Arniec Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Hi Guys, Here are some pictures of a model that I placed last year in the Telford (SMW) competition. I have also included the card that I used for this model, so that you know the hole story behind it. The card. Horten Ho-229 C1 Flown by Oberst Martin Drewes Kommodore NJG 1 November 1945 Rheine, Germany Donor kit: Dragon Ho-229 one seater and Ho-229 two seater Decals: The decals are from different sources some are from a Sky decal sheet and the individual letter is from a old 1/72 Revell sheet?! The stencils are from donor kit. Paint: Gunze and Tamiya paint. Changes: The nose was replaced with a “Berlin”nose for a Ju-88 G6 from Quickboost. The front top fuselage of the two seater was sawn of and mated with the back top fuselage of the one seater. This gave some problems with the engine placing etc. But that was all corrected and also the two MK 103 guns were used from the one seater. The gun barrels were a left over from a Do-335 conversion (CMK). I also used a Etch set from Reheat. History: On the 6th of June 1944 the Allied landed in Normandy. But instead of having succes, they were thrown back into the sea. The Allies needed to do a new build up after the heavy losses and there wouldn’t be a new invasion until May 1945. This gave the Germans enough time to halt the Russians near the Polish bourder. This also gave them enough time to bring the Me-262, Ar-234 and the Ho-229 into play. The losses of bombers for the Allies was to great and they would have to wait till the Americans could bring their B-29’s over. What If: The Germans were still having some trouble with the RAF bombers at night. So to have a new night fighter they brought the two seat Horten Ho-229 flying wing forward as a new night fighter. They used a converted “Berlin”radar nose from the Ju 88 G6 to give the night fighter some better performance. NJG 1 was the first unit to get the new Horten night fighter. They were placed at the staf disposall from NJG 1. As a very experienced night fighter and new Commander of NJG 1, Oberst Martin Drewes was the first to fly one from Rheine Air base in the defence of the Ruhr valley. Here are some pictures of the model. Cheers, 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wyverns4 Posted January 24, 2017 Share Posted January 24, 2017 Nice job! Interesting take on the development of the radar. Christian, exiled to africa 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickyrich Posted January 26, 2017 Share Posted January 26, 2017 see is certainly a great build Arnold, I love it....and my version is still waiting to be built, now though minus the new nose, that's ended up on the 388! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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