discussion Horten Ho-229, 1/72, What-if

[PaulTRose]

doing this for a whiff GB on another forum


years ago i had a long running whiff saga and im planning on revisiting it with this..........back story when its done.....if it gets done cos we all now what the quality of PM Models are like lol


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plan is something along the lines of Regia Aeronautica with bombs and drop tanks underneath.....but we shall see

 

[Guest]

Looking forward to this.

 

[eddiesolo]

Interesting...looks nice and simple so upgrading and adapting should be easy...ish.

 

[Robert1968]

This looks good and the idea is sound. I only built 1 Ho 229 before a few years ago and I thought it went together well. I don't think it was a PM model though.


Looking forward to this


Regards


Robert

 

[papa 695]

Looking at the sprue count Paul, it looks like it's nearly completed already.

 

[PaulTRose]

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pretty much together......added a greeblie on the back and big pitot tube thing up front....masked the canopy so it will change the look a little when it gets painted


hope to get some paint on tomorrow

 

[Guest]

Coming along well.

 

[Snowman]

Science fact even before it was science fiction..... an amazing kite!!

 

[Guest]

Weird machine, great to see this one coming together Paul.

 

[flyjoe180]

Looking good Paul. Way ahead of it's time.

 

[PaulTRose]

the one thing i like about whiffs is that you can use whatever colours you want to make whatever scheme you can think of and no one can tell you its wrong lol lol


needs a little touching up then i can do some decaling then a matt coat and get it on some wheels


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[Guest]

I did a what if luft 46 Horton a while back, so watching this for sure! Great looking cammo scheme.

 

[Guest]

Nice camo pattern.

 

[PaulTRose]

so just had a minor glitch


he decals i am using are some left over from an airfix stuka from a couple of years back


the ones for the topside with the white background started to break up so i ended up using the ones meant for underside so they have ended up looking like modern low-vis................and since they ended up on the brown bit of the camo they arnt very visible at all

 

[yak face]

Looking great paul , its very spanish civil war condor legion , cheers tony

 

[papa 695]

Looking good Paul

 

[PaulTRose]

and finished,..............


cheap and nasty kit, as you would expect from PM, main bug bear was the decals, some left over from a Stuka years ago, the white ones broke up so had to use the plain ones as low vis one


awkward shape to photograph lol


more pics and a back story in the finished thread


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