Oh no - what a wreck of a Heinkel He 177

[monkeyhanger]

Started this years ago and it was blown off the top of a cupboard (along with a lot of dust) and landed on the ground:

[monkeyhanger]

OK, wrong picture, should be:



The first picture shows the putty used to modify the fuselage. Essentially, keep one upper turret and remove the manned one.

As the props were damaged, replace the twinned engines with twin jet engine modules from and Arado 234



As the undercarriage is under the engines, mount the engines forward and then putty, sand, putty, sand.....




I intend to keep the tail turret and arm the aircraft with the H2 293 missiles.

[tc2324]

You call it a wreck....., I say it`s a blank canvas.... 

Watching this with interest.

[sequoiaranger]

That first picture---I thought you were frosting a He-177 CAKE!  

[Tophe]

  He 177 with 4 jets? The wreck is going to give birth to a marvel... (maybe). Have courage and do it...

[dumaniac]

yes keep up the good work - she could have a sweat look about her

[sequoiaranger]

...remember that the diminutive Ar-234 used such twin engines; I think a plane as large as the He-177 would "need" two sets per wing.

I had originally concocted in my mind making a "German B-52" from a 1/48 Ar-234 with *FOUR* 1/72 Ar-234 twin-engined pods. Your jet-177 sounds like it might end up being similar (I never did mine).

[martinbayer]

Sequoiaranger, remember that the original Ar-234 only used two Jumo 004 turbojets, while the Ju-287 forward swept wing testbed, which was based on a He-177 fuselage, used 4 Jumo 004 engines, so, assuming Jumos, in principle the arrangement of two Ar-234 twin engine pods (even though those were configured for the slightly smaller BMW 003) seems plausible, although more power certainly couldn't hurt .

Martin

[The Wooksta!]

The Ju 287V1 also needed rocket pods for additional boost to get it into the air and that was from a long runway.  It was only ever intended as a test bed to trial the forward swept wing at low speed and not as a production prototype. Not that that stopped Planet from ripping off the Huma 287V1 instead of creating a new master for the fuselage of their Ju 287 kit.

If it was me, I'd rip the engines from a couple or more Me 262s and pod them into two sets of two per wing.

[monkeyhanger]

I'm using the twin jets donated from the Matchbox Arado 234 kit. I also have the rocket packs so I thought I would put those on the fuselage, three H2 293 missiles as per the Airfix original. I was contemplating removing the "chin" gondola to make the whole thing more streamlined.

the engine replacements are a bit of a pig as there is a lot of putty used to fair in the joins, and it takes a day or two to harden at those thicknesses. But the sanding on the fuselage has produced:



and



so the icing is disappearing!

I also thought that I would finish the model as a post war Russian machine.........I read that H2 293s were used against bridges and other land targets the Fritz X was used against armoured ships. I don't want to get too outlandish with this one and I also want to actually get something finished before the next job turns up!

[monkeyhanger]

Well, another job turned up, but progress is:

Decided to remove the front gondola to reduce drag

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s219/percy30/IMG_0007.jpg

Fixed the wings, I now need to sand the joints and find out where the crew went!

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s219/percy30/IMG_0015.jpg

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s219/percy30/IMG_0014.jpg

[dumaniac]

aaah - nice - the engines in the wing look great