The completed projects thread...

[jcf]

The RLM suggests that all completed projects be placed here.

Remember that all forms must be filed in triplicate before the close of the contest, or action will be taken.

Extra points for napkin sketches. 

[PR19_Kit]

OK, here's a napkin sketch........ 

[Please re-post as required if napkin sketches have their own folder]

[tc2324]

Am I the First...??

Finished product and backstory...., Enjoy.

Junkers Ju 87`S` `Bodenkampfflug Dusenfugzeug`

By May 1943 General der Schlachtflieger (General of Close-Support Aviation) Ernst Kupfer had announced that further development of the Junkers Ju 87 would "hardly bring any further tactical value". Due to the age of the design and it`s now apparent vulnerability to more modern fighter types and air defences the `Stuka` production line began to decline to around 200 units a month.
In a bid to win new favour with the Luftwaffe and Erhard Milch,  Hermann Pohlmann of the Junkers company looked into various ideas of extending the Junkers Ju 87 production life. He first looked at why the Ju 87 had started to suffer heavy losses and after listening to various story`s from aircrew returning from the Eastern Front, speed seemed to be the main contributing factor.
Coupled with the fact that `new` jet engines had started to become available to potential designers and the Ju 87 `G` had started to prove an effective `tank buster` on the Eastern Front, Pohlmann contacted the Junkers Jet Engineering division and requested two Junkers Jumo 004 B-1 turbojets to be delivered to his `workshop`.
On 3rd December 1943 he revealed the Junkers Ju 87 `S` as his latest creation to Milch and other high ranking officials as an alternative to more advanced and complex ground attack redesigns. His argument was simple. Other than some basic modifications, most of the production line already existed for 90% of the new aircraft. Where the `Propeller` Ju 87 failed, the `jet` Ju 87 excelled. Speed was the key. The idea was to `speed cruise` to the target area at an average 450 mph, once on target, reduce the throttle to carry out the attack, then when the attack was over, open the throttles again and use speed to escape.
The design, the airframe and jet combination was never built for continued high speed manouvering, but as a means of getting the aircraft to the target in quick time and avoid enemy fighters.
The two 37mm canon were taken from the wings and now placed where the propeller engine use to be housed. This made the guns more stable and also the test pilots felt it was easier to `point and shoot` at targets. Each gun could now hold around 90 rounds each and the front intakes were now used to cool the weapons instead of the engine. The crew gunner was removed as rear defence was now deemed irrelevent. One interesting design of note were the engines which were placed on top of the wings. Two reasons for this were that is was noted that Foerign Object Damage was easier to get ingested in to jet engines placed under wings and as the aircraft was designed as a Ground Attack aircraft having the engines on top of the wings provided them with some form of protection. (Forty years later Fairchild Republic would copy and use a similar philosophy when designing their legendary A-10 Warthog).
Impressed, (although some reports indicate that it was more out of sympathy for a loyal German aircraft designer), Milch ordered 15 test flights to see how effective this aircraft could be. Unfortunatly, on February 26th 1944 during it`s twelth test flight during a firing test of it`s main weapons,  the Ju 87 `S` lost a wing in a shallow dive and crashed with the loss of it`s test pilot. Afterwards it was concluded that the stesses on the wing by the engine and firing of the canons caused what we now know as micro fractures in the main wing spar. Despite many pilots reporting the aircraft to handle well at speed, in a dive, acruate firing aim and a good payload, it had got to that time of the war where Germany could not spare any more Jumo Jet engines and a second Ju 87 `S` was never complted.

Below are the only images to remain of this little known chapter of the Junkers Company history.















(Colour pics availiable if you want them....)

[Spey_Phantom]

my Blohm & Voss BV465 "Turmfalke"
made up in JG53 markings.

[NARSES2]

Ha 137 of the "Stuka Kette" of the Condor Legion in Spain 1937

http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,27757.msg423580.html#msg423580

[Glenn]

MSM J-1 'Adolf Galland'

When it was decided to build up the 'New Luftwaffe' for the 21st Century the hardest decision was names for the said aircraft. Between prehistoric flying reptilies/ mythological creatures/Norse gods, it was finally decided to name them after famous German pilots. So, the latest, the J-1 was named after Adolf Galland!

