This is my favorite variant of the Würger, and Faber's plane in particular is my favorite color scheme. I've got a Thomas Gunn model of this plane sitting on my desk, as well a huge profile print of it on my office wall. AFAIK, this was the only pure fighter version of the 190 that was captured...
Thanks for the plethora of pictures! That is one "unique" bird. I can appreciate its lineage, but as a fan of the Taifun, that looks like a franken-plane! Just my two cents...
Copy that Dave, and I absolutely, 100% respect the photo policy. Hopefully it'll see the light of day at some point. :)
If I make it out that way this summer, could I see the stuff in storage? I'll leave the camera at the hotel...I promise. ;)
I was looking through Volume One of the J. Richard Smith and Eddie J. Creek Fw190 book, and a lot of early Anton's had the inner gear doors closed when on the ground with the gear extended. Maybe when they got later in the series, that was not the case. Interesting thinking behind it...
Sorry I got to picking nits Totalize. I still think it's a wonderfully done job. :)
Looking at more photos, it looks like the inner gear doors close when the gear is extended as well. No wonder they just removed them at some point. LOL!!!
That is an unbelievably nice job! I really the like the weathering, and the detail in the cockpit.
I have a question about the inner gear doors, and this is NOT to criticize, so please don't take it like that. Every picture I've seen of an Fw190 with the bomb rack installed, whether...
I know a few others probably have these, but they're new to me. As an aside, I've had a wonderful time talking back and forth with Claes. He's a genuinely nice human being.