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| This new decal sheet from Cutting Edge Modelworks includes markings for 3 different Fw-190A's. | ||
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The first aircraft is a Fw-190 A-8 flown by Oberstleutnant Josef "Prips" Priller with Stab/JG 26 in France on June 6 1944. The paint scheme is overall light blue RLM 76 on the fuselage sides and bottom. There is light grey mottling on the side of the fuselage and tail with darker grey on top. On the rear fuselage and a black #13 on the side of the fuselage. The top rear of the fuselage is green RLM 74 as well as the forward top of the engine cowling and the topside area around the canopy. There is also a yellow RLM 04 panel under the engine and the rudder on the tail. Artwork on the side of the fuselage below the canopy is a white playing card with a big red heart with the name Julia. This was the aircraft that was famous for flying over the D-Day beaches in the early hours of the June 6 1944 landings and as far as I know this was the only Luftwaffe plane that got into the air above the beaches on that historic day. The second aircraft is a Fw-190 A-8/R2 flown by Unteroffizier Paul Lixfeldt with 6./JG 300 from Lobnitz, Germany in Nov 1944. The paint scheme is light blue RLM 76 on the underside and sides of the tail. |
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Steve
I would like to thank Cutting Edge Modelworks for providing me with this review sample.
Photos and text © by Steve Bamford