Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Aero-space => Topic started by: Faust on November 05, 2020, 06:23:50 AM
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The fun part about modelling is that you can be as exacting or as imaginative as you want to be, depending on the subject. Normally, planes don’t lend themselves to much in the way of imagination, but there are plenty of niche types that offer some creative freedom. A perfect example of that is the realm of “Luft ‘46”. This umbrella covers real and conceptual aircraft that were being designed for the future Luftwaffe before the end of the War in 1945.
Luft ’46 is one of my favourite subtopics, and in fact is the reason I got back into building plane models about 20 years ago. Early on, I couldn’t find a lot of good Luft ’46 kits, but that didn’t stop me from making my own! On perfect example of this is my jet conversion of the ancient (and terrible) Me-109 from Heller/Airfix. This is an old build, but I still like it, and I thought I should share it.
Check it out, and don’t tell me the Germans didn’t come up with weirder ideas!
https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/1-72-messerschmitt-me-709-a-1/
(https://adamrehorn.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/me609-001.jpg?w=450)
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Indeed they did, Me-109TL and an Me-410 with one or two BMW 003, of course three would
be overkill.
;D :icon_fsm:
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Normally, planes don’t lend themselves to much in the way of imagination,
Have you actually looked at this site &, especially, this forum? ??? :-\
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IIRC, Unicraft makes a conversion for something very similar but I quite appreciate the look of your conversion.
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Looks good! You could convince someone that the Russians copied the design to make the Yak-15 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yakovlev_Yak-15) - same engine, similar layout, similar conversion from a prop plane.
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IIRC, Unicraft makes a conversion for something very similar but I quite appreciate the look of your conversion.
Agreed, Faust's version has a much better look to it. The Bf 109 TL doesn't show up in the Unicraft catalogue anymore. There was a 1/32nd resin conversion for the Hasegawa 'G/'K kit around for a while.