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FW190 Construction

My current project is to build a scale plane. Never done it. I've always admired people sticking 18 to 20 months in the building process to get something to appear as close as possible to reality.

The plane I chose is a Focke-Wulf FW190 A variant...

The reasons are quite simple:

	It's a Warbird. Got to build one at some time, don't you?
	It's a rare Warbird. I'm tired of the usual Allied Warbirds I see everywhere. I wanted something unique.
	I don't know, a plane that is called "the butcher bird" has some pull on me.
	Radial based engine (at least on the A/F series. Means I can put a large Gas engine in it and hide it.
	Prototypical flight should be easily obtained with an aircraft with a 90" wingspan and 20-30 lbs weight.
	All Metal finish. Lots of Riveting detail to do.
	Extreme weathering (see documentation pictures)
	Lots of color/paint variants to keep everyone happy.

Let's start scratch-building...

Oh, I should mention. I'm not actually scratch building. More assembling as I am not drawing the plans from scratch, I'm not cutting the parts myself etc.. But it's further away from kit-building as I have no instructions and I do have to figure it out for myself...