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This is my FW190 F8, here some
Details:
FW190 F8 kit from Tamiya 1: 48
Decals from the box and Eagle Cal Decals EC#10 "FW190's Doras, F's and
A's"
Colours : Humbrol, X-tra Color, Tamiya, Revell
Washing and Weathering: Artist Oil's, Pastel-Chalk
Scratch built: position lights, brake lines, cable, antenna, MG151 barrels from
steel
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Parts
from Detail set's:
From the CMK Undercarriage set: wheel well, wheels, tail landing gear
introduction, rudder
From the CMK A8/R2 Conversion set: cockpit, propeller
From the CMK Armament set: Ammunition boxes and flaps MG151, tank flap and
filler neck
From the Aires Gun Bay set: Weapon pit and flap, MG 152/20
Reference
literature:
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Klassische Jagdflugzeuge Heel publishing house ISBN
3-89365-847-5
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Deutsche Luftwaffe, David Donald Tosa publishing house ISBN
3-85492-473-9
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Die Deutsche
Luftrüstung, Heinz J. Nowarra Bernhard & Graefe publishing
house ISBN 3-82895315-8
In this version the F8 is equipped with the conversion kit R1 (Ruestsatz
1), that means: 2 MG131 over the engine, 2 MG151/20 in the surface roots, 4 etc.
50 bombs under the surfaces, as well as a radio equipment FuG 16Z-Y, starting
from March 1944 join FuG 16Z-S.
You can
still find this airplane !
Here is the history:
It was produced 1943 as an A7 with the factory serial number 640069 (Gelbe10),
after damage repaired and converted to the F8 with the factory serial number
931884 (Weisse7).
Following
it was used by the 1. SG2 in Hungary , and handed over after end of war to the
allied forces in Juli 1945 in Munich. In Cherbourg/France it was
shipped on the aircraft carrier "HMS Reaper" and finally transported
together with other airplanes over Chicago to Newark and then to Freeman Field,
Indiana.
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Since the end of war no more
technical tests were necessary, so it was stored and 1949 handed over to
the Smithsonian Institute , where it remained in Park Ridge, Illinois.
Later it arrived at Suitland, Maryland, sometime during the 1950s and was placed
in an outdoor storage for 30 years.
From 1980 to 1983 it was restored ,
and now it is located in the National
Air and Space Museum Silver Hill, Washington DC.
More Pictures and Information you will find on my website: www.dargies.de
Frank
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