The Guillow's Focke-Wulf FW-190 is a great flying and fast building balsa kit

The Focke-Wulf FW-190 is a german single-seat, single-engine fighter aircraft designed in the late 1930s and widely used during WW2 as a day fighter, fighter-bomber, ground-attack aircraft and a night fighter. It started flying operationally over France in August 1941 and quickly proved superior in all but turn radius to the Royal Air Force’s main front line fighter, the Spitfire MK. V. The FW-190 was well-liked by its pilots. Some of the Luftwaffe’s most successful fighter aces claimed a great many of their kills while flying the FW-190.

The kit features the “Laser Cut precision balsa wood parts” for quick builds and is well suited for rubber powered flights.

This kit contains material for building one flying model. Contents include:

  • accurate scale building plan

  • precision laser cut balsa parts

  • light vacuum formed plastic for nose cowl, canopy and small external details, genuine decal set

  • scale plastic main wheels

  • rubber motor band

  • plastic propeller

  • plastic thrust bearing

  • wire propeller shaft

  • covering tissue

  • generous quantity of strip stock balsa

Tools and accessories required & recommended (not included in kit):

  • adhesives (model airplane cement, white glue, or CA super glue) for model frame construction and white glue for tissue covering, clear acrylic spray for a protective finish

  • Model building tools and accessories such as work board, common pins, sandpaper, X-Acto knife, paint.

Mark Stevens