This has taken a lot of time, effort and nerves. It's not perfect, but that's always been difficult for me. There are still four transparent details here.
Here’s the result of the following process: Step one — awful grey primer that had almost turned into jelly before I tried to revive it. Step two — black primer over the panel lines with partial coverage on the rest. Step three — random white blotches applied using an old, mystery-purpose filter as a stencil.
Experiment No. 2 — hand-painted RLM71 (AK 11822). Surprisingly pleased with how it came out.
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9 12 April, 19:58
Rui S Looking good 👍 I really like this aircraft. I'm in 😎
1 10 May, 12:28
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Historical Context – Focke-Wulf Fw 189 "Tsiklop" in Bulgarian Service
In 1943, the Royal Bulgarian Air Force (Vazdushni na Negovo Velichestvo Voiski) received 18 Focke-Wulf Fw 189 aircraft, variants A-1 and A-2. In Bulgaria, the aircraft was officially designated "Tsiklop" ("Cyclops") and served primarily in tactical reconnaissance and ground support roles.
These aircraft formed the core of the 3rd Exemplary Reconnaissance Flight, a new unit established specifically for this type. Based at Varba airfield (now part of the town of Radomir), the unit was active during the first stage of Bulgaria's participation in World War II. A total of 16 aircraft took part in combat operations (2 were lost in accidents beforehand), flying 315 combat sorties, mostly for reconnaissance and ground attack.
The camouflage remained in the standard Luftwaffe pattern – dark green and dark olive upper surfaces (RLM70/71), with light blue undersides, similar to RLM65 or Soviet AMT-7. National markings were replaced with Bulgarian Andreev crosses, applied directly over the original German insignia. There is no evidence of locally adapted camouflage schemes.
At present, only a handful of archival photographs of Bulgarian Fw 189s are known. The best-documented example bears the tactical number 14, often used as a reference in scale modeling.
