Three Fw 190s off the plates
The Fw 190 has always flown in a plain grey coat. A page of profile plates has three Focke-Wulfs on it: an Eastern Front ace's fighter from the Baltic coast, a Gruppe commander's long-nosed Dora from the last weeks over Berlin, and a black-green Reich-defence machine with a yellow and red band round its tail. Now all three fly over the Brick Sea, and the first one is already yours.
Kittel's White 1, from the factory
Pick the Fw 190 and she's already waiting: White 1, the A-5 of Leutnant Otto Kittel, who led the 2nd Staffel of JG 54 "Grünherz" over the Courland pocket on the Baltic in the spring of 1944.
She wears the grey of a Luftwaffe day fighter: straight-edged splinter patches over the wings and the spine, and the flanks and fin dappled in a dark grey-green. The Eastern Front's yellow is everywhere you'd look for it: under the engine cowling, in a band round the fuselage, under both wingtips and on the foot of the tail. A big white 1 sits on the flank just behind the cockpit, and the black spinner carries a white spiral that winds round as the propeller turns.
Every Fw 190 in the sky flies her paint now. The paint shop calls her by name on the Focke-Wulf's swatch, and the hangar card shows her turning before you pick anything at all.
Romm's D-9: 92 air kills
Oskar Romm commanded a Gruppe of JG 3 "Udet" in the last month of the war, flying the long-nosed Fw 190 D-9 over Berlin. He finished with ninety-two victories. Earn 92 air kills, his own tally, and his Dora is yours.
The whole long nose is a black-green, back to the windscreen and down to the wing, so she reads as a dark arrowhead coming at you. Behind it the fuselage is a pale grey-blue under a dense grey dapple, the spinner is plain black, and ahead of where the cross sat is the Kommandeur's double chevron, drawn as a thin white line rather than painted solid. On our airframe she keeps the A-8's radial; the paint is the Dora's.
JG 301's Yellow 5: 10 night kills
The last plate on the page is a Ta 152, the high-altitude fighter Focke-Wulf grew out of the 190, flown by the staff flight of JG 301 in the spring of 1945. JG 301 began the war's last two years as a night-fighting Geschwader, hunting bombers in single-seat fighters after dark. Earn 10 night kills and Yellow 5 is yours, painted onto the Fw 190 she was born from.
She's black-green over the top and the nose, with a lighter green splinter across the wings, and a grey rear fuselage dappled in grey. A big yellow 5 sits behind the cockpit, JG 301's yellow and red bands wrap the fuselage ahead of the tail, the number 150174 runs across the top of the fin, and the spinner is red with a white spiral.
Where to find them
Both paint only the Fw 190, so they only show up in the paint row when the Focke-Wulf is your pick. Hover a locked swatch and the hangar card tries it on, so you can see what the kills buy. Climb into something else and that aircraft flies its own factory paint.
The plain paint schemes, like Midnight Reaper, still repaint the Fw 190 too, while the yellow band, chin and spiral stay put, the same as the Bf 109's.