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Surely one of the lesser known German aircraft, produced in only 7 examples in 1943-44, it was produced by Huma Modell in 1/72 scale in the 90s, with an overall satisfactory result. A few years ago, thanks to the collaboration of a German friend who provided me with new documentation, I decided to build it. The cockpit required some details,

 

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while for the internal surfaces of the semi-fuselages I had to proceed with the construction of the entire structure from scratch.

 

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Wings and tail planes have undergone less important changes.

 

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The aircraft shown is the first prototype, practically the only one of which there are usable images, during the towing tests in Erfurt-Nord in March 1944.

 

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The model is painted in classic 70/71/65 (mix of Humbrol Enamels); the letters of the code are 'printed at home', as those in the kit are slightly incorrect and in any case of poor quality; finally crosses and swastikas come from various sheets.

 

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Unbelievable what you made out of this old kit!  All these details. Looks like a 1/48 model. Perfect paint job too especially the mottling Looks spot on.

 

👍👍👍👍👍🤩🤩🤩

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Great work and result! I have that one in stash, not going to work on it soon, for sure your build will be a reference one for me one day... I hope mine will be a half good of yours... :)  BTW - do you have any (not even good) photo of this machine from series ? 

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J-W

 

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2 hours ago, JWM said:

Great work and result! I have that one in stash, not going to work on it soon, for sure your build will be a reference one for me one day... I hope mine will be a half good of yours... :)  BTW - do you have any (not even good) photo of this machine from series ? 

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J-W

 

Thank you; here some images

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B34

HTH

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Giampiero

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7 hours ago, Giampiero Piva said:

Thank you; here some images

Thank you! Maybe I did not asked properly - I was asking about any photo of any one of 12 )or 7?) production machine ("from series"), because you've wrote :

 

11 hours ago, Giampiero Piva said:

The aircraft shown is the first prototype, practically the only one of which there are usable images, during the towing tests in Erfurt-Nord in March 1944.

and I hoped that you have even "not usable" one....

 

Congrats one more! :)

J-W

 

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1 hour ago, JWM said:

Thank you! Maybe I did not asked properly - I was asking about any photo of any one of 12 )or 7?) production machine ("from series"), because you've wrote :

 

and I hoped that you have even "not usable" one....

 

Congrats one more! :)

J-W

 

Be patient, my english is bad. Did you want to know if there are photos of the other specimens? There are several photos of one or more '430 under construction and a fairly well-known photo of a completely burned-out GoKa.

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44 minutes ago, Giampiero Piva said:

Be patient, my english is bad. Did you want to know if there are photos of the other specimens? There are several photos of one or more '430 under construction and a fairly well-known photo of a completely burned-out GoKa.

Thank you. I was just curios, what exists? There is another code machine on color profile:

kalkert_ka-430-s.gif

and I just wonder if it is whatif or a real thing... The burned (skinned?) one shows nicely inner structure:

15332912383_90b97b54a4_b.jpg

 

but it is said, that it is the first prototype as well. 

 

On a Russian web page (airwar.ru) today I've googled  right now more photos - here as armed one on display (without left wing? Perhaps a mock-up, because it is said that "of 9 ordered only 6 serial machines were produced plus a full scale mock-up for loading tests"):

_bqIHVdqJaJgPd72hQgTWekYstXXXRQ1Kx27c8hn

and few more:

http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/glider/ka430/ka430-2.jpg

http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/glider/ka430/ka430-7.jpg

and a drawing

http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/glider/ka430/ka430-1.gif

 

But... BINGO!? Here is another machine with different scheme and other code! (here: http://alternathistory.com/opytnyj-transportno-desantnyj-planer-kalkert-ka-430-germaniya/)

http://alternathistory.com/sites/default/files/users_/user8959/kalkert_ka_430-08.jpg  (code IK+AV????)

 

Regards

J-W

 

P.S. I have found the another photo of what I thought  depicts production  Ka 430 in fact this is a version of Ghota 242 a-2 with code VM+AV and with rear part of fuselage already very similar to Ka 430... Done for tests...

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2 hours ago, JWM said:

Thank you. I was just curios, what exists? There is another code machine on color profile:

kalkert_ka-430-s.gif

and I just wonder if it is whatif or a real thing... The burned (skinned?) one shows nicely inner structure:

15332912383_90b97b54a4_b.jpg

 

but it is said, that it is the first prototype as well. 

 

On a Russian web page (airwar.ru) today I've googled  right now more photos - here as armed one on display (without left wing? Perhaps a mock-up, because it is said that "of 9 ordered only 6 serial machines were produced plus a full scale mock-up for loading tests"):

_bqIHVdqJaJgPd72hQgTWekYstXXXRQ1Kx27c8hn

and few more:

http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/glider/ka430/ka430-2.jpg

http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/glider/ka430/ka430-7.jpg

and a drawing

http://www.airwar.ru/image/idop/glider/ka430/ka430-1.gif

 

But... BINGO!? Here is another machine with different scheme and other code! (here: http://alternathistory.com/opytnyj-transportno-desantnyj-planer-kalkert-ka-430-germaniya/)

http://alternathistory.com/sites/default/files/users_/user8959/kalkert_ka_430-08.jpg  (code IK+AV????)

 

Regards

J-W

 

P.S. I have found the another photo of what I thought  depicts production  Ka 430 in fact this is a version of Ghota 242 a-2 with code VM+AV and with rear part of fuselage already very similar to Ka 430... Done for tests...

Hi, your 5. image is not a Ka430, but TF430 (Go242 modified). The only known foto of a Versuchs is the following, the V5 'DV+MC'

V5 DV+MC

HTH

Giampiero

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