Focke-Wulf Fw 190
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I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving Holiday and that you were able to spend time with family members and friends. Hopefully by now you are relaxing and enjoying the rest of the day.
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Tonight's article is on a kit that I built many years ago sometime around the year 2000. It's the Tamiya model FW-190"D-9" .
Oscar Romm was a Luftwaffe "Experten" who is credited with 92 kills. 82 of these were from [...]
This is the Hasegawa kit built basically out of the box. The decals came from an Aeromaster sheet, seat belts are from Eduard. I don't build a lot of Luftwaffe subjects and used 25 year old tins of Xtracolor German colors to finish this [...]
Here's another one of my favorite models. It's the Focke-Wulf Ta-152. The kit is manufactured by Hobby Boss and is in 1/48 scale. It is finished using Model Master enamels. This is an amazing kit and it went together without a problem. [...]
An old kit from the 1970s, but went together very well. No putty or filler needed anywhere.
Painted with Gunze-Sangyo acrylics, and markings are from an old Cutting Edge sheet.
The only modifications done were drilling out the gun barrels.
Just finished for a GB project over on BM.
Fw 190A-5 Wnr. 5851, Hptm. Egon Mayer, CO III/JG 2 Richthofen,
France, Spring, 1943.
Kit: Eduard 1/48 Fw 190A-5
Extras:
Ultracast: Fw 190 seat; Fw 190A wheels (early)
Eduard: Kit supplied PE, Fw [...]
On the 28th of August, at IPMS-Deutschlands modelling show, I had the privilege to be invited to a guided tour of the FW 190 A8 that’s being restored at Gatow air force museum in Berlin.
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Stabsfeldwebel Enrico Schade, who leads the [...]
I will have to admit up front that I am not a German aircraft expert, but I did manage to talk myself into building one of my favorite aircraft. I was really interested in this Eduard offering and was curious to see how it compared to the [...]