Custom Fw190 Panel lol

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:14 pm

Hehe just for fun one day I made this!

Crazy Kraut · Post by **Crazy Kraut** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 12:22 pm

NICE!!!
Need to do this with my IM-Spit. Could you please describe your work. Looking really good.

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 1:00 pm

Well I got a tin panel at lowes (Hardware store) by the air conditioning vents, tubes, and Ect, (you know the flexible duct tubing).

1.Found a piece of flat tin sheet about 25 inches x 37 inches ruffly about $10 USD. (Aluminum Sheeting is too expensive)

2. on to painting.. I just hit it the whole thing with a can of testors dark aircraft grey for the base.

Some testors Grey for the..wel.. grey

and some dark green for the green

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3. Time to paint the decals..
After looking at some pics find ruffly where you panel will be in relation to the plane (dose not have to be perfectly dead on)

For me my panel is on the left of a FW fuselage with only a corner of the cross..

SO after your research.. I just did some basic markings with a little testors white, black, and some masking tape.. I used a big T square to line the markings up squared in relation to the panel.

4.I bent it slightly to look like the natural curve of the airplane fuselage.. (Depends where and what plane panel your going to make)

5. got out my 30-30 and shot the panel!!!

6. then threw it in the drive way a few times to weather it then..ta da!
thats about it!

Oh forgot I took tin snips (still Hard to cut!) and cut around the edges to look like it was cut off a plane...now sand them becasue they are SHARP!

that's about it! Next one im going to add rivets and airbrush some nose art on it

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normandy · Post by **normandy** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 5:43 pm

That looks Cool, great idea.

Razor17019 · Post by **Razor17019** » Tue Mar 09, 2010 6:24 pm

21st Century did a contest several years ago with buying 4 of the FW-190 planes and sending in the UPC symbols to get the "Tender Terror" P-51.
There were 3 or 5 lucky folks selected to receive an extra prize. A decorative section of wing/fuselage with bullet holes in it, very much like what you did, but smaller.
You sure you weren't with 21stC?

TKO could tell you more about the contest.

GI546 · Post by **GI546** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 6:15 am

whats next?
the whole plane?

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 10:15 am

GI546 · Post by **GI546** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 12:52 pm

flyboy_fx wrote:

so is that a yes?

vmf214 · Post by **vmf214** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 12:04 pm

Razor17019 wrote:21st Century did a contest several years ago with buying 4 of the FW-190 planes and sending in the UPC symbols to get the "Tender Terror" P-51.
There were 3 or 5 lucky folks selected to receive an extra prize. A decorative section of wing/fuselage with bullet holes in it, very much like what you did, but smaller.
You sure you weren't with 21stC?

TKO could tell you more about the contest.

10 actually. Here is a pic of tko and Roy Sutherland doing the drawing for them.

Lot of folks have set up pretty lucretive business doing this type of thing. These guys do awesome work, ya pay for it too:

http://www.fightingcolors.com/velasco.htm

A local guy does these and sets up at gun shows and always makes a killing. He does alot of fantasy type noseart that is usually his best seller, some pretty explicit too which naturally always sells the best.

tmanthegreat · Post by **tmanthegreat** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 1:57 pm

vmf214 wrote: 10 actually. Here is a pic of tko and Roy Sutherland doing the drawing for them.

TKO doesn't look anything like his carded action figure that I got at TRU

That must have been a great room to see with all those HTF 21c planes

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:31 pm

scary picture!