Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: KiwiZac on November 03, 2019, 10:34:24 AM
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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.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48983107886_a9364d7f64_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hCteqS)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hCteqS) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48771509281_cf36df3d28_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hiLJx4)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hiLJx4) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48771173978_2968d80319_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hiK1RY)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hiK1RY) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48772103682_5e98e29787_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hiPMem)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hiPMem) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49003378393_0ee0efeb52_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hEg89n)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hEg89n) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49004129202_01bc83b936_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hEjYkm)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hEjYkm) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), 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.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49004127582_bf69289d60_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hEjXRq)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hEjXRq) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48998679546_d77f431243_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hDR3kL)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hDR3kL) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48998679571_90f4804eaa_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hDR3mc)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hDR3mc) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/48998140133_0b7990d697_c.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2hDNgZx)Untitled (https://flic.kr/p/2hDNgZx) by Zac Yates (https://www.flickr.com/photos/83399146@N05/), on Flickr
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:smiley:
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very nice
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Cool! 8)
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Beautiful build of a nice little aircraft.
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It's great to see the Giant Hand of Zac™ again and that's one super Stosser!
Brian da Basher
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Has perfect scheme between colors and their placement. Looks more Germanish than pictures I seen online. :smiley:
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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.
It's great to see the Giant Hand of Zac™ again and that's one super Stosser!
Brian da Basher
I took those with you in mind, good buddy 8)