My second AMtech Focke Wulf Ta-183 jet fighter. This time in conjectural German Navy markings. I didn’t go so far as to give it a tail hook and folding wings (though I’ve seen other modelers who have!), so I figure it’s a shore-based variant tasked with maritime attack and patrol, operating out of occupied France’s Atlantic coast sometime in the summer of '46. She’s carrying an SC1000 bomb (pilfered from Tamiya’s Do-335), and has several air-to-air kills marked on the tail. (I wanted to but a bomb-torpedo under her, but I couldn’t find one the right size.)
The seatbelts are from Eduard’s pre-colored Fw-190 set.
The camo is RLM 78 desert sky azure with broad dark stripes of US Navy intermediate blue. Made it up kinda as I was airbrushing it on.
The major markings are from an aftermarket company called Gekko Graphics that apprently uses an Alps printer like mine! The red 14 was culled from my huge stockpile of aftermarket decals.
The unit badge, I made up myself. I don’t know enough about German force structure to make up a unit number (i.e. II/JG300) for a non-existant naval fighter group, but I can do logos in Corel Draw! It’s a raven skimming over the sea, hence the unit name “See Huckebeinen.” (if I got the German plural right)
I added a pitot tube. Otherwise, out of the box.
