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Offline KiwiZac

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Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stosser in 1/72
« on: November 03, 2019, 10:34:24 AM »
A few months ago a good friend of mine went to Germany with his lady friend, visiting various aviation museums and the like. On his return he double-checked my address and sent me a kit I'd never heard of, of a type I'd never seen much: the Intermodell 1/72 Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stosser in a stapled bag. It's a West German kit (surprisingly with swastikas on the decal sheet) with minimal parts count and no locating pins. Extra fun when it has a top-mounted, strut braced wing!

But it was a fun little build. I used the kit decals but did a little extra work: windscreen from an Airfix Tiger Moth, cockpit step, and cut one of the access doors and scratched a new one. I also had to replace the struts for the horizontal stabilisers as they were both long gone.

Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr

Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr

Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr

Here it is with a B-25 to give an idea of relative size. I imagine it would be quite a fun, sporty machine but from my online research it seems none survived to today. Very disappointing.
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr

Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
Untitled by Zac Yates, on Flickr
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Re: Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stosser in 1/72
« Reply #1 on: November 03, 2019, 01:15:09 PM »
 :smiley:
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Offline Camthalion

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Re: Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stosser in 1/72
« Reply #2 on: November 03, 2019, 02:09:33 PM »
very nice
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Re: Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stosser in 1/72
« Reply #3 on: November 03, 2019, 09:42:06 PM »
Cool! 8)
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Re: Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stosser in 1/72
« Reply #4 on: November 03, 2019, 11:47:58 PM »
Beautiful build of a nice little aircraft.
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Re: Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stosser in 1/72
« Reply #5 on: November 04, 2019, 09:39:53 AM »
It's great to see the Giant Hand of Zac™ again and that's one super Stosser!

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Re: Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stosser in 1/72
« Reply #6 on: November 04, 2019, 10:19:03 AM »
Has perfect scheme between colors and their placement.  Looks more Germanish than pictures I seen online.  :smiley:
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Offline KiwiZac

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Re: Focke-Wulf Fw56 Stosser in 1/72
« Reply #7 on: November 06, 2019, 09:55:45 AM »
Thanks gents! I hope one day someone builds a 1:1 replica as I'd love to see this shape in the sky and hear it.

Quote from: Brian da Basher on November 04, 2019, 09:39:53 AM
It's great to see the Giant Hand of Zac™ again and that's one super Stosser!

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I took those with you in mind, good buddy  8)
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