NöNöBärs's What-If Flugwerft (WIP: Greenland Airforce TS-11 Qinngorneq)

nönöbär · September 30, 2012, 02:29:44 AM

Model is now painted and some glossy finish on it to prepare it for the decals.
First time I tried a bit of weathering on it, not perfect but not too bad at all as well

The basic model has been modified with a drop tank, as the original range of the He280 was even less than the one of the Me109E.

NARSES2 · September 30, 2012, 02:59:13 AM

Can't wait for the markings to go on

sequoiaranger · September 30, 2012, 08:04:02 AM

Ya got it to sit on its nose!

Looks beautiful!

The He-280 wingplan is SO FAMILIAR!

I used the He-280 wings on my "He-113", but they *DO* look good with its "original" fuselage!!

dumaniac · October 01, 2012, 03:10:19 AM

great stuff

nönöbär · October 07, 2012, 12:58:20 AM

Now that the He280 is completed, see http://www.whatifmodelers.com/index.php/topic,35894.0.html, something small as the next project while I am waiting for some other material.

Obviously a B17, but it should be build a a captured plane, used by the Luftwaffe KG200. Plus I will try something new for painting it.

Ah and yes, on the pic, there is my friend Scratch Bear who will help me with this one......

nönöbär · October 14, 2012, 06:16:28 AM

Camo painting on the B17 is mostly done, some parts still have to be corrected a bit.

I - ahm, no, Scratch Bear - uses the typical yellow paint under the wings as it was used on many captured allied planes which were tested or used by the Luftwaffe.

nönöbär · October 21, 2012, 07:42:10 AM

Worked a bit on the captured B17, and tried the hairspray method on it. Ok, it worked somehow but not exactly as good as it did on a test model I tried before.

nönöbär · October 21, 2012, 07:46:32 AM

And while still working on the B17, a non-What-if got completed today:

A Junkers Ju 52/3m with D-AQUI registration. This is part of my Lufthansa 1930s collection.

The D-AQUI is still flying today as a historic Lufthansa plane. You can book flights with it (mostly in Germany, but some in other euopean contries as well), which I did two years ago. And this is really cool, especially the sound of those three engines.

sequoiaranger · October 21, 2012, 10:30:30 AM

That Ju 52 is just BEAUTIFUL! Funny that the call letters spell "here" in Spanish!

nönöbär · October 21, 2012, 10:45:16 AM

Thx.

Here some pics form the original.....

Sadly weather was not the best during the flight.

Btw, the original plane now has three bladed propellers due to noise restrictions. The engines are from P&W and not the original BMWs anymore. And a nice story - as the original tyres are not made anymore, it now has some Airbus typres below it. Those tyres are allowed to run at a higher speed than the old Ju is able to fly...

sequoiaranger · October 21, 2012, 12:03:32 PM

I noticed on the tail of the "real" Ju-52 a tiny German flag--I think I have a pair of such small flags that you could have to put on your model if you like. POSSIBLY the little German flags I have are "slanted" as part of a series of United Nations flags going on a jet. Lemme know if you are interested and I will look for them.

NARSES2 · October 22, 2012, 07:31:16 AM

Lovely Ju 52

nönöbär · October 22, 2012, 11:05:08 PM

Quote from: sequoiaranger on October 21, 2012, 12:03:32 PM
I noticed on the tail of the "real" Ju-52 a tiny German flag--I think I have a pair of such small flags that you could have to put on your model if you like. POSSIBLY the little German flags I have are "slanted" as part of a series of United Nations flags going on a jet. Lemme know if you are interested and I will look for them.

Hmmm, now that you say it... I think I have some of those flags left somewhere.... Of course the Ju only has this flags (and the CD-CDLH registration) today, in the 30s, it did't had them

nönöbär · November 04, 2012, 03:45:48 AM

NöNö Bär started something new:

What's the idea bedind it?
At the end of WW2, several aircraft projects were ongoing at the Junkers company. One of them was the Ju-EF 132, a large six engined jet bomber. This one was already build as a wooden mockup. After the war, the Soviets continued the work in the Dessau Junkers factury on several projects (like the Ju 287 with forward sweept wings), until most of the staff and tools were brought to the Soviet Union.
There, construction work continued and an imrpoved version of the Ju 287 made several test flights. Design work also continued on the EF 132, but it was never build. But some of the research work was used on other Soviet bomber projekts lke the Tu-16, which showed some of the characteristics of the oringinal EF 132 design.

So now, lets take a Trumpeter 1:144 scale Tu-16 and make an Junkers EF-132T1-6 out of it....

Some work on the hull has been made already some old Airfix 1:72 scale HS-293 glide bombs will be transformed in the bigger HS-393 (which are surprisingly twice the size....)

NARSES2 · November 05, 2012, 07:11:27 AM

This will be interesting