caughtinthemiddle
Airman
Hello,
I would like to take part in competition with this build.
I want to make Fw 190 A-6 W.Nr. 550476 'Weiße 11' of Oblt. Georg 'Murr' Schott, Staffelkapitän of 1./JG 1. He was credited with 16, 19 or 20 (the number varies in different sources) victories. On 27 September 1943, he was shot down during aerial combat with Allied bombers over the North Sea. He successfully baled out of his stricken "Weiße 11", landing in the sea. He managed to climb into his dinghy. However, an intensive search for him proved futile and the Schott's remains and his dinghy were washed ashore on a beach of the island of Sylt on 11 October 1943.
W.Nr. 550476 came from 550420-550575 production batch, built between July and August 1943 by AGO Oberschleben. I know 2 photos of this crate, published in Eric Mombeek's 'JG 1 Defenders of the Reich vol.2', you can see their scans attached below. The man on them is Schott's 1st Wart, on the right painting a 16th white bar on the rudder representing a B-17 shot down on 19 August 1943. After studying the pictures and checking the plane was used only few weeks at the time, I decided to not do too much weathering on my model. During painting I'll use a profile made by Tom Tullis, attached below.
The kit is Hasegawa's 1:72 Fw 190 A-6 with some aftermarket accessories: Tally Ho's resin wheel wells, Part's photoetched brass and maybe Squadron's vacu canopy, Airwaves' wheels and Aires' resin control surfaces. I would like to use Quickboost's exhausts but I will need to clear and correct them as they're not casted very well and make capable to use in Hasegawa's kit (they're made for Tamiya's Fw 190 A-3) - then make my own resin castings of corrected ones because I have many more Fw 190s to do
Decals will come from Eagle Strike 72029 sheet.
I would like to take part in competition with this build.
I want to make Fw 190 A-6 W.Nr. 550476 'Weiße 11' of Oblt. Georg 'Murr' Schott, Staffelkapitän of 1./JG 1. He was credited with 16, 19 or 20 (the number varies in different sources) victories. On 27 September 1943, he was shot down during aerial combat with Allied bombers over the North Sea. He successfully baled out of his stricken "Weiße 11", landing in the sea. He managed to climb into his dinghy. However, an intensive search for him proved futile and the Schott's remains and his dinghy were washed ashore on a beach of the island of Sylt on 11 October 1943.
W.Nr. 550476 came from 550420-550575 production batch, built between July and August 1943 by AGO Oberschleben. I know 2 photos of this crate, published in Eric Mombeek's 'JG 1 Defenders of the Reich vol.2', you can see their scans attached below. The man on them is Schott's 1st Wart, on the right painting a 16th white bar on the rudder representing a B-17 shot down on 19 August 1943. After studying the pictures and checking the plane was used only few weeks at the time, I decided to not do too much weathering on my model. During painting I'll use a profile made by Tom Tullis, attached below.
The kit is Hasegawa's 1:72 Fw 190 A-6 with some aftermarket accessories: Tally Ho's resin wheel wells, Part's photoetched brass and maybe Squadron's vacu canopy, Airwaves' wheels and Aires' resin control surfaces. I would like to use Quickboost's exhausts but I will need to clear and correct them as they're not casted very well and make capable to use in Hasegawa's kit (they're made for Tamiya's Fw 190 A-3) - then make my own resin castings of corrected ones because I have many more Fw 190s to do
Decals will come from Eagle Strike 72029 sheet.
to make these parts.
