This is Jeremiah McMillin's Focke Wulf 190A-4 that he built at 10 to 11 years old in the early 90's and competed in the Nats in Chicopee, Mass and Lawrenceville, Ill winning Junior National Champ honors.
The model started as a 25 Inch Guillows rubber powered kit, re-engineered for a Fuji .09 RC and a JRoberts bellcrank and a beefier landing gear mounting, it was fixed gear and fairly simple.
He used the cowling, cowl gun troughs and canopy from the kit's vacuform parts and cardboard for the wing intersection, the entire model was sheeted with 1/32nd balsa and tail surfaces were built up to scale thickness and the rudder and elevator are open bay covered with silkspan.
The model was then built up with silkspan and dope. He painted it with a combination of paints with airbrush to get the proper colors for Pips Priller's "Black 1" with the black bird's head on the forward fuselage.
For weight sake the surface details were paint and ink lines. The whole airplane was cleared in dope and polished out to the point of it being near glossy trying to get a scale sheen for a polished airframe as per the custom during the early 1941 to 42 era where the airplanes in these groups were polished to extract most performance plus the fact particular pilots were German aristocracy and wanted a good looking airplane. Priller was photographed extensively with his BMW, fine guns and his FW-190.
I recently took the model off of the hangar wall from where it had been for near 20 years and cleaned it up a little for some photos. Hope you like them, a nice little model that used the old fashioned systems to win the Nats, and Jeremiah was 10th out of 24 in Sport Scale where all other contestants were Open in '93. I am told the new versions of these kits are laser cut which should make them a pleasure to build.
Chris...