The Fw 190 was
one of the best Luftwaffe fighter airplanes of its time. It could be average on
high altitude, but was excellent bellow 6000 m, having been uses both as a fighter and
as a ground attack aircraft.
It was one of the first to prove that the drag
caused by radial engines big frontal area could be overcome by a streamlined
installation.
This is
Airfix new mould Fw190A4/F8, and it is astonishing! it has beautiful details,
nice landing gear wells, and it is easy to build.
Well, kind
of easy… It is not that easy to join the fuselages together. they do fit, but
the tolerance of the fit is very narrow: if you miss 1/10 of a mm, everything
else will be troublesome to fit.
But despite
that, it is pretty, and we have several versions to choose from.
One detail:
when you fit the front engine part, you will see that there will be a bump
between it and the fuselage… I sanded it off, as I thought it was an error from
Airfix…
And I felt pretty dumb when I looked at pictures of the real one and it
had that "bump"… So, leave it, its meant to be…
As a final
remark, do get it, it’s an excellent model, even if one may struggle a
little bit when joining the fuselage…
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