FW 190 Werk Nummer

[Red Baroness]

Hello, Happy new year to all -

I have a question. Peter is working on a RC Fockewulf and is looking for the right pilot it belonged to.

The werk nummer that Kyosho is putting out on the tail of this plane is 960231.

I have added a picture to help with the ID - who did this one belong to? Or was it no-one, so he can just make into Pips Priller's plane?

Many thanks in advance.

[Steven190]

I could not find this plane in my references.

The paint scheme is a FW190A-3 WN 2181
8./JG2 Fall 1942 Theville France

[RT]

Your drawing is wrong it seems some cross is missing on the tail

Remi

[Red Baroness]

Originally Posted by RT

Your drawing is wrong it seems some cross is missing on the tail

Remi

Tell that to the Kyosho company, Remi. I did not create this aircraft. It is a nitro-fuel powered, radio-controlled aircraft at 1/8 scale. My husband, Peter, builds and flies these aircraft (he already has Berthold's 1/5 scale Fokker DVII in the hangar in the house) so he wanted me to see if the WkN that the company put on the tail was just a random BS number.

Thank you, Steve190 for confirming that for us - I looked it up where I could after a short google search, and I could not find anything either.

So it looks like Peter has some modification to do, which is fine - he has already planned some mods for this a/c.

I believe we will be doing Pips Priller's plane, since I have a color picture of him and it's always my job to paint the pilot figurine.

[DDT]

Hello Cori,

The least you can say is that the Kyosho company realy mixed things up!
As already written by 'steven190', its a 190A-3 belonging to JG 2 'Richthofen'. Priller flew with JG 26 'Schlageter'. Priller used a couple of 190 coded black 13, but these where A-6, A-8 variants of the 190. And the style of the black 13 was a sligthly different. The given s/n tells us that's indeed a 190A-8, build by Norddeutsche Dornier in Wismar between october & november 1944. I have some b/w photos of Priller's Fw (from a book) and some color side profiles. So if you are interested send me a pm.
Greetz,

Dirk

[Red Baroness]

Gott did they ever, Dirk!

I don't know what Peter wants to do with the a/C now - perhaps an entirely different paintjob - but that takes time and ultrakote.

It's only up to me to paint the pilot - I would have liked to have done Oesau (heh) but Priller will do as well - again, it's all up to Peter.

I will definitely send you a PM if I need any more help with profiles, thank you very much, and thank you to everyone else who helped me with this small problem!