Thanks David... I am just very fortunate to have a little more building time than others since I have retired...

Now that's a very cool picture ! If you squint your eyes some, it does resemble my "Wurger Works"... 🙂 Thanks for sharing this with us.

A big thank you goes out to Martin for fixing this thread... It wasn't allowing replies to be posted since it was starting a new second page. Some sort of minor computer glitch that he squared right away.

You just gotta love this website ! There's a great bunch of people here with a common interest, and a fantastic staff that keeps things working like clock work.

Thanks again Martin and David !

Thanks gents for the kind words...

The 190 has been sitting on the back burner lately. 🙁 🙁 🙁

Unfortunately we have had some other "life" things come around that has limited the time I would like to spend at the work desk... plus I have been concentrating on finishing up several other builds that are almost completed.

My goal is to complete as many unfinished projects I can before the New Year starts.

Meanwhile, Andreas Fey and I have decided on what markings to use for the planes we will be building.

Both planes are from JG 2.

I am going with "Black Double Chevron"...

I did manage to get a little done on the Butcher Birds...

Started painting the black dials in the cockpits

I have 3 out of the 4 cockpits painted to this stage. Believe it or not, Tamiya has made a few small changed to the cockpits. The 3 on the right are for the earlier A-3 / A-4 builds.

The differences are with the side console panels, and a very subtle change on the main instrument panel shape. The A8 / F8 has a more rounded look along the lower edge. had I not placed them side by side it would hardly be noticeable... but it's there.

While the one that has not been finished with the dial painting is for a later A-8 / F-8 variant.

I found this very good picture showing the restored cockpit of the NASM's FW-190 F-8. It was in one of my books about how they restored the plane in the museum's workshop. It also went into the actual history behind the plane and how it had been "recycled" by the German War industry several times after being damaged in combat.

This picture came from the book called "Famous Aircraft of the National Air and Space Museum, #9, Focke - Wulf Fw-190 Workhorse of the Luftwaffe.

The amazing thing about this restoration is the attention to details during the restoration. They actually used various methods of photography and scientific sampling of the various colors of the paints used to obtain the most authentic colors.

They even sanded the paint off the exterior of the plane, a little at a time, to expose the various layers underneath. By doing this, they revealed some very interesting markings and camouflage combinations that were used during the service history of the plane as it was assigned to various Luftwaffe units.

This NASM plane served in the Mediterranean Theater and wore Sandgelb RLM 79 with RLM 80 Olive Green blotches at one time. I don't remember if it had a RLM 76 or 78 light blue undersides though. It ended the War in Hungary with SG2... and had an amazing service history.

I heartily recommend this book if your a die hard 190 fan...

One more day until Christmas...

Merry Christmas everyone.

As per my usual sign off, comments are encouraged.

Well, Wurger Werks works for me. Louis, you are a force of nature and an inspiration!

I'm really looking forward to the painting Louis - there are such possibilities here! 'Black double chevron' is a great choice for one of these. The idea of 4 different birds shaping up is fantastic (again).

Man - I so envy your ability to stack up so many subjects on your bench and knock them out so quickly!

David,
Well, "Wurger Werks" it is ... Works wonderfully well... 🙂 🙂 Nice play on words... Love it. 🙂

Tom,
I have been wanting to get busy on these four FW-190 planes , so I guess my enthusiasm has poured into the build.

As far as the display cases go, I was fortunate enough to find a "well worn" used one at a thrift shop several years ago for a very reasonable price. So I just couldn't pass it up... The display case was sitting idle in my shop until shortly after I retired. Then I did a full on restoration of it, (had to replace all of the wood) and added some more glass shelving to allow it to hold more planes.

Here's how it looked at the beginning of last year:

Hey Paul,
Yes the painting is what was a deciding factor to start four of them. I am definitely making a JG 54 plane out of one, and a JG 1 machine with a white and black striped cowl out of another. Then the "Black Chevron" one will be in overall Sand RLM 79 over the original RLM 76 under sides. The last one is still up for grabs... I haven't decided just yet how to paint it... Thanks for the compliments my friend.

Thanks David ! I appreciate the words of encouragement...

Greg, I guess sometimes I get lucky and things happen the way you want them too. It doesn't always work that way though... I have a certain A-20 that has been stalled for quite some time... I lost the "mojo" on that one.

Thanks Jeff, my fellow tanker buddy...

Up next I have another update from tonight's progress:

Very nice Louis! Following with interest, can't wait to see that display case filled!