A couple of months ago I was pleantly surprised to receive a wonderful gift from Bernard @lis

It was the Airfix (A01020A) Focke-Wulf Fw190-A8 in 1/72 scale. Besides this great kit, Bernard included several extras as well. A masking sheet for the upper surface camouflage scheme and a decal sheet with lots of various marking options. I have still not decided which one I will choose. Also a nice set of Eduard masks was added to this.

Unpacking the Airfix kit reveals some nicely detailed parts.

I already started with cleaning some of the interior parts and painting them dark grey green. Fitting of the cockpit parts was very good.

This is valid for the upper and lower wing sections as well. Machine guns do have to be mounted at that same moment which makes the further build a bit scary with those barrels and pitot tube sticking out.

Fantastic! I’m glad that You enjoy kit!

@fiveten, thank you, Spiros

@lis, thanks a lot, Bernard. I will do my to get the most out of your beautiful gift.

@clipper, thank you, Carl. Comparing those kits with the first 1/72 ones I build many years ago, there is a huge difference in favor of the current ones.

Nice progress so far, John. @johnb

Detail looks really good for a 1/72 model, John (@johnb). It is coming along nicely.

@jdtruby, thank you, John

@kalamazoo, thanks, Allan

@gblair, thank you, George. Airfix did quite well to detail this small kit nicely.

@fiveten, thanks a lot, Spiros. Luckily in most cases it can still be resolved.

Very Good work! I’m glad that You enjoy kit.

Nice progress and good safety measures, my friend @johnb!