I completed my Fw-189. Overall it is a good kit with very few problems. The kit comes with gear down, so I trimmed off the gear doors and filled the gap in with epoxy putty. Also filled in the tail gear gap. I also added plain prop spinners with epoxy, but on review, the vaned prop pitch caps on the end of propellers don't rotate with the propeller, so the supplied props with the vanes on the end would be more appropriate.
I don't normally add guns or aerials since they have a tendency to break off during play so there is no gun coming from the top rear turret.
The paint scheme is roughly RLM 71 (Dark Green) with a RLM 79 sand brown wave pattern over the top. The bottom is RLM 76 light blue. I don't use any standard colors so these are a mixture of Delta Ceramacoat, Americana, and Applebarrel colors/mixtures.
The canopy was done with the same light blue as the underside with a medium blue/light blue mix for the shading color, a light gray as the lighter tint and a dab of white for the highlight.
Yellow fuselage bands are painted after the primary colors are done and use a plain white base coat then two layers of yellow to provide better coverage.
Wing decals are extra German Fighter insignia from True North Productions. I did not have crosses small enough to fit on the fuselage so those are hand painted. Due to the lack of small enough letters, the call letters were omitted, but I was going to do 6M+AH of the Afkl.Gr(f)11.
The maneuver surface lines have been enhanced with a wash mixture of charcoal gray diluted with Future acrylic floor wash. Some panel lines were also enhanced with this mix.
Mounting system is a 1/16" aluminum tube embedded in the lower fuselage pointing slightly downward. The cavity was dug with a dremel tool with a reaming bit, the tube embedded with epoxy then sanded down flush.
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-Binhan
