Arado Ar-110

[gunfighter]

Sticking to my Fatherland 64 obsession, I decided to join this GB with a Luftwaffe floatplane. In mid 60s, the kriegsmarine suffers constant skirmishes with russian patrol combatants. These small vessels run at increasing speeds and result in a nightmare for both military and civilian transit. In early 60s, the germans decide they need a fast but manouvrable aircraft to patrol over the known areas where russian PCs operate. The new jet needs to be a floatplane to provide forward deployment without airstrips and/ or emergency landings where there is little earth available. The main armament is a gatling type Reinmethall AG-27 27mm canon, considered enough to get rid of small (or big) surface combatants. Torpedoes and mines can also be carried, but common equipment are fuel tanks and rockets. After the initial batch of 56 aircraft gain some success over the baltic sea and the adriatic, some 90 more are procured to operate on tropical zones such as central and south afrika, either from lakes and rivers or from coastal waters. Its roughness and simplicity are well appreciated by pilots, groundcrew and troops who call for their support, at least while FW-500s can provide high cover...
This will be a little kit bash...pics to follow 

[jcf]

Sounds interesting.

A note about Third Reich aircraft numbering, the numbers were assigned by the RLM in order.
http://www.designation-systems.net/non-us/germany.html
The way the list filled up its likely that they would have had to do a 'start over' by 1964,
just as the US did in OTL.

Jon

[gunfighter]

Well, you are right about designations, but my will was to play with numbers as the donor kit is an OA-10A Thunderbolt... . This is an in-progress pic of it, the floats are from a trumpeter an-2 that I bought ONLY for this part. I hope to finish it this weekend if I learn how to use the air brush. The scheme will be based on an idea I had yesterday, and if it works I could apply it on other projects I´m planning.
I´ll keep you informed!
Oh, the models on the background are an F/A-18B for the let it snow GB and a Su-33 for an independent Fatherland 64 build.
Cheers!

[jcf]

Cool, in that case an RLM numbering reset could be perfect as a "mess with the
Luftnatic purist contingent" (a sometimes truly scary subset of JMN). 

If the US hadn't abandoned and the restarted the A designator, the A-10
would have, most likely, had a number in the A-5X or 6X range, at the minimum.

Jon

p.s. (Warning high Geek factor) while the Mauser 27 X 145 round has lower muzzle energy
than the 30 X 173 round of the A-10's GAU-8, (137,000 versus 207,000 joules), it does
have a higher velocity and the smaller overall size means that an increase in the number
of rounds carried would be probable. Maybe from 1,350 to 1,550 - 1,600?

[Daryl J.]

Jon,

That is high geek factor stuff!   
Love it.

And am wanting to watch this one.

[ChernayaAkula]

Hog on floats?  How cool's that? 

[gunfighter]

Mmmmm... my airbrush is not in working condition yet, so I´m afraid this build won´t be on time for this GB 

[HOG]

Hog on floats?  How cool's that? 

Wazzat, I can`t swim!!!!!!!    Help