Started off with a Hasagawa 1/72 F-15 Eagle. Turned the tails into drooped winglets and re-glued the tailplanes into 'butterfly tails'.

Colour scheme : overall...Neutral Grey, over painted with Radome colour and Khaki Drab. Then outlined the colours with a thin stroke of black.
Decals are from a Revell T-6

Glenn

[lancer]

My Junkers EF128a-1a

[beowulf]

my Dornier-Dassault F1-C Trugbild.



http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,28431.0.html

[comrade harps]

Mistel 4S
For Operation Iron Hammer's intended strike against Red power stations east of the Urals. A Fiat built version of the Mitsubishi G4M Betty given the Mistel treatment, 1945.

Redd more...http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,28163.msg427046.html#msg427046





These better photos than mine via http://www.dsmc.org.au/

[Spey_Phantom]

my Focke Wulf FW220A-2 Dreizack

[proditor]

Full story and pics here: http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,28218.0.html

[sotoolslinger]

Adolf Galland was finally completely satisfied with an aircraft

The new Me-263 was the most advanced technology fighter in the air. The new dual powered fighter was equipped with the latest Jumo K005 2300 lb thrust jet engines . These engines would spool up much faster than the older Jumos and were more powerful.


The craft also sported the latest Theil Stabiler Brennstoff rocket engine. This solved many of the problems encountered with the Me- 163 and easily allowed the aircraft to break the sound barrier in short dashes. The new engines also solved the problem of the fighters being jumped while taking off and landing.


Goring and the rest of the higher ups in the luftwaffe had finally listened to him. The airplane was designed as a true fighter/ interceptor. Gone were the awkward bomb shackles and R4M rockets. The craft was equiped with the latest Mauser-Brenneke Lightweight 4 CM autocannon with 45 rounds per gun.


The upper echelons had never been happy with his use of the American Mickey Mouse on his planes. They were going to be even more displeased with what his ground crew were happily painting on his new #13 aircraft's nose, but he couldn't resist ,the plane looked like a tigershark.

[Thorvic]

Overkillers Luftwaffe Gripen B (He will post up details once he's back on line.

[Slerski]

Finally... I'm in !!!

Junkers Ju 314E-3 "Tornado"
Oberleutnant P. Deisler
Schwarmführer 1./JG 301
Leck, October 1964

[tigercat]

Biggles Bags a Whale

Supply ships have been disappearing in the Indian Ocean without a trace. The Admiralty suspect a U-boat or a Surface Raider. However a signal is picked up from the SS Empire Steadfast of AAAA meaning an enemy air attack rather than a naval attack. A later signal is picked up from the SS Automaton referring to "aircraft manoeuvring like hoverflies".
Colonel Raymond of the Air Intelligence staff decides the only way to find out more information is to send someone to investigate.  Before he knows it, Biggles is given a temporary commission in the Royal Air Force with the rank of Air Commodore. A decoy supply ship has been sent out called the China Star. A Royal Navy ship called the HMS Seafoam then follows this. Biggles, Algy and Ginger then follow on in an amphibian aircraft named Nemesis. The plan is too lure out whoever is attacking the British ships with the China Star and then follow them to their base and launch an RAF attack on it. Things go wrong from the start when the China Star is quickly torpedoed and the crew killed. Biggles manages to save one survivor called Ladgrove, although he later dies, but not before he is able to tell Biggles which direction the attacking aircraft took on leaving. Thus starts a pursuit that will take Biggles from the islands of the Indian Ocean to the forests of Germany and ultimately to the skies above the English Channel  in a race against time as first he must destroy the immediate threat before tracking down the source of the aircraft in an effort to obtain an example for the Allies and eliminate the factory where they are produced before they become a deadly threat to the Allied Invasion Fleet