WV908 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Well, I don't think anyone saw this coming! A resin kit in 1/48 of the Vickers-built Nazi Flying Wing from Raiders of the lost ark! Link provided, but as usual if someone could embed it please that would be great https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10220416526074594&id=1574306165 Cheers, WV908 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Excellent news, have always wanted to build this, a model of a model I guess! What does Vickers have to do with though? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WV908 Posted August 2, 2020 Author Share Posted August 2, 2020 8 minutes ago, 71chally said: What does Vickers have to do with though? Vickers built it Cheers, WV908 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 (edited) Surely it's based on a fictional Arado or Blohm & Voss type thing? Edited August 2, 2020 by 71chally 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
john224 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 1 hour ago, 71chally said: Surely it's based on a fictional Arado or Blohm & Voss type thing? Seems to have been based on designs produced by the Horten and Lippisch aircraft companies, but the film prop was built by Vickers. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
janneman36 Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 It is a nice project but I have my concerns about the shape of the fuselage and turret as it looks to bulky to me.. Still interesting that someone took up the idea, but plastic and in 1/72 would be a nice kit I think 😏 cheers, Jan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 5 hours ago, john224 said: Seems to have been based on designs produced by the Horten and Lippisch aircraft companies, but the film prop was built by Vickers. Genuinely never heard that before now, certainly worthy of more information as the well known Vickers aircraft company had long gone by then. Referenced here, https://indianajones.fandom.com/wiki/Flying_Wing I was looking for details this afternoon, hadn't realised that there was a 72nd resin kit released some time ago aswel, that looks quite nice. I have to agree with Jan above, something does look a bit 'clunky' with this one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTX Posted August 2, 2020 Share Posted August 2, 2020 Some photos for those of us not wanting to join facebook: 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Homebee Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 7 hours ago, GTX said: Some photos for those of us not wanting to join facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marco.ferrari.773776/posts/10158259872794760 V.P. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 As originally conceived it would have had a lot more engines 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malpaso Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 I always thought the landing gear seemed clunky, heavy and not very 30s aircraft like. But thinking about it, that is probably the main drive for the aircraft to be able circle on the pan, causing mayhem with Marion trapped inside! Loved the film since I saw it at Leicester Square the first week it was released... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 3 hours ago, Work In Progress said: As originally conceived it would have had a lot more engines now that does look cool, what is the source for that drawing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 https://fictional-flying-machines.fandom.com/wiki/BV-38_Flying_Wing 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Lambess Posted August 3, 2020 Share Posted August 3, 2020 13 hours ago, 71chally said: now that does look cool, what is the source for that drawing? It's also in several books on the making of Raiders . Originally designed by Ron Cobb I believe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Madoc Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 Well, there was one done in 1/72nd. Resin, not plastic though... https://fantastic-plastic.com/BV-32FlyingWing.htm 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truro Model Builder Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 How about aftermarket figures of Indy and the big German mechanic played by Pat Roach having a punch up? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
71chally Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 8 hours ago, Madoc said: Well, there was one done in 1/72nd. Resin, not plastic though... https://fantastic-plastic.com/BV-32FlyingWing.htm That one does look really good, apparently though when it is available it is well over a £100! Whenever I see the one in the film I imagine it to be a prototype that had to be pressed into service in a hurry to carry out the vital task, the drawing above really does look like a great production version, though I think I would have stopped with four engines! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GTX Posted August 4, 2020 Share Posted August 4, 2020 How does one acquire this kit? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thom216 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 On 8/3/2020 at 2:48 AM, Work In Progress said: As originally conceived it would have had a lot more engines Wow, love all the extra engines! Looks like a beast that way. It was a great sequence in the movie, though being older now I always wonder where the crate was going to go..? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 Oh, it;s a totally hopeless concept for actual aviation. Apart from anything else the CG would be entirely in the wrong place and you'd be totallt dependent on variable loads like fuel, crew, ammo and any bombs or freight to make it controllable. Which is all good fun until you actually try to expend or offload any of those assets. Also of course it's basically Luft '46 design ethic which makes no sense whatsoever in a film set in 1933. Should be more of frilly Dornier and paper-baggy. design Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Work In Progress Posted August 6, 2020 Share Posted August 6, 2020 (edited) On 8/2/2020 at 6:50 PM, 71chally said: Genuinely never heard that before now, certainly worthy of more information as the well known Vickers aircraft company had long gone by then. That was news to me too, and I treat the claim with a degree of suspicion, though it seems to be generally accepted in movie-land. However, unless it's blatantly wrong, and consistently so across all Raiders lore, there are two possibilities. While the aviation businesses formerly owned by Vickers had been folded into BAC by then, and BAC into BAe, Vickers as an engineering conglomerate was itself very much still a thing with multiple engineering operations. So there's no real reason why one of the many Vickers businesses could not have done it. It was not, after all, an aeroplane, or even a replica aeroplane. Just a steel-framed bolt-together knock-down shippable structure of a certain external shape which was required to stand up to a high degree of abuse from cast and crew, and pivot slowly around one of its undercarriage legs while doing spinny prop stuff. Alternatively it might have been made at Brooklands by the former Vickers folk who at that stage were still active making various components for other BAe types. These days I'd just get Colin Furze to knock me one up. Bonus movie trivia content: The Waco floatplane used in the opening sequence was given a fake registration as a nod to Star Wars Edited August 6, 2020 by Work In Progress 6 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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