Tamiya 1/48 Fw190 A3

[jeaton01]

I started on this one, with the intent of having it done before January 1. It's the motorized version and came with a plastic base which is supposed to hide the battery and switch but after starting I thought it would be more fun to run the wires to a German style battery cart, which I thought I had. Nope, only British, but Sprue Brothers is saving me on that score as Tamiya makes a Kettenkraftrad/battery cart set. I thrashed around until I found a picture of a 190 hooked to a start cart so I would know where to bring the wires out, but I needn't have bothered because the Tamiya box art for the set mentioned has the cart hooked to a 190. I am putting the pilot in, and I painted the instrument panel which looked pretty good, but of course it is so far under the glare shield no one will ever see my "fine" work.

[cbaltrin]

Looking good John. Motorized kits are always fun!

[KSaarni]

Interesting John, any pics of the internals, how the electrical engine is (was) attached ?

- Kari

[LyleW]

This should be a fun one! The battery cart is way cooler than some base!

[keavdog]

Fun project!

[Medicman71]

Nice!

[Stikpusher]

Very cool concept for a motorized prop… the battery in a power cart, just like in real life!