Focke Wulf 190

Built by: Steve Heeb
 
Scale: 1/144th
Kit Maker: Unknown
Built/Completed: Completed in 2006 (started several years earlier)
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I dug this partially completed model out of the storage box to complete it in time for the 2006 Western Washington Fair. Most of the work was done a few years ago and it had been boxed up when we moved.

The camouflage was hand painted by brush, and I think is pretty well done for a model kit that is only 2-1/4 inches long and has a wingspan less than three inches.

The side/wing crosses are decals, but I messed up the kit tail swastikas and ended up repainting them (rather hurriedly) at the last minute to get the kit entered in the Fair.

The rudder, flaps, elevators, ailerons were cut off and repositioned. I also hacked up the thick canopy and stretched a new one over the tip of a pencil. The front windscreen is very crude, but the new open "glass" gives a view to the tiny scratchwork in the cockpit. Some of the homemade details include an instrument panel, side gauges and equipment, a seat and seatbelts.

Under the plane, I continued the wing armament in the wheel wells and used paint to simulate depth. Other bits of plastic were added to make the tiny kit seem more like the 1/72nd-scale kits I was used to at the time.

The kit did end up winning the First-Place ribbon for the adult division in the 2006 Western Washington Fair.

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