Here it is, the finished large scale Hasegawa Focke-Wulf Fw 190D-9.
The model was built O.O.B. except for changing the gun cowl to the late three piece with the round bulge in the low position and the early style flat canopy was modified to the late war version without the pully system.
Paints used were Model Master enamels and they were sprayed on with my trusty Iwata Revolution BR.
This Fw 190D-9 was put in the markings of I./EKG(j) which was a training unit similar to the KG(j) units, the JaPo Fw 190 D-9 camo and markings books says the ''E'' in EKG stands for 'Erganzung' meaning replenishment or supplement and its use of Ar 96 and Bu 181 aircraft along with various Focke-Wulf fighters would suggest that even students with little experience with aircraft were quickly being trained.
The KG(j) units were formed from Luftwaffe aircrew from disbanded bomber units to teach them how to fly fighters, EKG(j) remains a mystery as to why it had been formed since the KG(j) units already were in existence.
I used EagleCals for marking this model, sadly it was one of the decal sheets that was printed before the discovery of the small black 17 in a circle on the sides of ''red 18'' so the black seventeen was not included on the decal sheet, I scrounged the marking from my decal spares box.
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The model was built O.O.B. except for changing the gun cowl to the late three piece with the round bulge in the low position and the early style flat canopy was modified to the late war version without the pully system.
Paints used were Model Master enamels and they were sprayed on with my trusty Iwata Revolution BR.
This Fw 190D-9 was put in the markings of I./EKG(j) which was a training unit similar to the KG(j) units, the JaPo Fw 190 D-9 camo and markings books says the ''E'' in EKG stands for 'Erganzung' meaning replenishment or supplement and its use of Ar 96 and Bu 181 aircraft along with various Focke-Wulf fighters would suggest that even students with little experience with aircraft were quickly being trained.
The KG(j) units were formed from Luftwaffe aircrew from disbanded bomber units to teach them how to fly fighters, EKG(j) remains a mystery as to why it had been formed since the KG(j) units already were in existence.
I used EagleCals for marking this model, sadly it was one of the decal sheets that was printed before the discovery of the small black 17 in a circle on the sides of ''red 18'' so the black seventeen was not included on the decal sheet, I scrounged the marking from my decal spares box.
Matrixone
