Focke-Wulf TA 183 "Huckebein"

Published: August 22, 2018
Company: Academy Models

Kurt Tank’s design team late in the war was striving to design aircraft to rival rumored Allied jet fighters, like the Gloster Meteor. Unfortunately for the Reich, fuel shortages and the end of the war prevented most of the fighters designed after the Me-262 from ever seeing combat. One of these was the TA 183 “Huckebein”. The Americans captured data and plans for the fighter from the Messerschmitt plants- and these evolved into designs of the swept-wing FJ-2/3/4 Fury and the Air Force version- the F-86 Sabre. The Soviet spoils of design plans led to their MiG-15.

This Academy kit is a reboxing of the AMtech kit #484601 originally released in 2001. This re-release includes photo-etched seat belts, canopy and gear wheel masks, and a set of different hypothetical Luft ’46 decal… more