Ta 183/what-if Dora build thread

[dumaniac]

looks super - I wish I had your skills

[matrixone]

Thank you dumaniac!

Matrixone

[Ian the Kiwi Herder]

Really inspires me to dig-out my 183 sometime soon. Great work as ever, Les.

Ian

[matrixone]

Thanks Ian!

If you have not built this kit before you will not like the main wheels provided, they are oversized and look nothing like wheels used by any Focke-Wulf aircraft. An easy fix to this problem is to use resin Fw 190 or Ta 152 aftermarket wheels. I used wheels from a Tamiya Fw 190 kit on mine and it worked like a charm.
This kit builds very quickly and is near perfect in how well the parts fit.

Matrixone

[dumaniac]

I have built one of these Ta 183 and enjoyed it.  I got one more to do - next time I am going to cut out the engine you can see in the undercart housing and stick in a jumo 004 from a 262 kit - just to provide more detail

cheers

Bernie

[matrixone]

Bernie,
The Amtech Ta 183 is a perfect kit to add extra detailing to it. My next one will have the landing gear legs shortened a bit more than I did on this build, all Focke-Wulf drawings I have seen of this design show it to have a nose high stance while parked on the ground.

A few years ago I built one of these kits and the wings fit so good to the fuselage I never bothered to glue them in. I can't recall any other kits that I had built that did not need glue to attach the wings, why can't more kits be like this?

Matrixone