At IPMS a couple months ago, a friend showed off a completed model of a Triebflugel which took my fancy. The Triebflugel is a suicidally stupid proposed design for a VTOL interceptor using ramjets to spin a three-winged rotor around the middle of the fuselage. It’s hard to imagine anybody being serious about such a nutzo idea, but since model builders are crazy about German WWII stuff, the wilder the better, there are actually three different kits available of the Triebflugel, while there’s still no decent kit of the gorgeous 1936 Auburn Speedster. The world is unjust.
So, anyway, I was looking at his model and I thought, “Y’know, if you slid the cockpit aft to the base of the vertical fin, that’d have a nice GeeBee-ish sort of look.”
So I ordered the Amusing Hobby Triebflugel kit (smaller scale than his, because $$$) off the Internets, and went to work. I moved the cockpit aft, and just because it’s such a goofball concept, I added a BFG under the nose. By keeping my obsessive-compulsive nature under control, I was able to bang this one out in maybe 2 1/2 weeks. The backstory is that it’s a point defense interceptor for the island base of a famous group of international air aces. Since it’s a comic book airplane, I gave it a bright comic-book paint job.
Anyway, enough backstory, on to the pics. A big Marvel No-Prize to the person who identifies the organization first.
They didn’t. It’s purely @Rocketeer’s own kit-bashed invention. He added his own backstory to turn his kit-bashed version of a Nazi wonder-weapon into a Nazi-killing weapon.
BTW, @Rocketeer, I neglected to mention in my first post:
Nice job!
I like the re-skinning - it certainly seems in-genre that the Blackhawks would take a ridiculous Nazi aircraft design and modify to actually be flyable, and then use it against them.
Thanks for your kind comments. The Generic-Brand No-Prize goes to gdave, who is also correct about the Triebflugel not appearing in the comics. The Triebflugel didn’t even become widely known until fairly recently, long after the Blackhawks comic was cancelled (1984).
I actually have a model of that sitting on my bookshelf, one of the few models I assembled before I realized it wasn’t the hobby for me. Mine has a (crude) plastic gear assembly that causes the propellers to (roughly) counterrotate.
