Focke-Wulf FW-200 ''Condor'' ModelCard 032

[kav]

Hi, everybody!
I have started to build this model four months ago.
The scaning pages reduced to A4 size. As a result the scale is approximately 1:50 instead of 1:33.
On this site
Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket (http://s731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/?albumview=slideshow)
You may watch a slideshow of assembly process, step by step.

[nothing]

very nice build. this is one of my favorite planes.

[kav]

Thanks! I also like big planes : bombers, civil airliners..

[Zathros]

Makes you wonder why they didn't build a lot more of these. Model looks geat!!

[kav]

Thanks, Zathros:)
Last weekend I have continued to build my FW-200:
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2865-1.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2871-1.jpg
(http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2865-1.jpg)

[kav]

[QUOTE=kav;64616]Thanks, Zathros:)
Last weekend I have continued to build my FW-200:
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2865-1.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2871-1.jpg (http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2865-1.jpg)
Main chassis templates:
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2861-1.jpg

[scon10]

Nice work, I like the way you have accurately positioned the landing gear struts in a straight and true way. When I try to solder such components, they always move a bit and come out crooked.
By the way, is there anybody who understands the geometry of the retracting mechanism of these gears? What strut moves around what and how is it retracted into the engine nacelle? Any enlightment would be greatly appreciated.
greetings

[kav]

To scon10: You are absolutely right - the retracting mechanism is very complicated. I have found only these two pictures:
http://base13.glasnet.ru/wol/fw/200-4.gif
http://base13.glasnet.ru/wol/fw/200-5.gif

[kav]

I have almost finished Fw-200 model building. You may watching some pictures of the process:
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2873.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2880.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2881.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2888.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2897.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2907.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2910.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2913.jpg
http://i731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Focke-Wulf%20FW-200%20paper%20model/IMG_2916.jpg

[Foxbat]

Hi kav
Very nice plane! :D
Are you going to build the same from Modelik?

P.S. I saw one more civil plane hanged up to the ceiling. Is that IL-62?

[bob neill]

hope these pictures help. the other book did not want to enter scanner.

bob neill

[Barry]

A top rate model thanks for sharing

[bob neill]

Found a few more photo's, this time from William Green's book

[kav]

To Foxbat: Thank You! Yes, it's Iljushin 62 LOT Airlines[/URL] up in the backstage. I have build this plane from scan of Maly Modelarz magazine N1, 1979. You may watch a slideshow of mounting process
[url]http://s731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Iljushin%2062%20LOT/?albumview=slideshow (http://s731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Iljushin%2062%20LOT/)
You may see Il-62 in my Gallery also:
Il-62 LOT Maly Modelarz 01-1979 paper model_2 - Paper Modelers Gallery (http://www.papermodelers.com/gallery/showphoto.php?photo=3234&ppuser=4668)
About Modelik: You mean Condor card model from Modelik #27, 2007 ? I have compared parts - they are the same in the shape. May be colors of Modelik's parts are much more better. May be, in the future, I'll change Modelik's design and build the early civil version of Fw-200...

[Foxbat]

To kav
AMAZING!!! Great planes, mate. Yes, civil version of FW-200 is a great choise. Will be very unusial model :)
And sorry for the off-topic: is that Su-25 from GPM, the old ussue? How about fitting? Is there any major bugs in it?

Thank you
Sergey

[kav]

To scon10:
I have several books about Fw-200, but pictures of main landing gear are not so detailed. They looks like this one:
Drawings pictures by kav_1961 - Photobucket (http://s731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Drawings/)

[birder]

Wow great project and nice photo documentation!! Did you build the nose section twice (I probably missed something there) I believe the Condor was as advanced a plane as any when developed, and still wonder at the relatively low production numbers....also, had seen only the commercial version pics that are well-known. Thanks for showing this fine bird!!

[scon10]

Thanks for the pictures, although it is still unclear how the gear operates.
But the model is beautiful!
Regards.

[kwc]

If you're still looking for pictures of the landing gear, I did some googling out of curiosity and found this page (http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/fw200landinggearab_1.htm) with some pretty good pictures.

Nice work on the model, kav!

[kav]

To birder: I have build the nose section twice, becouse for the first time the cockpit's transparent parts were looking not so good after gluing.
To imprefermuffins: Thanks for the link! Very good pictures of the landing gear!
To Foxbat: Yes, it's GPM #057. I had some fitting problems with nose and cockpit only. You may see the Su-25 assembly process in this slide show:
Image hosting, free photo sharing & video sharing at Photobucket (http://s731.photobucket.com/albums/ww311/kav_1961/Paper%20model%20Su-25/?albumview=slideshow)

[Foxbat]

:) Thanks for the tips about the Frogfoot, kav!! It will be usefull photos, I haven't seen anywhere its building report till now.

Sergey

[scon10]

Thanks for the good pic of the u/g. I now understand how the mechanism operates for retraction and how the landing shock is absorbed. It is effective, but heavy and so inefficient.
Thanks.

[aalina]

The Fw 200 was built to a luft hasna specification with Wilhelm Bansemir as project director. It first flew in July 1937 after just under one year of development with [/URL]kurt tank at the controls. The aircraft was a simple development of an earlier commercial airliner. It was an all-metal, four-engined (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Tank)monoplane capable of carrying 25 passengers up to 3,000 km

To adapt it for wartime service, hardpointswere added to the wings for bombs, the fuselage was strengthened and extended to create more space, and front, aft and dorsal gun positions were added, in addition to an extended-length version of the usual Bola ventral gondola of World War II German bomber aircraft, which for the Fw 200's militarization incorporated a bomb day as well as heavily glazed forward and aft ventral flexible defensive (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hardpoint)[U]machine gun emplacements at its ends.