Some from Germany

[RussC]

  This was a harder niche to fill, because Germany was in the later Luftwaffe years, becoming a more fertile ground for flying wing and tail-less or tail-lesser designs in reality. A lot has been covered in the Luft 46 genre to the extent that its often better if really wanting a good Deutschland whiff to steer towards the later 1930's or the earlier 40's and stick with propellers and pistons.
 
 In an effort to tow its enormous Ju-90 Mammut gliders and their larger sucessors plus the Gigant's and strings of Gotha or DFS types, Junkers came up with the monumental Ju-99 "Odin" flying wing. Its 8 Bramo powerplants could lift any burden and as a result, the type was soon also in the role as a bomber and a long range transport, moving Heeren - Kommando units both parachute , glider and landed to various clandestine points around the world, forcing the US and UK to turn pretty much every continent except Antarctica into a air patrolled area. It's most spectacular mission was in taking the first two Reich's nuclear devices into the air on the day after the June 45' rift between Germany and Japan became a separation and war declaration (by no means a shift to Luftwaffe units fighting beside USAAF, USN or USMC units in that theater) and the Odin with its global range dropped the first over Moscow and kept right on course for Tokyo...followed by a leaflet drop in Seattle, on the Boeing factory.
 
 A plastic model, using the wings from a Hughes Spruce goose kit with a central extension made of styrene stock sheet.
 
 

 For much shorter and faster trips, the plane of choice in 1940 was the Horten 2 and its twin BMW 801's with forward cooling ducts driving pusher props with extension shafts. Easy build, if you want a Horten bomber, use a larger scale kit of the 229 flying wing and start there.
 
 
 
Posed with a card kit of the Horten 13 Luft 46 jet aircraft, made a number of years before the Anigrand kit was available.
 
 

[tigercat]

That looks very close to the aircraft in the Indiana Jones movies.

[RussC]

That looks very close to the aircraft in the Indiana Jones movies.

And a lot easier to build than the "Blohm und Voss 38" from the first movie, since mine doesn't have a wing that was cranked, gulled and bent every which way but loose !    That plane resisted my attempts to scratchbuild it satisfactorily because of getting that wing symmetrical on both sides. Failed at both 1/144th scale and 72nd, as I was a 72nd scale builder when Raiders' premiered. There have been resin kits of it since.
 
  I wonder if the Bv-38 is the most publicly known what-if aircraft?

[Weaver]

, forcing the US and UK to turn pretty much every continent except Antarctica into a air patrolled area.

Which is doubtless why the Nazis set up their secret base there, right? 


More excellent models Russ - nice one!

[Maverick]

Once again Russ, brilliant stuff.

Regards,

Mav

[philp]

Very nice Russ.

[tanktastic43]

Top job! 

tt43.

[Pablo1965]

The tail-less planes are in fashion! We´re in luck. Nice work and awesome planes.

[Doc Yo]

 Und weider gobschmacken wir! 

[tc2324]

 

Love the first one. Top whiffery....

[Ed S]

Great looking models.  Do I detect a trend here?

Ed

[Taiidantomcat]

Prewar splinter pattern!?  Oh that is just too awesome! These are great!

[arkon]