In this post, I wanted to share a few images from my different 1/32 WWII aircraft. All of these are German late war airplanes. A Ta-152, Do-335, Fw-190 A8. The first two are Zoukie Mura kits and the last is the Revell kit of the Fw-190 A8/R2. In the gallery below click on any image to open them in a Lightbox.

Working with 1/32 Aircraft models is rewarding in that you get a much better feel for what was going on inside the aircraft. The cockpit details tend to be more involved and most modern 1/32 aircraft kits will have an engine. While it’s interesting to build up the engines, most of that work is hidden once you complete the kit. While many kits will offer individual engine cowling panels, I feel that leaving them open give the aircraft an incomplete look. Unless you are working on a diorama. An example of this is the Zoukie Mura 1/32 Fw-190 A4. Zoukie Mura has created a kit with amazing details throughout especially the engine. (the only thing missing are the ignition wires). However there are 7 individual panels that are used to cover the engine, and I had a lot of trouble getting all of these to line up correctly. I would much prefer the option to have the engine displayed outside the kit on a stand. With the Zoukie Mura 1/32 kits, you cannot do this as the engine is required to install the propeller.

Great Wall Hobby’ P-40 is the only kit I have found in 1/32 that allows you to have the engine displayed along side the aircraft. For the cost of all of these kits, it would not be that much to add the parts to allow this for all models in this scale with this amount of details.