Chips Focke Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein**Finished**

[Molly-new]

User Name: Molly-new
First Name: Chip
manufacture: PM
Scale: 1/72
Model Type: Focke Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein

After Market Items: Bits of scrap card and sprue for the cockpit details, other bits as required.

Late starting but I cannot see this taking long:



Whats in the box:



Sprue shot:

[kruaxi]

[Molly-new]

Having taken some inspiration from Kruaxi's mega scratch building session on his Huckebein, I have tarted up the cockpit a bit on mine:



The pilot is from the Revell WWII pilots box, back and side cockpit walls made from an old credit card, and the side consoles from a bit of square(ish) sprue.







This is my first PM kit, I reckon it is quite well detailed and goes together nicely. The plastic is quite soft compared to other makes, and it is taking a bit of getting used to with my over zealous sanding.

[Dirkpitt289]

Don't worry Chip, I haven't started my build yet either. I'm shooting for somethime this week.

[kruaxi]

A good start. Like a lot that pilot.

[Molly-new]

This is going together so quickly I keep forgetting to take piccies.

She is now primed up ready for painting:



In my haste I forgot to add any nose weight, but thankfully the added cockpit detail is keeping it on its wheels.



I am also adding a couple of bombs from the spares box.

[Dirkpitt289]

Very cool

[TimJ]

Looking good.

[Molly-new]

Today I gave her a coat of Revell 47 Mousegrey as a base coat.





Followed by splodges of Revell 67 Greenish Grey.



It is the first time I have tried this type of camo and it seems to have come out OK. I used an airbrush on very low air pressure to do it.

[Dirkpitt289]

It looks good, from where I'm sitting

[Molly-new]

After viewing this in the daylight it was apparent that it was too light, so I attacked it with a cut down Q-tip, and once dry applied the decals:



After a coat of Klear I applied a light wash to the panel lines to finish it off:







I have added another couple of piccies to the Gallery.

Overall this was a fun build that went together reasonably quickly. It did need a bit of additional work to make it presentable in the cockpit, but for less than £3 you can't complain.

[Dirkpitt289]

Nice idea for the camo. Well done Chip

[Molly-new]

Whilst cleaning up the workbench today I came across a pot that contained 4 undercarriage doors !?

Doh. I forgot to put them on this.





Now it is finished.

[kruaxi]

Looks good

[splash]

Well done, it looks great, I like the unusual colour scheme, it suits grey.

I don’t know about you, but when I built mine, the more I worked on the little kit the more I enjoyed it, it really is a bargain at under £3, I thought about doing another in all black as a night fighter.

Regards
Splash