JWM Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Hi In a triple conversion from Heller kits the last one - Potez 651. The build thread is here Accordingly to typical French nomenclature for Interwar airplanes the "651" is a variant of Potez 65. But the story is a bit more difficult. The well known bomber Potez 540 has variants 541, 542 and 543. The last one was build for Romania and was equipped with radial Gnome Rhone engines. On the other hand the civilian (passenger) machine Potez 62 was constructed basing on that bomber. She had completely new, wider by 30 cm fuselage (what made also bigger wingspan by the same 30 cm) and engines, tail and wings taken from "540". The civilian machine was back militarized into a transport variant named Potez 65. And Romania, who used radial engine driven "543" ordered modified "65" with the same radial engines and moreover - with provision to be used as bomber. So in fact the "651" was not just a transport machine but it was transport-bomber one. The additional window in floor was installed with bombardier position behind it and (most likely - this is not confirmed unfortunately) with machine gun defence position on top of fuselage. Only four were delivered to Romania and and used along one militarized in Romania "62" as paratroopers transport or ambulance. Here she is: Comments welcome Regards Jerzy-Wojtek 41 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbadbadge Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Oh wow that's a fantastic model , great scratcbuilding work . This is quite an unusual and nice looking French Machine. Great background too. All the best Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spitfire31 Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 A simply great looking bomber/transport/etc. conversion! Kind regards, Joachim 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehnz Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 A really nice job on that J-W, it is really a rather handsome aircraft & I reckon you've caught its looks well. Steve. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dogsbody Posted August 14, 2020 Share Posted August 14, 2020 Nicely done! Chris 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RidgeRunner Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Wonderfully different, Jerry! :). I love it! Martin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VG 33 Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 What a nice and long job on this one Jerzy ! Congratulations. Patrick 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wez Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Great result, well done Jerzy, interesting beast too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 That's quite a jib of work, Sir! Very impressive result. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevehed Posted August 15, 2020 Share Posted August 15, 2020 Very nice. From one of aviation historys lesser known chapters. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woody37 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Loving these French birds on Britmodeller at the moment although this is wearing different clothes. Excellent build as usual, I'm always amazed by your ability to hack and fill to create things that look like they came straight out of the box. I've just gone back over your WIP, rally impressive. That canopy is a piece of art in itself, each piece individually fitted 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KRK4m Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Not so-totally scratch-built as the Bloch 220, but nevertheless a huge amount of work was necessary. And the result is (for me at least) more interesting than the MB220. Those French twins from the 30s are so ugly as to be cute. Cheers Michael 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vinnie Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 What a nice build and unusual scheme. Well done, Jerzy. I have a Potez next up from under the bench. I need to research it a little to see if I can find a less run of the mill scheme for it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 16, 2020 Author Share Posted August 16, 2020 (edited) On 8/14/2020 at 9:06 PM, bigbadbadge said: Oh wow that's a fantastic model , great scratcbuilding work . This is quite an unusual and nice looking French Machine. Great background too. All the best Chris Many thanks! The scratchbuilding is the essence of modelling... Joachim, Chris, Steve, Patrick. Martin, Wez, Old Man, Stevehed, Woody37 - Many thanks! I appreciate your comments. 4 hours ago, KRK4m said: Not so-totally scratch-built as the Bloch 220, but nevertheless a huge amount of work was necessary. And the result is (for me at least) more interesting than the MB220. Those French twins from the 30s are so ugly as to be cute. Cheers Michael Thanks but in fact the build of Potez was a bit more difficult then that of MB - due to reshaping of engine gondolas and whole not simple geometry of airplane as well as the structure on surface of fuselage. 3 hours ago, Vinnie said: What a nice build and unusual scheme. Well done, Jerzy. I have a Potez next up from under the bench. I need to research it a little to see if I can find a less run of the mill scheme for it. Thank yoy! If you are talking on Potez 54x there are several schemes from Spanish Civil War, also the Romanian 543 (although with the redial engines and reshaped engine gondolas) as well as transport schemes for both Vichy and FFAF. Here is mine: But this Vichy from Indochina is perhaps the most attracting: or such FFAF: Romanian 543 Best regards J-W Edited August 16, 2020 by JWM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty84 Posted August 16, 2020 Share Posted August 16, 2020 Wow, another one of your great conversions I'm always glued to your scratch builds as you always do subjects off the beaten path (which I'm a big fan of) and your Potez 651 came our really nice! Cheers Markus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 On 8/16/2020 at 8:51 PM, Shorty84 said: Wow, another one of your great conversions I'm always glued to your scratch builds as you always do subjects off the beaten path (which I'm a big fan of) and your Potez 651 came our really nice! Cheers Markus Markus - many thanks! The number of possible scratch builds is diminishing with new released models and already completed... One of next challenging conversion which I just realized is build of Ju 90 from Revell Ju-290. There is completly different wing, but I have to look more carefully on it... Regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wulfman Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Great conversion, great looking model, excellent work ! Wulfman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty84 Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 9 minutes ago, JWM said: One of next challenging conversion which I just realized is build of Ju 90 from Revell Ju-290. There is completly different wing, but I have to look more carefully on it... Well, if you want to build a Ju 90 (with the wings coming from the Ju 89) I may suggest the following build of a Ju 89 from a Ju 290 on a German forum, maybe you can draw some ideas from there: https://www.modellboard.net/index.php?topic=63635.0 Cheers Markus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 17, 2020 Author Share Posted August 17, 2020 5 minutes ago, Shorty84 said: Well, if you want to build a Ju 90 (with the wings coming from the Ju 89) I may suggest the following build of a Ju 89 from a Ju 290 on a German forum, maybe you can draw some ideas from there: https://www.modellboard.net/index.php?topic=63635.0 Cheers Markus Very interesting link! Thank you. Best regards J-W 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
exhausted Posted August 17, 2020 Share Posted August 17, 2020 Killed it with an awesome subject 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
occa Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 Your builds sometimes look like a battlefield (no wonder with so much ingenious scratch building involved) But the results are simply fantastic especially this one !!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bangseat Posted August 18, 2020 Share Posted August 18, 2020 I must admit I didn't read your WiP so I just googled Heller Potez 540 to remind myself and that was enough to appreciate what an epic journey this has been from the original kit - bravo! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JWM Posted August 19, 2020 Author Share Posted August 19, 2020 Gents, many thanks for comments! Appreciated. On 8/18/2020 at 12:11 PM, occa said: Your builds sometimes look like a battlefield (no wonder with so much ingenious scratch building involved) But the results are simply fantastic especially this one !!! Martin, indeed sometimes I think that I should be more tide on intermediate states, especially I should think how it looks when photographed... Due to COVID my trip to Vienna is postponed if not cancelled.. But I still belive to have a beer one day with you. regards J-W . 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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