Modeling All Jets, Rockets That Flew Before September 1. 1945
Dec 01, 2007 38 Replies
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Albert
A friend of mine has turned me on to a theme which I am sure would get me into all forms of modeling: Create a model in 1/72 scale of all jet and rocket aircraft which flew during or just before World War Two. This would include turbines such as the Italian Caproni without props and there is at least one Soviet turbine with props. I am not looking to do drawing board aircraft. However, I will include first flights that proved to be last flights. Any help about types and kits, as well as sources, will be appreciated.
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Big Al Cherer
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This is a start. There are others and newer versions of these kits (not always better) and I haven't gone into the Special Hobbies (plastic) or the Planet Models (resin) kits at all because you stated that you weren't looking for Luft '46.
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Don Stauffer in Minnesota
At the Zumbro Valley (Minnesota) this year or last- forget which one a guy had such a collection and gave a talk on early rockets. He had a WW2 soviet fighter also, but have no idea whose kit it was.
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The Old Man
Forgot about them. A-Model made two examples, the Polikarpov Malyutka and the Berezniak-Isaev BI-1
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Nigel Heather
If you are looking for the unusual, Heller used to do a kit which contained two aircraft, the Bacham Natter and the Fi-103 (piloted version of the V1). Not sure whether it is still around.
Cheers,
Nigel
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someone
would like that one! wish i could find it.
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Pat Flannery
Germany: CONDOR - Me-163A (needs larger canopy) (rocket) PM MODELS - Lippisch DFS-194 (rocket) HELLER - Ba-349 and Reichenberg IV (rocket and pulse jet) HELLER - ME-163B (rocket) HUMA - Me-263/Ju-248 (not sure this flew before end of war) (rocket) HUMA - Ju-287 (jet) HUMA - DFS-230 (you'll need to add pulsejets under the wings) REVELL GERMANY - Horten Ho-IX/GO-229 (jet) DML - He-162 (jet) PM MODELS - Me-328 (pulse jet)
Great Britain: AIRFIX - de Havilland Vampire
US: UNICRAFT - MX-324 (rocket) HOBBYCRAFT - P-59 (jet-easier to build than Rareplane one) Numerous manufactures - P-80A
I started something like that in 1/48 - is was supposed to just be a collection limited to WWII German jets. Then it turned into a collection of WWII German firsts - rocket planes, V-1, V2, etc. Then Monogram came out with that nice He-111. Then I found a DML Ju-88 for $10. Then the Monogram Ju-52. Then an Me 110, and a collection of 109s and the stash grew far beyond what I was intending...
...but I think your idea is a really great idea. If you can maintain some self control, unlike myself.
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The Old Man
Welcome to my world!!!!
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someone
really. do i need 12 ar 234's. (2 from you know where...) those are the 1/48's....don't get me started on the lindberg, heller and revell 1/72's.
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Pat Flannery
You think you have a problem? I did mine on all the secret, test, and operational German jet and rocket fighter, attack, and recon aircraft in
1/72 scale... including all the designed ones... I finally gave up after filling a book case with them and still needing more. I've got 44 of them now. I didn't want them to get boring so tried to do variations of accurate German camouflage schemes on them that varied in some way from aircraft to aircraft. That became difficult around the time I hit 30. Here's a fun bit of trivia; check out the unpainted upper section on the Ju-287's rudder:
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know why that's unpainted? Because that's as high as the guy could reach with his paint sprayer while standing on the tailcone. :-D I did paint the airflow tufts on it originally, but took them off as they looked goofy. Those engine nacelles in primer suggest that they may have been trouble with the Junkers-Jumo 004 engines at some point in the test program also. Something probably involving fire, shedding turbine blades, or both. At least I did mine in primer; I wonder if they were yellow to identify it as a test aircraft as it didn't have wing markings, at least on top.
Pat
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someone
actually, they just had to change the engines costantly so there were more than one set of covers. they were told to change engines every 5-10 hours running!
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Pat Flannery
Anyone want to see a JPG of all of them in the bookcase, I have one.
Pat
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Mad-Modeller
I had a P-59 kit done by Karo-As. It was a very short run but looked buildable.
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
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Mad-Modeller
Been there, bought to excess. But it was FUN!
Bill Banaszak, MFE Sr.
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Rufus
I want this one...really bad...but the exchange rate makes the price REALLY bad...
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In fact, there's a bit of MDC stuff I'd like to get my hands on...just haven't found a steady US supplier.
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Rufus
Not a bad assumption...I knew a guy at GE that ran away and joined the Canadian forces (lied about his age) and ended up flying Spits and Typhoons for the RAF during WWII. His unit was in charge of mopping up and securing German airfields after D-Day, and he told me they came across six Me 262s and burnt one of them up on the ground trying figure out how to run the engines on a mix of avgas and tank diesel (there was no fuel on the airfield and the jets were just left behind)...said the throttles were very touchy. They painted roundels on them and everyone in the unit supposedly got to fly one once before the intel folks found out and came and hauled the off...the jets, I mean.
I don't generally do Luft '46, but I'm thinking of scratch-hacking one of these in 1/32, starting from the Revell kit:
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...just 'cuz.
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someone
wouldn't that be almost $300? yowch? but you had to show me that, you bastid! someday, i will own one. so will you, i know.
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