kit arrives at my mail
Despite mistakes. it's beautiful indeed. Great choice for the camo colors and very nice weathering. Hope to see you do more like this. Thanks.
Beautyful detail for 72nd. Scale 👀👌🏼
Thanks for this build video. My wife bought me four of the starter kits from Aldi and I built the Mary Rose first after a hiatus of over 50 years in airfix modelling. I decided to leave the F.W.190 til later and am currently building the Spitfire 1a and have experienced similar problems with the fit of parts to those you mentioned with the Focke Wulf kit. I'm glad it's not just me.
Superb Airfix 1/72 scale FW190A .
Excelent work , I apreciate de complexity of the model , great painting and weathering !
Thanks :-)
This was quite the learning experience, Thank you, Sir,
Thanks :-)
Nice video and you ended up with a lovely model. I've sometimes wanted to try one of these simple kit, too-much-photoetch builds as well. Learned a lot from your experience.
I hope I haven't put you off... :-)
It was tricky, but I think ultimately it was worth it. Thanks for watching.
Astonishing transformation! I was glued to the screen from start to finish, pun intended :)
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
I'm half way through making my Focke Wulf, just wish I could erase what I've just watched.If I'd been involved in the build process during the war of the real Fockes', the war would have ended much sooner.Excellent job.
Thanks :-)
Excellent Video
Thanks for watching :-)
Maestro, magnificent!. The pilot should direct the mechanics to deal with the oil leaks and give it a wash.
nice work! I built this kit too without the photo-etch parts. horrible kit it very nearly ended up in the bin, but I persevered and got there in the end with reasonable finish!
You are a master at this. Well done!
What a fantastic job you've done and with such a small scale ! Hope your well and your family ? Stay safe buddy
Thanks, I appreciate it. There was a fair bit of swearing at times :-)
Everyone's great, thanks for asking, and thanks for watching.
Awesome work!
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
Good vid and discussion. I saw these kits in Aldi and was very tempted but as its not Russian post war I could not justify it. Lovely work on the FW190 it came out great despite the challenges with the photo etch. Well done.
Thanks, I appreciate it. This kit came from Aldi - I spent more on the PE than on the kit :-)
Thanks for watching.
Wow! I made literally thousands of models, Airfix, Tamiya, Revell, when I was a kid, but this puts my efforts to shame. I used to knock out a Focke Wolf 190 in about twenty minutes, plus maybe another ten minutes for painting. Never realized this level could ever be attained.
Well, we all build in different ways for different reasons. As long as you had fun doing it, that's all that matters :-)
Great video as usual. This Airfix kit is one the few kits to beat me up. I finally tossed it into the bin. Horrible fuselage fit. So kudos to you for finishing it. I do photo etch every so often but not like you did on this one. Brave man you are. The new camera angle was good. Keep up the good work.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I meant to ask people's opinions on the new camera. It makes it very tricky sometimes as I'm working around the lower camera, but I think it really helps in some circumstances to show what I'm doing.
Thanks for watching.
nice video, I'm finishing one these, for the camo i just enlarged my camo callout sheet to the size of the model, the pattern out and used to mask the plane. Its super easy, quick and cheap. This approach allows a direct copy of the manufacturers instructions if thats what your looking for. Cheers.
Was Rio you do what max-afterburner does, ive begun to use airbrushes and ive found that it can take a while to line up but it looks pretty good afterwards, also for the mottling camo on the sides of a focke wulf just do what the germans actually did and go free hand in spots with different colours. None of the german fighters had the same camo as the hired a painter to come and do what he wanted
Oh man, great work. So inspiring! Unfortunately mine will never look quite as beautiful as this one! Again, great work!
Thanks, I appreciate it. It's all about practice - keep at it and you'll get better. We all have to start somewhere :-)
great job. Thanks - learned a lot... now to practice.
I'm glad it helped you :-)
Excellent work on what looks like a poor moulding. Like the different camera angles and the PE work, good trick cutting the decals.
I do like the full time analysis as it puts the project to bed.
Thanks for sharing and I do like your bending tool, much easier than trying to use a fly-press ;-)
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
Very cool I’m getting one
Thanks. Have fun with it :-)
Hi there! The new camera works great! Thanks from Judy in Nova Scotia, Canada
Thanks for the feedback, and thanks for watching :-)
Excellent work! I like the use of the new camera.
Thanks :-)
Great build - im about to do the camo, brilliant video cheers
You're welcome, I'm glad you enjoyed it 🙂
For how much they are (I haven't built any AF kits yet but I'm super tempted to try a few) I'm pretty impressed with these kits and how well people can make them turn out. I think you finally sold me on trying one next haha
The newer Airfix kits are way better than the older ones. They're not perfect, but not too bad.
