Box Art for the Owl - SH72546 Fw 189A-1 1/72 by Standa Hájek

 Today the mailman delivered a package containing a painting of a smoking Focke Wulf Fw 189A-1. The painting was created by Standa Hájek and will serve as the box art for the upcoming 1/72 scale kit SH72546 Focke Wulf Fw 189A ‘Owls over the Eastern Front’. The painting depicts a real-life situation: on July 14, 1942, the aircraft 4E+JP made an emergency belly landing near Vasilyevka (now Vasylivka in Ukraine, occupied by Russia since 2022) due to a failure of the right engine. The crew escaped without injury.



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