1/72 Hasegawa Fw-190A-8

Gallery Article by Nick Kiriokos

 

Hasegawa's 1/72 FW190A-8 was completed with TD's resin cockpit and a few left-over PE parts from a failed DML TA-152C-0. The TD set doesn't give you the rear canopy decking which is sad because its visible even with the canopy closed. But the rest of the set is great. 

 

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I used the Eagle Cal sheet 72-009 for the markings for 9/JG5 based at Hedla, Norway in the spring of 1945. Reich Defense Bands are painted, and weathering is thinned enamels and pastels over a lacquer based gloss. 

The Butcher Bird has long been one of my favorite subjects, and I have a second A-8 and an A-5 waiting in the wings.

Nick Kiriokos

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Photos and text © by Nick Kiriokos