Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein

[DAVE "THE DUKE" ARMSTRONG]

Some of you may know, I also build 1/72 military aircraft. In fact, extensive as my stash of vintage car kits is, I actually have far more aircraft.

I generally use mostly rattle cans to paint my cars (more area to cover) but I use my airbrushes for the aircraft, all the camouflage.

Rick had always wanted me to post some of my planes, but I just didn't- for one reason, most of them are old builds, and the pics I have were taken long ago, before I had a digital camera, and before I was posting things on the websites, and before I knew much about lighting and HOW to set up/take pics. They were really just for me. Lastly, we all know about the troubles of cleaning/dusting models. If there are wires on an aircraft, I generally leave them off, because here in the desert, they're just magic dust collectors, a headache I DON'T need. So, if you'll bear with me, I'll start posting a few old and not great pics.


This is the Focke-Wulf Ta 183 Huckebein, a WWII German jet aircraft that was going to be the next produced after the Me 262; it was going through wind tunnel and other tests when the war ended, so never made it into production. I LOVE experimentals!


The pics aren't great, but if you look closely you can see the camouflage change between the dark green and grey.

[BRITBOY]

I love experimental vehicles, aircraft, whatever so that gets a thumbs up from me!

[BADSEED]

Thumbs up from here, that looks super and the paint is awesome! I really don’t know what 1/72 scale would be , how big or small is that compared to a 1/25 scale car ?

[DAVE "THE DUKE" ARMSTRONG]

Jan 7, 2022 14:21:20 GMT -4 BADSEED said:

Thumbs up from here, that looks super and the paint is awesome! I really don’t know what 1/72 scale would be , how big or small is that compared to a 1/25 scale car ?

This plane is about as big as the 1/25 Tweedie Pie, with the wingspan longer than it's length. Obviously it's a small plane to begin with, other planes in the same scale could be considerably larger. A more modern fighter would be twice as big.

When I first started building aircraft, I chose 1/72 scale for two major reasons; obviously, the somewhat smaller scale means less detail, but the plus side is you can display more of them, take up less room, and the BIG reason is that 1/72 is far and away King Of The Hill when it comes to subject availability- you can get just about anything you want in that scale, far more than when you move up in scale- sorta like going from 1/24-1/25 scale cars to 1/8, 1/12, 1/16 cars- far less available subjects. 1/48 scale planes would be the next best thing, but you still lose a lot of subjects.

[Sammy the ace]

looks good dave and the camouflage looks great