Jump to content

Recommended Posts

  • EvilCarrot changed the title to Das Werk 1/32 Messerschmitt P.1101
Posted

Yes I just spotted it as well! Funny enough just a few hours after I ordered the HO229 big box from MBK... So have to make another order to get this one as well 😂

Pre order about 60€ from MBK. 

They also have some 3D renders at their store from the model. Link MBK.

I think Das Werk uses Takom as their producer, so maybe should be quality like the HO229 and EF-126?

 

 

Posted
3 hours ago, Dany Boy said:

How will it be possible to fire missiles if the wings are at an acute angle?:doh:

 

In the same manner that X-Wing fighters can make the jump to hyper space.  Anything can happen in fiction.  Just like those wire guided air to air missiles also posted above.  I am genuinely happy for those that want to build these kits but it is not for me.  I would much prefer a 1/32 X-Wing, if I am doing Sci-fi.

Posted

I hope they will do a better job on this one than they did on their creatively "improved" EF 126 (of which five were constructed under Soviet supervision after the war, so not a paper project). The renders do look quite promising in this respect.

 

3 hours ago, Dany Boy said:

How will it be possible to fire missiles if the wings are at an acute angle?:doh:

 

 

The planned production version, which was canceled after the P.1101 lost out to the Ta 183, would have had fixed wings, so not a problem. After production plans were canceled, Messerschmitt decided to continue construction of the first prototype as a purely aerodynamic test airframe. It did not have a true variable geometry wing, the sweep could only be changed and locked on the ground. It was intended to run a series of tests  with a certain amount of sweep. After those tests were finished, the sweep was supposed the be adjusted again on the ground, with another series of comparative tests run with the new sweep angle.

 

23 minutes ago, cbk57 said:

In the same manner that X-Wing fighters can make the jump to hyper space.  Anything can happen in fiction.  Just like those wire guided air to air missiles also posted above.  I am genuinely happy for those that want to build these kits but it is not for me.  I would much prefer a 1/32 X-Wing, if I am doing Sci-fi.

The P.1101 aerodynamic test airframe was captured 80% complete by U.S. forces in Oberammergau at the end of the war. Waldemar Voigt had an agreement with Bell to complete the aircraft in the U.S. with Bell after the war. This plan was only frustrated when the fuselage suffered irreparable damage when the cable of the crane unloading it from a flat bed truck at the Bell facilities broke, and the fuselage crashed to the ground from c. 4 m high. After that, the airframe was repaired to static status and used by Bell as an engine mock-up test bed. After that, the P.1101 design served as the basis for the Bell X-5, which can be considered a highly modified derivative of the P.1101. Two Bell X-5 were built and flown, becoming the first true variable geometry aircraft to take to the air. 

 

And the Ruhrstahl/Kramer X-4 was also built and tested quite extensively. In fact, it reached mass production status, its operational deployment only being canceled because almost the entire stock of engines for the missiles was destroyed in a bombing raid on BMW's Stargard facilities in February 1945. Development was restarted near the very end of the war, when a new and simplified engine became available. There were also ideas to use the existing mass-produced airframes as glide weapons, and there were further plans to equip them with acoustic and IR guidance modules - none of these things happened due to the end of the war. However, the X-4 continued to be tested by the allies after the war, and the French Nord SS.10 anti-tank missile directly traces its ancestry to the Kramer X-4 and X-7 (the latter seeing limited use with ground forces at the very end of the war). 

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.
×
×
  • Create New...