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Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« on: December 28, 2011, 03:24:32 AM »
Hi folks,

A thread for Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration.

First up some whiffs I threw together quickly - first is original, unmodified (for comparison).  Second is a stretched fuselage (with more fuel) single seat fighter.  Last is a two seat trainer based upon the stretched version.



What else can you suggest.

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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #1 on: December 28, 2011, 03:25:24 AM »
Night fighter version with nose radome based on stretched two seater:



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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #2 on: December 28, 2011, 03:25:44 AM »
How about a ground launched Anti-Shipping (or anti -anything for that matter) Missile variant:



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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #3 on: December 28, 2011, 03:26:17 AM »
Not sure it is accurately scaled, but you get the idea:



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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2014, 04:13:57 AM »
Time to breath some life back into this thread…

First up, a cutaway drawing:


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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2014, 04:15:04 AM »
Next, something Tophe would probably approve of:

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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2014, 04:19:27 AM »
Now some Navalised ones:

First is by John Lester (click on picture for more details)



And then this one from here:



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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #7 on: January 29, 2014, 04:25:49 AM »
Now a pair of colourful ones:

First, another by John Lester (click on picture for more details):



and this one by Michael Morrow (click on picture for more details):

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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #8 on: January 29, 2014, 04:28:42 AM »
And finally, if that isn't enough inspiration, Richard's Decals should be (click on picture for more details):

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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #9 on: January 29, 2014, 06:13:12 AM »
Next, something Tophe would probably approve of:



There's no 'probably' about it!  :)

Mind you, he'll probably do one with only one cockpit.....  ;)
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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #10 on: January 30, 2014, 02:28:02 AM »
The Zwilling might actually be flyable, unlike the RW aircraft.  ::)
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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #11 on: January 30, 2014, 02:39:14 AM »
I've always wondered if there really was a prototype of the Ta.183.  None were ever found and some say no there wasn't, whereas some other aircraft in the 2nd Generation jet competition did have prototypes built so how did the Ta.183 ever get chosen

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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #12 on: January 30, 2014, 02:43:27 AM »
Probably because Tank's name was associated with it, and it was most likely a good thing for him a prototype wasn't built and a flight attempted.
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I love 'ugly' airplanes, but not this craptastic thing. blerg.  :-X
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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #13 on: January 30, 2014, 08:34:00 AM »
Not the best picture, but I showed this photo to Richard Chafer and he drew it up.  I was genuinely flattered.

And, yes, the kit still needs to be finished off.

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Re: Focke Wulf Ta183 Ideas and Inspiration
« Reply #14 on: July 17, 2018, 07:15:55 AM »
A "little" late to the game on this one, but how about a photo-recce version, since there were at least two drawings of it.

http://www.nevingtonwarmuseum.com/uploads/9/1/7/5/9175276/nevington-fw-ta-183-huckbein14_orig.jpg

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