I've always had a liking for Blohm und Voss aircraft and this one is one of my favourites, the Bv 137. Offered to the Stuka spec, it was rejected but was interesting enough to the RLM as a close support type, only for Ernst Udet to cancel it.
This one is an early Czechmaster kit, they were floating around in the late 80s and I first heard about it in a Airfix magazine around then.  By the time I could afford resin kits, they were long gone and like gold dust. I managed to acquire one in 2001 and got another on eBay about ten years later.

One got started during lockdown, with the intention of doing it in Spanish markings. Quick coat of white primer at the weekend and off we go.  Progress so far.

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The metallic is the undercoat and there are a few areas that need filling before I go any further.  The rudder is ready in gloss white and masked off.

The kit is strictly one of the prototypes and it has the weird wingtip aerials as separate bits. These are going the journey, as it's a former combat aircraft turned museum exhibit.

Mid 2000s, a Ukrainian company release a pair, the radial early prototype and the Jumo 210 version.

This is the radial version.

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I've never known quite what to do with it, but doing some brief reading on t'interweb discovered that Blohm und Voss kept the prototypes flying until they ran out of spares and scrapped them. Well, here they don't and the radial one survives at the back of a hangar until British troops find it in 1945 and the RAF get to play with it.
Some additional research required, if the information exists, into the radio call signs of the said prototypes. I have the serial, it isn't quite the same thing.

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These bits are going elsewhere. The bombs and racks are going on the Spanish one and the decals are surplus to requirements.

Apparently Wings 72 reboxed it at some point. Looks like an end of the run, as the moulding has a fair bit of deterioration.

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Quick coat of primer inside. I'm planning on spraying the cockpit.

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Nice, very nice 

Like seeing resin kits go together, they often have that mix of simplicity and challenge all bundled up in the same box.

The surface detail on the Pro Resin kit is really nice and I'm concerned about it disappearing in certain places when I fill and sand, especially the wing roots.

There's some brass for the cockpit and I really dislike PE, but I will be using it.

Planet have also done the radial engined one, but with a single piece wing.  Not buying it, simply due to the cost.

Thats a quite attractive plane but i cant quite figure out why ?
Im looking and liking and yet i ont know why im liking it ..the radial  version appeals to me the most out of the two .

Here I thought you cut the wings off a Corsair to whiff up something! This is very interesting so carry on!

Pro Resin made some nice kits    I've still a couple in the stash.

Built mine as Legion Condor using some early Ju 87 markings.

Quote from: NARSES2 on April 19, 2023, 11:46:05 PMPro Resin made some nice kits    I've still a couple in the stash.

Their Hunter T-bird kits are splendid.

Dash of colour.  Fair bit to do yet, but it's getting there.

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And I'm aware that the fuselage markings are a bit too far forward, but had to go with the decals I had.  The Spanish Air Force had it's own equivalent of Aircraftsman Clarke... 

Nice so far.

Really has the look of that era, doesn't it?

Very much like a German Supermarine 224.

I do have plans for a Spanish Republican 224 at some point.