another Luft '46 project

[63cpe]

Started this as an experiment to check whether the wings and engines of a Horten H0-229 could be extended in a four engine swallow shaped wing. It's going to be cut in the middle and put on a luft '46 fuselage ( still experimenting with shape of fuselage incl a 1/48 BV-141 tailboom).

PXL_20240218_100806305 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

So the answer: is yes it can be done. The part in the middle is an Ho-229 B (PM Model) and the outer engines and wing are Ho-229 A ( also PM model).

Cheers,
David aka 63CPE

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice idea. 

Makes me wonder about a similar build made from the much better Revell Go 229? Hmmm.... 

[chrisonord]

I shall be following this with interest David.

[63cpe]

Some pictures front and top. See the staggered position I wanted to create, like a Myasischev M4.

PXL_20240218_124420482 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

PXL_20240218_124412293 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

David aka 63CPE

[Vulcan7]

Four engines look very good           

[zenrat]

 

[Dizzyfugu]

Nice. With a smaller cockpit this would work well as a scale-o-rama-ed 1:144 Nurflügler bomber?

I might seriosuly steal that four-egine idea, it looks really good. 

[63cpe]

Nice. With a smaller cockpit this would work well as a scale-o-rama-ed 1:144 Nurflügler bomber?

I might seriosuly steal that four-egine idea, it looks really good. 

       

You're welcome Dizzy. Note that the engine/ducts in the PM Model Ho-229 V7 are a little longer than the Ho-229 A, giving that nice staggered effect. As I went on with the 4 engined version I also bought some Revell Ho-229's.....

David

[Dizzyfugu]

I will probably try to mash two Revell Go 229s together, some day. Idea is a fast bomber (could be a 1000x1000x1000 profile contender) with a closed bomb bay behind the cokpit (maybe modded for a crew of two?), a revised landing gear with a different front wheel arrangement, and slightly extended overall to blend the trailing edge(s) together. Engine fairings will be a challenge, but probably nothing that some PSR could not mend. 

[63cpe]

Brilliant plan and seems very doable. I like the 1000x1000x1000 concept you plan to build. It could be an 1/144 project, but just like you I plan to use it in a 1000x1000x1000 concept aswell but in 1/72.
I plan to combine both Ho-229 engines annex wings, upgrade the intake and exhaust with home made resin copies of Me-262 intake and exhausts, fill the trailing edge and cut the middle fuselage in half. Both wings plus engines a will be put on a 1/48 Ar 234 fuselage (extended by combining two fuselages) or a 1/48 Bv-141 fuselage-tail section with a vacuumed canopy (parabol shaped) and a V-tail.

[su27rules]

Nice idea!!    

[63cpe]

Weekend update:

The seperate parts of the hortens got cleaned in the laste weeks. To make the intakes look a little more interesting, some turbine faces were found ( home made resin). Same goes for the exhaust. The parts shown are copies of F-18 exhausts. they fit quite well in width of the humps giving the hint of buried engines. To make the exhausts interesting aswell, I'll put some tubing behind the resin F-18 exhausts and do a resin spike cut to length in the tube. The resin spikes I made are in the upper right hand side in the picture below.

PXL_20240407_200143709 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240407_200158587 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

David 63CPE

[63cpe]

Weekend update:

I wasn't really happy with the turbine faces, so I changed them to 1/48 Horten Ho-229's. Also put spikes in the exhausts got it all assembled and puttied all gaps and cuts.

PXL_20240505_205259014 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240505_205312349 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240505_205345946 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240505_205336613 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240505_205354359 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240505_205412737 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

Next up is some PSR-ing.

David aka 63CPE

[63cpe]

And another luft '46 project on the table is this Arado ( probably)...

PXL_20240505_205425430 by Buddy Holly, on Flickr
PXL_20240505_205436348.MP by Buddy Holly, on Flickr

Cheers,
David aka 63CPE

[Wardukw]

I'm liking what's going on here David mate