Incredible stuff. Nicely filmed and even the music didn’t get annoying. I’m about to do the total opposite and see how well I can make it with only what comes included in the starter set.
Thanks, and have fun with your build :-)
Great build congratulations :)
Thanks :-)
I remember building Air Fix in the 70s. Glad to see they've kept the tradition of excess flash & piss poor details.
A lot of the newer models from Airfix are actually pretty good, but they're still selling some absurdly old models in new boxes.
@@SteamGeezerUK I've made a few starter kits from airfix and the amount of reboxed 80s models they sell is insane. Real shame as im sure it'd put begignners off
@@willm5032 I agree completely. Some of them are absolutely awful. I built one of their VW Beetles and it was the worst kit I've ever seen. I commented at the time that there's no way a beginner could build it and hope to get any kind of decent result.
That Airfix FW-190 isn't all that old. It seems that the 'soapy' styrene compound Airfix are fond of using, is prone to flashing. I have a Boulton-Paul Defiant new tooling from a few years back, and that had some flash on the parts, likewise the ski undercarriage Gloster Gladiator, new tooling. Older kits can be recognized by the pilot figure - if it's the 'Biggles' one, well detailed, with one foot forwards, then it's an older kit. The kit you have there has the new pilot, who's quite thick set. Going by the number on the tail, might one surmise that the pilot's name was 'Heinz'?
Came out looking pretty nice..!
Oh! The FW....my love of all times..!!.. I love that plane so
much ! ( I dont think I would shoot at one if it was on my sights...
I would just let it shoot me down instead..) I just LOVE it...!
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
Gendo Ikari they are pretty good looking aircraft, bloody dangerous too, i dont think id go as far as letting one shoot me down though
Great job on it even with the fit issues. Thanks for the info. I’ve got a lot of Airfix 1/72 to build. I think I’ll get a different brand if I build a 190.
*whispering* Eduard
beautiful
Wash the kit in soapy water to remove any residue left from the molding process
Iv made myself a PE bender as couldn't find one and needed it straight away really I used a scrap block of mDF cut up my old metal ruler in 2 and grinder out a few different sized notches with 2 holes for lug nuts to screw down and the flat edge on the back it's been well needed can't believe how good it is to be honest should last a life time its solid haha
Looking at the box artwork makes me think that the drop tank isn't the only thing dropping. Bet BOTH pilots dropped a deuce on that near collision.
Feck. Im off to Lidl's. Wish me luck! Damn. It's Sunday. Oh well. Tomorrow then. Thanks for the tip!
I'm not sure if they'll have any right now. Seems like Hornby are doing quite well at the moment as folks are stuck at home, but it's worth checking.
@@SteamGeezerUK Its funny but I saw them there some time ago. Next time I will pick some up. It would be nice if you showed what you can do with just the materials they provide in the box, nothing more. I have always admired the shape of the FW 190. It's so muscular and solid. Great proportions.
You are brave to leave in your mistakes, a very fine finished model. I was always frustrated by Airfix's irritating refusal to include the tail swastika on German aircraft models, after all it is an historical fact of life, not a support of the Nazi regime. Airfix started my love of modelling when I was ten years old but after a few years I defected to other manufacturers, particularly Tamiya because of Airfix's problem with the tail insignia. My minimum size these days is 1/48 but that is an effect of age and eyesight. Thanks for your video!
Thanks for watching.
That is something I was unaware of - neither the box art nor the painting scheme feature a Swastika. Why don't Airfix just stop producing Nazi related models if they fear giving children dangerous ideas? Ridiculous.
You make airfix abit tempting again not went nearnone for years haha
I don't know if you are one to care about such things, but the armour plate in the Brengun etch is for tha A-8/R-2 variant, the Sturmbock. So are the additional frames for the canopy. These contained additional armoured glass, and were often not fitted on the real thing, as they severely affected visibility.
They don't really go with the marking of "brown six" that is provided in the Airfix kit.
WOW!!! Well done, Young Son... Very well done! Jobe got nothing on you, :-)
Thanks :-)
I bought myself the same kit and I can foresee that the result will be very different. Anywho very frustrating but I'll have to learn my way around
Good kit. Nice build. There is a video of one being found in Russia in the woods. My 1/72 is destined to replicate that in diorama form. 190s' were cool planes. I like your modeling. It is all fun. To watch, to see technique. Very nice. Be well & thanks.
Thanks, I appreciate it. I look forward to seeing your diorama when it's done.
loved the build,but whats the music
@@johnleivers7834 The music is from MCMrecords.co.uk
Thanks for watching.
By using the Extra Marmor Panels and the extra frames (that held bullet prove glass) you turned this bird into a "sturmvogel".
They where intented as bomber Killers. When they where First used they where very sucsessfull but the extra armor made them slow and reduced there manuverability, so they where easy meat for escortfightes. This lead to heavy loses and as a result they where only used for a couple of Times.
