Fw 190 V-15

Murad ÖZER
now that's a very interesting subject Marco, looking great! 👍

Glenn
Interesting version. What were they thinking with that exhaust system anyway? Did it stop contrails from forming at the higher altitude? Cause they didn't have to worry about heat seeking missiles!

Gary
Nice camo for a small model. Gary

Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY
Nice building congratulations. For Glenn: This version had this exhaust system because it was a preversion of the fw190 V18 (Kangaroo) with a turbo compressor Under the fuselage.

Glenn
Thanks Jean, I still wonder why it was such a long exhaust can't understand why? Maybe to hide flames? Looks like the same exhaust on the Bv155 V1

Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY
To Glenn: The long exhaust was made for recuperation of the gas from the engine for taking it for the turbo compressor who was Under the fuselage on the V18. The v15 was a trial version for this exaust system but without the compressor. The exhaust system where the same on the to planes.

Łukasz Gliński
Absolutely amazing mottling in 72, can you explain us how did you achieve that??? 😠

gorby
Amazing model, as always Marco. And thanks Jean Pierre - learn something every day.

Stephan Ryll
Very nice camo for that small scale 👍

Marco Preto Autor
Thank you all for your comments! As far as I am aware, the long exhausts served to test if the material would withstand the high temperatures of the exhaust and to evaluate if they would interfere with the airflow over the wing roots (for use in the V18 ).
The mottling was done using my old Badger 100 LGF and Vallejo Model Color, diluted with water and a bit of Flow Aid (Liquitex). Nowadays Vallejo already as a Flow Improver additive for its paints. The model was published in January 2011 issue of Scale Aircraft Modelling.

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Ulf Petersen
Strange appearance of this bird - but a very nice model, Marco!👍

Łukasz Gliński
Thanks for your reply Marco, however it's still hard to believe you mottled it freehand

Marco Preto Autor
Practice a lot doing small dots. I think that is the most important skill for such work as you can just apply dots close to each other shaping the mottling spots as you like (or as your references show).
Due to the higher surface tension of water based paints I find them harder to smoothly start and stop the paint flow so I tend to keep the airflow always on and just pull the trigger back and forward for a moment to create a dot (the distance between the model and the airbrush will control the size of the dot).
I hope you find this helpful!
Cheers

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Jean Pierre CULIS-FERY
I did not see that your bird was in 72 scale (i have the kit in 48 scale), so your paint is very impressive. Good job! By the way this poor little bird will miss his brother: you have to build the V18 😉

Łukasz Gliński
@Marco: of course I do find it helpful, I'l commence the dot training asap 😉