I think almost every modeler has a copy of the BI-1 rocket fighter. It was made by several Eastern European companies and eventually made its way into the West.
Scalemates lists my copy as made by Modelist:
It is a bad kit. I have two copies; both are flashy and one had a short shot fuselage half. Not that it mattered; the fit and flash is very poor. The kits have rattled around my junk kit box for almost 30 years.
I saw a kit of the
OKB Chelomey 16Kha "Priboy", a twin pulsejet Russian knockoff of the V-1:
It looked like an interesting design. While letting Felix visit the model closet, I saw a kit of the Me328; the Huma version came with two pulse engines... so after some thinking, I remembered that I had two Argus pulsejets from the Huma He280 kit.
I thought that combining the two Argus engines (with longer exhaust pipes) and the BI-1 would be easy... I was wrong. The engine modification was no problem, but the BI-1 was just such a bad kit. I struggled throughout the build and painting and decided to just finish it before it ended flying into a wall.
The paint job is awful. The engines decided to wobble out of place. The number is the year and month I finished this POS:
I added a better seat, instrument panel and control stick... but why?
Thanks for reading; I'm just glad it's done.