Q: An Fw190 A-3 in a late war scheme of rlm82/83?

[juanandresmi]

Hi everybody! i´m a venezuelan-spanish modeller finishing a tamiya Fw190 A-3. i want to finish it in this very interesting and weird camuflage scheme included in Cutting edge´s Reich defenders Part2 decals sheet.The people at cutting edge state that this cold be an eastern front airplane and maybe receive the jg 53/54 experimental schemes using russian paint stocks or could be an reich defender aircraft at late war in RLM 82/83 colors over the most common 74-75-76 RLM scheme...
I tried hard but can´t found jet any photo of this especific aircraft. here some questions please: Is it possible an operative A-3 by late 1944? Is viable an 82/83 camuflage scheme on this specific aircraft? Thanks a lot for your attention and i apologise for my english!

[Flitzer]

I can't remember seeing a photo of this particular aircraft anywhere, and with out that I'd be careful of the color side view and it's colors. This old A-3, late war, looks like a standard aircraft that survived to become a trainer, very common. The A-3 would probably have been delivered in a 71/02/65 scheme and in it's remaining years toward the end of the war would have been touched up with anything around including 82, 83. As an added comment, I can't think of a 190 being delivered or having a spinner in anything other than black or 70 tho one my find a odd one with a spinner pained white with a black curl. My opinion only with out looking anything up. I'd never do a model with out some photo back up.

[Pilot]

Try to find source image. I know one photo of the early Fw190A in the last days of Reich.

[George Hopp]

Yes, I remember seeing a 190 A-3 in late war colours in a postwar boneyard of 109s and 190s. But, the problem is to remember where I saw it. I will look.
All the best,
George

[S Sheflin]

George,

Are you referring to the Bad Aibling collection. There was an often photographed Fw 190 A-3, "8+ White," WNr. 2168, standing on its nose, that appears to be finished in a freshly applied scheme of 74/75/76.

Steve Sheflin

[Don Pearson]

There is a photo of wnr 2168 on pg. 26 of "Camouflage & Markings of the Luftwaffe Aircraft vol. 1 Day Fighters" from Model Art.

Don

[Modeldad]

Picture 8+
http://forum.12oclockhigh.net/attach...1&d=1251576480

[George Hopp]

Hey, you guys all beat me to it, but thanks because it would have taken me a while! And, yes, that is the A-3 I was thinking of. Thanks for the scan, Modeldad.

The photo you mentioned, Steve. Does it show the nose of the a/c? That would help juanandresmi with his camouflage. To my poor old eyes, the colours appear to be 75 on top and 76 below that. But, I have been wrong before, especially as the a/c has only the outlined national markings which only came in during the last months of the war, about the same time as the 80s series of colours.

The brightness of the white numbers on the two A-8/9s is certainly impressive.

[Von Alles]

Hi,
any idea about the unit of these planes ?
Some said EJG 1...

Von Alles

[RT]

EJG1 hv gen. newer planes that A-3s, but an A-3 Wn 2161 was ferried to ostheim from the I.EJ1 on 2..dec. 1944..

remi