Arado Ar-234 P5 Swept Winged Turbo-Prop Nightfighter - Completed

[trickyrich]

WOW thanks for all the nice comments, they're very much appreciated.

Well this is just a minor update this time, as work is eating in to my model time at the moment, plus I do have other projects I do really need to work on.

Not a lot to report, hand managed to evict most of the dust bunnies from the cockpits. Have fitted some of the PE bits I knocked off when painting...managed to knock off and loose the DF antenna plus have lost a couple of other bits!!

I tried something a bit different for the prop/spinners but all I managed to do so lit paint off! So they have been completely stripped back and repainted, will have another going at what I was trying to do with them.

There is not too much left to do on this one, but progress is slowing down, but this should only be for a short while.

[trickyrich]

Well work did slow down on this build quite a lot, due to many reasons, but I still have been plugging away on it every now and again.

Well I've finally stopped plugging away at it and am calling it done!

There are probably a few things I would change and more than likely a few things I've forgotten to done (a common problem I have!).

But in the end I'm very happy with how she came out, it is very much what I had in mind when I first did those drawings up. She is quite different to anything else around but has a bit of "realness" to her.

The build......well it was....interesting! But I did discover a few new things like resin casting which was awesome.

Will I do another one...very likely, though maybe with not so many modifications, I have castings of the new nose and engines so whatever I plan I should have the bits for it.

Thanks for all the great comments and following this build, hopefully it was enjoyable and interesting.

[zenrat]

Fantastic.
The paintjob on the spinners alone makes it for me.
Good one.

[dumaniac]

Yes - very nice indeed


well done

[Gondor]

Fantastic build, temps me to try one in 1/72 scale 

Gondor

[nönöbär]

 
Cool!

[TomZ]

Looks great!

TomZ

[Rick Lowe]

Wunderbar!

[Captain Canada]

Love it. The nose, the cockpit, the wing shape, the engine layout, the weathering and detail.....excellent build !

[Army of One]

STUNNING......... .......i love  the engines.......congrats on your casting efforts........superb