WIP Flying Heritage Collection's Focke-Wulf A5

Huub, I thought you might like to see this photo which I lifted today from the WIX forums. All credits go to WIX member Chad Veich. Mr. Veich has stated that now viewing the colors in person, with the paint actually now fully dried, the colors are much more subdued than the original FHC photos indicate. As of right now, the aircraft is still in the Arizona sunlight.

Again, excellent job on the repaint, and I can't thank you enough for doing it Huub - I have been enjoying flying it around Paine Field very much! I look forward to any and all you have yet to come!
 
took my first flight with it today, and it looks wonderful, Huub, excellent job. was so happy I forgot to take screenshots, very uncharacteristic...
 
A couple technical notes:
For JG2 the field applied eagle is brought up to the bottom edge of the gun hood and is painted over the fuel marking.
The fuel marking had a standard specs for all Luftwaffe aircraft of what appears to be 80 mm wide on the Fw 190.

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Another completed Flugwerk FW 190 in the U.S., currently under the spray-gun, ahead of its first flights:

http://s960.photobucket.com/albums/ae90/wcn/

Although this aircraft is a Flugwerk machine, nearly everyting internally has been rigged/recreated to match the original Focke-Wulf 190's apart from the engine setup. This aircraft is owned by Dan Kirkland and is registered as Flugwerk FW 190A-5 WNr.1134 N190DK, having been built/worked on by Gosshawk Unlimited, the same company responsible for the restoration of FHC's original Fw 190D-13, and finishing the restoration of their original Fw 190A-5, the subject of this thread.
 
John, thanks for the picture. On the positive side; I think I'm not far from the actual colours. On the negative side; I see some points where my scheme isn't like the real thing. However as nobody noticed so far, I don't think I will do an update.

Rick, thanks for the information. But my repaint isn't a JG2 machine but the Flugwerk FW190A-8N replica, which was ditched before the French coast last year. The eagle painted on this aircraft was quite different from the real JG2 Eagle (this painter had a lot of fantasy!)
The fuel stencils on the model come from a separate generic texture which I haven't modified yet. But it will be gone in the final version.

Today I had an early rise and flew some Mustangs for a while.... I also did some painting, but not that much progress to report today. I have the alignment of the eagle finally right and I'm working on the weathering as the real F-AZZJ was always quite dirty!
I'm doing this repaint the wrong way round as I have to do the camouflage scheme (I'm currently using the generic scheme from the paint kit) and I still have to do all markings.

Cheers,
Huub

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and the real thing in better times..... (picture by Ferry van Orden)

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Smashing Time said:
That's Horst Hannig's machine.
http://www.airfighters.com/photo/52624/M/Private-Private/Flug-Werk-FW-190A-8-N/F-AZZJ/


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That's what it should depict. But there are a few differences between the real thing and the replica. I will try to make it as close to the replica as possible. (There is no Flugwerk FW190A-8N in the package ;) To have the bump in the nose I have used the A8 version, Hannig flew the A4 version. )

It seems Dan Kirkland's Flugwerk will have a nice scheme as well, hopefully they will work not too fast otherwise there will be more Flugwerks for me to repaint than I can handle :d

Cheers,
Huub

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