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Title: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on September 02, 2021, 12:20:42 AM: Some of my first 190's are looking long in the tooth, they'll be getting redone over time. This thread will serve to organize all of them.

First up:

Fw190A-5 flown by Walter Nowotny in the summer of 1943. Possibly the personal mount of another pilot in 1./Jg 54, but the reference photo clearly shows Nowi in the cockpit.

(https://i.postimg.cc/qRwsBpjz/Nowi-New.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/JDyDPCwL)

(https://i.postimg.cc/HnLQVFh3/Nowi-New-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/dkz7fNvT)
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Vraciu on September 02, 2021, 12:22:14 AM: Very nice. You’ve got the yellow down pat.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on September 02, 2021, 12:50:16 AM: Quote from: Vraciu on September 02, 2021, 12:22:14 AM
Very nice. You’ve got the yellow down pat.

Thanks.

You can't tell from the pics, but there are 2 shades. The chin is more orange-ish than the other markings. This is documented in period color photos of other Jg 54 190's at this time. Granted, the shades I used are closer than shown in the pics. The pure yellow can't be matched very well in game.

(https://www.asisbiz.com/il2/Fw-190A/JG54/images/Focke-Wulf-Fw-190A6-1.JG54-White-11-n-White-3-information-Immola-1944-01.jpg)

(https://forum.il2sturmovik.com/uploads/monthly_11_2016/post-1464-0-61593100-1480319135.jpeg)
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: FTJR on September 02, 2021, 03:00:12 AM: Nice job sir.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: lyric1 on September 02, 2021, 03:18:01 AM: :aok
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Greebo on September 02, 2021, 07:28:07 AM: Great job on the update Devil.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on September 06, 2021, 10:15:12 AM: Fw 190A-5 flown by Walter Nowotny, Gruppenkommandeur of I/Jg 54. He scored his 250th aerial victory in this plane on Oct. 14th 1943, becoming the first pilot to reach this total.

(https://i.postimg.cc/kMWy9Qqj/Nowi-Lead-1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/7bYznTC7)

(https://i.postimg.cc/PrhQqCqd/Nowi-Lead-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/c69n94Yz)
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: lyric1 on September 06, 2021, 10:42:56 AM: :aok
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Greebo on September 06, 2021, 10:45:58 AM: Great looking skin Devil.
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Post by: Vraciu on September 06, 2021, 05:30:58 PM: Beautiful.
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Post by: whiteman on September 06, 2021, 08:37:00 PM: These are great looking!
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Post by: Nefarious on September 08, 2021, 11:01:28 AM: Looking good Devil! Keep up the good work! <S>
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on January 30, 2023, 12:29:23 AM: Fw 190A-5 flown by Erich Rudorffer of 6./Jg 2 in Tunisia during the winter of 1942-43.

I wasn't happy with the light markings and the desert tan looked too much like caramel.

(https://i.postimg.cc/6pbhPfJY/Rudorffer-New.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/0zmmMmNw)
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: lyric1 on January 30, 2023, 01:27:11 AM: :aok
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Greebo on January 30, 2023, 01:49:52 AM: Nice update Devil.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Vraciu on January 30, 2023, 02:09:14 PM: Looks great.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on April 01, 2023, 12:38:50 AM: 190A-4 flown by Siegfried Schnell of 9./Jg 2 in early 1943. Complete rework of the original skin from 2014. Also corrects the markings on the starboard side with the III/Jg 2 emblem on the cowling instead of the large falcon head.

(https://i.postimg.cc/KjNJCznT/Schnell-Falcon-1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/QKFQTjYN)

(https://i.postimg.cc/0jxVtmJx/Schnell-Falcon-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/Kkq7j1Ns)
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: lyric1 on April 01, 2023, 01:14:19 AM: :aok
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Post by: Vraciu on April 01, 2023, 09:53:16 AM: Very nicely done.
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Post by: whiteman on April 01, 2023, 11:38:45 AM: Great work Devil
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Greebo on April 02, 2023, 02:15:10 AM: Great job on the update Devil.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: oboe on April 02, 2023, 06:41:28 AM: Very nice Devil! Interesting asymmetric skin subject.

What color is the band around the rear fuselage? It looks slightly greyish-tan. Had they overpainted a band applied earlier?
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on April 02, 2023, 08:40:30 AM: Quote from: oboe on April 02, 2023, 06:41:28 AM
What color is the band around the rear fuselage? It looks slightly greyish-tan. Had they overpainted a band applied earlier?

Apparently, there was a colored band painted there in November 1942 for "Case Anton", the operation to occupy and dissolve Vichy France.

By the time this plane was photographed, it had been over-painted with RLM 02 "gray" which is a really a khaki. It's a color that looks greenish when used with the cold grays of the RLM 74/75/76 scheme, but looks beige when paired with RLM 70/71 greens.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on April 03, 2023, 03:23:16 PM: 190A-5 of 6./Jg 1. Just a simple color alteration of the original files and added Oboe's Luftwaffe pilot skin.

(https://i.postimg.cc/0y6JjBMz/Wurm-Revised.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/RWB0bGTm)
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Vraciu on April 03, 2023, 04:19:06 PM: Good one.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: oboe on April 03, 2023, 04:49:55 PM: :aok
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Greebo on April 04, 2023, 01:36:04 AM: That's unusual, nice skin.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: lyric1 on April 04, 2023, 03:22:37 AM: :rofl
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on September 25, 2023, 11:56:22 PM: Fw 190A-4 of 11./SKG 10. Tunisia, 1943. Complete re-do of my original skin from 2015.

(https://i.postimg.cc/pdqbHqVw/MTO-190-1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/McMr00Q5)

(https://i.postimg.cc/85c8PMjj/MTO-190-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/p9wcs9QH)

(https://i.postimg.cc/xd0DhWQG/MTO-190-3.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/3kbcDfdW)
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: lyric1 on September 26, 2023, 12:40:25 AM: :aok
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Greebo on September 26, 2023, 05:15:33 AM: Great job on the update Devil.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Vraciu on September 26, 2023, 07:32:40 AM: Fantastic.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on February 19, 2024, 08:57:05 PM: FW 190F-8 of I/SG 5. Finland, June 1944.

Updated on the current 190F-8 template, using better colors for the markings and one of Oboe's excellent pilot skins. Also changed the engine compartment vent panel to bare metal as it seem that this aircraft had them unpainted.

(https://i.postimg.cc/3x1y1yLS/SG5-F-8.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/nXsccLfB)

(https://i.postimg.cc/VkmrX9F0/SG5-F-8-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/LnQ8p1wm)
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: lyric1 on February 19, 2024, 11:56:31 PM: :aok
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Vraciu on February 20, 2024, 12:07:40 AM: Most excellent.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Greebo on February 20, 2024, 01:19:07 AM: Very nice Devil.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: oboe on February 20, 2024, 08:53:23 AM: Beautiful work!
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Devil 505 on March 06, 2024, 11:40:40 PM: Fw 190A-6 flown by Walter Nowotny. Vitebsk, Belarus. November 1943.

(https://i.postimg.cc/L8Pbj900/Nowi-W5-1.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/mPbjss4Q)

(https://i.postimg.cc/8P9YFJw6/Nowi-W5-2.jpg) (https://postimg.cc/565gTth4)
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: lyric1 on March 07, 2024, 01:46:51 AM: :aok
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Vraciu on March 07, 2024, 08:38:44 AM: Looks awesome.
Title: Re: Updating my older Focke-Wulfs
Post by: Greebo on March 07, 2024, 09:49:07 AM: Very nice Devil.