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| jerry campbell, Comment for image # 31417 | 14 Apr 14 14:56 |
| By the way the Ta 152 is the final development of the Fw 190. The kit is a Ta 152H-1 pressurized high altitude fighter, but should be able to be converted to the Ta 152C standard fighter. |
| David Duckett, Comment for image # 31417 | 14 Apr 14 14:55 |
| Glad you got it! |
| jerry campbell, Comment for image # 31417 | 14 Apr 14 14:48 |
| Yes, and I want to thank you and Dave for all the help. |
| lukebozek1, Comment for image # 31417 | 14 Apr 14 14:35 |
| Did you win that Dave Diels kit on Ebay? |
| jerry campbell, Comment for image # 31415 | 14 Apr 14 13:07 |
| My next brush with the Fw 190 was an article in an issue of Aeromodeler, an English magazine, about 1962/63 featuring an article about Oblt Arnim Faber, Adjutant of III/JG 2, who mistook the Bristol Chanel for the English Chanel and landed at RAF Pembry, providing the RAF with the first intact Fw 190 albeit an Fw 190A-3. Beautiful drawings of the Focke-Wulf were included and provide me with my first real insight into the lineage of this magnificent radial engined machine and provided me with accurate drawings. However the cover painting of Fabir’s A-3 sports a red rudder and red chin, which has proved to be an error, both the rudder and chin were the yellow seen on aircraft along the channel. |
| jerry campbell, Comment for image # 31416 | 14 Apr 14 13:00 |
| The top of the B4 former removed. |
| jerry campbell, Comment for image # 31416 | 14 Apr 14 13:00 |
| The top of the B4 former removed. |
| jerry campbell, Image # 31417 | 14 Apr 14 12:57 |
Over the years I have built many plastic models of the Fw 190 “Wurger” (Butcher Bird)and its many. I decided to do Faber’s Fw 190A-3 in 1/24th scale using the Guillows 502 kit, which is a good kit and with some added detail and a few minor corrections can be turned into an excellent Fw 190A-1,2,3,4 and with a little more work can be turned into the Fw 190A-5,6,7,8,9 as well as the F and G variants. It just takes some research and a little elbow grease. |
| jerry campbell, Image # 31416 | 14 Apr 14 12:53 |
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| jerry campbell, Image # 31415 | 14 Apr 14 12:52 |
Aircraft from Fabir's unit showing the C&M application. |
| jerry campbell, Image # 31414 | 14 Apr 14 12:49 |
My love affair with the Focke-Wulf Fw 190 began in the 1940s when I traded a number of military shoulder patches for a built DynaModel kit of the Fw 190. An older kid down the street collected army shoulder patches and since I had four uncles, all of which had been in the Army and fought in WW2 I had lots of trading material. The DynaModel kits were far ahead of their time, 1/48 scale solid model in shaped bass wood with many cast metal parts and a vacu-form canopy. I don’t know how well it was built, but in my eyes it was magnificet. Thus began a life time love of the German radial engine fighter. |
| jerry campbell, Image # 31413 | 14 Apr 14 12:44 |
The B4 former can be seen and the plans show how it interupts the sleek clean lines of the !90's canopy. |
| jerry campbell, Image # 31412 | 14 Apr 14 12:39 |
The Guillows kit is an good kit and with some minor modifications can be an excellent. The Guillows kit has a wing span of 16.5” while 1/24th scale is 17.5”. This 3/4 of an inch is almost negligible. However former B4 being an integral part of the cockpit canopy which is in two pieces is a real problem. In the past I’ve ignored this, however with this build of Fabir’s A-3 I decided to remove the top of B4 and mold a new canopy. |
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