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General Forum => Your Birds In Flight => Topic started by: chris46 on Jan 08, 2026, 05:41 PM

Title: Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte Thun
Post by: chris46 on Jan 08, 2026, 05:41 PM
EKW C-3603
During World War II, the Swiss Air Force had two standard fighter aircraft alongside the Me-109: the EKW C-36 and the MS-3800. I discovered the C-3603 presented here at Volare Products as a short kit. The model has a wingspan of 25 inches and is painted in the so-called neutrality livery of the 1940s.

Chris
Title: Re: Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte Thun
Post by: ramses on Jan 08, 2026, 05:48 PM
Wow, beautiful EKW C-3603!!

Happy landings, Ramses
Title: Re: Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte Thun
Post by: TheLurker on Jan 08, 2026, 07:31 PM
Quote from: ramses on Jan 08, 2026, 05:48 PMWow, beautiful EKW C-3603!!
+1
Title: Re: Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte Thun
Post by: Spiros on Jan 09, 2026, 09:07 AM
WOW. It's a beauty!!
Title: Re: Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte Thun
Post by: gravitywell on Jan 12, 2026, 08:28 AM
For a second there I thought it was a real airplane! 
Title: Re: Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte Thun
Post by: ZIP.58 on Feb 01, 2026, 03:56 PM
The original plan was to make a cookup of six models from the C-3601. In the end, only three were finished by the deadline: those by Chris (Chris46), Andreas (rubberfly), and me (ZiP.58).
There are few pictures of all three together. C-521 (Chris), without registration and trimmed for optimal flight performance (Andreas), and C-516 (Pete).
Title: Re: Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte Thun
Post by: ZIP.58 on Feb 01, 2026, 03:57 PM
and two more in flight.

Sometimes all three models fly with three-bladed propellers.
Title: Re: Eidgenössische Konstruktionswerkstätte Thun
Post by: ZIP.58 on Feb 01, 2026, 10:26 PM
Oh, the gremlin has struck again!
EKW C-3603, not C-3601.