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FW 190 A3 Sharkmouth


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I've been wanting to do an historical skin for some time now (I've been doing the personal skins for JG1 and am currently revising them to be as historically plausible as possible along with JG1_Heinrich... with all of the GB and FC models it must number in the hundreds...).

 

Every time I find a subject to do a historical skin it seems that one of the master skinners here has already done it. Our Kommantant, JG1_Klaiber made me aware of these "Sharkmouth" FW-190s which were originally II./JG26 war weary FW 190A1s used to train II./JG1 pilots to transition from Bf 109s and were located in Abbeville-Drucat in March 1942. There isn't a whole lot of reference material... just a few B&W photos of the cowling area. I based this skin on a really nice scale model. I have the feeling that he has researched as much as possible since this is a really beautiful model. Here's the link to his build thread:

https://forum.largescaleplanes.com/index.php?/topic/30020-pacific-coast-focke-wulf-fw-190a-1/

 

So this is the initial skin. I plan on doing quite a bit more weathering due to their description of being war weary.

 

Also plan on making one with the Hakenkruz as well as one without.

Shark 1.jpg

Shark 2.jpg

 

Sharkmouth eye.jpg

Edited by JG1_Vonrd
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Excellent!!!!

We need more JG1, JG26 and 27 skins!!!

 

This one is gorgeous

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Thank you!

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Very interesting! The style seems quite surprising to me for the Germans WW2 planes.

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wow, that looks awesome - thanks.

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2 hours ago, JG1_Vonrd said:

OK it's done. I'm pretty happy with the results of the weathering / paint chipping.

 

It looks fantastic, Vonrd!  Great job!

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Fantastic job that would fit one of my wip campaign’s mission like a charm!!!

 

Many thanks and congrats for the fantastic job. Weathering and paint chips are awesome

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Thank you all!

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FYI, this skin is now available on Haluter's.

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