The Battlefield - The Black Knight of Berlin (part 1)

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June 22, 2023
What a Sweet looking box... I mean Platz!
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June 22, 2023
Quite a bit on the sprue for a 1/144 scale kit, no?
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June 22, 2023
Another lovely box. I really like the red bottom... too bad it's not part of this build.
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June 22, 2023
Another lovely set of highly detailed sprues.
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June 22, 2023
The Mustang kit goes together nicely, even with a small DC motor standing in for the engine.
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June 22, 2023
Same goes for the Fw190. Fits like a glove!
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June 22, 2023
Almost ready for take off. I decided to leave the resistors outside the fuselage. Not that much room to work with, but I can hide them easily in the base.
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June 22, 2023
This will be in flight, so no need for landing gear.
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June 22, 2023
Pilot ready for takeoff!
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June 22, 2023
The Fw190 is a bit trickier with the half-open wheel covers. I needed to file down the wheels to fit properly.
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June 22, 2023
This is a black knight... but we need a white undercoat first!
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June 23, 2023
The homemade decals can't add the white, so the undercoat will solve that problem... now for some very careful masking! The metal finish of the Mustang is much easier to deal with.
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June 24, 2023
I only masked the white part and as little of the black outline as necessary. Hopefully this will blend the paint coat and the decal nicely.
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June 24, 2023
Mustang masked up for the invasion stripes. Fw190 painted black.
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June 25, 2023
Not bad. Only a TINY bit of overspray on the Mustang...
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June 26, 2023
The rest of the decals applied... some homemade, some from the kit. Looking good if I do say so myself. The base is a wooden coaster with a homemade decal, it's a technique I've used for my Area 88 1/144 projects and I like the look.
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July 2, 2023
Almost had a disaster when the motors were hooked up. One of the 4 Mustang propellor blades was not properly glued in and I launched it across the room when the motor started spinning. Luckily a clean up and grid search allowed me to find the missing piece. Whew!
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July 3, 2023
A bit of cotton smoke for effect... and a check of the spinning props... and I'm done!
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July 4, 2023
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Comments

29 22 June 2023, 14:20

Greg Baker
This one has been kicking around for a bit, but I decided to buckle down and start moving things off the shelf of doom. This project is based on the "Battlefield" (aka "the Cockpit") manga series by Leiji Matsumoto. It's in two parts. in the first part, the so-called Black Knight of Berlin shows chivalrous mercy to his opponents… and gets his Fw190 shot down by a P-51 Mustang for his trouble. In part two he gets in a jet black Me262 and shoots down the B-17 he first showed mercy to.

Likely the trickiest part of this project will be getting white homemade decals on a black Fw190.

23 June 2023, 05:47

Robert Podkoński
Looks promising! Watching with interest.

23 June 2023, 06:43

Spanjaard
Certainly following this one 🙂

23 June 2023, 07:23

Bruce Huxtable
This is going to be dramatic 🙂👍

23 June 2023, 07:32

Greg Baker
Ok… we now have a black Fw190… now for some love for the Mustang… and Invasion stripes!

24 June 2023, 05:59

Greg Baker
I always love adding the decals. It's amazing how much better they make a model look. Now to find some propellors...

26 June 2023, 15:05

Greg Baker
Got the two planes mounted on the base, so mainly just a bit of wiring to do now. Almost had to deal with a disaster on the Mustang though. The four prop blades are glued into a 2-part nose. One of them wasn't properly secured in place, so when I connected the dc motor it flung one of the blades into orbit. I had to tear apart my monkey business room to try and locate a single 1/144 scale propellor blade. Luckily after a massive clean up and grid search effort… I found it next to the fish tank. 😉 Phew!

2 July 2023, 17:55

Bruce Huxtable
Oh my, Carpet monster 0 Diligent modeler 1 😉

2 July 2023, 18:18

Spanjaard
Well done Greg 🙂

2 July 2023, 20:26

Greg Baker
And… all done. Will update with some final pics.

3 July 2023, 05:28

bughunter
👍

3 July 2023, 05:58

Bruce Huxtable
Got him! Looks fantastic!

3 July 2023, 06:29

Spanjaard
excellent!

3 July 2023, 11:37

Greg Baker
Aaaaaaand... we're done! Thanks guys! Stay tuned for Part 2!

4 July 2023, 14:42

Matthew A
Am I the only one going 'daga daga, naaaaaaa booom' in my mind? 💥

4 July 2023, 15:50

Spanjaard
Certainly not! LOL

4 July 2023, 15:59

Nils Steyaert
now that looks fantastic, great work greg 👍

4 July 2023, 17:10

Greg Baker
Haha! Thanks for that Matthew!

Just to prove that the props actually spin...

Youtube Video

You can even tell I got the prop spinning the right way because of the wind on the smoke cloud! 😉

4 July 2023, 18:58

Greg Baker
I've also updated my blog with this project... if anyone is interested in reading the Leiji Matsumoto chapter from "The Cockpit" that this project is based on - strobez.ca/wp/index...-part-1-the-cockpit/

4 July 2023, 22:04

Album info

When the Black Knight of Berlin's code of honour is used against him and his Focke-Wulf Fw190 is shot down by a P-51 Mustang, he comes back with a vengeance in a new Messerschmitt Me262 and shoots down the American Boeing B-17 Bomber he had at first only disabled.

The Battlefield - The Black Knight of Berlin Pt.1

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