another Luft '46 project

[Dizzyfugu]

Neat! 

[su27rules]

    

[NARSES2]

Couple of interesting projects 

[loupgarou]

Interesting beast.
The exhaust is under the tail?
The nose looks like the venerable Lindberg Ar 234, I cannot identify the wings, what's their origin?

[63cpe]

Interesting beast.
The exhaust is under the tail?
The nose looks like the venerable Lindberg Ar 234, I cannot identify the wings, what's their origin?

Exhaust will be under the tail. You're right the fuselage is a shortened Lindberg Ar-234. The wing are from an Macchi MB 326.

What your opinion on the 4 engines Horten?

[Captain Canada]

Wow ! This is looking really neat ! I love the look of the little guy.

[loupgarou]

Interesting beast.
The exhaust is under the tail?
The nose looks like the venerable Lindberg Ar 234, I cannot identify the wings, what's their origin?

Exhaust will be under the tail. You're right the fuselage is a shortened Lindberg Ar-234. The wing are from an Macchi MB 326.

What your opinion on the 4 engines Horten?

Aaargh! I should have recognized the MB 326 wings!
The 4 engined Horten is very good, but you have a difficult PSR job in front of you. What will you do for the tail?
Cut the external wings shorter or add more plastic to lenghten the central part?

[zenrat]

...What your opinion on the 4 engines Horten?

Batplane.  Paint it Black and Red...   

[63cpe]

Yeah, there is a lot of PSR-ing to be done to the Horten. Meanwhile the tail section is filled with some plasticard and putty. Now there is even more standing to be done..

I bought an Ar-234 cockpit upgrade set to install in the "little guy" and proceed to installing the exhaust.

@zenrat, nice suggestions. Maybe do another one in batplane guise.
I do have some other, more drastic plans for this one. I'll cut it to end up with two wings and two engines each. Both wings will be put on a 1/48 bv-141 tail/engine boom. Front of the tail boom will be a transparent parabol like canopy.

David aka 63CPE

[63cpe]

Time for an update of the work in progress:

First a split between "the little guy" now baptized into Arado E.530: The maingear from an Mb.326 was tacked on to it but needed it for the suddenly emerging Fouga CTL project. So a rummage in the undercarriage bin got me a Meteor main gear and an Airfix Lightning nosegear. I didn't like the wonky, but original, Lindberg Ar 234 nose gear and the meteor gear was a tad longer anyway. So off with the Ar234 leg and a slightly shortened Lightning gear was on it resulting in a horizontal sit.

The black spots is paint to fill small pockets in the filler. It'll be sanded out and it's off to the paintbooth. I plan to do it in a late ww2 mottled RLM 81, 82 83 combi.

PXL_20240629_193902455 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240629_194002250 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240629_193924681 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

Cheers,
David aka 63CPE

[UhuFin]

Very cool ideas!