I completed this kit about two months ago and am finally getting around to posting. This is the VERY SWEET Eduard Fw190A8 in all of it's p/e-laden, accurate as can be, glory. I really enjoyed building this kit. There are fit issues, no doubt. However, I found that as long as I took my time and showed this kit the respect it deserved, everything worked itself out. One mark against the kit is that if you want to close it up the way I did, you have to do some extra work to get everything to button down properly, especially in the cowl and nose gun panel area.
I used the kit decals which represent black 9 of JG 301 in May of '45. (Some folks think that this should, in fact, be red 9. I don't know enough about the plane to want to hunt down two acceptable red "9's," and I preferred the black numbers anyhow.) THis a/c interested me because it has a replacement rudder (i dig replacement panels/parts on wartime a/c), and a blown canopy, which is rare on A-8's. THis too could be a replacement. Other sources think that the entire cowling my be a replacement parts as well since it isn't mottled.
I drilled out the barrels and exhausts and painted the RDB on the fuse (I hate decaling these.) What do you folks honestly think about the aerial wire. I wanted something that looked metalic and sort of kinked like steel wire. I used invisible mending thread that I "curled" with tweezers the way you would ribbon with a pair of scissors. I'm not sure if I like the results.
All comments and criticisms welcome, and thanks for looking.
