bar side Posted October 17, 2020 Posted October 17, 2020 I started building 1/72 German WW2 jet & rocket models years ago and when I started building kits a few years back I got a Revell Messerschmitt P1099B kit. I saw some Luft 46 sketches of the P1099 built with just the upper rear facing guns and since the kit came with a rounded nose option I built it that way. I went on to start a Horton Go 229 kit as that aircraft always fascinated me. About half way through I started building 1/48 Cold War jets and the Go 229 got shifted to the shelf of doom. About 5 or more years ago I guess. Then recently @The Spadgent started his multi build project and I thought the Go 229 needed to be finished. So here they both are. Not the greatest builds, thing I would do differently now, but I like them, hope you do too. 24
The Spadgent Posted October 17, 2020 Posted October 17, 2020 Wowa!! Wait a minute what the hell is that? 😛 A Messerschmitt P1099B!! holy hell that’s me with my hand in my pocket again. 🤩🤩🤩 Both builds are brilliant and I’m glad I might of had a small hand in bringing the Horton back from the grave. You can be very proud of both. Did you do a WIP for the p1099b ? Johnny 1
bar side Posted October 17, 2020 Author Posted October 17, 2020 ‘Fraid not on the P1099 - probably more than 10 years ago that one was built, before I thought about taking pictures & posting them on the web. Always had a soft spot for the designs coming from Oberammergau at the end of the war. It looked a brute but given the Ar 234 needed boosters I suspect the P1099 would have been badly under powered. But by comparison the Me262 twin seat night fighters looked very tame. I was very lucky to find all of the Horton bits TBH! Need to dig the rest out one day - a battered Me163, He162 mistel set and a Natter and Fi103. It all started with a Matchbox 262 kit as a kid. 1
dogsbody Posted October 17, 2020 Posted October 17, 2020 I've got one of each of those kits. A few years back, I was thinking of building the 1099 but without the nose turret and adding a radar nose cone. But I couldn't find anything that would fit. Since then, I've been thinking of sawing the nose off my Matchbox Beaufighter and using that, or perhaps the cone in my Airfix Beau TF.10. Chris 1
bar side Posted October 18, 2020 Author Posted October 18, 2020 That could work @dogsbody - seems most likely to be a night fighter although the daytime USAF bomber streams would be a target too. I did fancy doing the P1101. That was the first one my dad used to tell me about. How the Germans had built a jet with changeable wing sweep before the end of the war. And how that became the Bell X5. Also wanted the Ar555. 1
Mig88 Posted October 18, 2020 Posted October 18, 2020 Lovely job on both! They look great! I have both in my stash and have built the other Revell kit of the P1099, without the big guns (posted here some time ago). Miguel
bar side Posted October 18, 2020 Author Posted October 18, 2020 Thank @Mig88 just had a look at yours & that is very nice. I should really have left the lower forward guns in place but I built this one years ago. 1
opus999 Posted October 18, 2020 Posted October 18, 2020 I think they both look terrific. You should be proud of those! I've got the Horton kit in the stash, and I'm getting more and more interested in working on it now. 1
bar side Posted October 24, 2020 Author Posted October 24, 2020 Finally got the rest of them together in the loft. I used to have a couple of Me262s and an Ar234, but this is most of what I have now. The He162 on top of the mistel is still one of my favourites 5
The Spadgent Posted October 25, 2020 Posted October 25, 2020 20 hours ago, bar side said: Finally got the rest of them together in the loft. I used to have a couple of Me262s and an Ar234, but this is most of what I have now. The He162 on top of the mistel is still one of my favourites They all look great. I love that offset one. 😍 Johnny
bar side Posted October 25, 2020 Author Posted October 25, 2020 48 minutes ago, The Spadgent said: They all look great. I love that offset one. 😍 Johnny That’s a Blohm & Voss BV 141. Always intrigued by them. Used a lot for observation over Russia 1
SafetyDad Posted October 25, 2020 Posted October 25, 2020 48 minutes ago, The Spadgent said: They all look great. I love that offset one. 😍 Johnny Ooh Johnny! If you fall down this particular (Luft 46 that is) rabbit hole, then there ain't no hope of rescue! SD 1
bar side Posted October 25, 2020 Author Posted October 25, 2020 Then there are the post war actuals as well as the might have been designs. Kurt Tank’s South American designs, US post Operation Paperclip designs like the Bell X5, and evening Russian designs like this That is one of my favourites, the OKB-1 140. Or the French operated He 274s. It’s not just one rabbit hole, it’s a whole warren. 1 1
jackroadkill Posted October 25, 2020 Posted October 25, 2020 Wow, how cool are these? The Horten looks unreal! 1
bar side Posted October 25, 2020 Author Posted October 25, 2020 Cheers @jackroadkill turned out ok for a half built on the shelf of doom project. 1
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