Beyond The Sprues
Modelling => Ideas & Inspiration => Aero-space => Topic started by: finsrin on March 22, 2012, 08:45:40 AM
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This as an FYI --- heard today from a reliable source that Revell will soon re-release 1/72 Arado 555 kit.
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Yeah. I saw it on the Cybermodeler kit release table: http://www.cybermodeler.com/special/kit_release_sched.shtml (http://www.cybermodeler.com/special/kit_release_sched.shtml)
I have one but I would love to have a 2nd.
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OpEd: They're a cool kit and all but every time I see a completed one, I think of a fattened frisbee. :o
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Scale-o-Rama it into 1/48...
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If anyone is looking for a thoroughly enjoyable, big model to build, this is it. No major fit issues, finely detailed and plenty of whiffing potential.
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Make one into a Lufthansa 46' plane, first jet airliner. Use some 144th airliner hull bits with the 555 to make a cabin.
Maybe a Mistel with a Go 229 as the upper part.
Go Asymmetrical, Tophe style- put the cockpit ahead of the LH fin.
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Luft46 - Arado Ar-555 (http://www.luft46.com/arado/are555s.html)
Click on image or html to view
(http://www.luft46.com/arado/3bae555.jpg) (http://www.luft46.com/arado/are555s.html)
(Image source: Luft46.com (http://www.luft46.com))
Wikipedia - Arado E.555 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arado_E.555)
IPMS Stockholm - The Arado Ar E.555 Flying Wing of the Luftwaffe written by by Ingemar Caisander (http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazine/2001/09/caisander_ar555.htm)
Military Factory - Arado E.555 Long-Range / High-Speed Bomber (http://www.militaryfactory.com/aircraft/detail.asp?aircraft_id=666)
Modeling Madness - Revell Arado E.555 built by Scott Van Aken (http://modelingmadness.com/scotts/axis/luft/e555.htm)
Modeling Madness - Revell Arado E.555 built by Brian Tucker (http://hsfeatures.com/e555bt_1.htm)
Revell Germany 1/72nd scale Arado Ar.E-555 kit review by Ray Mehlberger (http://www.internetmodeler.com/2001/may/first-looks/Revell_Arado.htm)
RC Groups.com - Arado E.555 remote controlled flying model built by Josef Poisinger (http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=180962)
RC Groups.com - Arado E.555 remote controlled flying model built by Richard Jones (http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1401841)
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The Arado E.555 certainly appears to be very popular with the remote control crowd.
A possible "upgrade" for E.555 might be to try and mount a pair of A-10 engines in place of the smaller jet units.
How about a fighter type canopy and windscreen for the pilot? Maybe off-set to one side like the Vixen and Canberra?
The E.555 is begging for a dash of scale-o-rama to turn it into a fighter bomber.
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I've been hording two of these for quite a while, never able to build them as they were worth money. Now that they're re-issued, I can safely start hacking away!
Alvis 3.1
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I'm tempted to get another one just for the turrets-I've tried scratching some of the Luftwaffe remote
turrets, but.... :-[
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Something I did a while back:
(http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e68/GTwiner/melbsyd/ArE555FS-1.jpg)
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Greg:
How about a group buy and then a group build of Arado 555s? ;D
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Did not know about this coming releases web page http://www.cybermodeler.com/special/kit_release_sched.shtml (http://www.cybermodeler.com/special/kit_release_sched.shtml) thanks for sharing it.
1/72 P-26 will be released again too. Pick one up whenever I find a P-26. Have configuration planned and parts for next version: P-26D.
Link to 555 variants plus Greg's variation are inspiring for doing bashes of them. Even OOB it is like a bash. Think four are in the stash.
Am envisioning many ways to go with bashes. With only paint and markings changes it would look cool as another RAF V bomber and/or serving in SAC. Yes - good subject for a group build.
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Notice that Arado 555 does not have "reissue" behind it, where as P-26 does.
