Messerschmit P.1099 in Finnish Service. Finnished pics page 4.

[NARSES2]

Otherwise, I like the fat fuselage and you can't have too many guns. I was thinking Russian too, it screams sturmovik to me.

Never thought of that, but you're right Mossie

[Mossie]

There's an early cold war Soviet design that looks like this on steroids.  Can't remember it's designation, think it was a Sukhoi.

[Mossie]

Found it.  Early design for the Su-10.  Lots of engine, lots of dakka.

[PR19_Kit]

I didn't know Gerry Anderson worked for Sukhoi. 

[zenrat]

This is all together and PSR is complete.  I just need to attach the radar antlers and it'll be ready for paint.

[zenrat]

Today I antlered her up.

Messerschmitt P.1099 WIP 08-01-2021 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[Old Wombat]

That photo's not doing anything to change my impression that the P.1099 is just an obese Me. 262.

[zenrat]

Are you body shaming my model?


Began painting today.  I found the transfers for the Airfix Me 109G which came with the Finnish night fighter scheme so this 1099 is going to be black and green over grey with Ilmavoimat roundels and bat fuselage art.

[zenrat]

Me P.1099 WIP 14-01-2021 by Fred Maillardet, on Flickr

[NARSES2]

Coming along nicely mate 

[su27rules]

 

[Weaver]

The wings are O.K. on this P.1099 model, but the engine nacelles are wrong. For the kit they are simple Me 262 copies, but due to CoG reasons they should sit further back under the wings. However, it's a whiffy model, so who cares... 

Just got my Luftwaffe Secret Projects 3 book out for the first time in ages, and apparently, there were late P.1099/early P.1100 series designs that had forward engines, the reason being that they had Me 410-style gun barbettes on the sides of the rear fuselage, thereby adding weight aft. Some versions of this kit have those barbettes, so it looks like Revell didn't notice (or didn't care) that the engines needed to be further back on the non-barbette ones.

[zenrat]

Someone pointed out earlier that the engines in the Revell kit are too small being Jumo 004s rather than the larger ones that were proposed.
This kit has the barbies on the rear fuselage but I chose not to cut the holes and fit them.

While it may resemble an obese Me 262 IMO it also has something of a Killer Whale about it.  Maybe the Finnish ilmavoimat would call it miekkavalas?

(at this point Snowtrooper pops up and informs me that what Google Translate told me was "Killer Whale" actually means Teapot)

[Snowtrooper]

Sorry to disappoint, killer whale (the species) is actually miekkavalas in Finnish (which would word-for-word translate to "sword whale" in English) Killer whale (as a figure of speech, translated word for word) would be tappajavalas

So Google Translate is actually getting better. Though for the foreseeable future we can still expose foreign spies by asking them to pronounce "hääyöaie".

[PR19_Kit]

How DO you pronounce "hääyöaie"? 

It looks almost impossible!

Which reminds me that the equivalent in the Netherlands is to get your possible spy to say 'Ijmuiden', which sounds very little as it's written!