Hamiltonian
Airman
- 49
- Feb 17, 2014
This is the last of my trio of unusual aircraft designs from Blohm Voss, and another one that never got off the drawing board. Again, finished in Eastern Front colours. The markings are partly from the very basic decal set included with the kit, and partly from some left-overs from previous models, making up my interpretation of how such an oddly shaped aircraft might have been marked up. I also used a couple of PJ Productions German WWII pilots to add a pilot and navigator/bomb-aimer to convert this to a flying model.
It's a resin kit with vacform canopies, which is all new to me. Wow, how I'm yearning for a kit with locating tabs ...
Placing brass rods to support the wings worked surprisingly well, but introduced a couple of bulges that needed to be sanded, which removed some panel lines, which meant I had to rescribe the panels, which is also new to me. So there are a few wonky lines. And I scribed too deeply on the fuselage, which seemed to be made of different density resin from the wings. Anyway, here it is:
As you can see, the pilot sat at the back. The navigator had a huge glass-house midfuselage, and a little bomb-aiming window in the underside forward of that - I've placed him in bomb-aiming position, mainly because the kit didn't really lay out a useful navigator position. The pilot sits above a long strip window that runs forward to the navigator position. I imagine that would have been handy when you were trying to land the damn thing, with that wide mainplane completely obscuring your view of the runway!
It was a nice kit, though very basic. The fact it turned into a sort of rolling disaster for me was entirely my fault!
It's a resin kit with vacform canopies, which is all new to me. Wow, how I'm yearning for a kit with locating tabs ...
Placing brass rods to support the wings worked surprisingly well, but introduced a couple of bulges that needed to be sanded, which removed some panel lines, which meant I had to rescribe the panels, which is also new to me. So there are a few wonky lines. And I scribed too deeply on the fuselage, which seemed to be made of different density resin from the wings. Anyway, here it is:
As you can see, the pilot sat at the back. The navigator had a huge glass-house midfuselage, and a little bomb-aiming window in the underside forward of that - I've placed him in bomb-aiming position, mainly because the kit didn't really lay out a useful navigator position. The pilot sits above a long strip window that runs forward to the navigator position. I imagine that would have been handy when you were trying to land the damn thing, with that wide mainplane completely obscuring your view of the runway!
It was a nice kit, though very basic. The fact it turned into a sort of rolling disaster for me was entirely my fault!
