Sonderkommando 'Elbe' in the skies over Germany. 7th April 1945.

[spanner570]

Thanks for your input boys....

John, yes, the u/c was indeed fastened to the fuselage. Hence the very splayed look to the legs when on the ground, to try and widen the main undercarriage

........ as the B-17 even in 1/72 scale is quite big so how you an justin will get this into pics is beyond us....
chris an jen

Chris. Me too! :fearful:
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[Mini Me]

She's looking good there 570........landing gear looks just right. Should be great fun when things start to "come together"....in mid air, that is. :thumb2: Rick H.

[boatman]

She's looking good there 570........landing gear looks just right. Should be great fun when things start to "come together"....in mid air, that is. :thumb2: Rick H.

Rick dont you mean apart lol
chris

[stona]

John, yes, the u/c was indeed fastened to the fuselage. Hence the very splayed look to the legs when on the ground, to try and widen the main undercarriage

It was allegedly a transport requirement in the original specification. You could take the wings off and still be able to roll the fuselage onto a train for transport. Fuselage and disassembled wings could fit a standard railcar. To do that with most British aircraft required a crane. Nobody has found that specification, but it has come down by word of mouth from people who were there. I first read it in Radinger and Schick's old history of the A-E models.

I'm looking forward to the B-17. Even at 1/72 it will be a decent size, so plenty of scope for damage!

[minitnkr]

Top Marks.

[boatman]

RON would you mind putting up the write of this https://www.scale-models.co.uk/threa...il-1945.37511/ as i wanted to read about this but my p/c keeps saying cant reach this page so i cant see what this was all about as i never knew about this i knew the japense did in their kamakaze raids but not the germans ?
CHEERS Ron if you can ?
chris

[spanner570]

Thanks everyone.

Rick. "Fun" might not be quite the word. - 'Interesting' might fit the bill better.

Steve. I did my best with the camo., and based on our chat, I hope the damage so far is o.k.?

Paul. Thank you for your post too.

Chris. Try typing in 'Sonderkommando Elbe' in your search thingy. That might do the trick.
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The last piece of major wreckage. I think it is the airbrake, or summat like, off the trailing edge of the wing....Help!


One standard 1/72 pilot. Suitably cut up and modified. He might have a bit of chute attached, I'll see........


Apart from a few bits of flying aluuminiyuum, I think that's basically it for the 109.

Cheers and thanks for all your continued support. All much appreciated. :thumb2:

Ron

[adt70hk]

Said it before. Will say it again.

LOVE IT!!!!! :blow-kiss-2::blow-kiss-2::blow-kiss-2::blow-kiss-2:

[GerryW]

Thanks everyone.

Rick. "Fun" might not be quite the word. - 'Interesting' might fit the bill better.

Steve. I did my best with the camo., and based on our chat, I hope the damage so far is o.k.?

Paul. Thank you for your post too.

Chris. Try typing in 'Sonderkommando Elbe' in your search thingy. That might do the trick.
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The last piece of major wreckage. I think it is the airbrake, or summat like, off the trailing edge of the wing....Help!
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One standard 1/72 pilot. Suitably cut up and modified. He might have a bit of chute attached, I'll see........
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Apart from a few bits of flying aluuminiyuum, I think that's basically it for the 109.

Cheers and thanks for all your continued support. All much appreciated. :thumb2:

Ron

Reading what I've got on these, they were issued with chutes (I was surprised by that, as I don't think that the Japanese were) but only enough fuel for the one way trip - the 'Legion of Aces' were their 'guardians' for the trip in their ME262s.

[boatman]

Try typing in 'Sonderkommando Elbe' in your search thingy. That might do the trick.
(RON QOUTE)
I TREID that Ron an no go it just says cant reach this page
chris

[GerryW]

Try typing in 'Sonderkommando Elbe' in your search thingy. That might do the trick.
(RON QOUTE)
I TREID that Ron an no go it just says cant reach this page
chris

Could try "WW2 operation werewolf"? No, that doesn't work, brings up the other aspects of the last ditch 'defence'
Try this link (takes you to wikipedia)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonderkommando_Elbe

[boatman]

Could try "WW2 operation werewolf"?

OK Cheers Gerry i'll give it a try
chris

[boatman]

Thanks Gerry it worked an i got to see it never knew about this well thay say you learn something every day well i have
cheers for the link
ATB Chris

[spanner570]

......they were issued with chutes.

Yes, I read this and more when I was doing a bit of a swat before I started on the build. The instructions were to bale out just before or just after impact! No wonder so few survived.

Also, the armour plating and all weapons, bar the spinner m.g. were removed.

Talk about a one way trip!

[outrunner]

Just loving this Ron, great bit of imaginitive building, or perhaps the word should be destruction.

Andy.