Takom Wings 1/32 Ho 229A & B

[CRAZY IVAN5]

10 hours ago, dutik said:

May I suggest another Gotha for kit number 3?

 

 

Gotha P.60

German late-war fighter/nightfighter project.

 

Regards

- dutik

Heavens to Mergatroid, Nooooooooooo!

[thierry laurent]

At least they are again demonstrating model kit companies marketeers are really coming from another planet (if you still had a minimum of doubt)! This puzzles me. IF they absolutely want to make jet prototypes with swastikas, why not choosing not yet covered ones that actually existed and flew (e.g. He-280)!?! I guess this is probably because such mid-war planes do not have the Luft 46 manta ray coolness factor...? 

[LSP_Mike]

A 1/32 kit of a Nakajima Kikka would work for me.

[Tony T]

5 hours ago, thierry laurent said:

At least they are again demonstrating model kit companies marketeers are really coming from another planet (if you still had a minimum of doubt)! This puzzles me. IF they absolutely want to make jet prototypes with swastikas, why not choosing not yet covered ones that actually existed and flew (e.g. He-280)!?! I guess this is probably because such mid-war planes do not have the Luft 46 manta ray coolness factor...? 

 

It's increasingly being steered by AI which means our opinions are being read, but not by humans. 

Unfortunately the Reichsluftfahrtministerium is very much alive on the internet.

 

Which is why what we really want are Aerospace Defense Command jets, Royal Air Force Cold War jets, jets from Avions Marcel Dassault, jets from Artem Mikoyan and Mikhail Gurevich, VVS Sukhois, SAAB jets, jets that were operational in the 1950s-1980s, 1:32nd scale, English Electric, Convair, McDonnell-Douglas, Blackburn, Hawker-Siddeley — thank you AI, for watching what we really want.

 

Tata for now,

 

Tony

[Troy Molitor]

Diving into the conversation here.  Wouldn't you think the Ho-229B should have a more modern version of the latest Luftwaffe radar arrangements provided?  The FuG-240/ FuG 340 Berlin N-1a with a plywood nose cap?  The rarer Morgenstern SN-2 even?  The last few Ju-88's had these newer type radars installed at the conclusion of WWII and all under a plywood radome.  I'll certainly take a Ho 229B in hopes they will produce something really new like an F-102 or 106 in 1:32.  A simple early P-38 version or a newer Bristol Beaufighter, perhaps a P-51B?  Hello?  I don't even build post war jets but I'd love to see one of you dabble with a new century type jet with loads of colorful fin markings. Typhoon.  Endless.  

 

I'm also on a short term consultant gig here in Tucson Arizona.  I just drove past the Arizona National Guard base and they had a static display F-16, F-84, F-100 and a F-102 or 106 I couldn't tell while driving past last one and seeing them all at a glance.   

[CRAZY IVAN5]

7 hours ago, LSP_Mike said:

A 1/32 kit of a Nakajima Kikka would work for me.

Yeah, that would be cool. A 1/32kit of an Oscar would be better[ I should say new tool] . The way I look at all these Hortons and He-280s hell any of the Luft 46 stuff is they're German X planes not really a huge point of interest to me , to each their own though. I'd  rather companies concentrate on aircraft that weren't experimental and there's plenty to choose from .

[Troy Molitor]

Not to make any alarm bells go off here but L.E.M already make a resin Kikka in 1/32.  Just saying.  Again the LEM kits seriously are fun to build too.  

[D Bellis]

19 minutes ago, Troy Molitor said:

L.E.M already make a resin Kikka in 1/32.

Ditto all of Troy's post above. I enjoyed building mine (although I have yet to mask and spray the canopy frames). Link to the kit:

https://lemkits.com/product/1-32-nakajima-kikka-imperial-japanese-navy-jet-fighter-limited-edition-kit/

 

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[LSP_Mike]

Well, I like it. The price is a hang up for me, but the kit looks good.

[Troy Molitor]

I doubt anyone else is going to dabble in this kit in the near future and it was seriously fun to put together.  I want to strip mine down again and repaint the fuselage.  L.E.M. kits are really fun to put together for a resin kit.  

[Archimedes]

2 hours ago, CRAZY IVAN5 said:

Yeah, that would be cool. A 1/32kit of an Oscar would be better[ I should say new tool] . The way I look at all these Hortons and He-280s hell any of the Luft 46 stuff is they're German X planes not really a huge point of interest to me , to each their own though. I'd  rather companies concentrate on aircraft that weren't experimental and there's plenty to choose from .

The He-280 is an aircraft that I’d be interested in if anyone did it. I’m generally not interested in modern jets but the really early ones are fascinating: Gloster E.28/39, Gloster Meteor, Messerschmitt Me262, Heinkel He 280, Bell P-59B Airacomet and Nakajima Kikka are all fascinating examples of each country’s first stumbling steps into the jet age.

 

Kind regards,

Paul

[CRAZY IVAN5]

10 minutes ago, Archimedes said:

The He-280 is an aircraft that I’d be interested in if anyone did it. I’m generally not interested in modern jets but the really early ones are fascinating: Gloster E.28/39, Gloster Meteor, Messerschmitt Me262, Heinkel He 280, Bell P-59B Airacomet and Nakajima Kikka are all fascinating examples of each country’s first stumbling steps into the jet age.

 

Kind regards,

Paul

Ya know , I could be convinced to get a He-280. Go ahead twist my arm I dare ya. that was a design that probably go somewhere but alas the politics of the day . Erhard Milch and Ernst Udet had a hang up with Ernst Heinkel, plus engine troubles didn't help.

[RBrown]

 

[dutik]

Wow! A Lancaster the size of a Zeppelin!

 

Regards

- dutik

[Bob MDC]

More via Modelling News,

https://www.themodellingnews.com/2024/12/preview-update-takoms-two-new-horten-ho.html#more

 

Just my take on it the two seater has radar aerials but no displays or electronics 

 

My experience of Takom good idea but just short in delivery, the V1 ramp looked great but was let down by a few errors and detail missed, but keeps me occupied 

 

 

Bob