NOT another 109 or 209

[matrixone]

Thanks very much for the kind words Jeff, wolfik, and Gary!

Gary,
If you like the paint job on the Me 309 you are really going to like the other new model I have, it has FIVE different colors on the uppersurfaces and two on the undersides.

I will post more pics of the Me 309 when I can.


Matrixone

[matrixone]

Thanks Wooksta!

I have had the Huma Me 209 and 309 kits for a few years now and I remember seeing them listed in some catalogs for a number of years, one reason I didn't buy them back then (in the mid 1990's) was the high cost of those kits, they were/are very expensive for 1/72 scale kits being sold in the U.S.A.

There are still a few Huma kits left in my stash, two Junkers EF 128, Me 609, Ta 283, Fw Triebfluegel, Me 263, Ju 288, and another Me 209. The Ta 283 will be built later this year, I can't wait any longer to get that one built!

For a few weeks NO airplanes will be built at all, I am getting ready to airbrush a new backdrop for my photobase and build a new and better hanger.

Matrixone  

[John Howling Mouse]

Ack!

T-Tail heaven...

kerrrrrrrrrr---

----plunk!!  (sound of me hitting the floor).

Gentlemen, Nirvana has been achieved.

     

[matrixone]

Wooksta!
The main landing gear on the Ta 283 is VERY close together, much more narrow than the Bf 109, take offs and landings in even a slight cross wind would have been tricky to say the least.

John,
The Me 309 design is not a very pretty a/c, the T-tail on it looks O.K., my other ideas for something not seen before is a T-tail Me 262 or Fw 190D-9.

Matrixone

[Patrick H]

Great work as usual Matrixone, Beatifull paintjob and magnificent pictures.



Patrick

[matrixone]

Thanks very much Patrick H!
More pics of this model will be posted in two days.

Wooksta,
The Ta 283 might not have really been that useful but it looks interesting, half sci-fi half 1950's airplane design.

Matrixone

[Tophe]

Dear Matrixone, I think both of us have been partly converted to what-if modellism, no?
- I: was drawing airplanes that did not exist, having stopped modelism, now I build again fantasy planes like our friends here  (I lack skills but I have fun)
- YOU (?): were building marvelously serious Luft'46 models just having imagination in painting, now with this Me309T you invent shapes as well! Welcome! You are getting closer to us, you are fully a member of our family. Cheers!

[matrixone]

Thanks Tophe!

If I had more time for modeling I would be building more models like the T-tail Me 309, I have many ideas and some old kits that would be ideal for kit bashing some what-ifs, but I barely have enough time now to build kits OOB. So my ideas will remain just ideas.

My other new model is built OOB and is now finished, it took a long time to finish mainly because of the paint job. When I post pics of this model you will see why it took so long.

Matrixone

[John Howling Mouse]

John,
The Me 309 design is not a very pretty a/c, the T-tail on it looks O.K., my other ideas for something not seen before is a T-tail Me 262 or Fw 190D-9.

Matrixone

I read your observation and I had to go back and look at your photos again.
While the Me309 (basic) may not have been glamorous, I would have to say that your T-Tailed version of it does look very sharp (to me).

But, then again, I am biased!!   ^_^  

[matrixone]

John,
It would not take too much to improve the looks of the basic Me 309.

Matrixone