Only a few Dozent where ever modified that way.
I was building Airfix kits 50+ years ago they had flash and mold lines then too
Some of them are still using the same moulds... :-)
hi.i dont know but she looks fine to me.a good job well done.cheers tom
I like the new camera
Yes, it certainly makes it easier to see what's going on.
Well it is a beauitiful build but to honest I could not be bothered to fit all that fiddly photo etch melarky ! needs such careful handling and without the jig virtually impossible to form,but your skills saw it through,really surprised that you did not source some swastikas ? their absence stands out,without a doubt you have a winner there and us mere mortals will have to see what can be done with a standard kit,I may add some scratch built litho plate flaps to substitute the expensive etched sets,you are a great builder and I learned a few tricks from you,we have come a long way since those old two bob Woolworths kits which was the start for many on the journey in this great hobby,keep up the good work sir and thank you for the time and trouble in producing these works of art.
Thanks, I appreciate it.
Bravo Magnifique
Thanks :-)
Since I will have some spare decals for Fw-190A-8s and F-8s, I think Airfix 190 may serve as some kind of budget 'go to' option to utilise them
See ye don't bite yer nails..got this kit in Lidls as well..but great wee build.
awesome model work man :) plus your beats are pretty dope too you make them??
Thanks, I appreciate it. The music is actually made by a dear friend of mine, a very talented producer. You can find this and more of his music here: soundcloud.com/mcmrecordsproducer/tracks
15:09 The throttle control is on the opposite side. This is the turn lever for opening the slide canopy. 19:19 That “little colored manufacturer tag” on the head armor plate was a red rectangular warning sign informing the pilots and ground crew that the canopy has an explosive charge for emergency jettison.
dose the radio antenna stretch when the canopy is closed
Use silly putty to mask with, cheap and works great. Nice build.
Perfect🔝🛩👌👌
Thanks, I appreciate it :-)
For bending P.E you can get a photo-etch bending tool from Amazon 😊
Never mind 🤦🏻I noticed further in the video that you have one😂😂😂
Nice build on such a small scale. Would that plane not have the shorter 30 mm MK108 cannon in the outer wing positions?
Yeah! I the 60s these cost 2/- shillings = 10 p . you got in plastic bag with instructions on back of great bit of art work. That value for pocket money and your collection grow. Wow now £10
I would have broken the stirrup and directional loop antenna off at least 5 times in the course of doing all the work he does/ Bravo.
I regularly break bits off and have to reattach them :-)
Dont ever worry about not adding the swastika it is for educational purposes. In plasmos videos if he gets a model with the swastika as a decal he will put it on you just need to tell people that you do not promote anything the nazis did and say that it is for educational purposes at the start of your videos. Anyway great model and great video im building a motorbike at the moment and ive found that silver will sit incredibly well on a black coat underneath, just need lots of coats of silver
What happened to your pitot tube on the starboard wing? On the model I bought, it was barely hanging on when I opened the kit.
I have no idea, to be honest. It's likely I broke it and forgot to put it back on ;-)
A standard to aspire to!!!!!!!!! I'm no aircraft mechanic, or a FW190 fundi, but if the cockpit is open wouldn't the radio aerial be slack, or are they self tensioning?
It would, yes, but I never thought about it until after I'd attached it and it was too late by then :-)
Howard Battersby: The aerial wire on the 190 was indeed self tensioning. Check out some of the wartime photos on ‘FW 190 archives’. 👍🏼
You did forget to put splashed mud on the underside of the wing.
i have a badger 105 any recomendations
A very nice build, only the camo reminds me of a russian winter camo
Thanks. The camo was done based roughly on the box scheme, although the colours were pretty much whatever I had to hand. Some people like to go for really authentic colours, but I'm content to get near to it.
Thanks for watching.
When did they stop including historically accurate decals? Been out for 20+ years, just getting back into building.
Th Brengun set has PD instrument panels for the cockpit sides which you did not use....I wonder why you did not fit them?
I hate to be the one to spoil the party, but the wingtop cannon bulges are grossly mislocated, especially on the port wing. Those bulges belong directly behind the outboard gun barrels. Other than that, you certainly did put a great amount of polish on that turd of a kit. Well done!
Yes, I only realised that as I was putting the decals on. They really shouldn't make parts that can fit either way around :-)
Wow!! What a great work of art!! Isn't there supposed to be a swastika decal on the tailfin? Most German fighters do have them, I believe.
There is, but they don't include one, and I'd already spent enough on the metal... :-)
does anyone please have links for the proper photoetch he used..i have the plane coming....id like to get both like he uses.....i am having a heck of a time finding exactly what i need...thank you so much.
Have a look on ebay, try a search for "1/72 FW190 photoetch" (and also "photo etch"). There are quite a few different sets available from various suppliers. Hope that helps.
