FW Ta183 Huckbein

[beowulf]

Hi, been quite a while since i last posted here........my model making went off on a tangent away from whiffs, and life has been causing a few problems the last 18 months (covid has been a minor side show! ) but ive just took part in a GB somewhere that allowed whiffs so i thought why not......and then remembered here and thought i would show

Focke Wulf TA183 Huckbein, PM Models, 1/72 scale

Kit is obviously very basic being a PM kit, didn't want to do the usual European camo scheme......if you are doing a whiff, you may as well make it really different, so thought I'd do a North African scheme, decals with the kit were poor so ended up a selection  from the spares box

Had to come up with an Alternative Time Line back story to go along with this, so...........

Note: 1/JG27 really did operate in North Africa against the British until very late 1942 when it was withdrawn from the theatre after claiming 588 kills.....JG27 as a whole scored over 1,100 downed aircraft during the period

What if Germany and Russia had honoured its various political and economic pacts and were not aggressive towards each other, this would have freed up a massive amount of troops and materiel for other things..............such as going south into North Africa

Operation Barbarossa had several key objectives............oil reserves in the Caucasus, 'living room' to allow the German people to grow and the enslavement/elimination of the Slavic/Russo population. But similar could have been achieved by going into Africa...........plenty of oil in North Africa/Middle East.......would still be ample slave labour potential

Only downside would be the British presence that was already there but since they would have the massive troop/tanks/aircraft/supplies advantage it would have probably gone the other way than it really did

What if Japan had not launched Pearl Harbour attack? Instead heading west through Indo sub-continent looking for a link up with the German/Italian.........British forces would have been squeezed between two front..................no Pearl Harbour would mean USA might not have got involved.....don't forget up til then America was keen to stay out of what was considered an 'European war'......but they were still happy to sell us stuff!

So that's where we are......1946.......Axis Forces occupy portions of Algeria/Libya/Tunisia/Egypt/Palestine/Arabian Peninsula giving the control of the strategic Suez Canal but not control of the Red Sea as the Empire would still control Ethiopia/Somalia/Kenya and therefore the Horn of Africa

So here we have a FW Ta 183 for 1 Gruppe Jadgeswader 27 flown by UnterOffizer Klein based at Cairo operating against the Empires Desert Air Force in the south. The Huckbein would prove to be valuable aircraft.............outclassed by the Me262 in both range and performance it was used greatly as a point defence aircraft being cheap and quick to build, in combat it proved equal to the Spitfires and P51s flown by the Empire and more than capable in tackling the bombers





and one for scale

[Tophe]

  Your model is well done, but sorry I don't feel allowed in my country to clap my hands for a model wearing swastika

[JayBee]

Absolutely lovely in that scheme.
Having built that kit in the past, you have done a great job. 

[su27rules]

 

[Stan in YUL]

Nice clean paint job!

[Tophe]

To go even further in the whif world, I have added new Ta-183Z versions in my CGI topic https://www.whatifmodellers.com/index.php?topic=20326.5625
Thanks for the inspiration!

[comrade harps]

Neat and intriguing backstory, too 

[zenrat]

I shudder to imagine a GB that didn't allow whiffs.  Do they require one to show ones reference material?  Imagine the arguments.   

Good model.  Nice story.

[NARSES2]

Looks really neat in that scheme 

[frank2056]

That came out great! The PM TA 183 was basic, but it's a good kit.

Some RC builders have made large scale flying TA183 models and many have discovered that they had to add wing fences (like the MiG 15 and the Pulqui II) to improve the flying characteristics.

[Tophe]

Some RC builders have made large scale flying TA183 models and many have discovered that they had to add wing fences (like the MiG 15 and the Pulqui II) to improve the flying characteristics.

Somehow, my 3-jet Ta-183Z-2 to Z-6 would cure the airflow problem at mid-wing

[frank2056]

Having a full fuselage mid-wing should do it!