Might be modified with more features.
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What about a Soviet counterpart to this beauty by ujik:
(http://www.modelforum.cz/download/file.php?id=1031456) (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=4957.0)
Click image to see more.
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I'm thinking of flipping the wing ..... a bit of work hacking & swopping the main u/c bay over tho.
A Jap version ...
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Ya mind editing that to a 'Japanese' version?
You may not get it, but in North America, particularly the West Coast, your version is an insult with a shitload of baggage.
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Scale-o-Rama it into 1/48...
Terry 'braincells37' Moore has done just that, with an I16 turbo-jet engine and A-10 rudders as the Northrop N17 for the 2015 IPMS-Seattle Show 'Modelfy'.
Sorry I didn't take any pics.
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Scale-o-Rama it into 1/48...
Terry 'braincells37' Moore has done just that, with an I16 turbo-jet engine and A-10 rudders as the Northrop N17 for the 2015 IPMS-Seattle Show 'Modelfy'.
Sorry I didn't take any pics.
Saw it. Different and looking good.
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I was directed to this modified Ju 555 over at Brit Modeller (http://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/234981151-junkers-ju-555-revell-172/) by ANovaScotian.
(https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-CEwA4ZlXsyk/VUUXdciX0aI/AAAAAAAABOE/d9AfmXj2kiM/w830-h583-no/Ar%2B01.jpg)
Where did the engines go? ;)
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Wow!! I like. did you send an invite?
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Wow!! I like. did you send an invite?
Yes sir. Invite has been dispatched by carrier pigeon.
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Built this a while back.
Modified the layout of the engine to match a Luft '46 drawing I found in a Secret Projects book.
This book was also the inspiration for the 4 gun turret.
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Love all these 555 builds :-*
Someday maybe will build one.
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Love all these 555 builds :-*
Someday maybe will build one.
You should! It's a really enjoyable kit to build. Since everyone is showing their baby pet Ar 555 pictures:
(http://frank.bol.ucla.edu/Images/Ar555/E555B.JPG)
(http://frank.bol.ucla.edu/Images/Ar555/E555L.JPG)
(http://frank.bol.ucla.edu/Images/Ar555/E555U.JPG)
It's still in my model display tower after 16 years.
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Great builds fellas!
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Highly advanced German jet bombers have made it across the Atlantic and now threaten New York!
Space-age technology years ahead of the Allies allows the Luftwaffe to strike back! America’s nose bloodied!
Hitler’s new fighting jets open a terrifying new front in a truly global war! War Cabinet sent reeling!
If those sound like headlines from a pulp fiction novel, dime-store boy’s annual or some kind of alternate history movie poster, then you’re pretty much on the right track. However, it’s also an accurate depiction of the box art on one of my favourite models of all time, the ultra-futuristic Arado E.555. This titan of Luft ’46 subjects is still a kit I can’t believe that a mainstream kit producer actually made, nevermind that it has seen multiple releases! The crazy part is that this 6-engined flying wing was a real project, this particular variant being the first in a family of “Amerika Bombers” developed by Arado.
For a look at this “not-quite-ripped-from-the-headlines” bomber, check out the link below!
https://adamrehorn.wordpress.com/revell-germany-1-72-arado-e-555-out-of-box/
(https://adamrehorn.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/e555-oob-001.jpg?w=500)
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I have one for conversion into a 1/48 jet fighter ca. 1950's/1960's. ;)
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Hail HYDRA.
Carry on.
[$20 retail, now $50 - $100 on the second hand market? Alrighty then....]
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<...> [$20 retail, now $50 - $100 on the second hand market? Alrighty then....]
What? :o Prices already up again? They only re-boxed this recently.
EDIT: Scalemates tells me the re-release was in 2012. So much for recently. :-X Time really does fly. Whether there's fun being had or not. :uuu:
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Can see building as GB, US (SAC/TAC), USSR. Is ripe for engine changes.