With about an hour to spare in 2011 I finished my first Eduard Focke-Wulf 190, a Dora. I've been tinkering with this kit for several months off-and-on when other projects became tedious or boring. This is a beautifully molded model but it takes thought and patience to build it properly. I've learned a lot from this first one that will be very useful later. Since No.1 reviewed another of these Doras recently I won't go over a lot of old territory. Instead I'll just post up a few photos.
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
Fw-190D Eduard 1/48
The model depicts W.Nr. 500666 of 3./1./JG 301. The only photos of this airplane are, sadly, of the wingless fuselage awaiting final destruction. The paint scheme is typical of the 500xxx W.Nr. group and ended up taking eight different colors including the Reichsverteidigung bands. Decals came from the Eduard kit sheet (excellent stencils, I must say!), my spares box, and a Trimaster D-11 that is still in the build-queue.
The only aftermarket parts on this kit were the landing gear legs. I used a set of Scale Aircraft Conversion white metal legs that I reviewed in an earlier edition of LLL Magazine. The kit landing gear is actually quite beautiful and it will go on another Fw-190 project. I also used stretched sprue for the lower mast whip antenna, landing gear indicator pins on the wings, and the radio antenna.
