I thought it would be a place of difference in this blog we do here at osprey to show kits you may consider buying built with a step-by-step blog of the troubles and triumphs I encounter along the way. We have made a start on this with the Zundapp motorbike and the MiniArt Riverbank sections, I thought I would kit a few aircraft next. We want to bring you the skinny on kits you may be thinking about purchasing but not sure? Let us do the hard yards and find the humps and bumps for you. Along with looking at the kit unassembled I will review it built as well to give you a better idea of what your money is getting. Rules are I build from the box and only add what I can add from scratch materials. So strap yourself in while I bring you the 1/32 Pacific Coast models Focke Wulf Fw 190a 0/1/2/3 kit.
Kit no: PCM 32011
Subject: Focke Wulf Fw 19A0/1/2/3
Scale: 1/32nd
Kit Type: Sprues: 4 grey + 1 clear Styrene + Grey Resin parts + Photo Etch multimedia kit
Decal choices: 8!!! 5 aircraft spanning the A1 + A-2 and A3
This kit is an interesting proposition, for it is unique in that these early stub nosed FW 190’s have not been kitted in this scale before. The Hasegawa kit that this one mirrors has not been changed to incorporate these earlier A1, A2& and A3 marks, although it would be a very easy to achieve. Simply why this hasn’t been done is anyone’s guess but Hasegawa seem never to be rushed! The other option for an early ‘190 is the Montex kit which is a resin in-fill to be used on the Hasegawa Fw 190A5 kit (which is now out of production). Montex asks for you to cut down the fuselage to add the shorter nose of the earlier engine. Although it is a good kit (complete with masks) I liked the look of this PCM kit – which enables you to do the tree earliest butcher birds without any major surgery. Also a plus is that the kit has several resin enhancements that add value, together with some imported additions which I will mention later.
The version I will be making