Great video of high quality, but more important you have patience and skills of almost biblical proportions.
As a kid when I became fed up with the swarms of Airfix aircraft dangling on cotton threads in my bedroom I took them into the garden one by one and used them as targets for my ageing BSA air rifle. Those models were poorly finished and could not have held a candle to your artistry, but they were fun to build, gave me pleasure when displayed and eventually further fun upon their demise - I certainly got my two bobs worth out of them.
Thank you for sharing the benefits of your experience. As a matter of interest how many hours do you think that you spent on the FW 190 from start to finish?
Thanks,. I appreciate it. I always say it doesn't matter what the end result is as long as you had fun making it. As far as time for this build, probably about a week or so.
Excellent stuff, thank you. I think that's the first WW2 German aircraft I've seen without a swastika, was there a particular reason for this? Was this a late war model?
There wasn't one included in the kit.
Thanks for watching.
@@SteamGeezerUK
I started building Airfix models in the 1950s (!) and I have always been under the impression that the hakenkreuz (swastika) was not included on decal sheets was, and is, to protect sales in Germany, where the symbol is illegal. Not too difficult to make up a stencil. Surely the specialist decal makers can provide a range of the different styles and scales though ?
Nice build and very well done with PE at 1/72 scale!, but the headrest retracts with the canopy on the real aircraft so wouldn’t be in the position you’ve modelled.
I figured that out after I'd finished it :-)
You should do a video that’s like cheapest model kit on amazon makeover
I did a video a while back on building a model on a tight budget, but I see your point. Maybe one day...
Here's the budget video I did - th-cam.com/video/vv-pGwnSaiE/w-d-xo.html
My new kit doesnt come with thise metal flaps bits but i think it might be in the plastic
I can't remember with this one, but the BF109 starter kit has separate plastic flaps.
hi i use clever putty for masking
I know its a starter kit, but with the added Eduard and Brengun 'bits' and your own set of paints, tools, etc - its no longer a starter kit. Nice work though. Air brushing results are excellent!! Main mistake was mixing up the wings decals, i.e black/white cross should be on top.
Thanks. There were quite a few mistakes on this build. The decals, however, were applied according to the instructions, so I can't take credit for that one :-)
@@SteamGeezerUK You are right, I spotted my mistake shortly after posting, but neglected to update - I humbly apologise, Sir!!
Don't worry about it.
Thanks for watching :-)
True fact, a German pilot flew that aircraft to Britain and landed it for the brits to analyse the aircraft in world war 2
Yes, he landed by mistake in South Wales, thought he was in Northern France.
next video: 100% photoetched model.
Such things are available. I don't think I will, though :-)
Nice model, but incomplete
I bought a model, not 300 stickers that don't come with it :/
I usually build pretty much straight out of the box, but I wanted to try something different with this one. I certainly wouldn't do it with every model - the photoetch sets cost more than the model did :-)
Check out Plasmo he shows how make a PE bender for a few pounds
Oh, you can certainly do the job without a break, but I was curious to see how well it worked and it turned out to be money well spent.
Impressive work - no doubt - but for the love of god man - ditch the trap music - not at all what I think about when modelling - way too tense!
For your next new toy how about a decent mic?
Feel free to buy me one and drop it in the post ;-)
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ευχαριστώ ;-) (I hope that's right)
These are new kits so it's not the moulds that are the problem, the detail in these kits was sloppy to begin with.
I used to make airfix models when I was young lad and I'm sure they included the swastika in the sixties and seventies. It's just another example of political correctness gone mad!
Not really. It's illegal to display a swastika in Germany which is a huge market for Hornby (who own Airfix) and obviously for Revell being a German company. While they could argue that it is an artistic endeavour and possibly get around it that way, or have different decal sheets for German versions, it's easier for them to simply not include them. If people are really that concerned, they can make stencils or buy aftermarket decal sheets.
As for me, if they come with the kit, I'll put them on. If they don't, I'm not that bothered.
I know a Dutch guy that doesn't include them out of respect to the victims of the Nazis. Its not 'PC gone mad' its a company being sensitive to the legacy and the dangers of global fascism. Sure, they shouldnt be erased, but its up to museums and libraries to display them imo.
@@willm5032 These were Nazi 'planes and used to subjugate the rest of Europe. The swastika shouldn't be airbrushed out of history.
@@Harbourmaster68 Didnt say that it should be erased- just that I personally don't think it should be used by me as a hobbyist and should be consigned to books and museums etc :)
@William Gruff Get fucked.
The text is white on white and too small?? Not legible at all. Otherwise fantastic work.
This didn't help you need to slow down
It's not like those real time bake-along cookery shows - you can pause it :-)
Yes and I was pausing it and I still couldn't follow your steps cos they were unclear and you couldn't see what you were doing