Alright, snagged a Squadron A canopy off ebay. We’ll see how she fits upon arrival.
Doug - Thanks for the tips. Checked Roll Models but, no go on the PE set. Found another site that offered it but, alas it was discontinued.
Bish - Indeed, I would not have caught that at all had I not just read the section on the F-8 in my “Focke Wulf FW 190 in Action” Squadron book where it mentioned the installation of the blown canopy. This prompted me to take a look at the issue.
I knew there was two different sorts of canopies, i just hadn’t thought to check. I would probably have noticed once i start building. Luckily i have a Squadron canopy i think will fit. They do both the blown and early versions. The early one is 9135 and i think its correct for the MTO version, if you still want to do that one.
If anyone needs, I might have some spare 1/48 Hasegawa FW190 canopies in my collection… I can’t recall if I have a bubble top or not.
We’ll keep our ears open !
So this build doesn’t start until January and there are already six pages and 83 posts? Yeah, I guess there was some interest in this one.
Yeah, gonna be tough to wait it out…We should have some inspirational posts, like pictures of past built butcher birds…anyone?
Stout fella… I hear ya! Im lookinjg over the kit and the rest of the goodies and about to burst. MUST RESIST…
Sweet Rigidrider! What scale is that? Never seen that scheme of red 23 before. Here’s my winter camo bird and some others.
Some sweet 190’s there. I don’t have any built ones on the shelf yet, so really looking forward to changeing that.
Holy Crap! What the hek have I gotten myself into??? Well it looks like I’m running with the “big dogs” now that’s for sure!
Thanks Nathan! I will check out ebay for what I canfind!Do you have any websites to recommend for AF parts?
BTW, I am counting the days til 1/1/13!! Lets get this build going!!
wjt619- What are you looking for specifically? Sometimes Ebay has the best deals, sometimes not. Try Spruebrothers.com, or Squadron.com, which I think is having a sale this weekend. For more rarer pieces, try rollmodels.com
www.hannants.co.uk/…/CMK4048, hannants seems to have four of them.
Say…thats a nice upgrade set! The time one would spend on performing that upgrade would surely be worth the efforts.
Ok everybody. I couldn’t stand it anymore. I’m finished with mine. Here are the pictures…
My son got this last night at Peter Piper pizza with the winnings of video game tickets. I didn’t pay any attention to what he got at first and then he says, “Dad! It’s an Fw 190!” I immediately got the idea to post this thing. Ha ha.
Seem like your son has the jump on the rest of us.
By the way, do we have a GB badge yet.
It seems like he got the jump alright. It was just too tempting. Regarding the GB badge. Check the 7th post of the first page out by Ninetalis. We have our choice it seems.