Subject: Re: FW 190G-8
From: "Steve Bamford ARC" <[email-masked]>
To: "RJ en Ellie Willekens" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 14:17:56 -0800

Hi Robert,
Thanks for sending in your Fw-190 article.  This one looks very nice.  Because you have more than one article to go on ARC......I will be spacing them 8 days apart.  This will give each of your models it's own time in the spotlight.

Steve Bamford
Aircraft Resource Center
http://www.aircraftresourcecenter.com
 
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: RJ en Ellie Willekens 
  To: Steve Bamford ARC 
  Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 9:22 AM
  Subject: FW 190G-8

  Gallery Template #02

  1-48 Revell FW 190G-8

  by Robert-Jan Willekens
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        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 01.jpg here

       

  This Revell Focke-Wulf FW190G-8 is a re-issue of Dragon/TriMaster's model. The box-art depicts an aircraft with red nose-band and rudder, but I was not sure this was correct. An e-mail to noted historian Jerry Crandall proved me correct in my suspicions regarding the colours. Being an aircraft of II./SG10 (second Gruppe of SlachtGeschwader 10) operating out of Totvasony, Hungary, february 1945, this unit was part of Luftflotte 4. As distinguishing markings they had yellow nose-bands and rudders. The yellow 'V' below the port wing was a recognition aid to flak crews to make sure they didn't shoot down their own low-flying planes by mistake! These markings were removed the following month. Jerry Crandall also shed some light on the colours used; RLM 77 light grey over RLM 83 dark green, with RLM 76 light blue-grey lower surfaces and sides. The 77 in particular is interesting; at year's end supplies of paint were getting low, so quite often primer, or in this case RLM 77, was substituted for the more widely used 82 brown-green or 75 dark grey. Interesting is the small black arrow: could this possibly be the aircraft of a Staffel commander? Remember that SG (Slacht Gruppen) did not follow the same markings as did the JG (Jagd Gruppen)

  The underwing stores are typical of this JaBoRei (JagdBomberReichweite or Long-range fighter-bomber) cosisting of two R-3 300 liter droptanks and one 250-kg bomb loaded on the centre ETC-rack. Only modifications to the kit are the True Detail weighted wheels; the rest is straight from the box. 

        Steve Bamford will insert full sized version of photo 02.jpg here

       

  Photos and text © 2003 by Robert-Jan Willekens