Blohm+Voss BV P.195 ("Tophe won't like this...")

[Sticky Fingers]

Dusk, 31-11-'46. Just a few more hours.


In the diminishing daylight the maintenance crew starts to prepare for work.


In Blohm & Voss terms this was a boring, almost straight forwards design, but perhaps their most succesfull.
It's a ground attack night fighter, armed with 4x MK103 30 mm cannons, 2x MG151 20mm and 1x modified Bordkanone BK 7,5.
It first saw service and action on the 31st of November 1946 when 5 Bv P195's dealt a heavy blow to Allied vehicles being loaded off LST's during the night following D-Day MkII.




Or not.
This is Revell (of Germany)'s 1/72 Blohm & Voss Bv P194, straightened out. It lost it's jet engine but gained some extra weapons, and a mid-fuselage, contra-rotating prop.


Despite loading all available space in the cockpit section and the front of the fuselage with lead weights it still sat firmly on it's tail, hence the weird looking main landing gear.
(Which I personally thing looks real good )


Alas, still the nose wheel sits a few millimetres of the ground but it will be glued down once I've got all the stuff to make a small diorama around this plane. The complete nose wheel well was nicked from a Me 262, as were the main landing gear's wheels, and the rotating cowling around the props was made from a 1/24 Tamiya Volkswagen Beetle wheel rim (keeping things German, see?).


Exhausts now live where the tail wheel used to reside and were made from alluminium tubing. The gunpods under the wingroots were made from halves of a Me-109 droptank. Camo was thought up by myself, decals hand picked from the decal stash.


Hope you like 

[CSMO]

Wicked good!. It looks like one that I saw in a comic book, years ago. Adios, Larry.

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice one! I also had the idea of creating a "normal" aircraft from the B+V - yours is really great and has many nice ideas to offer, like the propeller arrangement! The only drawback is that fitting the landing gear in any way is rather difficult...  Maybe putting the prop in front of the wing leading edge and moving the wings further back would have been "better"? But that's so easily said when you see the finished project. I think it's great, nevertheless! 

[NARSES2]

Oooooh I like that, a lot 

[springheel jack]

That's nice. I bet that landing gear could soak up some rough ground

[Sticky Fingers]

Thanks for your comments, gents 

Maybe putting the prop in front of the wing leading edge and moving the wings further back would have been "better"?

I played with that arrangement, but you'd end up with an almost BV P.192, and I thought the aesthetics of my design are rather better

[Tophe]

Well, I dislike destroying asymmetry  while... I love unusual shape, and I love your model
May I photoshop it into a twin-boomer?

[Sticky Fingers]

Hahaha thanks Tophe 

May I photoshop it into a twin-boomer?

I was silently hoping you'd propose that, so yes, please, go for it

[TallEng]

What a wonderful plane
Did the bloke who designed that undercarriage go onto work at BAC on the TSR2? 

Regards
Keith

[Librarian]

Absolutely superb, just love that rear fuselage prop...brilliant . Another on my hopes list in 1/48.

[Captain Canada]

That's awesome ! Love the colours...and the whole thing !

The landing gear is perfect for rough field landings in the dark....

[Weaver]

That looks great - nice one!

[PR19_Kit]

What a fabulous looking model! 

I love that 'mid-fuselage' prop idea but I've never seen it modelled before, terrific work.

[lancer]

That is an amazing looking design and a fantastic model...I love it.

[sandiego89]

Wow, really great.  Especially like the main gear and the wing pods they retract into.  Radar?