There are five ways to do a 'V-1', this is one of them!

[Glenn]

While at the PX, in May this year, I bought a 1/32 sc. 'Plug Mould' model of a V-1. This is a Brisbane based company, (two modelers) who make 1/32 sc WW2 aircraft. There first model, the V-1 comes as 17 parts on four pieces of 1.5~2mm plasticard.
The stage of this photo was finished in the second week of June, but the next series of photos took me 'till early August.
Others they are making include
1. CAC Boomerang
2. CAC Wirraway
3. Bristol Beaufort (RAAF)
4. Bristol Blenheim (both short and long nose)

Glenn

[GTX]

Never heard of 'Plug Mould' - do you have any other details?

Regards,

Greg

[Glenn]

Greg, 'Plug Moulding' is like Vacform only there's no surface detail. Except for the 'pieces', all the detail....you do, yourself! This is my second plug mould, the first a 1/72 XB-51 that I've had since 1974 but only recently built. Also, with the V-1, there were no plans or instructions. But, with so much info on Doodle-bugs, on and off the web....that wasn't a problem.
The only added 'bits' I did was the detail, adding piano wire spars in the wing and tailplane, detailing the inside of the intake and closing the tailpipe, (where it narrows) and adding the fuse at the tip of the warhead. Once the model was finished, I made the spinning prop from clear acryllic.
The bit on the bottom was scratch built.
Further info, go to the U.S.S. Cusk page where you will see the full history of these aircraft.
Glenn

[Glenn]

The hardest part of the model was working out the RATO unit. With the USS Cusk pages, there arn't enough photos taken up close, and the best info came from the box art from an East European 1/72 model of 'The Loon'.
Glenn

[Glenn]

As you can tell, I shot the model in reverse.
Glenn

[Captain Canada]

Nice camera work, Glenn ! Thanks for the info on plug molding....had no idea !

BTW...what stops the beer bottles from smashing when they hit the ground ? You know, so you can return them for the deposit ? Oh, those are RATO bottles !

[Brian da Basher]

Those are some outstanding pics, Glenn! Looks like something straight out of Life magazine! I don't know how you do it, but few manage to make their pics look so real!

Brian da Basher

[Ed S]

Nice model and the photos look like the real thing.

Ed

[Glenn]

This is the last, for a while....I bought another V-1, in August and with that I'm doing an FZG-76 Reichenberg 11. This is the glider trainer for the piloted V-1. No photos yet, building pilots ..to date.
Glenn

[Weaver]

Great pictures of an interesting model, Glenn! 

When you put the first one up, I honestly thought it was an old pic of the real thing!

[sequoiaranger]

Way down on my Whif to-do list is what I call the "Doshaburi" (Cloudburst)--a WW II Japanese manned bomb a la Ohka, but larger.

That is, I will use a 1/48 V-1 for a 1/72 Doshaburi and put a glass nose and prone pilot, wearing a hachimaki, inside. The glass nose will have an "X on it for crude aiming (might use the He-111 nose piece that already has an "X" on it for the gun mount). The idea is that this is carried by a Renzan 4-engined bomber to within one hundred miles of a US fleet (presumably beyond normal intercept range of US fighters) and released, a la V-1's carried by He-111's to Britain. The Doshaburi presumably has enough oomph to penetrate British carrier deck armor and explode deep within the ship (of course, squashing the pilot like a bug on a windshield---a twist on the old joke, "What's the last thing that goes through a Doshaburi pilot's mind when he crashes?")

[GTX]

Glenn,

Thanks - I was actually more interested in the company rather than the technique though, especially given the other products you listed.

Regards,

Greg