And there-in lay another of my 'rules', for the 'Long Nose Focke-Wulf' project at least; I'm trying to steer clear of the V-series/prototypes. I don't even want to think about how many 'prototype' variants there are with different engines, cowls, gun-fits, etc, that are related to the Fw 190D and Ta 152 series... You'd probably argue the Fw 190F-14 (the BMW-engined Fw 190, with the Ta 152 series tail, photographed on scrap heaps at the end of the war) should then also be included, because it used the 8.152 tail! Hahhaha. Thus, operational types come first - and yes, I am stretching it with the Ta 152E-1 (or H-11), but they were photographed seemingly complete, awaiting 'pick up' at the end of the war... If records are to be beleived, both the E-1/H-11 (I prefer to call it E-1 in my head to differentiate it from the H-series; H-11 always looks like a typo of H-1 to me!) and C-1 a/c were completed in March 1945, as well as 'hybrid' E-1/C-1 aircraft, after MMW-Erfurt were ordered to use the their E-1 fuselages for C-1 a/c. What confuses me tho, is the designation change to H-10/H-11, to me this suggests the use of the H-series wing, where as the E-0/E-1 would have used the C-series wing??? Have to do more quiet reading when the time is near!
And yes, again, I have gotten side-tracked! hahahaha
Oh, but before I stop chattering on about the C-1, I want to breifly make mention of the presumptive Werk Nummern assigned to the two 'on strength' C-1/R-31's.
i) Where in fact did the 'R-31' standard come from? all three designated manufacturers, ATG (Leipzig), Siebel (Halle) and MMW (Erfurt), were to build the C-1/R-11? Was the R-31 a 'field upgrade'?
ii) EE suggests the Werk Nummern 600001 and 600002, suggesting the a/c came from MMW; block assignments (as I understand) were ATG (Leipzig) - 920xxx, Siebel (Halle) - 360xxx and MMW (Erfurt) - 600xxx.
a) Remembering this, photo's of virtually COMPLETED (yet undelivered) E's from MMW exist, suggesting that the switch to the C-1 occured after E-series production had commenced - but NO E-series a/c appear to have been delivered!
b) I've not seen images of ANY C-1's from MMW-Erfurt; Erfurt seemed to be focused on the Jumo 213E based a/c - but on the other hand, I have seen an image of three seemingly complete C-1's from Siebel-Halle that were destroyed before being captured.
SO, could this actually suggest the Stab./JG 301 Ta 152C-1/R-31's, were in fact C-1/R-11's from Siebel, and thus sported werk nummern in the 360xx range (such as 360001 and 360002)? And what were the directives for Ta 152 Werk Nummern anyway? H-0's seem to have had the leading two digits deleted, such that 150002 sported 0002 and 150007 sported 0007, while H-1's had the full werk nummer, such as 150169.
OK, OK, OK, I'm derailing my own thread!!!
Back to work here!
Dan
Addendum 1 - ah but then there's that Fw 190D-15 that I wanted to make, using a Dragon D-12 and the spare parts from a HobbyBoss Ta 152C-1... That fits into neither the Prototype/V-series thing or the production thing!
Addendum 2 - was about to join the radiator cowl/engine to the fuselage (after adding a bunch of lower engine pipes and detail, before a few washes and stuff), when I remembered I had to extend the fuselage about 0.3mm-0.4mm, to replace what had been lost in my earlier attempts at building the radiator dump ramp. Was really keen to get these joined, but that will have to wait a few hours...